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... at any given moment.

Bundibugyo (as you are probably actually aware, but others might not be).

It does sound like such a caricature I can see the temptation to be flippant about it though.


He was presumably also not constructing a powered exoskeleton of from fictional materials or a physically implausible power source, but since you obviously caught the reference, how about some benevolent interpretation instead, for a decent shorthand about working smoothly with AI assistance.

(And on a personal note, I'm glad we don't have a publicly released Jarvis before we get our act together about the use.)


What do you find good about that?

The like-ness properly capture in one go the first-person and the phenomenal aspects of consciousness.

No, if it makes to a busy long distance travel hub, there is ample cause for global. Everywhere should contribute to containing this, out of pure self-interest if nothing else.

Well put.

Which goes to show maybe it's less about literal sovereignty than wanting to rely on parties less prone to exploit the reliance for stabbing you in the back.

Considering it took decades of absolutely no meaningful action against the US tech sector's cavalcade of object lessons in 'They "trust me". Dumb fucks', and orgs were still eagerly ripping out homegrown system solutions to get all their communication and storage locked into Azure and AWS at the most four years ago, I'm not sure whether to feel relieved or exasperated that there are some signs of real reactions this time.


This should of course be obvious to most HN users, but it seems a nice anecdote that the realization is reaching mainstream media.

Do you have any proof of that?

Yep. Admittedly the post doesn't exactly claim it's due to biological aging, but it could be perceived as implied.

It seems appropriate to also recognize that it's simply tiring to be to be in constant opposition to most of the social environment, and most people can't keep doing it at undiminished intensity for a full lifetime.


Examples? I can't really think of any.


lol, who keeps downvoting this explicitly appropriate response?

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