Well it’s open source, so you can check in principle. I would imagine there’s some fame and notoriety in discovering that.

I really disagree with this. I don’t think you can be a good software engineer without being a good product manager and a good architect.

You can - but you have to work with a good product manager and a good architect. You have to actually listen to them and trust them.

how about we put some effort into actually picking the correct words and not just handwaving everything? Especially since the whole topic of discussion here is 'internet research is increasingly less reliable because people just wrote/publish any old BS for clicks.'

I don’t think it’s necessarily handwaving. I don’t think anyone has a monopoly on the way language is used and broadening terms is a very natural thing that happens as language evolves

we already had "it's getting shittier every day". no need to lose the specific meaning of "enshittification".

I think the fact that it’s primarily an Internet related term that gets used a lot on the Internet, has something to do with the acceleration in the broadening of its meaning

The government having the power to curate access to information seems bad. You could try to separate it as an independent agency, but as the current US administration is showing, that’s not really a thing.

The idea is that the government is biased towards hiding certain information and private companies are biased towards hiding a different set.

While unlikely, the ideal would be for the government to provide a foundational open search infrastructure that would allow people to build on it and expand it to fit their needs in a way that is hard to do when a private companies eschews competition and hides its techniques.

Perhaps it would be better for there to be a sanctioned crawler funded by the government, that then sells the unfiltered information to third parties like google. This would ensure IP rights are protected while ensuring open access to information.

And in a world where running a Google-like search engine is just one of the many jobs the US federal government has, why shouldn't how the government runs that search engine be a national-level political question decided by elections, just like the management of all the other things the US federal government does is? Regardless of how the government curated access to information, a huge chunk of the US electorate would be mad about how they were doing it, reflecting very real polarization among the population.

The Age of Empires 3 path finding was so impressive, but also with cavalry it got clumpy and could be used tactically (which is sort of realistic)

Why have you never even _tried_ it? It’s very easy to try and surely you are somewhat curious.

I've never had to try lots of things in order to know that I won't like them.

That, and also I specifically loathe the way AI has been created.

In my heart I’m a code “artist,” and like all artists that have been more directly attacked, I also feel personally attacked by all of my stolen “art” that is now monetized by big corporations that do not give a single f*ck about beauty in the code, or whatever.

This may be a strange position, idk. Anyways, that’s the reason why.

You’re not wrong about it being stolen and monetized without consent. I’m picking up what you’re putting down.

Yeah but the cost of trying it is like 3 minutes of your time. Have you no curiosity?

Enough curiosity to have read and understood the papers, formalize some of the more grand theorems (they’re not that impressive once restated this way), and listen to the experiences of developers who’ve adopted it.

That’s more than 3 minutes. I’m not being glib when I say I’ve given it serious thought.

Not for this, no.

Shape the world to benefit the US - having US dollar be strong primarily.

It seems to me like someone would have at least _tried_ to have a CEO agent talk to a board of directors of agents, have a marketing department of agents try to find market fit for a product, etc. has this been done?

I am not a corporate lawyer but AFAIK a CEO and CFO which can be the same person must be a real human for numerous legal responsibilities including those related to the board. The board members also have to be humans. I agree with jalapenos that it would be a fun movie. Perhaps M3GAN 3.1

Really? That is so interesting - which ones? Any ancestors of commonly used ones today?

Off the top of my head BIX, Prodigy, Compuserve, MCIMail, BBS, Ethernet, Token Ring, $25 Network, AOL, Timeshare, Kermit, Fax

Anyone with 2+ computers immediately thought about connecting them.

Why do you think it will be increasingly bad? It seems to me like it’s already as bad as it’s capable of getting.

Because it's still relatively new. Gambling's been around forever, and so has addiction. What hasn't been around is gambling your life away on the same device(s) you do everything else in today's modern society on. If you had an unlimited supply of whatever monkey is on your back, right at your fingertips, you'd be dead before the week is out from an overdose. It's the normalization of this level of access to gambling which gives me great fear for the future. Giving drugs to minors is a bigger crime than to adults for a reason. Without regulation and strong cultural push back, it's gonna get way worse, unless we make huge leaps in addiction treatment (which I am hopeful for. GLP-1s aren't yet scientifically proven to help with that, but there's a large body of anecdotal evidence to suggest it does.

It's only been 8 years, the addicts lives and those they touch can keep getting worse until their death.