>A nice intuitive UI? What about just telling the app what I need when I need it?

Sounds cumbersome, slow to use, and prone to failure.

who are you to decide that

nobody. Market decided. They can cry about it i guess.

how about lossless JPEG XL

defeat the whole purpose of simplicity, runtime and SDK.

I don't think you got the right link for UVMC2.

Lights don't have to be aimed up into the sky to function. Crime and traffic accidents aren't higher in towns with dark-sky ordnances.

Light doesn't need to be aimed up into the sky to function. You need to spend more time in the world.

Because the fertile soil comes from the process of reaching the breakthrough. This should be fairly obvious.

I don’t think it’s obvious. In my Leibniz example, mathematical understanding surely would have accelerated right?

i think that's just you

he's defending it because they pay his salary

>the public essentially has little interest in preventing human extinction.

yes, most people don't belong to that cult

Hasn’t the idea of existential risks entered the kind of “cultural elite Overton window” at this point?

Bill gates is talking about it, NYT just ran a bunch articles on AI safety concerns, a reporter just asked Trump about it in a one on one.

Feels unfair to still dismiss it as a cult LessWrong thing at this point.