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There’s a broad spectrum between reason and murder. You could tackle them, or bonk them with a stick, or distract them with shiny objects.

Yeah. If god’s so powerful why can’t he do it himself?

But now that AI has become advanced enough to get uncomfortably close to us, we need to move the goalposts farther away so everyone can relax again.

Why does it matter why?

I’d say it’s how the Imperium swallowed up and destroyed a number of civilizations that had separated from them that had been developing in much more progressive, prosperous ways. The Olamic Quietude and the Interex come to mind as examples. They showed that humanity didn’t have to go down the terrible path they’ve ended up on.

Or, going farther back to look for a single “worst thing” that’s had the greatest awful knock-on effects, I’d say that’d be the Old Ones’ refusal to grant any aid to the Necrontyr when they asked for it. That one selfish act sparked off the War in Heaven, created the Chaos Gods, and everything that followed.

If you can’t find the books available through legal channels in your country, you might want to consider looking for them on the high seas. !piracy is a good resource for that sort of thing.

A notable exception is the Stargate franchise, where Earth’s spacecraft are largely run by the US Air Force.

No, that’s not the concern here. He’s getting job offers from new employers while he’s midway through this personal project, and he wants to make sure the new employers don’t have anything in their employment contracts that would end up grabbing it.

The old employers trying to claim it was also a concern, but that wasn’t what OP was concerned about so I didn’t mention it. He had a lawyer check over his old employment contract as well to make sure there wasn’t a problem there. As long as he’s not using proprietary tech retained from the old job (and he’s not) there’s no problem there.

Anything you do in your own time is generally unenforceable

With the important caveat that your employment contract may include clauses that give them rights over that stuff anyway, and even if they’re unenforceable you could still end up having to fight in court over it.

Definitely something to keep in mind when reading the contract over, and ideally get a lawyer to take a look. It can be expensive, but weigh that expense against the potential expense of what would happen if you get screwed over.

I actually have a friend who’s involved in a situation like this right now. He got laid off from his old job a few months back and while he was job hunting he started working on a project with a couple other friends that could be worth a fair bit of money. He’s had job offers since then and he got a lawyer to write up a description of the project he’s working on that could be inserted into those “I’m keeping the rights to this stuff” contract sections.

It’s a bit different for him because it’s stuff that he’s actively working on right now, though. It sounds like your case might be simpler, if it’s stuff you haven’t done yet and don’t plan to try working on while employed with this current employer I suspect you won’t need to worry about it. Though of course, IANAL.

If a coastline submerges a new coastline is created further inland. ie, it moved. Or are you proposing a situation where all land is submerged?

Well yes, then. That’s what I said. You’d be a programmer who had free underlings doing whatever grunt work you directed them to.

Or are you questioning my use of the term “team” for the AIs? LLMs are specialized in various ways, you’d likely want to have multiple ones that handle different tasks.

The role of the human is to tell the AI what it’s supposed to do. If you’re worried about AI that’s sophisticated enough to be completely self-directed then you’re worrying about AGI, which will be so world-changing that piddly little concerns such as “what about my job?” Are pretty trivial.

I’m in a similar place to you career-wise. Personally, I’m not concerned about becoming just a “debugger.” What I’m expecting this job to look like in a few years is to be more like "the same as now, except I’ve got a completely free team of “interns” that do all the menial stuff for me. Every human programmer will become a lead programmer, deciding what stuff our AIs do for us and putting it all together into the finished product.

Maybe a few years further along the AI assistants will be good enough to handle that stuff better than we do as well. At that point we stop being lead programmers and we all become programming directors.

So think of it like a promotion, perhaps.

I’m not saying that we should choose “a little late.” I’m saying that it’s almost certainly going to happen, because humans aren’t gods that can see the future and know when it is a little late. I’m saying that when that happens we shouldn’t beat ourselves up over it, it’s just a mistake and mistakes happen. The good days we gave our dogs are the important things to remember and focus on.

The most important thing to my partner and I is that once she’s suffering, it’s time to let go.

IMO, this is key.

I’ve had a number of dogs over the years. My philosophy has always been that my fundamental goal is to try to ensure that they each have as many good days as possible. So once my dog stops having good days and starts having only bad days, that’s when it’s time. The good days that you gave your dog will always remain, nothing can change history.

If you misjudge slightly and there’s a few extra bad days at the end that in hindsight you could have avoided, don’t beat yourself up over that. We’re not perfect beings and mistakes happen. Talking with the vet will probably help in that department, they are far more experienced with this kind of thing and so will likely be able to give you a better “feel” for what state things are in.

I’ve got a friend whose feet are a lot wider than average for their length, so saying “find shoes that fit better!” Is not at all a straightforward thing. Shoes that are wide enough for him tend to be way too long, shoes that are the right length are pinchingly narrow.

Yeah, in threads like these the people who react with “ew no the human body is disgusting, why aren’t you constantly changing your clothing and dousing yourself with deoderants after your hourly showers?” Are saying more about themselves than about anyone else. As soon as I saw the title of this thread I knew there’d be a bunch of responses along those lines in here.

The world is a huge and diverse place, and the people in it are diverse as well. Some people are just stinkier than others. Some people are more sensitive to stinkiness than others. Some climates are more conducive to stinkiness. Some lifestyles are stinkier. Different socks hold smells differently. Some floors are worse than others. There’s no “right” answer to this.

How dare you make the obvious joke before I got a chance to make it! You supreme overlord of feigned fury! Fake raaaage!

It’s a common flu-like illness when I come from, after it appeared out of nowhere back in 2020 it became endemic. Guess I had a mild case of it when I took my trip.

Same here. Well, aside from being a completely different person from TheAlbatross. I guess I’d go shopping, just in case there ends up being a big rush on supermarkets (and thus ironically contributing to any such rush). I’d also ping my financial manager and let him know he can do whatever he needs to with my investments to keep them healthy in the no doubt very turbulent financial times to come.

Anything else, it’s probably too late to “get ahead” of (such as for example buying new computer hardware before Taiwan’s chip fabs go offline for a while) so I’ll just make do with what I’ve got and keep watching the news with interest.