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Tech companies: AI will make software development obsolete in a year. Also tech companies: buy our software.

Android is Linux based

Do they understand what they mean with civilization themselves? It sometimes feels like they want to go back to the middle ages, which tends to be the opposite of what is understood as „civilization“.

A dictionary definition of civilization: „stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced“. Seems to me that we can include democracy in western civilization.

I’m just highlighting the hypocrisy of bringing up civilizational erasure when they’re actively doing exactly that. Western civilization, while associated with whites and capitalism is also associated with not being banana republics.

They might soon cause new bigger refugee waves from Iran. Which helps right wing parties.

What civilization are we talking about anyway? E.g democracy, checks and balances and human rights are hallmarks of modern western civilization, and those are being rapidly erased by those accusing us of civilizational erasure.

Not sure what you mean. I’m just saying that everyone contributes to social situations (in varying degrees, of course). That is, to the group they’re part of. When you look at the language people use to describe the current political environment, for example, you notice that many feel that they live in a movie (“I hate this timeline”, “can we skip to the part where..”). That’s a pretty significant part of the cause, but it’s usually overlooked, because the responsibility is put only on the active participants.

Scaling in what sense? If it’s decentralized there’s no need for massive scaling of individual nodes.

“If it’s too good to be true..” (referring to youtube)

Open Source helps but it’s also important to fix the incentive structure and startup environment such that products are fully competitive. Doubt that merely throwing money at it (in the form of grants at least, which is what usually govs do) fixes the issue.