Brand value of the ‘prestigious’ law firms will still count for something in the minds of C suite executives (who of course will ensure they themselves are not trampled on by AI). The same dynamic will likely happen with high-powered consulting, big 4 audit/accounting firms and so on, even if inside those companies it’s just a shell of its former self.
Not buying the judge not part. A human being judged by a non-human will be very far in the future. Bots can’t be held accountable. It’s also an “us vs. them”, for some people it’s hard to accept being judged by a different gender, ethnicity, etc. A bot telling you to go to prison? Tough sell.
Margaret Hamilton (checks wikipedia) studied mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1955.
Back in 1955, "computer science" wasn't a thing yet. Computers were the domain of electrical engineering and math, the latter of which was what Margaret studied..
Sylvan Clebsch and Sophia Drossopoulou (credited on Project Verona in a slide) work on the Pony, which has been described as a cross between Rust and Erlang.
I used to joke that I was going to have "stty erase ^H" etched on my gravestone. It's probably been 25+ years since I've last needed to type that, but I can still hammer it out crazy fast. Sadly, that muscle memory is taking up neurons that'll never be used for anything else.
> "Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the researcher's reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the researcher's fees, a client who was satisfied with the answer could also leave a tip of up to $100." [0]
I'm quickly understanding why I've never heard of Google Answers.
It seems that the downloadable pdf doesn't have a couple of tweaks that have landed in master (https://github.com/crypto101/book). Any plans to generate a slightly updated version ?
PS: Thanks for your work ! Watched your talk and it was a nice quick primer. Glad you turned it into a book with more detail.
Sure, I should get around to that :-) Really I'd like to make a docker image or similarly repeatable environment that can do builds -- right now it's way too tied to my own environment.
Also: I'm not sure org-mode -> TeX was a great idea.
I used to use org-mode exporting to reveal.js for doing slides. Unfortunately this turned out to be a bit of a pain to get everything set up, especially when collaborating with people who for some have failed to embrace the One True Religion^H Editor. So in the end I changed to using Markdown and pandoc to convert to reveal.js.
As a bonus, using pandoc to convert my org sources to markdown worked reasonably well.
Rust + Rpi interests me and I might wanna follow along. Are they using an available kit from an online retailer ? Getting/shipping individual parts is a pain where I'm from.
> Here is another thought. One has to realize that nobody wants an operating system. People only use them because it is the only way to run the applications the users actually wants to use.
That reduces things to almost an absurd level, and literally tries to ignore reality.
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I want X!
Ok, we need this and that to get there...
I don't want this and that, I want X!
But you need this and that to get to X...
I don't want this and that, I want X!
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While it's true in essence, and people should always keep the end user and lofty end goals in mind, we should never lose sight of the ground, because that's where we exist.
Besides, different users want their operating system to do different things.
> At best an operating system is absolutely invisible ... but a new non-OS would probably be a better idea than a new OS.
This train of thought can be applied to just about anything. The best product for X would just get out of the way, and assist you seamlessly to do X.
We could feed legislation and constitution into the model and have it argue against other lawyer bots in court in front of a judge bot.
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