A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++

[ssokolow]

Blindly calling for "systemic protections" is the trap. It is pointing at "the others". It is the enshrinement of the saying "If only all would do like this / be like this ...". Too much regulations makes businesses go bankrupt. Too many ways of appealing makes college degrees useless. Who protects the regulated from the regulators? It's a big mistake to think that the rule-making-people are not "broken" themselves. Introducing rules is the communist/socialist/marxist approach. There are enough examples on this planet that show how this never works.

No, I'm saying that "change the world one individual at a time" never works unless you give the people doing the changing sufficient tools to wield against the people who are too lazy to change. The world is full of lazy people who've found their way into positions of power.

...and that's not counting people who are spoiled, not lazy. Look at the tantrums and malicious compliance Apple has been engaging in over the EU DMA.

[lowflyer]

No, I'm saying that "change the world one individual at a time" never works unless you give the people doing the changing sufficient tools to wield against the people who are too lazy to change. The world is full of lazy people who've found their way into positions of power.

...and that's not counting people who are spoiled, not lazy. Look at the tantrums and malicious compliance Apple has been engaging in over the EU DMA.

Well, therein is the problem. The same people to which you "give ... sufficient tools to wield against ..." will become the people "who've found their way into positions of power." There are those that tell you anything just to get these positions. I guess you know the saying:

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

He wrote it in 1887 about the papacy. But it holds true for all positions of power. Even if it is the "absolutely selfless and only by pure motives driven EU". The rulers will gladly heed to the call of the populace for more regulations. - Because that empowers them even more. That's exactly how the communists and the third reich came to their powers.

The problem with Apple: It's a cult. In any cult you'll find the spoiled, the lazy and the ones that are paid. You need to get these people out of the cult. It only works one individual at a time. But It is much harder to get the cult out of the people. The others: Don't bother, let them die by their own self inflicted death.

[Anux]

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(i.e. The skill isn't in making a polished-looking output, it's in making an output that matches your vision instead of just being a bland re-hashing of whatever traits occurred most often in the training set...

Exactly, AI can be used as a more advanced brush but leaves all the creativity to the artist.
My point was, AI itself can not be creative (at least the AI we have right now).

[Nth_man]

"Power doesn't corrupt, power unmasks."
-- Rubén Blades

[Nth_man]

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power".
-- Abraham Lincoln

A classical saying In Spanish:
"Si quieres saber quién es Juanillo, dale un carguillo".
"Si quieres conocer a Fulanito, dale un carguito".
-- Refrán español clásico