The machine is no big deal - it's the authn/authz that matters. What can the agents do with the credentials available to them?

Less if you use something like https://agentblocks.ai so they don’t actually get the creds

Also context - there's alot of context out there and it's faster to get it from servers.

It doesn't matter how good the model is if it doesn't have context from data sources.

What do you mean 'we'? :-)

The only problem with that nowadays might be that AI can do all the incantations that formerly acted as gates to contributors.

Maybe not. Sqlite has some kind of hand-written license-agreement waiver procedure.

AU is just as effective as humans at contributing to sqlite: they don't accept contributions.

It's the very definition of a culture war and in addition sadly evidence of limited intelligence. Even the most red blooded oil man wouldn't do this because this data is also useful for petroleum drilling and logistics - it's a whole other kind of person driving this.

In this day and age I suspect many environmental and health NGOs are going silent to mitigate backlash.

In Down and Out in Paris and London he is very clear that he comes from some privilege and also that he actually lived the experiences he wrote about. He can't write it from the pov of somebody doing it for decades with no other option but he is explicit that he can't do that.

1984 in particular is well worth a read right now. I read it at age 47 and it's not in the same vein as On the Road.

Kind of is. The point of fiction is to speculate. Judging the characters is fine but the commenter above almost seems to take it personally that the characters are morally ambiguous people - but that's what fiction is meant to explore.

Sort of - if it's determined that somebody bypassed a safety control they can just make the control firmer and fire that person and move onto other things. If it's some fundamental flaw in the engine design that could set them back months/years.