> skilled and intelligent [people] begin to scorn the people who aren't skilled and aren't intelligent

That has NEVER led to a positive result in the whole of human history, especially that the second group is much larger than the first.

You can make the same argument about the ever-growing list of programming languages, which are just weirdly formatted lists of computer commands.

which are equivalent to lists of computer commands. A compiler is a hell of a formatter.

Ah, yes, Russia can become a "real western country", "geopolitical player", strong economy "substituting even Chinese products" any time it wants! Just like an alcoholic can quit any time he wants.

> If you measure raw number of papers (more common in developing countries and low-tier universities), you incentivize a flood of junk.

This is exactly what rewarding replication papers (that reproduce and confirm an existing paper) will lead to.

And yet if we can't reproduce an existing paper, it's very possible that existing paper is junk itself.

Catch-22 is a fun game to get caught in.

If Google Search is shit, why does Kagi want access to it?

They want access to the index. They will perform their own sorting to determine the best results to show from that index.

…without having advertiser interests to cater to.

Lawnchair blacklists/used to blacklist apps they did not like. That does seem user friendly.

What kind of apps did they blacklist, and why?

It seems to be pirated icon packs. see the other comment in this same parent comment.

Ok I see. That's a random stance, but nothing that worries me too much.

I cannot find any indication that this is true.

From the little research I did, they do appear to certain block apps.

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/blob/b0ecfb84...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7azc2i/deleted_by_...

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/issues/940

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/pull/902

From the dev themselves in that PR

> @dasBiest: It's our business to prevent unauthorized use of iconpacks.

> Just like Substratum is keeping you away from using pirated themes for example.

Props for doing the research and posting the links - I stand obviously corrected. I get why they did it, but it also leaves a bad taste in my mouth. :( Sigh.

> have no more to do with current politics than Trump did with the recent electromagnetic storms

Greenland has fairly strong aurora. Maybe Trump triggered the solar radiation storm to show Americans what Greenland has that they don't. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

> I argue against the SaaS driven centralization.

How does that help with the topic at hand? (LLM-assisted vulnerability research)

Are the decentralized systems that you prefer more secure/less buggy/less exploitable by LLMs?

> If you take out more water from an ecosystem than what is coming in, eventually you run out.

That's fine, people will move elsewhere. Unless the water is literally disappearing from the planet.

Sure, and the people who live near oceans can just sell their houses and move as sea levels rise.

People forced to migrate due to fresh water scarcity will migrate to where fresh water can be found, which is likely where other people already are, increasing pressure on the increasingly scarce water and other resources in that area, driving conflict, disease, famine, further migration into increasingly stressed areas and leading to social and ecological collapse across the board.

Access to reliable fresh water is foundational to stable society.

> That's fine, people will move elsewhere

That's how one creates a refugee crisis. All those thirsty people fleeing an area where the lack of water has made their property worthless...

They will need somewhere to go, and housing and jobs when they get there - and if they don't find it, that's when things get dicey all round.

Look at what's happening in Sri Lanka or the middle east (drought causing famine was a catalyst to the arab spring) for an example of what happens when people try to move elsewhere.