I thought it exploded after it landed?

"Labour shortages do not arise because of a lack of suitable workers, they occur instead because of inadequate immigration policies that limit or deny the movement of capable, working-age people from elsewhere to fill local demand. Indeed, none of the existing credible population projections predicts a decline in the global population."

This seems to weaken the entire paper. The only regions poised for continuing population growth into the second half of this century are in sub-Saharan Africa and maybe Afghanistan [1].

Is the premise here that unlimited immigration into other regions from sub-Saharan Africa will sustain their economies (and other ways of life?) as the local populations decline? I'm extremely skeptical of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population_projections

I never had a trinitron TV, but I had a trinitron monitor in the late 90s. What a beast that was. Think it was like an 18 or 19” with a max res of something kinda weird like 1280x960 or something like that. If my probably faulty memory is accurate, the sweet spot was to run it at 1024x768 because that was that was the highest res it could do at >60hz, which made the crt AC flicker much less annoying.

The monitor shelf on that computer table had about a 2” sag in it after years. Think that think weighed about 80lbs.

At work we've tried AI summaries for meetings, but we spent so much time fixing those summaries that we started writing our own again.

Is there some training you applied or something specific to your use case that makes it work for you?

I'm not going to read code created by an AI. The AI exists to prevent me from having to deal with the complexity of a task. The absolute most I want to read and write are type signatures. I'll set those up, let the AI go, see if it works. If it doesn't, maybe retry with a better prompt. If it still doesn't work, then I'll have to get involved. Start implementing from the top down, and once there is enough architectural structure, the AI can usually finish up.

This still happens quite a bit, and it's just like taking away a hard task from someone less experienced. The difference is there is no point in investing your time teaching or explaining anything to the AI. It can't learn in that way, and it's not a person.

My first programming job in SF paid $60k/year 10 years ago. I'd like to thank big tech for driving salaries up.

But this black box has "you eat less calories" written in whiteout across it.