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iOS developers: How long is App Review taking for everyone these days? It is now taking longer to get our app approved than it is to build the actual features.

the reason to be polite to AI is because it keeps you in the habit of being polite.

This is dumb. AI can’t ever be actually conscious because it doesn’t have subjective experience. It isn’t like anything to be AI. There is no experience there. Consciousness is the awareness and experience of self. AI has neither, and never will. The real risk (which I’m extremely worried about) is that AI becomes kind of a version of what has been called a “philosophical zombie,” which is something that acts and speaks entirely as though it has consciousness even though it has no genuine inner experience. When this happens with AI, millions of very lonely people will isolate themselves from the world even more, believing that their relationship with AI is a sufficient substitute for human interaction. So the nightmare scenario is a world where the average human has friends, coworkers, and even a spouse, who are all AI, all really nothing inside, not real. I think this probably will happen, and is already in the process of happening. And to me it’s an even greater horror than AI actually becoming conscious.

Do you personally want AI, robotics, or automation to permanently take your job?

BROKEN: People who do not know what consciousness is want to tell you a machine may be conscious.

3 essentials for PC users in the 90s... 1) Know how to create a boot disk 2) Fiddle endlessly with autoexec.bat and config.sys 3) ...and of course, DEFRAG!

Claude Code with Opus 4.6 was so dumb today I finally had to write my own code again A sad state of affairs 🥹