In my experience with databases the answer is never never, and never always, and it’s almost always sometimes and maybe.

That would have been right around the time that airlines were transitioning to jet aircraft. Back before jet travel it could take a whole week to reach the far east.

> They've never said that

You know that humans can lie, right?

We also spent a lot of money fixing non-critical systems that would have had next to zero impact if they’d failed. A middle manager not getting their sales report on time is not critical.

But at least with Y2K some effort was made in identifying actual problems. We didn’t just stop using computers because we were too scared of them. This latest round of AI panic is horribly vague and the problems are very poorly articulated.

There are many technologies that have killed and hurt a lot more people than nuclear weapons that are not monopolised by governments.

Cars and guns are two examples where ‘wanton usage’ can (and has) killed millions of people. Obviously they need regulation, but total control, even if it were possible doesn’t strike me as ideal.

Much much bigger. Visiting it now is quite sad.

If you go to England, you're better off going to the New Forest in Hampshire. Despite the name, it was established during the Norman period and at least feels like a substantial tract of older woodland. (Tiny by North American standards of course.)

Forest was more of a legal term, and tended to be focused on deer than trees.

Things with 'new' in the name tend to age quite rapidly. See also Oxford's New College.

Or the Pont-neuf ("new bridge") in Paris being the oldest one in the city.

> The waymo vehicle called the cops

Waymo called the cops. It’s not clear if it was the vehicle, or a human in the company. I suspect the latter.

Long tail works well when the marginal cost is near zero and most of the upfront costs are born by someone else.

They must bend and flex, or they will crumple. Soon they will congregate, enclosed within the fold.

> But these perceptions itself stands on top of consciousness.

There’s plenty of evidence for unconscious perception.

Sure, but I don't think when a person does a physics experiment, the perceptions involved are unconscious.