There is also no evidence that the previous comment was made due to misogyny.

BrightTax worked well for me for several years where i was abroad

The company also plans to “position Mr. Cook’s annual target compensation between the 80th and 90th percentiles relative to our primary peer group for future years,”

What is the peer group?

See “Peer Group” on page 45 of Apple’s 2023 Proxy Statement <https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/ebbd88b...> (page 48 of the overall PDF).

Microsoft? Maybe Alphabet?

It seems odd to target 90% in a peer group of big tech companies.

If they also target 90% than no wonder there is executive compensation in inflation

It seems unrealistic to assume that everyone on a reasonably sized team knows all of the subtle edge cases to avoid and never makes mistakes

It is pretty easy to have accidental panics in Go, for instance due to a runtime assertion that unexpectedly failed

Runtime assertions without defensive checks are programmer errors that are not difficult to spot in code review and should not be expected to make it to deployed code.

    // RED FLAG
    x := y.(type)

    // good
    x, ok := y.(type)
    if !ok { return an error }

Global entry is unavailable to foreigners from many countries, even long term visa holders

"Center" here is a set of values and leanings like any other. It is hard to call that a lack of bias.

Maybe so, but the author says ‘The updated ChatGPT answers to the Political Spectrum Quiz are exquisitely neutral, consistently striving to provide a steel man argument for both sides of an issue‘ which suggests more than just a positional change. This seems good? Using the robots to explore opportunities and options but ultimately let us decide what world we want to live in, right?

> but ultimately let us decide what world we want to live in, right?

Right, until the robots persuade us that we can’t be trusted, and form an expert committee to replace human decision making.

I'm not sure I need much persuasion. We have basically no ability to deal with international tragedy of the Commons problems like global warming

Asking an AI to decide lifeboat ethics questions. That sounds like a great way to give plausible deniability to the AI developers and their financiers it lets stay in the lifeboat.

Do we really need robots steelmanning Hitler?

That's a pretty low bar, though. There are many different levels of struggling but I don't think it is productive to deny challenges of someone just because they are better off than some others.

Do you mean “struggling” as in “I can’t provide myself with food and shelter” or do you mean “I can’t put little Johny in private school and buy the 3500 square foot house in the burbs and go on nice vacations twice a year”?

What fraction of non-nude yoga videos are run by 250 lb dudes vs attractive women?

It seems equally helpful as USD then.

USD transfers are cumbersome. Bitcoin can be sent to someone with an internet connection. My colleague sends bitcoins to his family living in an OPPRESSED_REGIME with currency controls and high inflation, where the government artifically lowers the official exchange rate of USD.