The existential risk from "AI" isn't "are they going to become hyper-intelligent and wipe us out", they still need us to do the work.
The way that Meta's algorithms have fueled the rise of fascists, humans are already doing the work. The existential threat is here. Now.
Look, memory is cheap these days, why don't we just double Unicode out to 8 bytes per character and just store 8×8 bit rasters?
https://transmom.love/@elilla/112484801016659228
Holy crap. Why does every web browser think it can do better than the damned system printer dialog? Holy crap stop fucking things up and just give me the real damned thing.