Microsoft, how cheap minded you have to be to understand that you don't need ads? You already had everything you need to grow without slapping ads everywhere.

You had everything great. Xbox, Windows, Office,... and somehow in a short span of time you managed to enshittify everything. Focus on you core strength. Ads is not one of them. And the combination Ads+Ai it is not either. Stop ruining great things. You had - still have - great potential to have a competitive advantage over others yet you fall for these shitty practices.

I believe, if you had the chance, you would put ads on the C# compiler too.

Like npm?

When there is no more physical development? A couple of years after sexuality has been stabilized physically.

Why is that so clear in other animals but not in humans? Every other social construct is just mental gymnastics. We believe we are special and need to do these gymnastics to keep the importance up.

This is an interesting question. Neoteny is the preservation of juvenile features into adulthood and is a hallmark of domestication. Humans have been undergoing self-domestication so features like rounder faces and softer jaw lines are persisting past sexual maturity.

We _know_ the human brain is finishing its development in our early to mid twenties, maybe 10 years post puberty. This extra brain development likely needed for our advanced social and tool needs, and is a unique niche for humans. Our hidden brain development does make a difference. Other primates don't display this.

They would've done the math. Even with a class action they will come up positive. It just another bill for them.

Would be good to actually make them pay that bill though.

I'm gonna put a license fee on all my repos. 10% of revenue if my private repos have been used for AI training. 5% on all my other repos.

I bet the genius C level who came up with idea will get a huge bonus.

It should be a couple of billions or 15% of the profit.

What a fantastic article. Lately I came to the same conclusions but never could put it in words. Thank you!

I agree with you. I spend me free time deep-diving in such topics. I find hard to use this knowledge in a useful way at my job. The job market for deep topics is hard to penetrate.

How is "them being livid" is gonna help revenue?

As if things are not getting already expensive by each day. Maybe it changes the pace, but that's another problem.