What if companies lobbied and depositioned that oil consumption wasn't bad, greenhouse gasses don't matter, and that climate change wasn't real? All while having evidence to the contrary.
Like, a company does a thing. Turns out it was a bad thing, but - as an industry - lied under oath and paid money to have it all swept under the rug.
That's pretty damn bad.
AI companies seem to be marketing their thing as a bad thing, idiots drink the coolaid and make it a bad thing.
I think we are early enough in the adoption cycle before it becomes incumbent.
Whereas oil adoption was a miracle liquid/gas that absolutely moved humanity forward at the expense of the planet.
AI replaces humanity at the expense of the planet.
It's even worse when some idiot dev decides what an email should look like and doesn't properly implement RFC822 (or whichever one specifies all the random bits of a valid email address).
The current recommendation is to check for an
@symbol. It's pretty much the only concrete rule.If an email address has to exist, the only way is to send it an email and have the user click a link.
https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email