I appreciate the measured discussion on what can be a thorny subject.
So extended clarification on the "belief shaping morality" point.
I hold no issue with it, until one person's belief driven morality impinges on another persons own autonomy, you're free to act on your own life and person based on your beliefs but using that belief system as a weapon to cause others harm or reduce their autonomy as a person is where I draw the line.
To answer your first question (apologies should have done so in the first reply)
It isn't worse, objectively the end result is favourable even if the "driver" for it is not (to me).
I accept your counter point that at a macro level society requires a set of checks and reinforcement to bias individuals towards social good behaviour, community enforcement is obviously one and religion can be another.
But I would argue that while the state legal framework is secular it encodes some moral principles that society has agreed on such as murder, theft, harming other physically or otherwise etc.
I also hold no issue with others holding beliefs that shape their morality, I just reject the argument that people without a god cannot have innate morality or a secular morality (a common refrain).
We created it for ourselves and at its core is our social nature and the ability to feel Empathy for other humans/creatures.
Now I lead with that because there are historical cases for both religious and non religious people committing horrific acts, both groups having whatever form of "morals" and still those acts happened.
Morals based on the idea of an all seeing eye are also questionable at the root, if you only do the "right" thing because you fear consequences then how is that better than the government, police etc acting as a your personal moral compass except to extend the potential punishment beyond the current perceived lifetime.
Writing code by LLM feels like management, or tech leading a project.
It's tiring in a different way, but without the flow state or "high" of solving a particular problem in a clever or intuitive way.
Some days I enjoy shipping a change that would never have been greenlit for the sprint points it would have required, other days it's like herding cats and I'm tired with nothing to show for it.
In a perfect free market, like a spherical chicken in a vacuum. Maybe.
Problem is there's no such thing, monopoly powers, government subsidies, inter-company issues, contracts.
All these things can mean that a less functional, more wasteful and less productive organisation performs (in the sense of the metric that companies care about , line go up) better than a 4 day week startup.
Yeah that's the thing making my head spin, tack a 30% profit margin on that and it's 550usd per day?
Probably going to be more than that for rocketship growth and investor expectations.
Is that the game? Lock in companies to this "new reality" with cheap tokens then once they fire all their devs, bait and switch to 2X the cost.
Alpha Centauri yes, the edge of the universe no :D
Edge of observable universe is something like 46 billion light-years away, even at 0.9c thats 50 billion years of travel (22 billion years experienced by the traveller)
But yes, you can travel places by constant acceleration but unfortunately it still dwarfs in comparison to those places out of our reach.
Unfortunately also, the universe is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light so you actually cant ever reach the edge
That would be an accurate summary of almost all software.
Either it's quickly produced and thrown out the door as it's a startup trying to iterate and find market fit asap or because it's a bigcorp who's metrics are all not related to software.