The phrase "survived on a knife edge" or the dramatization is a product of awareness of modern living. For them at those times, neither "survival" nor "struggle" has any meaning. There was likely no consciousness of such concepts. They just continued via instincts and evolutionary goals such as reproduction, food gathering, hunting etc, which were just the same activities their ancestors did, with no changes. Lack of change should actually mean pretty normal life, instead of rapid change-related struggle that we go through now.

We are also surviving on a knife edge from the perspective of a super advanced civilization that doesn't deal with disease or has more energy than they know what to do with. Everything is relative

Funily enough, that could describe pretty well the first sapiens that learned how to make fire.

Hunter-gatherers were always on a knife edge, as they were in equilibrium with the food supply. Killing children in dry years, constant fighting over resources, massacres of entire tribes. Of course they didn't know they were on the knife edge, so what?

Relative terms such as "living on edge" require normative references. It was just business-as-usual, normal life for them, in their own normative reference frame. Just like how cultures in some parts of the world today see things as normal, which would be abnormal to others. It's all your reference frame. There is no permanent or universal norms that can tell what is normal.

This happens because, it's like a chess engine which can assure you that there is a winning path even from a badly losing position. It's massive abilities to reason and convince are used incorrectly to win over a more earthly counter-argumnent. So it can easy convince any human to go in direction that is, in practice, a very bad direction.

AI is trained to flex it's muscles and force it's power without a concern for human limitations, practicalities, and error-prone nature of humans in executing the AI-provided direction.

What an interesting read. But, all these efforts to knock some sense into establishments or public would hardly have any influence on the matters on ground, beyond being a very good content for reading.

Taking screenshots and recording is not quite the same as "seeing". A camera doesn't see things. If the tool can identify issues and improvements to make, by analyzing the screenshot, that's I think useful.

> It’s not a testing framework. The agent doesn’t decide pass/fail. It just gives me the evidence so I don’t have to open the browser myself every time.

From the OP, i don't think this is what is meant for what you are saying.

I read it in the same vein as saying that a sub's sonar enables "seeing" its surroundings. The focus is on having a spatial sensor rather than on the qualia of how that sensation is afterwards processed/felt.

> If the tool can identify issues and improvements (...)

Tools like Claude and the like can, and do. This is just a utility to make the process easier.

> Kuwaebashi - To take the tips of the chopsticks in one’s mouth.

Does it mean without food?

OpenCode works awesome for me. The BigPickle model is all I want. I do not throw some large work at the agent that requires lot of reasoning, thinking or decision making. It's my role to chop the work down to bite-size and ask the fantastic BigPickle to just do the damn coding or bit of explaining. It works very well with interactive sessions with small tasks. Not giving something to work over night.

I used Claude with paid subscription and codex as well and settled to OpenCode with free models.

I'm trying to find the 'wow' factor in this. Finding the optimal combination of parameters, given a validation criteria should be a boring repetitive task for a machine or a human. Is it about determining how to utilize the given hardware?

Mouse hover seems to be critical for this visualization. Not much useful in mobile.

Rendered via canvas. Ugh.

So, it's artificial protection of workforce against the rationale and truth. And they think it can be done via law and force. I'm sure this not the first time such silly tricks were tried, in human history.

I understand oil part. But why everything else can only be manufactured in these desert regions of the world?

Helium is actually a gas byproduct. It's naturally mixed in with the well gas.

Gas.It is needed in lots of processes. It's very difficult and extremely expensive to transport gas. So the best solution is to use it at the place it's extracted.