maomao5

Because they're liars. Plain and simple. Lying is a virtue as long as the lie is powerful enough to sustain attention.

> don't want influence or power.

Then you'll be a serf, or a slave, or killed and ground up into soilent green once it's realized it costs more to keep you alive than you produce value. At least you can feed the more useful slaves.

> just create a fork

Lol it's so simple it's no wonder AI boosters are smeared as incompetent. Are they also completely new to open source software?

Perhaps they think attention whoring on the internet about it will move the hands of this project.

> One very common pattern I saw is that the conclusion is always that the dad is useless.

This is a sitcom trope no? I wonder if that's why that assumption is made.

Enjoy falling down a few economics levels I guess.

> I just love the idea of the program, but I'm not interested in learning details of how to implement it.

LOL same cope as steroid abusers.

Never beating the cult allegations. Have you tried offering to suck his dick? He's into that sort of thing.

You can do the work, but what is it worth if the competition is a very generous campaign donation in exchange for keeping the status quo

I think that GPs point still stands if you replace homeowners with the sort of organization that own en-masse the sort of empty lots that would lose out.

> Is it possible to have a civilization that works well, with institutions that work well, if the population is poorly educated?

Yes, for some definition of "works well" but the population has to be tightly controlled. It's why the oligarchich elite is so enthused to build out the surveillance state at the same time.

People hate the verbose syntax. It doesn't bother me, but I've been surprised how common that is described amongst people that don't care for Pascal.

Personally, in that family of languages I prefer Ada, but I gave up with programming and programming languages.