> AI won't be what acidifies our ocean

Tech is what got us where we are. AI allows us to use more energy to produce more of what is currently measurably killing us.

> but AGI might save us from it.

This is just faith. Some believe that prayers may save us.

> There is a reason that we aren't dying of dysentery at the ripe age of 45 on some peasant field after a hard winter day's worth of hard labor.

Tell that to the people who will die before 45 because of global instability and global warming, I guess?

Taking the opportunity to ask: are there nice recommended resources for a beginner to start with reverse engineering (ideally using Ghidra)? Let's say for an experienced developer, but not so experienced in reverse engineering?

I guess one issue I have is that I don't have good ideas of fun projects, and that's probably something I need to actually get the motivation to learn. I can find a "hello world", that's easy, but it won't help me get an idea of what I could reverse engineer in my life.

For instance I have a smartspeaker that I would like to hack (being able to run my own software on it, for fun), but I don't know if it is a good candidate for reverse engineering... I guess I would first need to find a security flaw in order to access the OS? Or flash my own OS (hoping that it's a Linux running there), but then I would probably want to extract binary blobs that work with the buttons and the actual speaker?

Right, I get what you mean.

But in a way, I feel like sometimes it makes sense to not completely open everything. Say a messaging app, it makes sense to not just make it free for all. As a company, if I let you interoperate with my servers that I pay and maintain, I guess it makes sense that I may want to check who you are before. I think?

> Easy: pass laws requiring chat providers to implement interoperability standards so that users can bring their own trusted clients.

In Europe that's called the Digital Markets Act.