This seems minor compared to the take home problem bs that people have to endure on the off chance that they might be offered a job.

Well, you know how messy most hackers are..... my mom would like this article.

His spreadsheet example is very telling. The difference in energy requirements between an actual spreadsheet program and an AI spreadsheet simulator would be multiple orders of magnitude (at least 6, probably more). So the spreadsheet simulator makes no sense. I bet you have the same problem with a world simulator. The energy requirement is so huge you will have to just write a program. With the help of an LLM of course.

So I'm not buying his thesis.

"We'll try everything, it seems, other than holding parents accountable for what their children consume".

We'll try anything, it seems, other than hold internet companies accountable for the society destroying shit they publish.

And it's not jusy children who's lives they are destroying.