Responding to bots I like and dislike: Some of the bots I really enjoy are on Twitch. NightBot and Fossabot are bots that allow custom chat responses and actions to take place. For example, they can automatically time users out or respond to frequently asked questions such as a rule set or the streamer's time zone. Some bots I dislike are the view bots on Twitch. Inflating view counts is just a bad practice that I think degrades the site and the communities that people try to build. Sadly, in the current Twitch meta, buying viewbots is almost essential for growth.

Like many people, Scratch was the first experience I ever had with programming, and it was such a fun way to learn it. I knew a ton of kids who wanted to be game designers growing up, and being taught how to bring games to life in elementary school influenced that. One issue that I found with Scratch is that it taught how to comprehend code and identify what was needed, but it lacked a lot of the actual writing components. Placing blocks is easy, but I wish there were more ways to type. Overall, a life-changing program.

I see this as a huge issue with capitalism and free-market economic structures. When the profit-maximizing outcome often depends on innovation, people will go to dangerously great lengths to achieve it. As much as I don't like them morally, we see this with Altman and Musk: SpaceX, Tesla, and OpenAI are all revolutionary in their industries, but they do not have ethical safeguards in place. Should we slow down technological progress to do it safely, or is the final frontier all that matters?

Another ethical framework that wasn't mentioned is Hedonism. This is the idea that life's ultimate goal is to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. I partially subscribe to this notion, as I see prolonged happiness as life's prime objective. For example, would hitting this person make me happy now? Maybe, but going to jail would make me unhappy for a longer period; thus, I will not do it. This is a very simplified idea, but I believe that if one has strong internal ethics and sympathetic values, it can work!