I do what the person you're replying to and for me its just one voice or a faint imagination of them speaking. Its me roleplaying as the other person, not like there is a different entity in my brain.
How is it going to get access to gmail or github? In any case, whats the probability of it going to so completely off the rails that it does something horrendous with gmail/github? Whats it going to do? Email my coworkers nudes on my computer? Make my github profile public?
I mean what's the big deal? I use --dangeorusly-skip-permissions on every single interaction in the last 6 months. Worst case it deletes my files that are all on git? It fucks up my local DB? Cool.
I save way more time not babying it than the occasional fuck up I have to salvage.
I didnt say that I solved the problem, merely that I, myself, know that I am concious.
If we go falsifiability, again, I can equally say how do I know your concious, or even that how do I know youre alive and breathing beyond the moments that I myself am observing you?
Eh writing software for healthcare, or aircraft or self driving cars is more rigorous than an EE working on industrial lighting or toys.
Im sure for the most part, engineers in physical space deal with the same kind of tradeoffs software engineers make, where you try your best based on industry standards, personal past experiences without some way to prove what youve done is right
Imagine you went back 100 years and someone was like "Come up with a mathematical system that can express any sequences of logical steps" do you imagine what you would deliver is a few primitives and a few simple rules and said "here you go!, this is fully complete". Its actually quite remarkable that Church/Turing didn't start off from primitives like if statements, loops, etc.
Lambda calculus is from the 1930s and predates computers, its point is that it is bare bones model of computation. It doesn't make much sense to compare it to modern languages in efficacy, as that seems to imagine someone came up with lambda calculus in 2010 along Java, C, Python, etc.
The super cool thing about it is that it is capable of expressing ALL the computation you know today, from the few primitives. An "If" statement for example is λb.λx.λy. b x y
At the beginning there was only one query, it got expanded over time with new features. It wasnt well thought out, no.
If you need high scale globally distributed persistent data, uniform distribution of hash reads/writes, dont care for schema, and know your query will remain simple yeah its a fine choice.
I just wouldn't consider it outside of enterprise level
With AI now writing queries is a joke. But you can just create a two column table: key, JSONB and call it a day and you get your easy document store + indexes, json search, relationsl goodness, and atomicity, consistency for free