Would it still be worth it if instead of trolling real humans on real Slashdot, you only get a walled-off Slashdot filled with chatbots to troll and respond to?

This iust strikes me as really, really sad.

I guess its a good thing seniors are less lonely and more capable, but can't we as a society and as a species do better? I honestly much prefer the idea of having my parents move in with me if they become unable to care for themselves, rather than move them into a facility or giving them Alexa or Siri or ChatGPT to talk with all day.

If I am really old and someone offers me a companion robot, I'll honestly just ask for a gun and a bullet instead, because whats even the point of my life then?

Maybe.

But you have to admit, if your Mom gets run over by a drunk driver, at least you have an individual to be angry at for their irresponsible life choices, and there's someone you can hold to account, and feel a sense of justice.

If your Mom gets killed by a Tesla self-driving vehicle having a software hiccup, and you're told "well that's just the way it is" and there's no one person you can hold to account, you may never feel any sense of justice for what's been done. And nothing may even be done at all. You'll just be told to accept it and move on.

The feeling sort of hits differently doesnt it?

Except autocorrect IS making people worse at spelling. Just like GPS made people worse at navigating or being able to read a map.

But handing over your actual words and ideas to a glorified autocomplete seems a step even further.

I'm just waiting now for the AI excuse to become common. "I didn't write that offensive remark! It was ChatGPT! I'm merely guilty of failing to proofread it!" So now people won't even be able to be held account for their own words anymore. Blame it on AI.

Speaking of Musk, let's not forget rushing to human testing for Neuralink. As if torturing animals wasn't bad enough.

Tesla has been irresponsible with promoting self-driving tech. It's one reason why I don't drive around San Francisco if I can avoid doing so. I saw the video of the Tesla randomly braking on the Bay Bridge.

It's not limited to Tesla though. Just a week or two ago I read about the Waymo self-driving car that ran over someone's pet dog in San Francisco.

People who work on this tech seem to feel a detachment from any responsibility. I guess as an individual software engineer it's easy to feel that your entire team shares the burden, ao you don't individually need to worry about it. As a result, nobody on the team feels any burden of responsibility.

Why do Harvard MBAs ruin companies? Because greedy people ruin companies and greedy people get Harvard MBAs.

Within one year. How does humanity give up THINKING or doing the basic reaponsibilities of their jobs, within ONE year of chatbots? No pause to even gauge the consequences?

Do SO many people find basic writing to be THAT difficult? Do programmers really all feel comfortable letting AI create code? I sure don't. But hell, I've seen how lazy and stupid and incompetent entry level developers are now, even at the most "prestigious" companies, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised they reach for a chatbot to do their work for them at the first chance they all got.

Do those of us who can still write, and can still code, get valued more? My guess is probably not because everyone's standards are just sinking lower... and lower...

The future of humanity really is going to be the lazy tubs of lard from the movie Wall-E.

You must not have a lot of experience writing code if you've never had to deal with unicode characters. Off the top of my head... strings meant to be displayed in the UI... processing input... or simply putting a copyright as a comment at the top of a source file. There is more to code than the language's keywords and syntax.

Well you're lying about what I said. I never said I know you haven't.

I said I DOUBT you have given $100 total. Which is still true.

Nothing seems to look like anything else, according to the picture on Intel's website.

Except for 3: hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash are pretty indistinguishable. I don't know how they would have differentiated them, short of putting some extra marker above/below the line, but for all the attention they paid to everything else, and as someone who always makes sure to use an en-dash instead of a hyphen when indicating a number range, like in a copyright date year range, I'm surprised they didn't come up with SOME way.

What part was false about you?

The problem is you think homeless people should act like fully functioning adults without recognizing them as (long or short term) incapable of caring for themselves. They aren't going to just go away. There will always be new homeless people. It's society's job to care for people who are incapable of caring for themselves. If you can't see that then you are more broken than they are.

Moral "authority"? I'm just pointing out stuff that's obviously immoral. That doesn't take authority, wherever that would even come from.

I also doubt you've given $100 to the homeless, cumulatively, over your entire life.

The "they will just waste it!" os the absolute easiest (and laziest) excuse not to give $5 to someone in a more desperate circumstance than you, isn't it? But I'm sure you've got more rationalizations coming to excuse your empathy vacuum.

1) Don't be an irresponsible parent taking kids down dangerous streets filled with the people who society can't be bothered to care about.
2) If your kid sees a homeless person and is understandably upset at seeing what happens when the world writes off human life as unsalvagable junk, consider it a teachable moment. Your kid could come away from the experience with compassion and a broader perspective.
3) If YOU have young kids and they see this, I'm afraid it just means a new generation just learnt how to ignore and not care about the homeless. You don't seem capable of teaching a kid anything other than how to share your view of homeless people as dangerous monsters.

The comments here fill me with so much hate.

I don't get how people react to homeless people with derision instead of compassion.

I see the homeless problem in San Francisco regularly with my own eyes. It does not make me hate homeless people. But reading the way allegedly "good citizens" react to homeless people? THAT fills me with hate.

What is it anyway, psychologically? Are you insecure about your own position in life? So hating homeless people makes you feel superior? Or like there's more separation between where you currently are and yourself being homeless someday? Does the hate on homeless people make you feel more secure somehow? Safer? Just by sharing how worthless you think these people are?

Do you tell yourself you are so upset and cruel in your descriptions of homeless people because its a safety issue? Even if most of you live in suburbs, and most of the interactions with homeless people scenarios you run through in your mind are purely hypothetical and not actual memories? Did you have one bad interaction that makes you feel justified in characterizing all homeless people as imminent threats?

When you'd rather people be dead and gone, rather than help them, you've failed at being a human. Your parents raised you wrong.