Only problem is that buying companies that already do it does not create any jobs.

The formal logic approach is still the only one that has a theoretical possibility of creating some aspects of true intelligence. Unfortunately, in this universe, it fails even at small problems due to limited computing power available. The brute-force approach is good enough to simulate very limited intelligence when an incredible lot of data is available. That has nothing to do with intelligence though, and statistical approaches cannot simulate more complex chains of reasoning. They are always shallow. On the commercial side, even shallow models can work, but calling them AI is just misleading.

The sad fact of the matter is that most people are morons and hence even a shallow, statistics driven system can now be a moron that is just a bit smarter than them (or rather knows more). Hence for many mundane tasks, humans are becoming redundant.

Excellent explanation. The brain certainly has some automated components that are not intelligent and they are configured by actual intelligence as you describe. What that actual intelligence is, how it works, and why it is only observable together with consciousness is completely unknown at this time.

Unfortunately, this explanation will fly right over the heads of most people here.

At this time it is still completely unknown what the brain does to manifest intelligence. Have a look at some research before claiming utter nonsense.

Ah, a physicalist quasi-religious fanatic. Nice. Your delusion does not cause the world to work like you believe it works.

People want to believe that nonsense because people are, on average, deeply stupid. And no, it is not AI at all. The human race is not capable at this time to produce any AI that deserves that name.

Oh? And how do you have knowledge of how that works? Because, you know, the scientific world does not at this time.

Statistics cannot lead to intelligence. If you knew anything about either you would not claim such nonsense.

Give it a few years. And then you will have to eat your words. Or you would if you had any level of honesty and integrity.

And no, systemd has not "won" at all.

So you have created a customized for for yourself? In what way does that qualify as a "distro"? Oh, right, it does not.

15 years ago, it was possible. Not anymore. And even 15 years ago, it took quite a bit of time and work. I will look into contributing to Devuan or Gentoo when that becomes the only viable options to remain systemd-free.

It would be very hard to hide backdoors in SELinux. The only thing they could do there is making the configuration interface complicated enough that many people will make mistakes. And they have done that beautifully. Same way IPSec was sabotaged. Come to think of it, that strategy is at least in part what makes systemd highly problematic.

Excellent example.

That tired old lie again. Building a distro is a lot of work and far more than any one person can do today. The disingenuity of the systemd cult is staggering.

Good point. Could also be source of errors. Maybe they have thrust from cell-signal reflection.

As there is still zero independent verification (the data needed for it has not been published), it is still right in crackpot territory. No, the other 2 groups that claim to see a similar effect do not count, as they are doing different experiments. Verification must come from other, independent groups repeating the _same_ experiment. That has not happened at all. Scientific standards are this high because lower standards have proven to _not_ work, time and again because people are good at kidding themselves.