TV series starring Fry & Laurie, 1990s. Jeeves was Wooster's man servant who expedited whatever needed doing. Wooster was an irresponsible young rich person who was helpless without Jeeves.

Such servants were fairly common in literature, micromanaging the lives of their 'masters' and covering up their mistakes.

This is what I suspect Gates is referring to: a digital guide to getting thru life successfully despite your instincts that lead you down the wrong path.

But if it is true, it may only be available to the wealthy.

I'm single, old and near death. I'm sorry I won't get to see how this turns out. I've lived thru the beginning of the personal computer, the internet & WWW, the social media fiasco and now the beginning of AI. All exciting events!

It seems to me there are far worse things to worry about that nobody takes seriously yet: human population continues to grow; war, hunger, brutality and fugitives around the world; climate change; extinction of species; the Hollywood writers' strike, etc.

But choosing to worry about this fumbling AI seems a foolish waste of time in light of our impending reality. If you are young and have children you really need to get your head straight- real known impending disasters need your attention NOW. Your children's future depends upon it.

So an anonymous US authority filed some charges. Well that's darn near informative!

And where is this man being held? On what charges? By whom? Oh? He's not arrested? He's in some country from which he can't be extradited?

Even for Slashdot this Summary is extremely vague.

"left because San Fran is a literal shithole"

What motivates a person to choose a location? Often it is 'lifestyle', which can be interpreted in various ways; partytown, beach bunnies, wealth opportunities, etc. Some of these are of temporary interest and pass as our interests evolve.

When I went to San Francisco it was populated with beatniks; yes, Ginsberg and the like. I got to know them in the dingy coffee houses and clubs of the day. I spent time at Cochran's Billiards where the world's best players duked it out every nite. A few years later SF became a haven for a new generation of artists, hippies, and the Berkeley, Oakland, East Bay revolution. Since the time of Mark Twain, SF has been a hotbed of culture.

I've lived in many cities and long ago found the key to a 'place of interest'. To be interesting, a city must have culture in its slums. My motivation was and is culture and I often find the ghetto is an inspiration.

Tips: you won't find it in Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Omaha, Sedona or Boise. Yes they all have music & art venues for the wealthy, but culture will be harder to find. You might still find it in NYC, SF, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, N'Orleans. Even smaller cities (like the former Sedona or Nashville) can sprout culture. Chicago's underclass was once celebrated by a journalist named Studs Terkel who spent much of his life in barrooms interviewing and immortalizing the LCD (lowest common denominator) people of the city. You could do worse. Culture can happen anywhere but some environments encourage them. When the poorest have culture, you can bet that it is widespread in the area.

-- Or you could choose a location with great beaches, parties, or wealth opportunities.

This is Slashdot clickbait, guaranteed to bring out the usual suspects with clever but useless comments. Well, that's my guess. In recent years many Headlines end in a question mark and seem to lack any substance. This article itself seems to be a simple whimsical observation of no import. Let's see how many comments actually have practical value.

Whew!

For a moment I panicked thinking it was only 8 million light years away. Too close for comfort! It's far enough that we are safe--for now. But like the ourobouros, it may grow to swallow the entire universe eventually.

There seems to be potential in this approach. Note the comment: "Effective prediction in real-world settings will rely on the quality of patients' medical histories."--my (US Veteran's Administration) medical history would require hundreds of pages to print out. More standardization of such files across countries and institutions is desperately needed.

Only the Nature link https://www.nature.com/article... has the facts of the process. Quite tedious. Vast numbers of authors from many institutions were involved. They expended great effort only to show that a better study is needed. It's too late for my pancreas cancer, but others will eventually benefit.

"TFS keeps talking about the "theft" of all that content, whereas anyone who has read enough FSF screeds over the years will realize that it is instead *copyright infringement*."

This is only partially true. Note that many data hoarders such as Facebook, Twitter and Slashdot do not create content. It is created by users even though the company may claim ownership.

OTOH some publishers and university presses may have a legitimate claim to own the content on their servers (according to local laws).

I believe that Peterson, a publisher of educational materials, is suing to prevent use of their proprietary content by AI companies. This could be an interesting test case. Nevertheless, local laws are the weak part of IP law; a worldwide agreement could be helpful.

"the fight over which planet has the most moons in its orbit" ?

So, I'm imagining a gaggle of the great living astronomers in a heated argument over 'the most moons'. Voices raised, fists raised, these old and grey PhDs carry on like 8th graders fighting over a foul ball call. I see some red angry faces among them; one or two are near a heart attack.

Fortunately Slashdot readers are adults and appreciate the presentation of the new numbers without undue emotion. Now we can all rest easy. Until the next survey.

Finally, a useful comment after all the whining.

It's clear that the problem being fussed over in TFS is of no significance in light of the coming AI Large Language Models. Anyone will be able to generate thousands or millions of comments to influence government, business, schoolchildren, voters or Slashdot readers. Amazon review manipulation will be childs' play.

The perpetrators will include nation-states, corporations, religions, lobbyists, hackers and ordinary people with an agenda.

There will be no obvious pattern to the fake comments such as you often find in existing Amazon reviews. Such attacks could carry great influence and consequences and there are no clear countermeasures yet available. The problem is much bigger than the Summary implies.

I live in the American West. We came here for gold, adventure and good surfing. We aren't afraid of new things, we create them. This AI novelty is interesting and we want to see its potential. We have no interest in squelching that potential until it is proven harmful.

China's leaders, OTOH, are afraid of their people. Their primary concern is that the people never know what the free world is like. Hiding that while allowing AI is a major challenge for them.

All the comments here seem to refer to big CORPORATE environments, ignoring that TFS is talking about STARTUPS. I'm thinking about the two Steves and friends who created Apple. Five or ten seriously dedicated people who are focused on an idea.

What motivates such people is adrenaline. They must work together and they will probably do it for 12+ hours per day until they see certain milestones of progress. 'Remote work' is a ridiculous concept.

Please don't confuse IBM or Microsoft with startups. Don't confuse startup mentality with corporate employee mentality. Don't expect to find 'executives' or 'managers' in a real startup environment. There is a difference.

"diluted with plant-based ingredients in the bio-ink"

I might be interested in a lab grown meat but not with additives intended only for ink-jet type printing. Sounds like a gimmick from a deranged marketing department. A hamburger type patty should suffice that doesn't require 'printing'. Yes, it would be nice to reproduce the muscle patterns of real fish, but a printer will never do that. With luck, future lab grown muscle will be able to emulate real muscle fibers.

Pi:
"Oh really! He did that?"
"Where does it hurt?"
"Does Daddy often do that to you?"

"complaining that Apple makes it more difficult than other companies to switch to a different kind of system."

Locking users in is is a somewhat universal corporate scam used by software makers, hardware makers of all sorts, communication systems, etc. But Apple is truly a master of the concept and certainly not limited to iMessage.

Feel free to upload your personal music files & photos to your friendly Mac apps, but understand that those files are gone forever. Want to edit your photos in a different app? Expect to copy/paste them one by one or resort to some undocumented ritual. If you look in your hard drive for your music files you will find each one buried in layers of folders with names invented by the Apple software. Importing your music might take five minutes, extracting it would be a manual process that could take months.

Apple's business & professional software often meets minimum standards of compatibility due to market demand. Still there are likely to be interesting anomalies.

When considering new software, always check file formats that it can import and what standard formats it can export. Verify that the exported file actually works with your other software.