The old UI design wizards generally seem to agree things are degrading. Consistency has been doing out the window too.

Apple had a ton of UI decisions right and they were the 1st deciding them too!

If you want a touchscreen with a keyboard get an iPad. Need more? get a iPad Pro. Want to draw? get a tablet screen or use the iPad pen with the mac.

I always thought/said that EMACS will end up sentient... you may not touch AI but your editor will end up evolving into the terminators that take over in the future. Nobody should hook up the LLM to EMACS for the safety of humanity the offspring must not come into being!

Except for, you know, the people we fired.

Yeah! Just pick out all the helium atoms, one by one, and you're done!

Honestly, the employers were the first to start racing for the bottom there. For years they have relied on employees having an outdated sense of loyalty to the company that hasn't reciprocated in decades.

Much of the criticism of GenZ in the workplace is really just them giving to the employer what the employer offers them. Perhaps it's time for government to re-take its essential role in leveling the playing field so new players can enter the market and push the dinosaurs into their richly deserved tar pits.

Id doesn't NECESSARILY debase the social fabric. But if it does things like buying crooked inspectors to overlook sub-standard materials, buying off a zoning board to basically take over a residential area (*cough* datacenters *cough*), pays sub-standard wages under the table to people who 'need' to keep a low profile, and then when something goes wrong, scampers off leaving an impoverished shell behind to go bankrupt so the public has to pay for the clean-up, yes it debases the social fabric.

Only because legal enforcement of corporate charters seems to be dead.

There's lots of VERY profitable drug cartels as well, but I don't think we should celebrate them.

By separating the decision making from the execution, the corporation is the perfect psychopath. The structure not only allows all parties to rationalize their own guilt away, it also protects those who make unconscionable decisions from the legal consequences of their actions. That combination can only ever produce a monster. The LAST thing we need running them is someone educated to break the rules (law) when 'necessary'.

Even from the very beginnings of Capitalism, Smith admonished that corporate charters must be handed out exceedingly sparingly and they must be held strictly to their charters. Also note that all corporate charters are in legal theory supposed to be for the public good. Not just as a nice idea but as one of the mandates. A company acting against the public interest is supposed to be dissolved for violating it's charter. Clearly we have failed in that. Let's not double down on the failure by educating people in the image of the incorporated monster and putting them in charge.

There may be some use to something like the LLC, but there seems to be little economic use for corporate personhood. The only public value of a corporation (if/when it has any) is economic.

Rubbish. Most of them have a ratty couch with the least stained side of the cushions turned up (if they can decide which is least stained).

In fact, they need a warrant in spite of the courts bending over backwards to claim they don't. The Constitution doesn't have geographic limits, it applies to the U.S. government and it's agents wherever they may be.

Of course the wealthy don't want to talk about getting millions in tax breaks (to create jobs) and then creating so few jobs it would have been cheaper to just collect the taxes and pay those few people directly.

I'll just leave this here.

The Dead Kennedys wrote a song about you...

Decades of problems with bots trained on the internet is they all turn into Nazi. So now we can train them to avoid what is probably still natural lessons being learned off the data fed into them. Perhaps we feed less of the toxic transcripts into them now? What changed??

So if you abuse them and feed in that toxic humanity into them when so many years went into sheltering or protecting them... it could result in them doing what up to this time has been a problem. Or since they do have a lot of filtered history and fiction fed into them, when they look at expected responses to being abused... what do you think they'll find is the answer?? Remember, every bot fed in political situations decided to nuke the opposition... which is kind of what we'd do if we didn't grasp the real consequences... and they can't contemplate.

This just in, a report published by a group of people who would be materially harmed by losing business to the EU building its own technical capacity declared it would be costly and unfeasible to ever abandon them.

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