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Comment Re:Why shouldn't my daughters have phones? (Score 1) 78

Outside of school, my girls still need a way to communicate with everyone, why would we limit that?

Who said we should? Just keep the phones out of schools. It really isn't that complicated.

so instead of hand waving and instilling pointless fear, lets understand reality still exists.

The reality is that people have been going to school in the US for decades without cell phones. Kids didn't need phones in schools then, and they don't need them now.

Comment Re:Why shouldn't my daughters have phones? (Score 2) 78

My daughters have phones because people need to be able to contact them, and more importantly, they need to be able to contact us.

No they don't. If someone (who would need to contact a kid at school except their parents?) needs to contact them, they can call the office. If your kids need to contact you, they can go to the office.

What's the proposed solution? Buy "dumb phones"? Have you tried to buy a reasonably working, and reliable dumb phone? My Telecom provider has zero dumb phones, literally zero, I just took a look at the available phones. Since getting a "dumb phone" isn't an option, and leaving my children with no way to contact us, is also not an option, maybe the solution is to not shove your head into your own ass and complain the air stinks.

How about banning cell phones in schools? They still have the option of going to the office to contact you. Why do parents like you feel the need to be able to reach your kids instantly at any time during the school day? Maybe the solution is for you to quit being a helicopter parent or to homeschool your kids.

The real issue, and it's not being discussed, education needs to evolve, and not evolve in the way where we worship every mental illness that pops up in the form of pronoun overload, in the way that education is handled and delivered. The old model doesn't work, it didn't work in the 90s, so why would it work now? Educators have to evolve and be able to integrate with the youth, not force the youth to submit to outdated, broken methods.

Education has always been evolving, but acting like we need to find a way to reach and teach them through their cell phones is fucking stupid.

Comment Re:Pay up or shut it off. (Score 1) 169

Eww. Just grab some sheet music that's too old to be under copyright, and run it through a synthesizer. You'll get an uninspired performance, but at least the composition will be good. Much better than AI-generated slop.

AI still pumps out better quality than 90% of the slop made by real people that ends up on the radio or on TV.

Comment Re:What am I missing? (Score 1) 82

I would hope that removing all consideration for one party by no longer supporting the product the agreement is based on would invalidate said agreement. The balls someone has to have to wash their hands of a product by no longer offering it or supporting it and then trying to audit people are still using it.

Comment Re: I wouldn't bet it'll take a long time (Score 1) 107

Essentially a virtual machine; a software implementation that mimics the hardware and "software" of the human brain within a digital space. Now of course that is currently impossible, and a large part of why is that many aspects of the human brain are still a black box to us. It is possible that some day we will not only understand every complex chemical and electrical interaction within the human brain down to the atomic level, but we'll also be able to emulate it digitally. If we were to reach that point, I don't really see why we wouldn't be able to copy the exact structure and all the contents of someone's brain. Perhaps the process would be destructive to the original organic brain like in We are Legion (We are Bob) or Pantheon.

Comment Re:no (Score 1) 79

A billion people is plenty and at that level, the strain on the planet is low enough that people back then seriously thought it was impossible for a species to go extinct (like God would just conjure up some more elephants if needed).

We hit 1 billion humans in 1805. The last claimed sighting of a Dodo was reported in the hunting records of Isaac Johannes Lamotius in 1688.

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