I do recognize his name and would like to find a book he's written, but pretty sure I've searched a number of times.

I think I was about as explicit as I could be about going for funny. How about this attempted joke:

You couldn't pay me to fly when the ATCs aren't being paid to keep my plane in the air. (But I haven't flown since around 2005...)

I would say the timeline matches, but I don't care nearly that much about the presentation to spend time on such aspects as forcing things to look differently. I prefer tools that are easy to use. Again from the funding perspective, why would I want to buy an annoying tool?

The heritage foundation has been packing the courts with lunatics for the last 45 years. It's part of project 2025.

Wat?

I prefer simplicity. In my present work, I'm paid by the task - the day after the task. I told them the amount I wanted on the Check. They take care of the details to make certain the all the other items deductions, SS, and taxes.

I like things simple. I really don't deal with milage, or all the other things I consider minutiae. I deal with simple numbers. What this means is not filling out milage reports and the other stuff that clutters up to work. Perhaps I'm eccentric. But I like simple because my actual work is quite complex.

Now I know you're an idiot. Any idiot could see that human civilization is nothing like a meritocracy and that it's impossible for it to be.

Human beings form clicks and clans and in groups and out groups and we artificially advantage members of our group.

If we ever stop doing that we will have become something that isn't human anymore. And I don't think we're going to survive long enough to do that. We are on track to hand the nuclear launch codes over to religious extremist lunatics after all.

I want to say that your post is just AI slop but it's so carefully engineered to piss everybody off who would read it that I think you're a real person putting way too much effort into being a shitposter.

Even referencing that stupid spherical cow joke is clearly designed to get a certain class of nerd on your side.

Whatever the case the point of my post wasn't mathematics it was to try and get you to understand that the same trick gets used to control you generation after generation. The fact that you can't understand that is why the human race is doomed.

Because money can be a great equalizer. Remember the Kings lost to the merchants.

Billionaires don't like being dependent on consumers and employees. They want a more complete and more absolute power.

The error with your math is that it only works on spherical minorities in a vacuum. The world did not begin when you started thinking about it, and in the millions of real lives that were lived before you started trying to justify your social position, out-groups were excluded from contention in the meritocracy, and in-groups were improperly promoted within it because the in-group is often blind to it's own bias

Neither education to help recognize of this bias, nor an attempt to correct for this bias' historical effect is racism. One would think the party that complains constantly that "X isn't racism" would be willing to recognize the distinction. But instead, they use government pressure to keep people ignorant of history, and government money to erect Confederate monuments in the year of our Lord 2025.

What is happening is not subtle, and if you deserve a place in the meritocracy you should be able to see the distinction without thinking any less of yourself.

Wasn't this covered in "Orphan Black", where the clones all had the ASCII string "Property of Dyad Institute" encoded into their DNA? I have zero doubts that these self-serving asshats won't do something very similar with any "creations" they might make, no matter how egalitarian they make their motives sound. That they are trying to do an end run around the law of their land by going overseas says it all; they have zero ethics, and zero fucks will be given if it all goes horribly wrong.

Because I can't imagine anyone writing that of their own volition.

AI looks like slop because it's just grabbing a bunch of shit and stuffing it all together without any actual creative work.

The prompts have nothing to do with that. You can have the best prompts in the world and the technology is still going to produce slop because it's just slapping together something based on a large data set. There isn't going to be any individual creativity because there isn't any individual creativity it's just a mess of other people's work jumbled together by a computer algorithm.

The result is the most watered down garbage because it's a little bit of everybody from everything mixed together by a computer. It's not just about human creativity it's about individual human creativity. When people talk about the artist's vision that actually matters.

AI is just copying somebody else's work. Worse it's copying the work of a whole shitload of other people together. That's always going to make crap because there's no real effort in it.

All this is a moot point. The real purpose of AI is to replace employees. Everything else is just a goofy tech demo in order to get some data for the long-term goal of eliminating White collar work. Some blue collar work too since this AI technology is being applied to robotics.

And our species is very much not ready for a world where at least a quarter of the population has no purpose and no reason to exist.

DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is just desegregation under a different name.

Like Gavin Newsom said and he woke is just anti-black.

If that makes you uncomfortable, good. Now get out there and enjoy some good trouble.

But the courts are paying more attention now because it's ai and it's bad press.

But I would bet money if you did a exhaustive analysis of court filings you would find plenty of made up citations that nobody ever looked into.

Then again lawyers are famous for their honesty and decency so maybe I shouldn't make assumptions.

(Why did you [beelsebob] propagate the vacuum?)

My reaction to any "federal" mention these days is to wonder if they are getting paid for their work. If not, and they are just doing it for love, why should we ever bother to pay them? But I think it will be funny if the shutdown lasts until the next election...

Just joking, but...

Good comment and too bad you weren't FP--and thank you for your relevant Subject.

I still approach it from the perspective of "Would I donate money for that?" And the answer is a partial yes for some of your suggestions. Some of them would take some creativity in describing the project in a way that would attract my donation. But I also have a workaround for some of the other stuff. A fraction of my donation could be reserved for the Mozilla people to assign based on their "unsexy infrastructure" needs. Or maybe the time limit on donations would be sufficient? In the context of the imaginary CSB (Charity Share Brokerage), I would have deposited my donation up front and then selected projects for the CSB to route my donation to. So if the time limit runs out before I've selected a sufficient number of projects, the CSB (as part of its project management mission) could route that money to the "unsexy but necessary" stuff.