It probably could over a long enough period of time. There would be small pockets with lower exposure where it could develop and move to the fringes where it would evolve to better survive the harsher environment. Spend enough time rolling enough dice and eventually the likelihood of even the seemingly most improbable events tends towards 1. It may not even take as long as one might think given anything more complex would need the genes to survive in that environment and the more simple organisms tend to roll the dice on the next generation far more quickly.

The original iPhone came out around 20 years ago and while it's heralded as the first smartphone there were earlier devices that could have been considered as such, but that's regardless. Mobile phones were becoming ubiquitous among high school teenagers before then and even if they were primitive compared to what's available now, they were still every bit as distracting. The technology isn't fully to blame as kids have been passing notes in class since paper became cheap and I'm sure they found ways to avoid paying attention long before that.

The education system has been chasing trends for longer than the idea that computers could help with it. I think that to some extent it has an impossible job as there's an extent to which any student can improve. At best teachers can engender a passion for those they teach to continue to improve their own understanding well after their education is over, but even that is asking a lot as there's are some who have little desire for expanding their mind.

My point is that the teacher's union doesn't really care to solve this problem. Like any union they exist for the benefit of their members who are teachers and not students. Expecting them to solve the problem is foolish at best.

I'm even more pessimistic and think elections mostly come down to which party has fucked up the least in recent memory. They're both lodes to the gills with corrupt scumbags and even if you prefer one over the other, you can still probably name half a dozen rotten assholes you'd like to see get run out of office.

I take it a step further and blame the people on an even deeper level because everyone will admit that we have a system that produces miserable results regardless of party, but no one wants to restrict the system in any way that would prevent it from making people miserable and the system is only incentivized to increase its own power over time regardless of which party is in power.

Douglas Adams had the right of it. Everyone is too concerned about the wrong lizard winning that they fail to consider why they need the lizards at all.

It could just say that it's some bullshit that someone in management wanted to try and it would be right enough for the "why" at least 90% of the time. This also partially explains why no one wants to document. If what they're making has a good chance at getting thrown out why spend time documenting any of it?

The teachers union is just worried that AI will be able to fail the children just as well as they have, but at a fraction of the price. They're twenty years too late on protesting screens.

They should fire another third. The large studios ballooned their teams to sizes that make them unmanageable. Go back twenty years and studios were making better games with a fraction of the people working on projects. The gaming industry is and will be fine. The big studios might have screwed themselves, but that's no one's problem but their own.

Also your post makes no sense if you spend two seconds thinking about it. Because these companies have all been laying people off, anyone they fire now can easily be replaced because there're a lot of people looking for a job. If the big studios kept the top 20% that can do 80% of the work they might actually survive. However, there's a lot incentive for the most talented to strike out on their own. In the past getting a game published was a significant barrier, but now it's so much easier for an individual developer or a small team to make the game they want instead of crapping out another studio sequel.

I'd agree. I've been using them for years and they've been generally good. The only thing I really needed Google for was some programming related searches, but over the years they even started getting bad at those so DDG wasn't as bad comparatively. Incidentally the AI results for programming searches are actually quite good now that they're citing sources and usually the link I want is among those. I haven’t used it for much outside of that, but if it works as well for other things, I can see why Google would want to push it after they screwed up their conventional search so badly over the past decade.

The AI can do the validation as well and for less money. Come to think of it, an AI CEO can replace the human developers and testers with AI for a lot less money than a human CEO could.

I think I'm going to call up some valley VCs this evening to pitch my new idea for a company that will be entirely run by AI AI from the very top all the way down to the HR department. I don't even know what the company is going to do, but I'm sure the AI will figure that out. Perhaps even the investors can be other AIs. Does anyone know what I should do with all the money?

For a lot of tech companies the end game is to have a successful IPO to generate the massive returns that the angel investors are gambling on. Having a CEO that can identify a market to serve with a reliable product the company can deliver is one way of doing this, but neither of those are easy. Another way is having a CEO that lie through their teeth to get everyone else to believe they've done that is another and it's much easier to do and there are no end of scoundrels willing to do it. In five years they'll have moved on from AI to whatever the next hype wave the industry has decided to collectively ride.

The big cities in the U.S. already do heavily subsidize public transportation. None of these cities are full of the sort of voters you imagine to be against this. For example, both New York City and Seattle elected mayors that are self-described socialists. The problem is that the average person in U.S. cities can afford a car which offers better convenience than public transportation and that U.S. public transportation suffers the worst tragedy of commons because it absolutely refuses to deal with people that should be kicked off. It doesn't matter if the bus arrives on time every ten minutes if there's some crackhead that makes the regular public feel unsafe or other riders that are annoying assholes that want to blast their music out of a boombox to the dismay of other passengers. Time, safety, and comfort often outweigh any cost savings that subsidized public transit offers.

Unless I need to get across town, I prefer walking whenever I'm visiting most cities. A weekend bus pass isn't a huge expense, but it's not faster than walking in many cases and I don't have to put up with other riders' asshole behavior. Even though 99% of people are respectful and mind their own business or behave well, it's the 1% of those who don't and the failure of the city to do a damned thing about it that ruins it for everyone else. Europe is t quite at the same level as Japan, but a lot of the shit that makes public transit in the U.S. so undesirable wouldn't fly there. Throwing more busses as the problem ignores the bigger issues and in the future many of the people who rely on busses in the U.S. because they don't own a car will probably switch to robo-taxis because once human labor is eliminated the cost of an individual ride will drop significantly. Make it inexpensive enough and even the poor will take private cabs over the bus because they to value their own time, safety, and comfort when it comes down to it.

I think the most FOSS friendly today is Lattice. I'm a little sorry I didn't go with them from the start.

If you develop a mixed software-hardware solution, you may need to run on Linux, as that's where (realistically) the development tools for the rest of the project are.

You act as though there aren't any such entities that give fuck all what courts in the U.S. have to say about anything. I guess we'd better start giving them foreign aid so we can threaten to withhold it, but I'd prefer to save my tax dollars for something only slightly less stupid.

It doesn't sound like there's anything preventing them from moving to a different domain. The companies involved in this suit likely wasted orders of magnitude more in their own legal costs than actual damages done or what they could hope to legally recover. So the operators should set up shop elsewhere and let the idiots bleed themselves as long as they want to.