Fortunately there is no other form of Fraud, amirite?

I think you are trying to box me in as some sort of right wing nut. So let's move on - okay, should everyone get UBI from birth? You said in all caps - "EVERYBODY GETS IT". So okay, at birth a person stars getting UBI. How much?

Now since it is in your words, impossible to there to be any fraud under UBI. it's take this woman who funds her lifestyle with th eSSI her pretend autistic children get. So your system of everybody gets UBI - will autistic children get more UBI, or will every child, no matter the disability, receive the same UBI from birth?

How will fraud become impossible. Who gets the money, the child, or the parent?

I'm pretty certain that you have the completely fraud free answer, no fraud is possible under your system. You said it is impossible to have fraud. Show us.

A pity this is a French situation, but you get 2 points for your typical "Ebberting dat's a prawblim iz 'Murricas fault!

Seriously, how many yuan or rubles do you get for posting your wisdom?

What often happens is after negotiating something that costs the company or institution a lot of money, is that they don't replace workers who retire or otherwise leave.

Or just make a position redundant. Or outsource.

The place I retired from had its unionized employee headcount shrink over 50 percent since the 1980's. Inverse of the rest of the place. Yeah, the remaining people were paid pretty well and had lots of bennies. It ends up like the old adage of "I got mine, screw you!" And further shrinkage will happen.

There is a need for unionization on occasion. However, calling for a worldwide strike is silly. And considering the issues Ubisoft is having, this corrective action just might kill Ubisoft. Of course then, the employees will be able to stay home, just like they want.

> On occasion, the truth is marked as trolling. In further response to the guy, time moves on. Technology moves on. Referring to the Tube vs Transistor comment, early transistors were fragile, sensitive things. They couldn't handle much power. Tubes were better. Many thought transistors would be at best, some niche product.

The frailty and limitations of transistors were a little bit similar to AI hallucinations and slop. Some limitation, some unfixable problem that prevents success.

But time went on, and transistors became better, and tubes were used less and less. Now tubes are the niche product.

Same with computers. Same with programming. Anyone want to go back to programming with punchcards?

So I'm learning how to use AI. Hell, writing prompts reminds me a little bit of the old game of Zork. Have to figure out what you type to bring the proper response.

This is true. I don't actually think you support fraud, Just a rhetorical thingy.

In support of what you note, the approval process is seriously inconsistent. I knew a woman who was definitely in bad shape -yet no approval. In the 2010 era, they were granting SS disability to people in some communities that had jobs that were going away forever, like clothing manufacturers. They were not disabled, just going to be hard to employ (heard this on NPR)

The hell of the thing is that SSI - even basic Social Security is pretty much a pittance.

But that woman might not be committing fraud in her mind, but she was just taking advantage of every opportunity she saw as her right. Maybe the person approving her surprising three children being autistic liked her. It was at a time when Autism speaks was claiming an epidemic epidemic, People were blaming things like vaccines for it. It was the cause du jour.Might have even been a quota.

I do know she is pissed that her son going to college is moving away. Even the Social security system has trouble deciding normal college students living normal college student lives, taking normal courses - are autistic to the point of needing disability. Wife say she thinks he wants out of the system for being considered impaired, wants to live a normal life.

Note, he isn't an aspie.

Some times they can wear the appeals process down. A member of a local ham club found a doctor who specialized in calling people disabled. They just kept appealing until the SS system figured he had no intention of ever working again, and granted him disability.

Had to get to insult level, didn't ya. Funny how people who would claim to be so much smarter than me believe that UBI is some sort of fraud deterrent. Like this woman would be pure and law abiding if only they threw money at her and her children.

SOrry, perhaps you do not know as much about human nature as you purport to. She worked. She got Child support, she got Alimony.

She did not get the SSI money because she needed it. She got it by taking advantage of the system. She used the SSI to support her lifestyle. She went for as much as she could get without doing anything.

Worst rationale for UBI ever.

Yup, it is a humanitarian thing, and trying to keep people safe. Something like that happened with my MIL. She was far into end stage dementia, the part where the brain is so far gone that bodily processes are shutting down. She was in an end care nursing facility. Her heart stopped early one morning. The damn EMTs arrived, and after 10 or maybe 15 minutes, they got it started again. So we ended up with her at the hospital. Doctor came in and told us she was basically brain dead. So there she was on a ventilator, and it extended her so called life another 5 hours or so.

It was at that point I thought to myself - no way, no more. I didn't blame the EMT's, but I was surely not happy what they did.

I had to convince the wife that needed to happen. She was exhausted from all that stuff that creeped up, so it really wasn't too hard to convince her in the end.

It is a problem to even discuss. Say something to the wrong person, and next thing you know, you have therapists and suicide hotline type people call you. Yet I'm the farthest thing from suicidal, I just want to save my family from that "long goodbye", a particular cruelty of modern life..

And? Autism is pretty hard to prove, and yes, there was a time when a lot of things got rubber stamped. All that said, if the ATM spits out a thousand dollars, and you take it, then you are stealing it. The child claimed to be autistic to a point where he needs supplemental income just to live, yet presents normally socialized, and will be going to college is hardly a person who needs that money.

It isn't his fault, it is his mothers. but interesting that you support the fraud. No, just because there was a time that little investigation happened does not exonerate the theft of money applied for under deception.

The guy who lost his jerb to AI just checked in! Whatever you do, don't learn anything any more, you know enough now and forever.

You sound like some of the guys who were pissed off about transistors taking over from tubes.

I know a few Hams who are that way. Bragging about their Heathkit tube radios, While my radio is an RF front end, tied to a server Software defined radio and spectrum analyzer.

This is true. I look at the prompting issue as learning another language. I experiment, I shift things and change words. When something turns out correct, I note what I prompted mentally as well as documented.

And that is what intrigues me. I see something that is coming along, perhaps even inevitable, so I learn about it. I always have. I cam into the workforce at the end of the tube era, so I dove into transistor tech, then IC, I dealt with old school video with linear editing, and the nightmare of frame by frame 3-D animation to tape, then I went to non-linear editing, then switching a department from chemical photography to digital. Learning learning, learning.

At most of these steps, there was someone who didn't want to change, like the old ways were the good ways.The new ways were always bad. I kept my jerb, many of them were laid off.

I'm even having fun learning, I wonder how much for the people bitching and moaning about AI are having?

Is that societies problem? Is there a restriction on what the public sees?Is it not possible to encounter quality?

The closest I can come to agreeing with you is that one facet of consumerism has convinced many that the only metric is price.

I dunno if I hang with a different group, but I look at what I want to buy, then research the price. Then I buy it if it is acceptable.

If not, I don't. Wife and I even do this with groceries. If something is soaring, we don't buy it. And our grocery bill is significantly smaller than most people, yet we eat healthy. Always have, always will. Same with products.

It isn't difficult. Maybe some people aren't all that good with money. But that isn't society or capitalism's fault. At some point, people need to lose the everyone else is at fault narrative. And I got to where I am from poverty, so I'm nothing special. One of the people who are supposed to be the designated victims.

I doubt they are any more of less moral, it probably just reflects a better quality of life for most people.

Nostalgia has a lot of people believing that we live in some sort of latter day hell, while pre - 1900 times were halcyon days.

A whole lot this. Now that we can keep dementia sufferers alive for a dozen or more years, it means that if they are going to get 24/7 care at home, someone will have to stay at home 24/7. It doesn't mean the family is callous. It means that someone will have to give up a significant portion of their lives, when at one time it was just a much smaller part.

And yes, all of the things that killed the demented, since their entire physical and immune systems are failing, are being circumvented. There is a saying that Pneumonia is the old person's friend. That it is a merciful end to suffering. But we stretch out the suffering as long as possible today, for both the older person and their families.

And I've made no bones about it, when I hear that bell tolling, I'm checking out. Told the wife that if I can't do it myself, to put me on a flight to point Barrow, and have them sit me out overnight. Quick and pretty painless.

Seems a little odd that you believe the general public buys things they do not want.

At this point, I believe there are a few failtroll users who comment on every topic on Slashdot with generalized doom and hatred. I hope you don't actually feel this way - if so, you need the anti-depressant/anti psychotic cocktail they give some people now to numb their ennui,

Perhaps your goal is to return to pre-industrial times when everything was better? Or just anarchy in general.

It would be as difficult as eliminating free speech. If I were to make that hypothetical movie in a couple days, what would be the law that could be created that would keep me from showing it, at an indie fair, and even making money with it on say Youtube?

If I were an actor, I would be looking to find employment in a different field.