It's 2026 and Slashdot still doesn't support Unicode. Beautiful.

And no, you can't blame this on MICROS~1 and Word's "smart quotes" feature. That was 25 years ago. I picked those code points intentionally.

No, they're setting YOU up for a catastrophic failure. When (not if) it fails, it won't hurt Microsoft at all, regardless of what happens to you. Since it's applied equally to all installs of Windows, there's no prejudice against any one group, company, faction so it must be equally fair to all.

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You've made a grave error in reasoning, mon ami. (First of all, your logic is faulty.) I'm not sure whether you've made an isâ"ought conflation or if you're actually that naÃve, but Iâ(TM)m sure itâ(TM)ll sting when you find out how the world really works.

What an odd gripe to bring up from out of absolutely nowhere.

You can tell this guy has never studied neuroscience or epistemology.

His level of understanding of the former is likely at the "levels of serotonin" level, nothing but fundamental misconceptions stemming from ignorance.

His understanding of epistemology and the tangled webs of understanding that have been teased out over thousands of years by restless minds is absent. He seems to be confident that he knows exactly what "knowledge" and "understanding" are and that no limits or paradoxes will ever arise in his application of this perfect understanding of knowledge and what it means to know that he and his blinding, thermonuclear-bomb-flash brilliant mind possess.

You too can be described by a big blob of floating-point weights.

No, you can't. I'm not sure how you even came to this conclusion other than by at some point making a vast leap of rational faith. You leapt off a cliff and to say you no longer have legs to stand on is an understatement.

AI LLMs are not made out of neurons.

If you had a genuine understanding about the nature, properties, qualities and functionality of neurons, glia, astrocytes, Schwann cells, all of the other gazillion types of specialized cells that support and make up the nervous system; if you had any idea just how many amazingly-intricate feedback loops upon feedback loops constituted even the most fundamental neurological circuits; if you understood how neurotransmitters and neurotransmitter systems and their associated proteins actually work, and how many signalling molecules are floating around up there, you'd cut your own tongue off for profaning against the glory of nature for abusing that word here.

If the photo of the author listed on the byline is anything to go on, Generation Z really is aging poorly versus us Millenials before them. Perhaps all of that emotional stress from social media use is getting to them. While it's fun to take potshots at this generation that only six years ago (pre-coronavirus) was the most shrill and superficial wave of young people to hit society in ages, I actually want to make a more unsettling point: that this hypothesis may soon show itself in health statistics. Soon, we may see what lifelong social media use does to your cardiovascular health. Watch this space.

(Although this is the ideological position of her entire organization, who I critique for being blind millenarians awaiting the second coming of Ray Kurzweil, it feels fitting to bully her for not listening to her crunchy friends. There's a reason that this technoutopianist ideology is associated primarily with Gen-Xers and millenials, and it's that they didn't grow up experiencing the consequences. Even coming from such a privileged background with access to better healthcare than almost everyone else ("Klein") she still displays prominent physical markers of premature aging from stress. She ought to log off.

Yes, my phone is like an extension of my brain. That point they make is one I agree with and one I will not argue. Gen Z understands this VERY well. (I go outside.) These WIRED nerds do not offer a persuasive argument for why what Gen Z is doing is Bad. At all. The only thing they can do is resort to class politics by telling them that they'll be creating a disadvantaged class, themselves, which is Bad. More people carrying around dumphones makes that hypothetical disadvantaged class STRONGER, which makes it a radical act of protest and activism. Given that these authors clearly are only familiar with these ideas of class and privilege by osmosis from culture since 2014, they failed to anticipate this obvious line of attack. That's the tell that they don't hold this framework of society themselves. These people are unquestioning, blindly-faithful technoutopians. They hold to the idea that smartphones will bring us closer to The Singularity and that is good, whether they want to say it explicitly or not. Don't let the focus on technology confuse you: this is a millenarian argument. Or, rather, since I don't even consider it an argument, a millenarian plea. These nerds wrote a screed to anti-smartphone Gen Z men and women in which they simultaneously 1. blame and shame them for and 2. beg and plead them to stop holding back the Second Coming of Christ. In their case, their version of the Rapture is "the Singularity." Their failure to recognize their technoutopian visions as a 21st century close analogue of Millerism is to our benefit. They won't understand this critique. Don't help them.

What was your breakthrough? Elaborate. This information has been available for you to read pretty much forever. Why didn't you do your homework?

While I think the practice of shadow-banning is despicable, I ask you this: don't you think you're overreacting a little? Have you considered that equating catching a ban with being pressured to take your own life is a tad histrionic? A ban means they don't want your input and your shadowban implies that 1. the mods are passive-aggressive assholes, and/or 2. you have been a persistent nuisance and they want you to go find another place to post instead. Your unmeasured and immature complaint here suggests that you don't know how to take criticism or conduct yourself with decorum and that it is hard to fault them for their patience with you running thin. You haven't been asked to kill yourself. There are about eight billion other people in the world, there are probably several million out of them that it would be appropriate for you to talk to. If these people you are hung up over don't want your participation in their community, fuck 'em. You have some emotional and social development to attend to, to say the least. Telling you that is actually a suggestion that you can do these things and gain some psychological discipline and become a well- mannered member of society and that your life is not worthless or lived in vain.

yet another 115 iq midwit autist who can't wrangle with polysemy

85 iq post

So says the guy who calls himself "narcc"

Okay cool idea dude now for goodness' sake quit drooling and put that thing back in your pants