how AI now does everything--you just need to buy the AI from them.

What a surprise.

Except for, you know, the people we fired.

Yeah! Just pick out all the helium atoms, one by one, and you're done!

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the complaints are from ai bots and not real people.

There's nothing wrong with having a community were AI content is prohibited. In the future, such areas will probably be significantly more valuable anyway.

Some social media site is going to restrict all AI and find that many people would prefer such a community.

This doesn't mean you can't find AI slop online - there's tons of places. Why not have a few that are more selective?

Always been a big fan of the Cringe and met him several times. Always an interesting character. His book, "Accidental Empires" is a must read for anybody wanting to understand how we got to where we are today. He will be missed.

They're in the goddamn walls!

Most computer/tech hardware at least can have a second life after it's fulfilled its primary purpose.

The exception to that is Apple.

You can routinely find their iPads but if they aren't "unregistered" from whoever had the main account, they're utterly useless.

It doesn't make sense to buy products from a company that locks down its hardware like that. I can understand that for a phone, but not some old tablet.

Well, let's thank them for saving the world, then!

Here's one about extrapolating trends: https://xkcd.com/605/

Because that's the received wisdom: if you don't like a decision, the best way to get it reversed is to yell about how it's going to lead to utter disaster and it MUST be changed at all costs.

Absolutely. It was collected in The Cyberiad. I'll go to the trouble of looking it up.

Here we are: "The First Sally, or, the Trap of Gargantius."

Reminds me of a Stanislaw Lem story in which two competing countries perfect a method of having their robotic armies connect up into supergenius networks, growing smarter as they grew bigger. Until the final day, when they were ready for all-out battle, and each had their army connect up into one big ultimate network before the two met...at which point both armies realized how stupid the whole war was, and simply didn't fight.

They were thinking, "We need people on PCs that are tied to the Google ecosystem."

The problem is that we have Lord Snapcase instead of Lord Vetinari.

Selling it isn't weird if it makes money...which it does, hand over fist.

*Buying* it is totally bizarre to me, but I can't deny people do.