Who read the summary and immediately thought of Disney's "The Magician's Apprentice?"

I'm a software developer but I've always had misgivings about university curricula for professional/technical tracks. Maybe if we looked at education again as teaching people to read challenging books, write well, and think critically, we would all be better prepared for whatever life threw at us.

A few years before I enrolled at Vanderbilt, all freshmen had to take calculus. And even as an engineering major, I was expected to pass tough humanities classes.

When you earned that diploma, prospective employers knew that you were ready to tackle hard challenges. And you knew that given a library and some study, you could learn just about anything.

A course of study can't magically generate more every level jobs, but it can give you the tools and discipline to succeed wherever you do land.

I just learned a lesson about copying and pasting into the browser on my phone. It's mangled. I can barely read my own post.

I found some examples of anxiety-inducing statements that have been handed to the American people in the last couple years:

âoeChicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR.â

âoeItâ(TM)s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand â" We wonâ(TM)t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.â

"There will be no food, there will be no housing, there will be no Military, there will be no nothing. Youâ(TM)ll be Third World every way, and everyone will suffer or die."

Tiring the military on our own cities, executing rival politicians, and a future of suffering and death. I can't imagine why anyone feels anxious.

I need a drink.

Pretty much. The rich and powerful figured out how to manipulate the sentiment of a large portion of the US. They convinced Americans that acting in their own best interest is playing into the hands of some boogeyman named Socialism or Washington Elite. Even the people who taught me to think critically as a child were swallowed by the MAGA wave.

The political opponents that should charge to the rescue are tripping over their own feet in an orgy of ineptitude.

I forget this was an AI thread. Sorry.

I read TFS. "We canâ(TM)t just sit back and wait for the tsunami to hit us" does not match the title of "apocalypse unlikely"

Do they know the alternative to simulating nuclear weapons is to actually pop off a few of now-and-then to see what happens? I don't think this is the data center you want to fight.

Claude Code and Codex are perfectly capable of driving Gitlab, GitHub, or any other online source code repo site. I don't have a use for an AI integrated with the source code control, unless maybe for CI.

Full disclosure, I only read the article's title, and I'm fast becoming a grumpy old man. I have to wonder if great anxiety is a symptom of a generalized anxiety disorder. In my own life I've made more personal growth when I tried to learn techniques and attitudes to deal with stress, as opposed to times when I tried to avoid it.

Do Republican voters keep track of what the administration does? I'm not trolling. I really wonder if there is support for every executive order, or does no one read the news?

In that sense, Flock is not at fault. I think the issue is that a company is providing a system where abuse and tragic mistakes are predictable and inevitable. The Flock system has the ability to greatly assist law enforcement, which is its intended purpose. Naturally, law enforcement wants this new power, and the company wants to get rich providing it as quickly and broadly as it can. Neither seem very interested in what the unintended consequences will be. Many people find the lack of curiosity and humility on the part of law enforcement and Flock to be irresponsible.

Especially the mistakes.

The parent has the right of it. I'm honestly not that interested in AGI or machine conscious. Whatever Claude Code and Codex are doing is useful to me.

> These concepts didn't come from maga.

MAGA didn't invent anything, but MAGA sure as hell took some old ideas to unimaginable new heights.

It's pretty natural to anthropomorphize things when talking about them. I anthropomorphize a lot of things that aren't nearly so anthropomorphic as an AI agent.