"And....it's gone!"

I'm hoping they can upgrade the OS all the way to Windows 2000. Peak UI, peak performance, and peak efficiency.

Lawyers are some of the most overworked people on the planet. Not only that, but the work they do requires a lot of high-level thinking and processing for long stretches of time. It's exhausting work.

So along comes AI, which can turn hours of work into minutes, saving them a lot of time and work (at least up front). Of course they'll take a chance at it, especially when it lets them get eight hours of sleep a few more times a week. Besides, with better odds than a coin flip, the case will probably settle anyways, and what they write will never see the light of day.

Besides, it's very easy to skim through what AI generates and feel convinced that it's good enough. Only if one were to really scrutinize the work would one discover how terrible it is, but why bother doing all that extra evaluation...wasn't AI supposed to save you time?

...When we called them programs? Or executables? I mean, they do end in .exe for a reason...

I think there's way too many people who imagine AI to be some sort of Stuxnet, and they're letting their imaginations run wild. It's all pareidolia at work. AI is just an amalgamation of training data. Think of it like hamburger...when you look at what comes out of the meat grinder, you can't say to yourself, "That morsel came from the shank, and that little bit must be the filet, and that tidbit there came from the rib." It all clearly came from somewhere, but when blended together, you can no longer distinguish its individual parts. There's nothing at all intelligent about AI, but we perceive it as such.

Can we perhaps stop trying to anthropomorphize an algorithm?

It's just absolutely sad to think about how many billions of dollars have been burned by Meta on such stupid things. Hey Zuck, how's that metaverse going for you?

Imagine...with that same amount of money, we could have created a program that would give everyone free access to a four year college education. But to hell with all the Socialists, because clearly this monstrosity will generate more economic growth than free college for all.

Fuck our corporate overlords.

Here's my reality:

1) AI is not 100% accurate.
2) AI supplanting human thinking is a process known as Cognitive Offloading, which significantly harms learning.
3) NAEP scores have been steadily decreasing since around 2010, which research has shown has been due to the integration of digital technology inside the classroom.

Fuck our corporate overlords. They want to destroy our public schools. Don't let them drive the proverbial nail into the coffin.

If one single blog post can create so much uncertainty in these businesses that it triggers an 800 point drop in the Dow, what does that say about the fragility of the businesses themselves?

I bought myself a hybrid a few months ago. Auto start/stop on it makes perfect sense, especially when the electric motor is there to do part of the work. I have to actually concentrate hard to even notice when the engine fires up or powers down.

On the other hand, when it's a pure ICE vehicle, I'm not a big fan. Most of the time it's tolerable, but three months ago, I was driving an Expedition that shut off the engine while I was idling at a frontage road waiting to make a turn onto the street. When I began my turn and hit the accelerator, the engine turned over, fired once, then stopped, and I got an error on the dash telling me to put the car in park and power-cycle the car to restart it. I was so glad I was on a frontage road with no cars behind me, because I swear I would have panicked if I was actually on a street with a car telling me it needed a "reboot".

The last time I drank two cups of coffee in a day, I had to wake up three times at night to pee. My bladder just can't handle that much caffeine anymore. Guess I better embrace my destined dementia demise.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked to run online scams in Myanmar and elsewhere in South East Asia.

I was in the Philippines last November attending a wedding. The groom was a member of the Philippine Coast Guard. He said the #1 problem he dealt with was illegal fishing. The #2 problem he dealt with was trafficking of women and children. He said they seize at least one boat every month with hundreds of passengers. These women (and parents of the children) actually pay brokers to transport them over to Thailand, where they are promised employment. Then, when they get to Thailand, they're smuggled through the country into Laos, Cambodia, or Burma to work in these locations managed by crime families, often managed by the Chinese mafia.

Never forget: slavery still exists today. The western world just outsourced it to poorer countries.

Daddy Bezos has to cut a check to keep the lights on.

I feel like my mind has just blown itself to pieces just now. How on God's Green Earth did humanity decide to value a company that lost $12 billion dollars in just Q3 of 2025 at $830 billion dollars?

Our court will protect the rich interests of Bayer, because they only work for the rich. Bayer doesn't want to have to fight 50 potential lawsuits in 50 states; that's too many election fund donations they'd have to make. Much cheaper to just pay off the feds to make the ruling for everyone.

Fuck our corporate overlords.

Well, thank you for the discussion. It has been a long, long time since I ever had one like this before on Slashdot. I wasn't expecting this conversation to continue well past the story expired past the front page, especially as this site slowly fades into obscurity.

I can clearly hear through your words that your worldview is a product of your financial success, and you attribute that success to hard work, fortitude, and tenacity. I am happy for you.

But the fault in your arguments is that you believe that everyone else in this country has the same opportunity for success. That is not the case. I've tried to convince you otherwise with numerous links and citations, but you dismiss each source as biased without reviewing the evidence within. Your "System 1" brain, as Daniel Kahneman would put it, is quickly dismissing information that does not align with your present worldview.

But that is OK, because I've been there too.

Having worked in public schools for 20 years now, the vast majority of school board members just went along with rubber-stamping about 99.9% of everything that was recommended by school officials. They had practically no reason to not trust what was happening in their school. Also, a majority of board members I've worked with didn't have college degrees, so I think some of the materials presented to them might have felt a little over their heads in the first place.

What's really concerning is that, when it comes to policy, at least in our state of Minnesota, there's a Minnesota School Board Association that has actual lawyers that monitor state statutes and craft template policies for school districts to use. Most adopt them without any modifications, because why argue with the lawyers that do this work professionally?

I guess a more accurate title to this paper should be "Usurpation of the School Boardroom".