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Comment Re:Obedient factory workers (Score 1) 211

by noshellswill on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:57PM (#66193670) Attached to: Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read?

You have completely ignored the importance of Western churches in forwarding education/literacy. For Protestants , believer bible-reading is a matter of heaven or hell. For Catholics it's a matter of sustaining a literate hierarchy to rule belief. For Deists literacy connects current believers to its Enlightenment mother-ship. So even without a statist/collectivist education system ... and without a mercantile urge to numeracy ... lots of education always has and will take place.

Comment purpose (Score 1) 211

by noshellswill on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:45AM (#66193220) Attached to: Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read?

From the blurb: "cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text." I wonder if this task is the main point of reading, rather than a tiny casually addressed subset. Seems to me reading text is more like inputting a "prompt" to a TRUE AGI meat-machine ... that's we humans. As output to this reading "prompt" we generate self-aware non-algorithmically novel events ... whether text or geometric or emotional. So yes, I do (sometimes) follow recipes I read from Julia Childs cookbook, but as often I read Euclids parallel-line postulate and immediately think about 4-dim spheres ... which madness prompts me to manufacture a dry-very-dry martini ...

Comment Re:before the inevitable (Score -1, Troll) 211

by noshellswill on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:09AM (#66193096) Attached to: Are Many College Students Losing the Ability to Read?

You give excuses, not an explanation for the ( USA vs Japan ) student performance difference. But .... you know the real reason as do I, and most everyone. But, that reason is political/social/economic poison to progressives/collectivists of all stripes.

Comment Re: Never held accountable (Score 0) 60

by noshellswill on Sunday June 14, 2026 @10:06PM (#66192354) Attached to: Will Meta's $14 Billion Bet on AI Ever Pay Off?

You sound envious of a person and company you supposedly hold in disdain. Women usually behave like that ... not men. Better get about your own productive efforts, and leave Zuck to his own failing-but-profitable set of choices.

Comment Re:Is this an effective use of resources? (Score 0) 25

by noshellswill on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:14PM (#66191804) Attached to: Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot

At this early stage of *.ai mass use, any application of the technology serves a good purpose. Same argument would hold true for writing, steam-engines and fibre-glass. In a decade or so users of *.ai can/will evolve to more value-oriented tasks. For now ... practice ... practice ... practice ...

Comment taxes (Score 0) 110

by noshellswill on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:54AM (#66191550) Attached to: Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months

As I see it:: Since bitcoyn has no use-value it then must be money. Now the purpose of money is to make government tax collection easy; [ better $10 bills than a truck-load of sheep ] . Can a USA citizen pay his Federal taxes with bitcoyn, or must his bitcoyns first be exchanged for government-supported currency ?

Comment to whom (Score 1) 94

by noshellswill on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:34PM (#66190438) Attached to: Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026

You say ... projects worth so-many-billion$ . Question is, worth those billions to whom? Not to me or to most citizens. Worth that $130-billion to tax-assessing government? Perhaps. Worth that bubble to investors? Only if casual computer users are forced to use LLMs ... which seems to be the ongoing ploy. You can smell the septic forced-usage-meme in posts from *.ai fans right here on SLASHDOT.

Comment Re:Could It Get Worse? (Score 1) 342

by noshellswill on Thursday June 11, 2026 @10:55AM (#66186356) Attached to: Fully Autonomous Drones Have Killed Human Soldiers For the First Time

Indeed --- ICE is trained-to-purpose. Invading border-jumpers SHOULD feel terror, from the minute they approach USA border, to the second our anti-migrant drone explodes in their face. And surely one can design an anti-personal drone to detect "enablers" & pimps with EMPATHY toward such narco-Mex mules, and also zero-in on those rabid quislings.

Comment Re:Sensible ruling (Score 1) 90

by noshellswill on Thursday June 11, 2026 @09:06AM (#66185972) Attached to: German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers

"If we were to tweet something completely made up, there is a chance of legal troubles" Then nobody could tweet/post/display FICTION. But ... that's a ridiculous constraint. Shakespeare & Joyce become Web-illegal. Better to simply admit that *.ai/LLM/Japechats are "engines-of-fiction" rather than knowledge vendors(?) . LLMs are not "truth seekers" as Aristotle ( & common sense ) requires of intelligence, synthetic or otherwise.

Comment Re:Anthropics "safe" model refused debugging (Score 1) 83

by noshellswill on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:35AM (#66184310) Attached to: Anthropic Releases Claude Fable, a 'Safe' Version of Mythos

All requests are potentially malicious. A request for a glass of milk or peanut-butter cracker NIGHT be prelude to a suicide attempt. Best err on the side of liberty ... let the pathetically weak/stupid die-off as Darwin intended.

Comment TBBOM (Score 1) 83

by noshellswill on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:26AM (#66184290) Attached to: Anthropic Releases Claude Fable, a 'Safe' Version of Mythos

You mean we must dig-out our old TBBOM to get the ricin recipe ? How quaint is that and what ancient HD does it sit on ? Gawd help you if it's stored on a ZIP.

Comment fail (Score 1) 166

by noshellswill on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @09:55AM (#66184056) Attached to: FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs

""law enforcement to more easily identify callers that use the network to perpetuate crimes by ensuring that voice providers have accurate and complete customer information." Big Trump supporter that I am ... and embarrassed ... the quoted text seems straight out of Stalins' or Maos' mouth. Tyrannous governments DO things like this ... a yeomans republic not-so-much. We snatch-away your privacy/liberty for your own good; just as evil as limiting freedom-of-association in the name of some DEI value. What in gawdsname is Trumps FCC thinking ?

Comment uncanny (Score 2) 123

by noshellswill on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:12PM (#66183388) Attached to: US Labels BYD, Baidu, Alibaba and Other Tech Giants As Aiding China's Military

When Chinese companies are NEWLY ascribed to supporting Chinese interests something is not OKey. For the last 60 years, did any American need to be taught that all Chinese companies, investors and citizens pimp their own military ... just like all USA citizens support our own military? This "surprise" discovery and assignment cannot be made in good faith.

Comment Re:Why not let (Score -1, Troll) 75

by noshellswill on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:31PM (#66182876) Attached to: EU Says Decision Not to Launch Siri AI in Europe Is Apple's Alone

What kind of whiny Euro-centric horse-shite is this? EU fucks-over their citizens ... look at migration policy ... and cares only to increase government power ... like George-5 or Napoleon or Mussolini or ... anything from Brussels. Euro-elites are notoriously self-interested ! And of-course proprietary "standards" create/preserve free retail markets as in 'let the best STANDARD win' . Proprietary mechanisms are how you encourage excellence thru blood-thirsty competition.

Comment Re:Incredibly naive (Score 1) 193

by noshellswill on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:20PM (#66181044) Attached to: Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain's 'Core Algorithm'

In the Middle Ages wealthy patrons blew "billions" patronizing artists and architects. Now it's mathematical poetry. Bezos is doing nothing new.

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