I can absolutely relate. In general, I find it’s best to keep my mouth shut and my keystrokes out of public view, but sometimes I just can’t resist.

In fact, in the modern world and possibly in the past as well, I think that most of our virtues can work against us. Some see traits such as empathy in others as weaknesses to exploit.

I still do my best not to relinquish my ethics. Despite the fact that humanity seems to have passed the event threshold, I also try to maintain some level of hope for our species.

I’m not actually sure that we can teach honesty. Maybe each person’s individual level of honesty is an inborn characteristic further shaped by general life lessons rather than solely by parenting.

I absolutely try to teach my children to be honest. One is, one isn’t, and about one I’m not sure yet. I’m relatively certain that the dishonest one was born that way. Like his mother, his intelligence is more akin to shrewdness than true intellect. Both of their mouths often seem to release falsehoods reactively. They subsequently try to rationalize such statements, which typically requires additional dishonesty, illogical arguments, or tactics such as changing the subject, projection, and so forth. I think that their environments do not provide sufficient negative consequences for dishonesty, which is more likely to be reinforced than punished.

We're replacing "I was just following orders" with "the algorithm did it."

Agreed. I've come to the conclusion that there is basically no reason to expect any good news ever again. Maybe there never really was? The big problem is growing up. My parents gave me hope and made me an idealist. I wonder if this was a mistake that puts me at a disadvantage and can cause mental health issues due to things like cognitive dissonance. The mind really seems like a computer sometimes, a bit of an LLM with garbage in and garbage out, and a ton of flaws. I consumed less garbage as a child (for example, Star Trek, despite its flaws). Now the news is all garbage and it's hard to maintain a positive outlook.

It will be interesting to watch salesforce's sales and retention rates with this service, and the stated results for customers using it, especially relevant to their competition and their customers' competition, as well as salesforce's overall customer retention rates in the coming years. Personally, I think the quoted number is probably bogus, and their customers are likely to learn pretty quickly.

The Final Virus shall be written in the language of humor.

Post-agentic? I'm already using quantum AI.

I don't disagree that it could be an accurate number and that there could be valid reasoning behind it, but I highly suspect that whatever formula was used (if any) and any numbers plugged into that formula (and their sources) would be highly suspect, making the conclusion highly suspect as well. If I had some great technology for reducing my costs, I wouldn't exactly be advertising it for use by others.

100,000,000 is a very suspiciously round number, just like a number that a child or an evil villain might make up. Or someone in marketing.

Another obvious reason could be that the other companies paid or are negotiating, though I expect the pressure could be on Salesforce or Amazon (my understanding of the underlying host), depending on the point of compromise, which I didn't research.

But why anyone would trust criminals to delete records after payment is beyond me. If the records have any actual value, they could still be sold indiscreetly, or held for future use, or used.

I'm clearly way out of my depth here and can only speculate.

Maybe the obvious reason to withhold some records is so that the hackers can continue to attempt to extort the other organizations from which they retrieved data.

They could also have just deleted enough random rows to make it very difficult to determine the individuals involved.

And anyway, who's even investigating? Do insurance detectives even exist anymore? Hasn't the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau been de-funded? This kind of hack seems like credit card fraud these days: just a cost of doing business.

And what would be the cost to those organizations? They have to pay for credit and identity fraud monitoring or something? And how would anyone prove that this specific leak resulted in any specific damage, especially if records for a single individual appear in multiple repositories?

I think most people can (or should) basically assume that their private data is in the public domain already. Hopefully, someone's not just aggregating it for a major attack one day.

Did they first purge records about their own members? And I don't think what else they can't leak is obvious, at least not to me.

> I dont get the 'latency' isdue with bluetooth

I don't play video games, but I would assume that this concern has to do with gaming rather than streaming video. I would expect streamed video and audio to buffer in unison, where bluetooth could delay the audio slightly during games, where some audio signals could be queues to act. I also remember hearing that bluetooth does not have 100% audio fidelity, but maybe it has improved since then. Of course this is all probably negligible, but the hardware advancements of the last several years are also meaningless to most users, and high fidelity audio has always exceeded human auditory capabilities.

I was predicting the next AI winter before this time last year and its likely failure several years before that, but with global climate change, weather predictions have become rather unreliable.

While there seems to be overwhelming current public sentiment against AI, and general agreement from industry leaders down to operational levels that current efforts will fail to achieve expected returns, the investments and build-outs continue. Individual short-sighted greed will be the downfall of our species.

> This will continue until people stop responding

I agree only with the first three words. Companies often try but can't or don't even measure whether marketing results in sales. Having quality product or service is not enough to compete, even with social media word of mouth, especially considering compensated influencers. Just putting a brand in front of consumers can increase sales (I personally avoid brands that advertise). Marketing is basically a necessary evil for growth, though some companies, agencies, tactics, and campaigns are worse than others. For example, I don't see many ads for ChaptGPT, but I see news stories and quotes about and from the company and its clearly-fraudulent leader constantly. We're stuck in the enshitification age.

I'm going to finally end this "AI" American bullshit. I'm going to write to my powerless or in-the-bag US representatives.