NSA_KEY is already taken too.

No mod points today but your volunteer effort far surpassed the [presumably paid] author's WTAF essay.

Right, so in Norway nobody is going hungry, dying from being too poor to afford medical treatment, being kept down by an inability to access education, having to go in to work when they're sick, or freezing to death on the streets because they're out of options?

"They've got a huge problem!"

So say people whose own countries have all those problems and spend more on worse outcomes.

The Norwegians' biggest risk is "good times make weak men" but at least one author I listen to on YouTube indicates that Viking Culture is still alive and well there (though he does bemoan creeping feminine wokeness). Second might be that the YooKay decides Norway had the temerity to build their nation on YooKay's oil (given their complete 200y failure to colonize Russia). In that case they will need the Viking Spriit.

The cynic might believe that such an author's complaints are meant to create shame in order to extract more work out or their labor force for corporate profits. Though it does stand in contrast to the Transhumanists' AI/UBI/CBDC societal aspirations.

Ask Cambodians if they're glad they've avoided Norway's folly.

Was that the Trump that kicked him out of his properties permanently and never associated with him again?

Let's note that a certain former president was a REGULAR RIDER of the Lolita Express (and not just from FL to NY like Trump), and that last I checked, nobody in Democratic admins was even interested in Epstein files release.

Hey, I fully agree the files need to come out. I don't give a shit if Trump is on them; if he's implicated he should be tossed into a wood-chipper like the rest.

Unlike Democrats, I disapprove of "Minor Attracted Persons".

By all means let unregulated billionaires execute projects with globe-impacting potential? Is that what you're going with?

I'd love to hear about these "systemic" injustices.

Are they in the room with us now?

... On the eponymous "George Lucas effect" .

That is, when you become so successful that nobody cares tell you no, so your creative output suffers due to the lack of common sense input around you. "No George, a Steppin-fetchit analogue does not belong in your film"

"Do YOU know how to do math without a calculator?

Do YOU know how to use a map?"

A) I think the idiomatic use of "you" indeterminate 2nd person plural as a proxy for "people in general in your opinion" is clear

B) to your more specific examples, no, people are indeed generally losing the ability to do simple math in their heads. Next time something costs 19.50 and you have a 20something cashier, hand them a $20 and 50 cents.... Watch their eyes spin.
And in the pride+shame dept, my 4.0 college graduate daughter, 32 act, economics degree called us specifically to recount how she and her friend were a long way from their hotel in Venice, phones dead, and late at night she'd managed to navigate their way back BY PAPER MAP. She was genuinely happy and her whole friend group all admit they probably couldn't have done it, now essentially treats her as their Sherpa.

PHBs have a reputation for stupidity, often well deserved.

AI promises to do all the grunt work, so it has the potential to make everyone into little more than a PHB.

Innate capability and not fulfilling one's potential by wasting time are really two separate causes of being 'stupid'.

To argue for the point, none of the inventions you mention have offered the promise of doing your thinking for you.

I can see both sides but definitely some people will never achieve depth on any subject if they're asking an LLM to present a surface level analysis.

Yet some may say if an LLM can do it that's not what Humans are best at.

Predicting this future witht any certainty seems like the most Dunning-Kruger possible by the authors.

Did you notice his handle?

It might be a reference to how Biden broke his foot 'pulling his dog's tail in the shower'.

German Shepard, but the GP probably would have to ask ChatGPT what the difference is.

I can't imagine loving a politician who doesn't even know me but some people are weird.

Brilliant 'memetic judo'. Whoever is on their marketing team should be CEO, I hear the position's open.

FWIW what I found interesting is that if neither of them had reacted at all to being on the kiss cam (or reacted normally) we wouldn't even have heard about it.

He'd also donated to Democrats.
In fact, he appears to have been barely political at all.

I'm going to guess you're a leftist, so that makes it funny to criticize priests fucking altar boys, given how hard the left has tried to normalize pedophilia for the last half dozen years.

Not just sanction.

They did it deliberately.
They exercised no reasonable oversight by double checking the references.
Their sole role was as ethical agents knowing the law; they failed every part of the task.

They clearly don't want to actually practice law, so give them a larger opportunity not to do so.