At least not if they were wearing AI glasses imposing VR advertising for next month's improved AI glasses.

Obligatory joke for low hanging fruit.

Adam Smith's biggest mistake was stealing the invisible hand's cloak of invisibility. Mostly downhill since then, now at AI-enhanced speeds.

This morning's weird thought was that Adam Smith's great mistake was to make the invisible hand visible. It was a flawed idea in the first place, basically a claim that things would work out "for the best" without knowing the details, but it was really a justification for social Darwinism before Darwin. In a sense bankruptcy serves as the equivalent of death in evolutionary systems in the biological world.

Once the invisible hand had lost its cloak of invisibility all the scoundrels in the world leapt to the attack, and we eventually wound up with bigger and bigger messes. The controlling hands are still mostly invisible, and now enhanced with AI, but they are still (for now) human hands busily devising new scams for fresh suckers. Leading candidates for the worst actors? My latest list features advertisers, stock brokers, real estate agents, and politicians. (Stock brokers is probably too narrow, but bankers is too broad and FinTech Bros is too trendy (for my tastes).)

Needs a joke for the conclusion, but I'm out of humor these days. Everything keeps running into the "We can't get there from here" oldie.

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I don't want edit, I want a browser grammar checker that's all client side.

The rates are bad, we don't focus on using the least bad estimate we produce, and we stave off crisis to a degree with mediocre public assistance programs which struggle to cover needs for lack of funding but which really amount to can-kicking. That's better than nothing, but still leaves us poised for disaster. If Cheeto Benito successfully terminates these programs (as he has been trying to do, and he has successfully been interfering with them) then the looming crises become immediate not quite overnight, but in literally more 10-30 days.

Funny, but the Apple approach would be "Vintage Windows 10".

My cue? My latest AI project had a punch card phase. At one point the entire thing was on Hollerith cards, with the program in PL/C (a dialect of PL/I) and about a thousand cards of data. It had originally been a simple typewritten list derived from a handwritten list. Also in the early 80s it became a database for the first time, ported to bigger and better computers and operating systems later... Probably late in the 90s it got a PERL/CGI front end interface (ultimately based on some code the late James Liu gave me around 1995 before he moved to Sun). Most of the stuff after that was statistical utilities, most recently using JavaScript (which I sometimes write in a style that looks like Fortran).

The Claude project version involved a number of short chat discussions of features and data structures. The actual coding phase would take Claude about two minutes and then I needed a minute or two (depending on which modules had been updated) to install the code. Testing was more variable. Not systematic, but I have quite a bit of familiarity with the problems I've encountered over the years. Around ten of those sessions and the code had all the features of the PERL that took me a long time to write... Even more interesting was that the PERL system had an interesting bug in one of the regex calls, but the new system doesn't have it. (I spent quite a bit of time trying to can that bug, but Claude just avoided it completely.)

Or should I blame LinkedIn? Anyway, when I submitted the story it included a link to the summary on LinkedIn, but I don't see any trace here. The LinkedIn version was a short summary of four advanced Chinese AI models released in the same week. Mostly I remember a few details about the one for generating videos, but LinkedIn didn't say anything substantial about why they were free, at least as the current monetary terms appear.

So when I checked here and noticed the link was missing I went back to LinkedIn to get the link again, but LinkedIn has infinite scroll in both directions and I wasn't able to find it again. Which motivated a google websearch that failed badly (as so many of them do these days) which drove me to Bing, which actually produced some interesting results, though none of them seemed to match up with the original version from the LinkedIn source. https://news.cgtn.com/news/202... is one that seems to cover most of the same territory, but at a much lower level.

I think you should start your own research with the meaning of the word joke. Perhaps starting from the etymology?

No substantive comment on your "reply" because I saw no substance there. Blinded by the rudeness?

My next joke perhaps should be about creeping senility among low-digit IDs on Slashdot. Not all jokes are funny ha-ha. Maybe it's just an attitude problem in your case, but I'd be a fine one to talk about negative attitude. (Currently contemplating a most evil business contest. My initial list of candidates includes advertising, real estate, stock markets, and politics.)

Today I'm mostly avoiding working on cars, but I do have some ongoing projects and they suck. I can't wait for "every" vehicle to be an EV, which isn't practical for me now, but hopefully will be in the future. But I really don't want everything phoning home with information about me constantly. That information could be used against me, so I don't want it to be collected. Nothing prevents it here except opting out by not buying the whatever-it-is, but sometimes you need the thing.

As vehicles age, they tend to get first cheaper but then more expensive to maintain, so just staying in the past forever isn't realistic. It would be nice to have some options without the constant oversight.

So you have been up close to the towers on ridge lines and you still think they have generators? You're lying about literally everything. Typical coward shit.

Whatever, Russian bot.

Anonymous cowards don't get to get treated like humans.

My joke was to blame ol' Al Gore for giving them the money to develop the Internet with no strings. But does anyone remember who he was?

I heard of Notion via a scam. The website did look interesting and made a lot of powerful promises, which got me to ask some questions. The answers reeked of an AI fake-support system and I lost interest. Might be a legitimate company. Or not. (But I think ZenDesk is still the king of fake support by companies that want to pretend they care as cheaply as possible.)

However if someone around here has positive experiences with Notion, then I'd be interested. But suspicious. There was a time when I was willing to start with a position of trust in a Slashdot identity. Long time ago.

A few more words about the scam because I thought it was quite impressive. Near as I can tell, they got one of my email addresses via a kind of dictionary probe from my YouTube account. The scam package was email from a plausible sounding identity and based on YouTube videos posted by a famous author about an ongoing project. The scammer was projecting an expanded version of the project and designed the email to sound like a marketing pitch, but it didn't stop there. There was one aspect that piqued my curiosity enough to reply, and the famous author wrote back (and mentioned Notion). Or so it seemed. The tone and style and even degree of persuasion of the reply was excellent--but it seemed rather rapid and too personal for such a busy person. So I back-channeled via the publisher's website and got a "NOT the author" response. Along with the usual "Ignore it" recommendation in these days of "Live and let scam."

The difficulty of the job is based pretty much entirely on two this, difficulty of removing electrical connectors and ease of adjustment or lack thereof. The door itself has to meet crash standards so it has to have stuff in it. Therefore most aftermarket doors are for off road use only.