• "action item" = "need to do"
• "offline" = "later"

Those cover the meanings exactly or at least exactly enough that the alternatives don't change the intended meaning. By contrast, "starboard" and "port" are used because "right" and "left" are ambiguous, are they "my X", "your X" or "ship's X"? "dorsal" and "ventral" come from Latin terms used in science, there are equivalent terms in ordinary English but using the Latin allows distinguishing between casual references and technical ones ("dorsal" means different directions depending on the organism's neural tube).

A good rule of thumb is that if you use terminology when speaking to someone not in that terminology's field and expect them to understand it, it's not jargon.

"Let's touch base offline to align our bandwidth on this workflow." isn't jargon, it's buzzwords. It just translates to "Let's meet after this and make sure you understand how I want that to work.". Just use the ordinary English instead of the buzzwords. A lot of the "confusion" is probably the employees thinking "Just speak English, dumbass.".

Jargon has specific meanings that can't be quickly expressed in plain English. "hack" vs. "kludge" for example. Both have implications beyond the basic "solution to a problem" that take several sentences in English to state clearly but represent things you need to identify often enough that you can't readily spell it out in full every single time. Others, like "mis-bug" (as in "This is a mis-bug, clarify the code and docs so someone doesn't accidentally fix it.") are jargon but the plain English terms are simple enough you ought to use them most of the time.

One big difference, though: when you had to wait in line it was because there were so many people wanting tickets. In this case there's 5 people at the head of the line and each one bought thousands of tickets so there's none left for anyone else. Then they turned around and started selling to everyone else at 100x the price. If not for them, everyone else WOULD HAVE been able to get tickets at the regular price. Completely different situations.

The abysmal results are because every workplace trains people to fall for phishing scams. That change in vacation policy? The real, legitimate notification of it will be in an email from an external bulk-mailing service telling employees to click on the link included. There's nothing in it to distinguish it from a phishing attempt, and employees are supposed to trust it.

Progress is going to require workplaces, schools etc. to:

1. Send official mail from an internal address, not through any external service.
2. Have all email cryptographically signed and email clients are set up to automatically verify signatures.
3. Have information users need to know delivered through the organization's intranet site, with users directed to log in to that and check notifications for more information.

I have two theories
1. Other languages are falling faster than Perl making Perl rise

2. Perl is what smart people use instead of bash. So for all sysadmin tasks or ad hoc system scripts or gluing you'd be crazy to use bash when you can use Perl.

The problem is that for the studios behind the streaming services, the money isn't in the media itself. It's all in the subscription fees and advertising revenue and the ability to collect and mine data about the viewers. None of those things are available unless the viewers go to the studio's streaming service. Ironically, the things that would stop piracy in it's tracks are the very things the studios and streaming services can't afford to do because it'd bankrupt them.

does 2x shift the frequency?

They'll have a hard time "fixing" this because it's not a bug. It's not even a feature. It's an inherent part of the design and it's working exactly as intended. And since it stems from the basic requirements, fixing it's going to require coming up with new requirements and developing a new design from there. Good luck with that considering the number of parties whose own requirements include "Must NOT follow those new requirements.".

It should be "number of residents who are legally and physically able to work" (ie. no minors ineligible to work, no disabled persons, no elderly unable to work, etc.) in the calculation.

The main difference is that those other mechanisms try to prevent the LLM from doing things. "Guilt" simulation takes a different approach: penalize the LLM (cost it points) based on the damage done to the other party. So in the Prisoner's Dilemma game, defecting causes the other player to suffer punishment (lost points) which in turn causes the LLM to lose points too. The LLM's trying to minimize point loss, so the idea is it'll look for strategies that avoid causing the other player to lose points as well as trying to minimize direct point loss and it'll do this through it's own programming rather than having external constraints that it could work around.

The obvious downside is this requires feedback to the LLM about the results it produced, which in turn requires it to keep a permanent memory of every user and it's history with them. Any breakdown or inconsistency in that feedback loop causes the outcomes to get worse rather than better.

This is something easy to test by just setting up multiple AI agents and running the game. The optimal strategy is of course to always stand pat, say nothing and accept the minimal punishment when the other agent also stands pat. That, though, is only the case if all agents were programmed for "guilt" and if all interactions resulted in feedback based on the other agent's punishment. If any agent doesn't receive negative feedback for choosing to defect (isn't programmed for "guilt") or if feedback is sometimes not given, the other stable strategy is to always defect. My guess is that if they ran the simulation, that's where the agents would end up. I doubt the agents will figure out the "best" strategy, which is to initially stand pat and then return tit-for-tat until the other agent also starts doing that in which case switch back to standing pat. This requires being able to distinguish other agents from each other and memory of your history with a given other agent.

A few floors below? Hells, the scammer/ransomware squad probably outsourced the calling to Cognizant. Saves time and phone lines.

It's very critical additional data, though. The idea is the basic malware doesn't have anything truly alarming in it, so it's easier to obfuscate it to slip by the filters. Once it's running, it can download the really dangerous stuff via TXT records, which won't be checked for alarming/dangerous content, and set that up behind the filters without triggering them. It does all that in memory, without giving any indication of touching files, and then once the code's gotten root access it can persist things to files without triggering any alerts (because root's allowed to do that).

This is compounded by the (ab)use of TXT records to store arbitrary records without needing to extend the set of DNS record types. Having explicit types of DNS records improves syntax filtering, making it difficult to impossible to abuse those records this way. Limiting TXT records to only their original purpose (instead of putting SPF, DMARC, DKIM and other types inside them) would allow heavy-handed filtering of attempts to pass arbitrary data in large quantities through TXT records without impacting any other services.

I understand your knee jerk intuition about crypto currency. But very earnestly I suggest learning a bit about monetary policy. It's indispensable. And after that you may want to read about bretton woods and how banks in different countries actually can trade money to each other. The US treasury and its impact on monetary policy enables this. It's not just a methodology in the sense that bitcoin is a method for moving money. Monetary policy is how countries can perform the miracle of Keynesian economics to regenerate Growth in a downturn. That cannot ever be done ever without fiat currency and a central bank. Period. This was. Why for example Germany plunged in to pre-hitler ruin after world war 1. There was no way to climb out of turned down economy when you had no gold reserves (France took them). Germany only managed to recover when they pegged their mark to a kilo of wheat-- not a long term solution but a desperate move that mostly worked. But the economic malaise didn't end till Hitler started spending money into the economy. That was made possible by moving off the gold standard prior to Hitler.

Without monetary policy you are left with the austerity of Austrian economics which pretty much inverts the rational of monetary policy and loses all it's advantages.