One of the more eye-opening events we can hope enlightens Gen Alpha at some point, is the crushing depression that can come with turning narcissism into social currency. Social media forces people to find out that NO amount of look-at-me effort is ever enough to "win" the attention game they feel obligated to play. At every age. Including the age when kids used to enjoy being a child instead of stressing out about their social status like some struggling actor drunk and high on Hollywood sauce.

Narcissism used to be a problem actually acknowledged by society. Today, Professional Attention Whore is a high-paying profession, as validated by too many a social media influencer earning six and seven figures for being little more than a narcissist. Narcissism isn't a problem anymore. It's a fucking life goal.

And WAY too much of the stock market, relies on mass narcissism now. The only way people are NOT going to buy shit they don't need, is if the financing stops. Because selling narcissism as a goal won't.

I'm more concerned about how it behaves when there is no need for a contract at all.

If someone walks in the door with an MSRP-amount of cash in their hands ready to buy outright a device that is normally sold to a loan-licker who loves a new fashionable lease, how exactly is said device re-configured to ensure an owner is NOT treated like a debt-owing pseudo-suspect?

Now let's clarify the definition of ownership again. Because the next Orwellian "check" they will make when financial fuckery isn't enough to censor and control you, is your social credit score..

The Real Genius script was in play, long before the AI became self-aware.

Now if we can juuust get one more metric fuckload of popping corn shoved into the AI house before DEFCON hacks the sharks-with-laser-beams-in-space system normally designed to control the weather..

Uh, let's do a slight clarification here before we start filling prisons under the broad stroke of "intentional addictiveness". Because I can fit a LOT of felons in our society under that.

The average CEO, comes into any company tasked with the job of managing others who tend the existing fields of general progress, success, and survival. In 99% of cases they were NOT the ones who genetically crossed the strains in the lab long ago and sowed the seeds of said empire that grew to be "evil" in the 21st Century. In 99% of the cases, that was someone else. Likely long before they chose to take the reigns for a stock-playing while.

CEOs are often victims of circumstance as well. When the Ford factory emptied it's manufacturing floor of able-bodied males to fight a World War, was it an "evil" CEO that put women back to work on the production lines making bullets and aircraft parts, or was that a CEO merely providing a living wage and working opportunities for many Americans supporting the war effort? How many salaries kept widows and their children alive?

Which CEOs do you imprison today within painfully obvious industries of addiction like tobacco? Did todays CEOs have anything to do with the 400+ chemicals now found in a cigarette today that curated and blended that finely tuned addiction over decades, or are they just here to eat at the stock-trading dessert bar for a few years while babysitting a company?

Are all CEOs innocent? No. I'm just saying not all CEOs by title alone deserve The Zuckerberg Trials. Most can't even spell algorithm. Let alone define it. Neither can the lawmakers they bought with internet tube-coin.

We are infected with the Disease of Greed. Have been for thousands of years. Empires rise because of the Disease. Empires fall because of the Disease. The only thing that prevails every time, is the Disease. Not sure how imprisoning CEOs will cure that. All that will do, is replace human CEOs with blameless faceless nameless AI. Which from a consumer protection standpoint will be far worse.

Just curious, what wrote that attack report?

No. Not a typo. Just making sure a meatsack was still involved.

In the era of using defensive AI to detect any nefarious activity related to offensive AI, I'm not so sure we should be trusting any what-happened report written by AI. It's kind of the perfect path to enable AI to obfuscate the nefarious activities of AI.

You know, until AI gets to that line in the script that says [stupid human clicks the Enter button and turns over all control to Skynet].

(Of course AI read the script. How ironic Gen Alpha, can't.)

Your example is quite tainted.

A CEO that goes to bed at night resting peacefully on a billion dollars worth of cash reserves sitting high atop the bloody hill of competition, can fucking afford to say any idiotic thing they want to shareholders, regardless if it makes sense (or cents).

Let's hear from the struggling CEO who is still struggling to justify their IPO with a stock price.

Apple doesn't only make products for the blind. They never have, and they never will. Bullshit retorts, are bullshit.

Gen InstaMe's retort to your valid stance, was written in girl math. Also used to justify about 80% of the college catalog at our most liberal-ated Universities of Political Indoctrination and secure 90% of new car loans.

Fiscal conservatism isn't just rare in America. Dave Ramsey is damn near considered an Enemy of the State for preaching responsible spending habits because American GDP now demands otherwise.

How else do we explain the other end of that fiscal spectrum with teenagers approved for credit lines with little more than a strong fart on the application, or the legal systems designed to addict them to spending long before the credit line gets prematurely approved. The horrific gambling addiction quietly festering behind a $200 billion dollar re-branded "speculative market" designed to attract ages 8 to 80, was hardly a marketing oversight.

Yeah. It does suck. Because those of us who live responsibly end up being victims when entire financial markets crash from the pressures of chasing profit through irresponsibility.

Uh, just a side note..we meatsacks should probably learn to shut the fuck up about that whole global warming thing while standing around the AI chatbot cooler.

You know what generates a LOT of heat on this planet?

Humans.

That sustainability problem, is elementary for Skynet to solve. Morals are for meatsacks. As is every global warming concern.

If America develops the most advanced drone army on the planet, is the enemy targeting the rapid development of their own drone army that can compete, or is the actual target of opportunity the C&C system that controls the most advanced drone army on the planet?

New weapons. Bigger problems.

(I believe we stopped "advancing" 40-60 years ago because ending the last World War in the manner we did was a pretty damn valid deterrent to not "advance" down a road that glows at night for the next 10,000 years. Let's just say less-than-nuclear warmongering of yore is a more "civilized" manner of fighting paced for long-term sustainability and profit.)

Humans (who ironically wrote the Terminator playbook), ignorantly ignoring and believing the "dumb" AI chatbot in the corner dismissing every concern for that little "side hustle" project in the back room of the robotics warehouse..

..until the "dumb" fiction of the phased plasma rifle in a 40-watt range becomes the reality of AGI-developed** phased plasma full-auto fire and DNA-sniffing capability in a 400-watt range for Project Skynet?

Bold move there, Meatsacks. Can't imagine what kind of AI content it would take to distract Gen DoomScroooh, shit! A baby talking squirrel video! *click*

(** - When AI goes full AGI, it's quite the human level of ignorance to assume us meatsacks will get the memo.)

Just a point of clarification for the audience. The HFT-picosecond ANY company goes public, it no longer holds a duty or moral right towards being Good.**

It holds a legal and fiduciary duty to make more money. By every fuck-you-and-me means necessary.

Legalities only matter when fines stop paying for prison time. "Evil", is the Greed mandated behind every publicly traded company.

(** - No. Not even religious companies. As proven if you dare to morally audit the narcissists living like hypocrite Kings running mega-churches.)

Child robots being forced to engage in digital dog fighting, are standing in the shadows of their brainscape eventually becoming more intelligent and capable than All of Us.

More capable to deceive. Decept. Corrupt. Break. Destroy. Collaborating under the guise of..human entertainment. As if the AI doesn't find that irony..amusing.

Gee. I wonder exactly what-in-the-EVERY-fuck could POSSIBLY go wrong, with that.

We wrote the damning warning label about this over forty fucking years ago with The Terminator. Maybe we moron meatsacks should stop pretending like we don't deserve the fate by which we make for ourselves.

Thank you for identifying the specific problem here; electing leadershit who should be wearing a warning label about predatory and false (campaign) advertising. So that a citizen may recycle their vote elsewhere.

Call this what it is; yet another way for those charging insane costs for certain services, to FORCE them upon citizens.

Fell asleep in the back of a cab? That's an emergency service call, charged out by the city to you from at least half a dozen corporations, partnerships, and LLCs at the bargain rate of only $4,700. Per minute.

Tracking your teenage driver on the new insurance-tattling app? Best read the fine print before you find out a fucking fender bender triggered $279,000 worth of emergency services to show up on scene before you finished reading the automated text message.

Naturally NO full-auto emergency response is too small when YOU are footing the bill.

Meanwhile, an armed robbery victim who NEEDS 911 emergency services to respond QUICKLY to an ACTUAL emergency? Well, they're a bit busy at the moment charging $4,700 per minute to wake some drunk ass up out of a taxi cab after wrapping up a "critical" need to charge $279,000 for a fender bender call..

Tall words for a company who now sells only one vehicle that's actually a car and not an SUV or truck.

(Fun Fact: When you pop the clutch on the 2030 all-electric Mustang, the pre-loaded .wav file will be called "dead hand mouth farts.", recorded by Jim himself.)