That's supposed to be the perfect state for Buddhist meditation and the path to true zen.

(But what's AC's excuse for possibly living that way? Or just another AI sock puppet?)

(And of course I'm reading another book on the topic. Oh wait, I see there are two of them. Maybe three?)

So you don't believe Epstein was an alien, eh? No one's told you about the REAL conspiracy?

I think you should have been modified Funny rather than insightful. Even funnier with some tail-wagging-dog angle about the let's-not-call-it a war in Iran.

Got me to look at AC. Unthanks, even if there might have been an atom of substance in there somewhere. Feeding the sock puppets and trolls is one of those tricks that never works.

(Like solutions that will never happen because Slashdot lacks a financial model that can support improvements, be they ever so evolutionary. Increasingly clear to me that part of the website I am looking for would involve a different kind of financial model... Slashdot is just one of those ancient portable nuisance things?)

Now to look for the obvious joke about the distractive motivation...

How do you complain about dupe without saying dupe (or duplicate)? Citing FP and this thread. But at least FP got a Funny, even if'n I can't understand why.

But is it possible that some serious topics will evolve and develop in ways that justify discussions that extend longer than the one-day lifetime of a Slashdot story? Naw, that can't possibly be it.

Of course I shall now diverge. This time I'm wondering about the source of this vulnerability. So far I haven't spotted any insight into causes here on ye ancient Slashdot of olde. And I think I'd be at risk of a heart attack if I saw something that might be a constructive solution here.

So what's the Subject about? I'm wondering how many of the recent vulnerabilities were discovered with AI tools, perhaps virtually flying swarms of virtual chaos monkeys over and through the code and systems.

(You'll probably be relieved to know that there is no real relationship to the book Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Martinez, where the term is just used to justify a cute drawing of a monkey on the cover. That and the eye-catching orange cover must explain the claim of "bestseller" since the real pitch should be "Facebook" which is barely mentioned on the back cover. Mostly reading it for the yuks and yucks.)

So I now see that I was mistaken to think I was mistaken and therefore mistaken in thanking you [Mean Variance]. The spelling error came from the "reply" that already earned the NAK.

Thanks for calling the typo to my attention. Seems to be the sort that should have been caught by the spelling checker, so either I was in a flippant mood or a hurry.

Curious that Slashdot didn't call this discussion to my attention. Only comment I saw was the one that I gave the NAK to.

However other replies don't merit much more of a substantive response. Obviously I was treating the distribution of intelligence as normal and it appears that Slashdot has become an abnormal environment. Along with most of the Internet?

Perhaps another memory glitch, but I think there was a time when that could have earned a Funny mod.

Mod parent funny.

Also funny that I don't really blame the google for going all EVIL on us? If the once-proud google doesn't grow like a cancer then they will get eaten by a bigger and meaner corporate cancer. Small honest profits are no excuse and no defense against a suitably leveraged buyout.

CloudFlare was an aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation. Now it's an AI-powered aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation.

Why don't I feel excited about it?

Kind of Funny, but the same joke would apply to any human, so I doubt I'd have given it a mod point even if I ever got one to give.

However, I was recently asked about Claude, and I can cut-and-paste my reply without much effort. Might even be relevant?

Quick recap of my experiences in evaluating genAIs using LLMs. Claude and Perplexity gave me extremely negative reactions, but all of my AI interactions have been increasingly negative. So-called "support" chatbots are especially gawdawful. I used to go out of my way to try different ones. Sometimes I would deliberately use a pair of them (or more) on the same problem to see how much they agree and disagree. That started mostly with ChatGPT and DeepSeek, but recently I mostly don't go to those websites. My recent AI interactions have mostly been forced upon me, which means Gemini forcing its way into websearch queries, which has made the google's search results much less reliable. So that has been pushing me over towards Bing and then into Copilot, which is no better. Missing from my experience pool are Facebook and Amazon and the cesspool formerly known as Twitter (and its Grok) because I actively avoid such pools of pure pollution and evil.

Summary: They are terrible conversationalists, sycophants, and eager liars. Yet another triumph of perverse incentives.

NAK

Mod parent (and GP) funnier.

I wonder what percentage of the current users of Slashdot even knows about the original context of that joke. Apparently it's now a website for betting on elections?

Why does that even need to be quoted against the censor trolls? Perhaps some kind of personally targeted moderation abuse?

I bet not, but they could get free heating by circulating the cooling water to the houses.

So how'd you like to move to Alaska or Iceland? Or dare I say Greenland? But that trick never worked for Siberia.

NOT talking about Dawkins. I actually like his stuff and think he is substantially smarter than average.

But most people are of average intelligence or below. And yes, you could also argue the other side of the coin, add the average people to the ones above them and make an equally true statement that most people are of average intelligence or above. However if you are leading "most people" then it's much more likely you're leading the low side than the high side. How many examples do you want?

However the joke I was looking for was a kind of Turing test thing. The genAIs already sound smarter than most dumb people. Perhaps even smarter than most people. So if you start from the so-called smart perspective, then Claude probably looks pretty good in comparison to most of the people you've met and talked to.

If too many people are agreeing with me, then I must be wrong? (Slashdot used to seem like an exception?)