More devious plot: There was this bank robber who figured out a way to tunnel into the vault. Except that the bank had a very sensitive sound activated alarm. Tunneling noises and they've got you. So, he rented a safety deposit box. Where he placed an alarm clock. Couple of times a week, the banks alarm would go off. They'd open the vault and .... nothing. They worked to debug the alarm system and found no faults. So they shut off the sound sensors.

Then, he tunneled in.

AI incorrectly raises the alarm about contraband shipment enough times and people will write it off as another hallucination bug. Once the trust in the system has dropped to zero, the contraband shipments may commence.

You don't think the IRGC have yachts?

Actually ...

This may turn out well. Rather than fearing for the survival of humanity, we can just sit back and watch the AIs try to kill each other.

Fetch the lawn chair and bowl of popcorn.

... I'm surprised that they didn't have to mobilize a rescue mission for the crew like they did for the F-15 in Iran.

Windows 12 will run on a neural implant. It will have DMA use of your brain, as you will no longer need to use as much of it. Your thinking will be done by Coprolite.

I thought the whole selling point of Rust was that it's damned nigh impossible to write something unsafely. Because if the option is to avoid some tedium, there are developers that will find that way. And then you may as well have gone with C.

I like your optimism but don't share it. I think even 30 years may be a tad optimistic.

It's not "amazing to me". The best friend that modern propagandists have - and I trace "modern propaganda" back to the 50's and 60's when TV advertising became ubiquitous - is fractured attention.

The entire "let us help you with that" and "we're here for you" and "we know what we're doing" messaging relies on the mantle of authority adopted by those in power. And that mantle is the emperor's new clothes - it only exists because people have been led to mistrust and deny the evidence of their own senses. Plus, it's an easy, comfortable, low-effort state of being most of the time.

The levers of power in our society exist in a carefully cultivated mass hallucination. In America, that hallucination is - like The Matrix - starting to stutter and show gaps; the illusionists have overplayed their hand a bit. But in most of the rest of the developed world, people are still plugged in and under the spell. And in fact, the crisis in America is actually shoring up the illusion in other parts of the world.

I see this here in Canada. I voted for Carney, and for a while I liked the guy. And realistically, he was the only viable choice; the alternative - Pierre Poilievre - is a bumbling, stupid fool whose only experience of real-world employment is as a paper boy. But Carney represents more of the same elitism which ultimately causes countries and civilizations to fall.

I see Carney as a wartime leader, though the war hasn't gone hot yet and may not do so. I think he's more of the same old same old: privileged, wealthy, powerful, and covertly elitist. He wants to restore the oligarchic status quo. You can see that in his rebranding of privatization and corporate welfare as a "soveriegn wealth fund".

What I just wrote may seem off-topic, but I think it ties in solidly with the "collective amnesia of schools" referred to in the title of the summary. We're looking at multiple facets of the "bread and circuses" approach to ruling.

I don't think AI is responsible for Trump being president. The shocking-though-not-surprising election of somebody like Trump, as well as the dysfunction which allowed it to happen, have been predictable and predicted by many of us for a long time. Trump or something like him has been on the bingo card at least since 9-11, and arguably even farther back.

I'm less worried about Artificial Intelligence than I am about the Artificial Humanity evidenced by Thiel, Musk, Yarvin, Karp, Andreessen, and the rest of that lot. Those whack jobs need to be pushing up daisies.

I don't entirely agree with you, but you make some good points and it's an interesting take. I'm not sure why you were modded into the sub-basement - maybe you touched a nerve somehow.

To be fair sand is rough on floppy drives.

Well now, Flock is back in my good graces. We've got to wipe all those Pee-Wee Hermans off the face of the planet.

It's quite common globally since long before "pervert glasses".

Image boards like 4chan often have threads with poster-supplied content. If you want to understand humanity, look to its vilest preferences.

Unlike RF jamming IR floodlighting is harmless to communications.

What (theoretically of course) would be required for a discreet 360-degree IR flood zone of useful depth?

Knowing countermeasures makes sense in an irreversibly declining-trust society. What are the most effective? The least disruptive to legitimate (which means communication, not concealed photographic spying) uses?

The parent is useless. Slashdot was once a tech site instead of this general news for the typical retard.

Anyone have some QUALITY reading material on the subject? We will never see that from the editors who really should be replaced by AI which would do a better job on a bad day than they've done for many years.