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Comment Re:Building wealth (Score 1) 198

by noshellswill (#66384424) Attached to: Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society
You describe a race-to-the-bottom; your betters are not impressed.  The wealthy still wear hand-loomed silk suites and dresses ... sail hand-fitted wooden yachts ...  grouse-hunt with  hand-bored shotguns ... and have their man-of-business do their trading. Factories can't compete. Maybe you need to save-up for a week to buy that hand-built & sharpened paring-knife; splitting goose-berries for cobbler really takes  thumb-against-blade. 

Comment Re:I don’t get it. (Score 1) 49

Generally speaking ..."Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made." ... replacing human labor with machines is no progress. The wealthy have ALWAYS understood this ... for example ...  butlers, tailors, men-of-business, lawyers , secretaries, chauffeurs . Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made. Wealthy engage an entire class of personal , human assistants .  OTOH grifters,  strivers ,  hustlers and wanna-Beez pretend silly machines can substitute -- a humanist inhuman touch  like  self-driving autos OMG -- and consciously try forcing all to the same pretense. More honest and more "agentic"  leaving  "service"  to your betters  while practicing DIY tasking.

Comment more is less (Score -1, Troll) 150

by noshellswill (#66380274) Attached to: Does a Universal Basic Income Bring Long-Term Changes?
Funny that ... Nixon Republicans thought a guaranteed annual income would change no social structures or generate self-propagating personal change; I believe at-the-time $7100 was proposed.  Humphrey Democrats thought  such a guaranteed income would fundamentally change  America ... and consequently refused to pass the Republican sponsored bill.

Comment Re:This is horrible (Score 0) 65

Are you making excuses for institutions whose procedures  ( including software ) ought to be bullet-proof ?  Security 1st ... customer service 2nd ... investor profits 3rd. Banks  and power-companies and medical manufacture have no "right" to be careless . That's why penalties for commercial  abuse include flogging, water-boarding & the Gulag!  What kind of Randish dystopia  fits your naive fantasy  ? 

Comment lie cheat steal (Score -1) 89

They promised what ?  Large American data-wranglers < any of the top 50 >  lie, cheat and steal.  Their mindset is some neo-Satanic anti-Enlightenment poison reaching even beyond  digital-Feudalism.   I would not believe a word they say , even if  promised their 1st-born as collateral.

Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 72

by noshellswill (#66375492) Attached to: Kroger to Lay Off 3,000 Corporate Employees In AI Restructuring
Those check-out lines were purely management &  store-dependent. If you shopped at the old BOYS grocery store in LA.   or PUBLICS in JAX you never waited  a line. If two customers got "stacked" another check-out line was started. Immediately.  Of-course given all the "hotties" that shopped those markets who minded chatting-up your line-neighbor? Granted A&P & Wynn Dixie not so much. Shop with the peasants, wait in the peon line.

Comment nol soul no dole (Score 1) 236

by noshellswill (#66375408) Attached to: Anthropic Bans Cruelty Toward Claude
I didn't think one can be :cruel"  w.r.t. a machine; they have no moral status.  Further , a purchased machine is treated as-per the owners desire. Self-repair includes self-destruction. Finally, corporate shills desiring a forced  change-in-meaning of common language often suffer from "smashed nee" syndrome;  walkways become as slippery as their  ego-driven pretensions. .

Comment Re:prices vs volume (Score 1) 53

by noshellswill (#66372720) Attached to: Q3 2026 Was Historically Bad For PC Shipments
< RAM> prices are going to drop ... unless big-data ( AI / LLM / data-center ) is hell-bent on removing personal computers from almost everyone.  Like the  early Mafia removed Italian crushed tomatoes and olive oil from Irish-owned markets. Early computer executives ( IBM / Dec etc ) thought the idea of widespread computer ownership was ridiculous ... not because relevant tasks didn't exist  ... but because they were certain large companies could keep the PCs out of the retail market. For 30 years  THEIR monopoly  succeed ... then they failed for 40 years ... now again compute power is retreating to the "cathedrals" of BIG DATA . Welcome to the Feudalistic compute age.

Comment Re:Don't forget their product keeps trying to esca (Score 1) 81

Your so right. The fear-mongering by AI /LLM vendors  < this escape .... that attack ... another danger ... >  is almost comic, and has zero sense of embarrassment. AI will find a nitch(s) at 5% of market projected by its /devs & evangelists. Shame on them, but good for tfor us.  But, did the tek really require the ( near fraudulent ) massive over-reach in financials, effort and propaganda ? Kinda like M-Theory with semi-colons.

Comment maybe (Score 2) 130

by noshellswill (#66370796) Attached to: UK Vegetables 20-50% Less Nutritious Than In the 1960s
Check the paper: < https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157516302113 > .... the decrease in  vegetable nutrition may be small, while availability vastly increases.  Maybe it balances out. Of-course "food store" fruits and veggies taste like shite, compared to what you could pick  yourself.

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