And beaconing can also provide GPS and telemetry. It's easy to battle in space, take out important satellites-- unless you have to take out thousands of them. The numeric advantage in many satellites is that there is no other country coming even close to the number of Musk-launched satellites. In war, more soldiers is an advantage.

No, hacked by Jimmy Smith, age 14, of Colorado, who is interested in shoot-em-up war games with realism. His dad's machine was connected through Comcast to his bot at the local library. /sarcasm

In reality, I hope this is just a pilot. And there are overrides. And it doesn't come with an included shock collar.

Ditto on the nonsense. Ditto on Philly.

Must be AI generated.

Then these sharks won't be able to make the campaign contributions necessary to get complying elected officials re-elected.

Can't have that.

Spank people who can't pay their bills for whatever reason? Childcare, healthcare costs, inflexible employment traps, maybe we change more for those. Usurious alimony? Car financing deals from the seventh level of hell? Hey-- don't touch that stuff!

Alter bankruptcy laws to make them easier? NO WAY!

What we need are more student loans at the drop of a hat, for any degree, no matter how unsalable, how inane, how self-indulgent. /eye-roll

Agreed. This is a race to the bottom. No one should depend on AI, because AI then undoes AI mistakes undoes AI mistakes because there is no harmonization among approaches. This will not end well.

If you're used to finding inaccuracy and accepting that, then you'll do fine, and have no regrets. For the other eight billion of us, we find this both immoral, and still another example of the immunity from liability by the bad advice from AI, itself an oxymoron.

This is the same logic leap that makes people believe that driverless cars are ready to put on the highways.

These are big lies, foisted by trillions of dollars in bad investments, trying to bring halo to trusting people who believe the big lies. Small successes fool people into unearned trust. Marketing is powerful because people are believers. Sadly, only skeptics are rewarded these days.

There is hope. Learn the real basics of software engineering; you'll make do. AI can help you, but the hype goes away in a year or two. You'll need non-vibe, real coding background by then, and people will need you... then.

The ideas foisted in the post are plainly bad ideas, but each of the sponsors is now roped in to making the KoolAid look palatable. Sam Altman, leader of this Jonestown, will retire some place offshore.

Yes, why not react to any jab of their business model, which is to feed drones to the machine?

No doubt they're as mad as wet hens. Journalism does that. Facts and truth to power is the dynamic. The NYT is not immune from influence, but the article citation has factual basis.

Countering capitalism is dangerous stuff.

How does that size, that weight of merch go out the door?

What wall were they using, Silly Putty (pun intended).

WTLF, RH? Have you no shame, no regard for your clientele's asset value? Who's getting sacked? Indicted?

Oh. It was AI.

Carry on.

Let's say that were true. How much AI blather would you tolerate unwinding, over what period of time? '

Your answer might be: Hey V64, please analyze this and rewrite in Foo.

More Foo.

The wheels of justice turn slowly. But at the end, he'll or she'll get $28.19 as their share of the settlement of the class action, sometime in 2033.

This won't end well. Imagine all of the bad apps with spaghetti code for every employee who leaves for whatever reason.

There'll be an AI to undo an AI, then figure out the data stores and make sense of those.

This is an entropy vortex looking for a spot marked X.

Let the mayhem start.

In other news, former slave owner exec and pillar of destroyed privacy cracks whip, compares other slaves as more productive. Has multiple citizenships to avoid US taxes. News at 11.

So long as I have root or sudo, I'm happy with it.

Why, gosh. They asked GPT-5, and that was their answer! Are you going to doubt AI?

Ignore that guy behind the curtain whose negative revenue trajectory look like it approaches a Schwarzchild radius named Altman. He just got a great boost from EVERYONE!! A hundred billion in circular money, by golly!

You think he's gonna declare his little toy an imbecile?