And here comes the pedants.

Since there was an executive order issued in 2014 to the NLRB forbidding retaliation for discussing your salary, kinda implies that maybe there was some forbidding going on, no (I distinctly remember the whining)?

And why would employers demand that?

It's market manipulation that distinctly changes what your job is worth.

Fair, but there is also the asymmetry of forbidding employees from discussing their salaries or delving into the business' financials.

If it is labor for hire, then an efficient market demands every player access to data to determine price.

If not, the market must account for this asymmetry through regulation and law, and watch business whine like babies when the shoe is on the other foot.

Expecting any manner of consistency or (hold back the laughter) leadership (remember when that was the buzz from the management class?) is like wishing for for ponies. I'd settle for boring competency at this point, but here we are.

Annnd since no one seems to have a five point plan to improve things (or at least try something new), we'll keep on this trajectory until we go over the cliff or die waiting for cosmic justice.

Ya, I am finishing up a stint at a very large organization and the experience has been eye-opening at how disposable staff is, especially when the sins of management is on the line.

And knowing what I know now, I would have tried my fortune elsewhere. It's not quite Kligon promotion (I've manage to survive and I only have a modicum of social skills), but there is no doubt any continued employment isn't based on skills, aptitude, or even need but whatever astrology management is using this month.

Get it while you can, but know plan B isn't a matter of if but when.

Ya, don't really see the point beyond IP branding. I mean sure, sexier than throwing money at the homeless and watching them battle it out, but it's not like you'll be battling rad-scorpions.

Maybe it will allow someone their 15 minutes, but unless you are deciding whether to exile someone because disease, how is this Fallout?

Will be on shaky ground to copyright anything derived from AI.

Even the inference of AI is enough to send some IPs into unknown regions of law.

Distrust has been growing exponentially prior to the rise of LLMs, and video is little more than an added piece of propaganda people must wade through.

This is just a symptom of a larger problem of the decay of institutions, news in service of money, and people too willing to believe anything that fits their biases.

Algorithms certainly don't help, but I'll be damned if anyone really wants to fix anything beyond if it helps their side.

Fuck 'em.

Maybe a Pollyanna view of the world but it is a mark of the degeneracy of government (and maybe of the country) that laws like this are required instead of a sense of shame or possibly the threat of tar and feathering to keep the most egregious abuses in check.

Any high-mindedness has fallen. We are a nation of whores.

Errr, yeah.

Noticed with the advent of the web peculiar interpretations of history, and there are supporting documents- but none of them are digitized and searchable on the web. I lament the huge swaths of history that will be lost as online becomes more the de facto Oracle.

And while it doesn't raise to the level of Stalin altering photographs; you still probably want to preserve original documents, or at least make copies where it is readily apparent they have been tampered with.

Ya, I tend to trust the SCOUTS to nip this brand of idiocy in the bud when it crops up every generation, but nope, ignoring all the precedence of least infringing, privacy, and the increasing amount of data breaches... fuck that as long as states can virtue signal they are doing something to protect the kiddos.

And this will certainly not be abused, not have any creep, and upends decades of juror's prudence.

Fuck this court and fuck this government..

The broad spectrum of promises (appealing to a range of utopist to wannabe despots) for AI can't be emphasized enough to keep to money-train rolling.

I mean another possible technology, fusion, has the potential to be as transformative as AI. with far more tangible affects.

But since it can't shapeshift from savior to world-ending, it is relegated to "nice if it happens, but...".

The drama concerning AI (on all sides) would be mostly amusing except for the economy wrecking amounts being thrown at it, and brings to mind with sufficient wealth accumulation; how is this different than a command economy?

Yeah, no.

Beyond the parental obligation arguments and regulating companies manipulating algorithms, you do have to question why so many places are choosing this particular approach to keeping kids safe. I mean it's not like kids can't access unregulated parts of the web and see far more heinous shit.

And much like other moral panics, I contend this has nothing to do with any concern for the yougins and everything to do with control. Any type of censorship regime always starts with those who can't vote against it as new justifications are found to remove even boarder categories of materials.

As far as the quality of the discourse, I've begun to suspect something more fundamental is at play- commercialization.

The early web didn't have vertically integrated billion dollar companies monopolizing most aspects of the web. Nor did it have influencers making multi-million dollar deals behind the scenes.

And that will be a much, much bigger problem to defang.

A goodish portion of medicine is applying an algorithm to a set of circumstance. A large potion of the critical thinking has already been done for you. You just need to isolate which algorithm applies when.

The very best doctors (from a very, very good doctor), are interlocutors, teasing out what isn't obvious from what the patient is presenting an piecing out a narrative of what makes sense.

The critical thinking is much after.

You'd be surprised.

Beyond the nuts and bolts of how to do a thing, there is a fair bit of nuance and institutional knowledge that goes into any job, that isn't apparent from a set of directives.

Sometimes it takes the form of best practices. Sometimes it is knowing what wheel to grease to get something done.

Individually, they may not amount to much, but in totality they make the difference between something running smoothly and pulling your hair out.

And even in the face of this context matters, which is why LLMs make such obvious errors like putting glue on pizza and Carl generally doesn't.

Fear or corruption?

This isn't some Manhattan style project, with great secrecy over methods, attracting the best and brightest.

It is a MASSIVE wealth transfer though, disregarding law and scrutiny, with some of the most dubious leading the charge.

I would rather that it was fear driving this as there would be more evaluation of how this will play out globally instead of an endless black hole to dump the nation's wealth.