The warning of Socrates regarding the written word damaging our memory and intelligence? I fully agree. Were he to view the level to which our lives are improved due to our media saturation, I honestly know he'd change his mind.

Even if you shared with him a low ball pitch like the syllabus for Andrew Tate's university, you seriously can't but know he'd be like "wow! this not only solves the problems I feared, but completely disproves, what I now see were simply naive fears."

What he really should have feared is litigiousness bastards! With his paranoia though, I doubt he ever got anything it in writing. And look where it got him...

And somebody better clue in all these countries going to 20 mph speed limits because of the greatly reduced traffic fatalities at that speed. Somebody better tell them about the foolish experts claiming that traveling at the high speed of 30 miles per hour would cause the human body to disintegrate or drive passengers insane.

Granted they don't immediately disintegrate, but many do rapidly exhibit symptoms of death almost immediately in conjunction with traveling above 30 mph and almost all humans exhibit an allergic reaction when making contact with road surfaces even at much lower speeds.

But no one really knows why. Except, I suspect, the Danes who have freakishly low highway death stats. They're definitely behind it in an attempt to control Americans.

On that second part, the reality is that it's sitting in a car 40-80 hours a month in a car you regularly splash out a considerable display of money on because it can do 200 on the open roads but instead you spend the significant amount of your time in full-stop traffic jams with all the other egos who just can't seem to figure out the lights are actually coordinated for a smooth flow of traffic, not a drag race.

Why, because creating a virus a year after it was named defies the time space continuum or because examination of archived tissue samples determined it has been circulating in the general population in a weaker variant going back 50 years?

10 Ways AI could Kill Everyone. You won't believe what happens when you click on number 4!

Yeah, I have it on good authority that COVID was planned to segregate people without critical thinking skills from dragging down the information economy. COVID-19 was released as a pretext to condition the mentally feable with dangerously high levels of medical mistrust so when the real killer virus is released, the dead weight will check themselves from the gene pool shouting like Disney's lemmings as they compete to outperform their peers in showing everyone what sheeple they are for submitting to medical advice.

I've heard the Brazilian Jujitsu already took ol' Zuck out of the game via repeated head trauma.
They say he's practically brain dead. A puppetCEO. It's what motivated Facebook to go all in on the goggles, he needs them to compensate with short term memory issues and an inability to remember names, places, basically anything.
The severe memory lapses is also why the statue of the wife: he's tried to get combative with her when failing to recognise her; now she just points to the statue. It has reduced her need to use the stun gun on him when he gets unhinged and security is distracted.

When people say they want to make the world a better place, it's important to ask, for whom?

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.

This whole discussion has been fascinating. Sadly, the majority of it is over my head. Right now I'm just wondering if this is the moment in history where Mint starts to abandon Ubuntu and goes all in on LMDE.

As the judges implied, I'm pretty sure EVERY practising lawyer has heard about AI hallucinations biting lawyers on the ass. This guy is either lying or hopelessly out of touch.

Either way, he should be disbarred because he is either too dishonest and corrupt, or too stupid, to practise law.

I don't recall ever seeing that sentiment expressed here, except perhaps as a quote in a story summary. Do you have a specific comment in mind?

Repetitive head impacts aren't always associated with sports. Shit happens, and for some unlucky people it may happen several times.

Also, if red light helps brains which have endured repeated impacts, perhaps it will also mitigate the negative effects of singular, more traumatic injuries.

Check out the recent Gamers Nexus videos on YouTube. They show the (redacted) logs of LG sets probing local WiFi networks and connecting to open ones. Their investigation is quite technical and well documented.