Your logic is weak. AI has not shown any real improvements since it was released onto the public. They are dialing in the exact weights and such needed to maintain "accuracy", but there will be no further improvements on the current technology that will lead to future breakthroughs. LLMs are a thing, and MIGHT be part of a future very capable AI; however, LLMs will NEVER be AGI regardless of what is done with them.

No wondering is necessary. AI reliance will absolutely kill off any remaining critical thoughts/thinking you may have. Reality is going to be absolutely and completely miserable for humanity from here on out. Your life will be miserable, but you will be unable to figure out why... just asking yourself over and over, "why are things like this?", but being unable to come up with an answer.

Hey, wait a minute, we are already like that without AI.

NO MORE WOOL!

Considering that Microsoft has been promising this exact same type of improvement since the release of XP Service Pack 3, the words spoken now are worthless platitudes provided to ensure the smoothness of the theft of your money. There is zero reality behind any of their promises.

Has it been "Fundamentally Changed" enough yet?

tl;dr - research before you buy.

For people reading this thread. I'd recommend searching online about how well the suspend-resume works on Linux for the laptop model(s) you are interested in purchasing. Also worth looking into issues with very short battery life while in Linux. Because a lot of the power management ends up buried in some OEM options for the chipset windows drivers rather than properly expressed in the BIOS/UEFI.

Nevermind, we'll let the machines do it.

If you didn't know mass surveillance was coming since the 1970s, you were not very imaginative and didn't understand human psychology.

Mass surveillance is occurring right now, it will continue to occur, and it will increase. There is no stopping it. Humans want to know about other humans and they want to control and bully other humans. No matter who gets near the surveillance apparatus, they will be corrupted by its power. The One Ring indeed.

The politicians voting for this stuff are not voting because they are believers. They are voting because that is what they are told to vote for. Politicians believe in one thing: Bringing in more money to their political party. It is how they found success, it is how they maintain success.

Voting does nothing when your candidate comes pre-corrupted before you can even vote for them.

Fascism is an ideology that is taking root amongst our aristocracy (which we aren't supposed to have, and yet we do). The aristocracy will pay or threaten anyone who they think is vulnerable to such manipulation. Political party is irrelevant to who is vulnerable. You say it is the Republicans and not the Democrats. You are wrong. It is members of both parties that are vulnerable to manipulation.

Fuck you. No. They do not.

Either children are going to be forced into the real world or adults are going to be forced into a child's world.

One is a tragedy, the other doesn't even make sense. I am not certain why this keeps getting brought up except for fascist intentions.

It is up to the parent to protect their children, not everyone else. The only responsibility others have is to not hurt the kid themselves directly. But "you" think it is okay to force me to forgo my interests to provide some environment that isn't really any safer for the children and is a HUGE weapon against Free Speech. Ok.

No, seriously. Fuck you.

It is absolutely amazing at what a captured political process can achieve... especially when coupled with poor and misleading education.

Correct; however, numerous people knew it was going to happen, even myself, even though it surprised me.

Osama Bin Laden had his training camps in Afghanistan attacked by Bill Clinton with Tomohawk cruise missiles in August of 1998. His (Osama) response was (paraphrased) "I may not be able to to use $5 million dollar cruise missiles to hit you, but I can use your airplanes."

It was published in the open for everyone to read. Portions of the government knew. Portions of the government did nothing to prevent it. The reason it still surprised me was that I was envisioning remote controls and how that could be accomplished. I had no idea you could train intelligent and sane people to perform suicide missions. Live and learn (for some I guess)

Probably humanoid robots, it's already happening in China:

https://jingdaily.com/posts/ch...

Tried and tested slippery slope argument? On slashdot?

It is psychologically engineered to engage a human's attention. Modern web marketing is shady as hell and there really is no reason to try and defend the practices.

So how about we prohibit shady business practices. There is limited time and space in this world, so let's shutdown the garbage businesses that do us no good and leave more time and space and capital for those offering a legitimate goods and services.