Not only is it ironic, it is also really fucked up considering the source.  Somebody like this you would think be knowing.

Tom Nichols

Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a contributor to the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years, and an instructor at the Harvard Extension School. He has served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House and the U.S. Senate. He writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world—along with occasional contrarian views on popular culture. His books include The Death of Expertise and Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy. He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy champion.

Goes to show there are different kinds of intelligence.  And bias.  Many kinds of that, everybody has a bias.

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Makes sense, young people who could take the heat are busy living their lives, and basically they do not give a shit.  Out having their days in the sun.  Their affluent elders would be the ones going to the event, and heat kills old people.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 24, 2026, 05:54 AMTrue enough, my objection is in giving the current version of AI super powers.  What it can do is impressive, and the tendency is to think of it as being more capable than it really is.

Oh absolutely.  J6P out there is being convinced that current AI is on the verge of turning into Lt. Data from Star Trek or Skynet from Terminator.  It's about to turn SENTIENT! It's ALIVE! 😬  No, sorry, nowhere close.

What is true though is that it will replace many jobs thought to take intelligence but are really repetitive wrote work.  Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers for example. Diagnosis already better using AI. Even Surgery not far off with robotic arms.  Writing Briefs, researching case law, AI better.  Design a new Bridge or locate the best places to find mineral deposits?  AI faster & cheaper.
 

QuoteDan Jarvie posted AI slop in the 'first person', so I bounced him along with the last two fake five eye Russian Trolls as being fake.

They may be replacing TDos with AI.

Didn't respond to those DJ posts since registering a new Screen ID to circumvent Cooler Time is a violation of the CoC.  Nonsense posts to boot.

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True enough, my objection is in giving the current version of AI super powers.  What it can do is impressive, and the tendency is to think of it as being more capable than it really is.

Dan Jarvie posted AI slop in the 'first person', so I bounced him along with the last two fake five eye Russian Trolls as being fake.

They may be replacing TDos with AI.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 23, 2026, 09:33 PM They are like humans who do things by rote without any understanding, brain dead we call it in people.  Functional but not really alive.  That may get a lot of work done, but there will be nothing new under the sun.

True, but security systems don't really require original thinking.  They're all variations on an encryption theme.  Got a faster  more powerful system with better cracking algorithms, you can probably break it by brute force.  Besides that, just about all systems have some flaw in the code that can be exploited, or the original designer snuck in a back door on purpose.  So there's a better than even chance that the proliferation of AI computing will lead to more systems currently considered "secure" being broken.  Based on what I've read so far, particularly at risk are Block Chain Crypto Currency Wallets.  If any of the major cryptocurrency systems are broken, that whole sector could be at risk.  Which isn't necessarily a bad thing,  but a few crypto Billionaires like the Winklevoss Twins could take a beating. 😁

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