They'll never make one of those, because it would replace what C-suite executives do.

Online retailers should have done a better job forcing their suppliers to ship them items in standardized boxes that a robot can handle instead of retail packaging. They have leverage, they should have used it. Instead of trying to make their robot adapt to the input they should have made the input come in a format they can use.

The thing about CAPTCHA is they worked better when they don't look for perfection. CAPTCHAs (prior to AI) would detect non-humanness if your mouse acted rapidly or in perfect straight lines. So regarding your checklist, AI would remember it submitted a report on Dec. 28th 2023, therefore not last year. There's lots of situations where someone can't recall if they did something if at the time they didn't consider it a big deal. For example, if someone submits bug reports all the time, they wont recall if they specifically submitted on that product. Like do you recall ever seeing someone on the street with a red sweater on, on January 31st, 2024? I mean maybe, but can you be absolutely certain? The brain discards information it considers useless. But then there are humans who do in fact remember everything also.

The solution to this may be to check every bug report (using AI, lol?) and maybe charge money for every bug report submission (and obviously if anyone or anything who submitted correct bug is submitted collects a bounty).

Make it lame, and gay.

BS, many people try to challenge it actually. From what I have personally seen in San Francisco .. even pedestrians try to challenge it. I don't know if they are looking for a payout or what. It's a good thing there's camera coverage every place nowadays. Reference: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fcars%2F2...

This wreaks of hubris, when you brag like this and there's even one accident .. the whole thing will be in jeopardy. Don't ruin the party for everyone.

What I'm saying is that when Hamas attacked Israeli civilians on October 7th in such a brutal way, then I would fully expect Israel to completely lose their shit and flatten Gaza to make sure it can't happen again, and that's what they're doing. Given that the attack was funded by Iran, I can only assume this is the reaction that Iran was trying to create, since it makes Israel look bad. Mission accomplished. Neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis are in the right here. It's just two groups fighting for their survival and fighting over a really shitty piece of land. It looks to me like a chihuahua picking a fight with a doberman over a bone. Do I care? Not much. Do I think the chihuahua is stupid? Yep.

It will happen. I remember 25+ years ago on slashdot the topic was companies outsourcing people from India to do IT jobs. The joke was "why don't the CEOs outsource themselves to Indians?" ... Today a bunch of CEOs (Microsoft, Google, Adobe, IBM, etc) are in fact Indian. Therefore, we can predict 25 years from now that CEOs themselves of public corporations would be AI. Humans will be taken out of critical decision making.

"In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."

There was one overarching issue that a majority of swing voters cared about: wages and cost of living. And immigration is perceived to be a big part of that (lower income people believe that immigration pushes their wages down, and that it pushes rents upwards in their neighborhoods). Harris' portfolio under Biden was immigration, and people weren't happy with the progress. There's also the fact that Biden has a bit of credibility with this group because he comes from a working class neighborhood, but Harris doesn't. She doubled down on the abortion issue, and while that had some traction, it took second place in most people's minds to wages and cost of living. That's why she polled well among people who live in gated communities or on college campuses, but nowhere else. She wasn't a good choice for the Democrats to run.

I saw the bodycams of the Hamas fighters who went into Israeli homes and slaughtered family members in front of each other, and then called their mothers to brag about what they'd done. I don't "support" either side or what they're doing. But I will never, ever, have sympathy for Hamas and the population that chose them as their leaders. Oh, and the "Gays for Palestine" signs were hilarious. Do you know what they do to gay people in Gaza? Honestly, you have no credibility.

The universities are hardly blameless in this. After their disgraceful testimony in the House, they can hardly claim to just be supporting free speech. You can't reprimand someone for perceived microaggressions against a black student and then turn a blind eye to someone threatening extermination to Jewish people. The universities lost all credibility.

But there's also something more fundamentally wrong with research. Have you ever listened to academics themselves talking about how science works in universities now? There are serious problems, such as most published academic research being non-reproducible, and a focus on quantity over quality of research papers. Here's a good example of what they're talking about.

I am doing a survey ... What is a job producing activity and what is a job taking activity? I mean, how do you guys differentiate between someone who is taking a job from another vs. someone who is creating new jobs and helping the economy by their existence?

If that same grandpa did the same thing to others, such as making a 1950’s tech hydraulic uncanny President Lincoln robot. Then it's safe to say he is fair game. What's worse would be saying it’s a desecration, because that would mean Walt Disney was evil.

Option 1: making robot versions is bad, so no Walt robot, but grandpa Walt is a creep.
Option 2: making robot versions is not bad, so Walt robot is made, but grandpa Walt is cool.

Which Option desecrates him more?

What's wrong with just increasing the ticket price to generate enough revenue to pay for the improvements? Wouldn't those riders be the ones to benefit the most from trains being on-time?

The racists definitely voted for Trump. But that's a minority, and they voted Republican in pretty much every election for a few decades. And Americans actually score lower on measures of racism than most places in the world.

There are several reasons why the majority of voters picked Trump, and if you think it's all about racism, then you're deluding yourself. I say this because a lot of the reasons people voted for him were reasons that, until recently, would have made them vote Democrat. There's a sizable group of people who voted Obama, and then wanted to vote Sanders, and then voted Trump. Until he ran, Trump was a life-long Democrat. He's even on record as being pro-choice.

If you actually talked to people, the two main issues that people voted on were cost of living and wages. The former is related to inflation, and is complicated because it involves things like demographics and geopolitics (and bird flu). The latter has to do with immigration. If you're a business owner, then you want high immigration because it both pushes down the cost of one of your main inputs (labor) and it just creates a bigger economy. Also, if you're a successful business owner, then you can probably avoid most of the social problems caused by rapid immigration by simply living in a gated community. On the other hand, if you're an unskilled worker, then immigrants compete directly with you for jobs, and they live in your neighborhoods, which means they push up rent costs. That's why we saw record number of black and hispanic voters actually vote Trump this time. If you poll a legal immigrant, you'll find they're actually not very pro-immigration. It's not in their economic best interest.

Democrats used to be the party of the working class. They were always pro-protectionism (i.e. pro-tariffs) and anti-immigration because that's what the labor component of their party demanded. But during globalization (1990's and 2000's) the party stopped prioritizing these ideas, and that alienated the labor groups within their ranks. That is, until Bernie Sanders came along. But the party wouldn't let him win the nomination (this gets into things like super-delegates, etc., which is coincidentally why Trump ran for the nomination of the Republican party instead of the Democratic party.)

This is more than just a US phenomenon. Even the Liberal party in Canada recently drastically cut back on the immigration rate in Canada because it was no longer politically tenable. And if you follow the politics in the UK (the farmers) and Germany (AfG) you'll notice it has a lot to do with opposing immigration. Some of it is certainly racism, but racism alone won't win you elections. You know what matters more to people than racism? Money in their wallet. "It's the economy, stupid." And until the Democrats learn that lesson again, they can't win.