The real question is what is the world prepared to do about it in response?

The call for a UN Security Counsel Meeting (of which the US - the aggressor / defendant - has veto power over any decision made) in New York (a US city where diplomats have already been banned from attending by the US. - again, the aggressor / defendant ) seems to be a rather poor one.

To be fair to the UN, there have been calls to relocate the UN building elsewhere, perhaps that will come about sooner rather than later as a result of this incident. But more should be done if the world is to be taken seriously. Otherwise, the heads of state for Greenland might want to prepare for an unexpected live fire drill on their capital.....

More like the airlines will lose money that way. There's only so much that a pilot can handle at once. There are very strict procedures that have to be carried out before, during, and after each and every flight. Most of them are safety related, if not just part of the plane's required operations. Meanwhile the airlines run such tight schedules and minimal staffing to the point that they've fought against sleep requirements for pilots in the past, and are actively trying to cut the number of pilots in the cockpit from 2 to 1 for profiteering reasons. (It used to be 2 pilots and a fight engineer, but that engineer position was cut long ago in most airlines with the introduction of digital avionics.)

It it wasn't for GPS they'd have even more work to do. Dealing with the failure, switching over to alternates (even if it's visual nav only), communicating what's going on and keeping everyone (other pilots / ATC / etc.) on the same page, dealing with external pressures from corporate, etc. For pilots, having GPS fail on a routine basis is an unwelcome problem.

That depends on what you means by "cheap game consoles" and "cheap internet".

The internet prices really shouldn't be going up as that provides a direct impediment to the other subscription services that everyone and their dog wants to force everyone else into. More money for ISPs means less money for subscriptions, because you need the internet connection to have the subscription work in the first place.

Modern game consoles are a lost cause at this point. They haven't fulfilled their original purpose of "plug it in and play instantly, no fuss" in over a decade. (Day 1 updates, microtransactions, DLC all over the place, installation of the the game to internal storage / SD cards, etc.) The games themselves don't need a special purpose platform anymore (the consoles) because most dev studios use generic game engines like Unity or Unreal that have the hardware complexities already figured out and dealt with for them. Add in that the cost of these things keeps going up compared to PCs both in terms of initial purchase price and the price of new titles, (Steam sales are a thing), and the consoles have no real* reason to be purchased any more.

One possible avenue for revival of game consoles are the older ones that can have new titles released for them without the original manufacturer's approval. I.e. Game Boy, N64, Genesis, NES, etc. and to a lesser extent the Dreamcast. (Due to aging unique optical media lasers that lack a proper modern replacement.) These can have new titles made for them using OSS devkits, then distributing those new titles online. (Either for free or paid and shipped.) Most of them are out of patent protection and have new reproduction hardware made by third parties for sale too. This can't happen with newer systems due to their use of modern encryption, but for the older ones, it can be a method for smaller studios to make some fun games for widely available and well understood hardware at a fraction of the cost of modern AAA development. Even better, if those publishers can work out distribution deals with some of these old second hand shops, they'll also be able to get some extra exposure. To say nothing of just selling on Steam and bundling a preconfigured emulator with the game.

So there's still options out there for cheap games, and cheap internet is practically a requirement for the economy at this point. (Cue ISPs reading this post, jacking up rates due to lock in, and the lawsuits and backroom (prioritization) deals to follow.) The attention problem should remain for quite a while yet base on that criteria.

*: Nintendo consoles are an outlier only because of their first party exclusives that Nintendo refuses to release anywhere else. A fact not true of other competitors, and one that Nintendo only gets away with because of those competitors having their own hardware offerings. Take that away, and Nintendo is going to have it's core demographic (the wallets of parents / grandparents) revolt due to the extra complexity and physical mess involved vs just buying something on Steam like everyone else in the industry expects.

Nope. The argument isn't about inflation, it's about feeling superior to those beneath you. Those with money and power are not going to give it up without a fight, because at the end of the day they need someone to look down upon in order to feel good about themselves. The more desperate others are, the better they feel. If everyone had their basic needs met, looking down on them becomes a lot harder. In some cases it's impossible. (Because the other person's happiness far out weighs their own by comparison.)

Hence why you get articles like these from time to time. They're complete BS spewed by those who need to constantly create false justifications for their looking down upon others, often enabled by their own horrendous acts. (A.k.a. "What evil did you commit to get all of this?")

Unfortunately, "anachronism" and complete apathy is the response you get when you train people to only care about how new something is. See also the destruction of various works around the world through out human history.

The issue isn't atrophy, it's "gimme the answer, NOW!" that these kids have been trained to expect since birth. If the answer isn't instant, they won't be satisfied and will either look for a faster "easier" answer, or loose interest.

In cases where losing interest isn't an option, such as a test, they'll either leave it blank, or fill it in with random garbage. (If you don't know the answer use "b" or "c".) Again, the point for them isn't to get the correct answer, the point is to give an answer that they can instantly regurgitate and then move on with their lives.

Even worse, knowing the correct answer, or being able to derive it on their own, is itself seen as "a useless skill" because they have their phones and the internet. (And now ChatGPT, the "teacher" that never makes them think or have to work out the answer on their own.) Despite having the phones taken away from them, and now being directly confronted with the inability to do something as simple as "read a clock on the wall", they view it only as a minor setback that will correct itself after 3:00 PM, (whenever that is), and therefore they still don't need to learn or try.

Their inability will be the death of them. If not because of the lack of a phone, then because anything that ChatGPT can regurgitate is such low hanging fruit that other countries will run circles around their economy before they ever get a prototype built. Of course that's assuming that ChatGPT will be able to get the raw data needed to regurgitate an answer, because as their country becomes less and less relevant on the international stage, their LLMs will have less and less international data processing agreements to siphon from. Leading to a chicken and the egg problem, that they'll turn to ChatGPT to try and find a solution for....

TL;DR: Instant answers are bad mmkay?

There's nothing to relearn. These idiots are just grabbing at power, which they'll conveniently reign back in right before the other guy takes office.

FYI: This is the reason you have real leftists calling for who ever wins in 2028, (assuming we even have elections then that aren't rigged), to do the same with no remorse. I.e. Let the Republicans have to "clean up" after 4 or 8 years of a far left agenda being implemented without any of their usual impedance allowed, like they are doing now to Democrats.

Of course, this happening is only going to further the political divide, but it's not like anyone cares until the shooting starts so....(Which it will. Republicans then won't show the same restraint as Democrats are now.)

In India, maybe. Of course that's going the way of the dodo too thanks to ChatGPT. There's no Americans being hired for that position.

Stop the presses, that was the problem right there. Why the fuck was a registered sex offender allowed on a public school campus in the first place!? The offender's sexual preferences should have never even made the story, and was probably bait to lure the public away from demanding some very difficult answers from school officials. Congratulations, you fell for it.

Again, why are you using sex offenders to justify an attack on trans people? I think we know the answer. You're intentionally trying to conflate the two. Nice try bud.

This is the only questionable statement in your post, but considering that the rest is a bunch of false equivalence BS, and that you provided no links to validate your claims with, I'm going to assume you've made another blunder here too. Feel free to prove otherwise though.

You must be a hit at costume parties, telling everyone there that they have screws loose. Newsflash: Being transgender isn't just about playing dress up, jackass.

I sense an appeal to involuntary institutionalization coming. Trying to claim that you're "helping" them by forcing your views on them is a symptom of a being a psychopath. Perhaps you should be treated with your own medicine before you try treating others with it.

No, I would encourage her to get psychiatric treatment, and help her feel better about who she is. Not demand that she conform to whatever is considered "fit" by someone else on the internet with no medical credentials.

Since the Catholic Church slapped a label on the door, and told everyone they were pedos, only ten cases of sexual abuse have happened in 15 years.

Somehow, I don't think that realizing you have a problem and stopping there will actually fix said problem....

Considering you just did it I don't think I should need to.

By definition, the inspiration struck them while they were looking at the linked help articles the AI gave. So yes, the AI did indeed have the info needed to solve the problem. (Because the human figured it out from what the AI offered them.)

Irrelevant excuses. The LLM failed to come up with the answer. Unless you think it's reasonable for the human to have memorized all of those statistics points that the LLM has.

Because only through your tithe can ye find the truth!.....Er, were we talking about troubleshooting a computer problem or worshiping a digital god? I wasn't aware the human needed to pay for a thinking tax.

Your story seems odd because in my experience, everyone has clean drinking water.

TL;DR: Stop making excuses for the LLMs. It either finds the answer or it doesn't. That's how it and everyone else is judged, and no amount of "but 90% complete!" is going to pass the muster when the given requirement was "98% complete."

This happened on slashdot back when kiwi farms got kicked offline (temporally), and the result was the end of truly anonymous posting on slashdot. Now AC is just a means for registered users to hide their username when shit posting. As no-one actually at risk is going to register to post unpopular ideas that could get them in trouble. Of course what do you expect the ants to do when you smash their ant hill? The ants invade your house.

This is just more of the same, and will play out the same exact way. ACs will be gone, but so will the user comment section in it's entirety, and slashdot won't be alone in that. Now the only way you'll be able to talk to people is via authorized channels, (Good luck younger gens, your speaking over the phone phobia is about to get a workout.), or you'll have to talk in person. Which given how much of an enabler the internet is when it comes to finding others with a similar mindset, I have a feeling that a lot of people are in for a rude awakening about their neighbors, surrounding meatspace communities, and what views they consider "acceptable."

In it's entirety. You say something they dislike? Get punished for it. A company allows you to say something? The company goes bankrupt. The point is that unauthorized ideas are no longer allowed, because a bunch of idiots refuse to separate the criminal mastermind (person posting hate speech) from the useful tools. (Social Media platform, ISP, Telecom, etc.)

But hey, those guns sure are authorized useful tools now aren't they? /s

Damn it...
s/your/you\'re/g

s/parents idiocy/parent\'s idiocy/g

With thunderous applause from parents refusing to raise their children. Papers, citizen! The government needs to ensure your legally allowed to venture away from your parents idiocy. (And towards anything the government disapproves of.)