The difficulty is that when you need them, you need them.

Money through the mail, money when online services aren't available, backups when AWS goes out, or the Internet is out in the region, etc, etc.

They provide an exact amount and an alternative when other methods fail.

Yes, the details matter.

AI that can scan x-rays, analyze bloodwork, evaluate my poop for life-threatening conditions, or otherwise augment a doctor's treatment? AI models that look at millions of possible treatment plans and find the ones most likely to be successful? Wonderful.

AI systems that remove the human connections? AI that evaluates treatment not based on medical efficacy but on cost models? AI used to make healthcare cheaper but not better outcomes? Do not want!

A very real issue is the dumbing-down of doctors who rely too much on AI. There were studies that doctors using AI to help during colonoscopy were less able to do their job after getting used to the AI tools. They became worse at their job by being reliant on AI.

Use of AI in some cases and for some conditions results in far better outcomes for patients. In some cases it augments what a skilled doctor can do. In some cases it results in detrimental outcomes for patients. And in some cases, it adds no medical value with a risk of increasing problems, in addition to increasing costs, like cases of transcription errors that aren't caught, or case summaries that are wrong in critical ways.

Yup, still better than humans.

"Driver hits unleashed dog that darted into street" is just a Tuesday, but "autonomous vehicle hits unleashed dog that darted into street" is a headline because it is so rare.

Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

I'd be less concerned about the malware on windows knowing the typical home user. It's just yet another method, joining all the infected game hacks (or non-functional ones that are just malware claiming to be Roblox or Minecraft mods) , infected "useful" plug in with the same story, MS office documents that still represent about a third of all pfishing, or Microsoft letting .zip files run as executables if you just renamed the exe BINARY. The malware is something people already do, so it is not surprising. Just like all the "my Facebook got hacked, please don't click on anything from me" announcements these are background.

No, it's the people who will apply filters, crops, or other edits to their entire photo collection and have no backup. Or replace the content of every single document on the shared drive with a mistaken find-and-replace command. Or have a more subtle large change wiping out parts of documents that goes mostly unnoticed. The system logs what it did, but that's not the same as an undo buffer, nor archives for when it really fouls the files up over time.

It also is not the novelty they are believing.

There was the Sci Fi version that's been around 70+ years. That's not new and sexy.

There are dystopia stories that are 50+ years old, not new and sexy.

There are the digital assistants that were popularized a decade ago. That's not new and sexy.

There are the chat bots that recommend pizza glue and eating rocks. Not new and sexy.

There are things it can do, but people have been experiencing it somewhat for generations. Star Trek holodecks from 40 years ago, Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot" and other stories from the 1950s, or even just home automation that is already becoming e-waste as vacuums, doorbell, thermostats, and speakers are bricked by manufacturers. The allure of "smart things" has passed.

What people see being delivered is the dystopia version.

Yup, so many major fundamental bugs, but hey, they gotta keep the focus on the AI slop.

Right now on one of my Win11 boxes the start menu is empty, half the icons are missing from the taskbar. At least it means no more ads when I hit the start button, but I feel it is fundamentally, morally wrong for the operating system to be an advertising platform. Either way, I suspect Explorer crashed and restarted badly when switching between KVM systems, as it often does, leading to this.

Right now another of by boxes the task bar is seemingly set to the lowest z-order, covered by other programs, including visual studio.

Opening up a search on explorer breaks the back button, once it goes into "search" mode it loses the ability to have the regular folder display, you need to completely close the window and re-open it. And you can't copy the location, it stays stuck as "search results" mode with no meaningful location in the address bar.

Context menus in explorer are broken, sometimes showing the new UI elements, sometimes the old style UI elements, sometimes they're missing.

If you're unfortunate enough to have to use the preview build for testing, it's far worse. You wanted to click an item in a new-UI app like the start button? Nope! It behaves as though it were unscrolled, instead of the 17th button down, because it was visually third from the top the start menu immediately jumps back to the top of the list and starts the third app from the top, you're getting the calendar app, or photos app, rather than what you clicked on.

The rewrite of task manager dumped a ton of features, task manager frequently crashes, and when you look up the known issues on their public bug list Task Manager still remains with hundreds of "mitigated" and unresolved issues despite task manager being a core piece of functionality.

I'm constantly switching between systems, Kubernetes cluster terminals, both Windows and Linux. I only use Windows when I have to, it has thoroughly slipped into 'enshitified' territory. So many fundamental "the user can't even access what they clicked on" bugs, and "the Windows start button, the core user interface element needed to do things, is missing" bugs, yet somehow AI slop is the highest priority over the ability to actually run the program you want.

Maybe that's the real reason for the agent stuff: "Hey agent, please start this program because the start menu is broken again, and my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard no longer connect."

In that case, I've got to tell you your duplicate post commenting about duplicate posts and duplicate replies is a duplicate.

It's duplicates all the way down.

Yup. Some others companies fought were ingredients lists ("We'll lose our secret recipes!"), nutrition information and calories ("people can work it out from the ingredients!"), financial disclosures ("Competitors can take advantage"), standardized rates of interest rate comparables ("customers can do the math!").

Anything that exposes the truth, risks, or potential liability or unwanted data gets fought as an existential threat.

It's been more than a meme.

As the article points out, it's been a question in philosophy since antiquity. At least 2500 years of discussion, probably more. We have no way to know how different people process what they see without peeking inside the brain and comparing. This is newsworthy as it's the closest we've come to verifying it.

There are still open questions about perception and interpretation in addition to just neural pathways, particularly around those with different sensitivities, but that's at least a start.

Color blindness missing one, two, or three sensitivities, tetrachromats or having a fourth sensitivity, shifted sensitivities that peak at slightly different places for different people, all of them lead to ways the colors could be perceived and interpreted differently by different people. It's a good start at research, but there's a lot more that can be answered.

Neither the FBI's assessment nor the CDC's assessment agree with your recommendations. They have a lot of heavily-researched recommendations filled with rigorous citations and backed by tragic data.

Research over the past 30 years is clear on how to do it: First and foremost, socioeconomic disparity needs to be addressed. Second, availability of mental health care to minors, especially by decoupling it from parental employment, or said differently, universal mental health care for minors at the very least. Third, external groups auditing schools for signs of bullying, social classes or have/have-nots, especially by administrators and teachers; data shows schools and districts cannot self-assess because the ones doing the assessments are part of the bias, and typically blind to their actions.

The data shows, and the FBI summary is clear in describing, that regulations on firearms themselves are statistically irrelevant. In fact, the FBI summary explicitly calls out that is one of the biggest pieces of misinformation and false claims, the demonstrably wrong belief that easy access to weapons is the most significant risk factor. The data shows it has virtually no effect whatsoever. Anyone wanting to commit violence at school can do so.

The four-prong assessment model, looking at the personality of the student, the family dynamics, the school dynamics, and interplay/leakage between any of those with society at large, tends to give the best view of risks. Schools and local officials especially tend to downplay their role, dismissing teacher favoritism to cliques as "school spirit", "supporting the team", and similar, and dismissing their prejudice because they are blind to it, believing it justified.

Unfortunately the research-backed guidance isn't popular with lawmakers. The plans cost money. Addressing the disparity is labeled terms like "woke" and "communist". Universal healthcare labeled "socialized medicine" and given labels like "death panels" as though insurance companies don't do the same today. The republican party is against it claiming individual liberties, the democratic party is against it due to high costs.

Yeah, that was a typo in my submission. I should have said 2021, not 2024 given that the REDIT post was '4 years ago'. Sorry.

I guess the logical next step is to capture the heat output as hot water, concentrate the heat somehow (or heat the water a bit more) and use steam to drive a turbine producing electricity. Ye cannae break the laws of physics, but it should be possible for a datacentre to recoup at least part of its electricity costs this way? Essentially a steam-driven power station where the heating element is a bank of GPUs with water running over them.