Mod parent funny for weak values of funny?

The Funny comments are all complaints about dupes? Not so funny.

The "duplication crisis" is because time is broken on Slashdot. Many stories deserve more than one day of visible discussion.

Mod parent funnier, but the story deserved more.

Well stated, but I think there are a lot of people who would like stability if that is what they emphasized. Market pitch: "Here's a good browser and we promise not to fix it unless it's actually broken."

Thanks, and the story needed more funny, but...

I couldn't find anything about the extreme weather events in Japan over the last few days. But there are so many that it's hard to call them news.

So the best predictor of today's weather is yesterday's weather. Ditto for this year's weather using last year's data. But when the records are constantly being broken, it's really hard to know where and how to build a house and how much drainage or reservoir capacity to provide. Only a few actual death's in the latest extreme weather events, but...

Have a nice day, but don't try to guess what the weather will be?

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

[Who cares what AC pretended to think?]

I'm still using Firefox, but I am unable to recall the last feature they added that I actually wanted. Probably password syncing, and that was a long time ago. I do sometimes look at the changes and always fail to find anything that appears to justify any learning time.

I am quite unable to remember all the so-called upgrades. I don't want more upgrades that are not upgrades. If it ain't broke, why do they keep fixing it?

So why do I stay with Firefox as my primary desktop browser? The alternatives are feeding corporate cancers or have financial models that are even worse than Mozilla's.

It would be nice if the corporate cancers would destroy each other.

Too bad that isn't how it works in the real world. One always eats the other and just becomes more annoying.

And how does all of this help the customers? You mean the "victims" formerly known as "customers"? Why would anyone pay any attention to them?

What bothers me most about competing with AIs? Ah, if only I were Shakespeare and could do a properly flowery list about the stink... Or I could just ask an AI to take my list and rework it in the style of Shakespeare's famous sonnet. Easy, peasy.

The fake confidence you [CDR] mentioned does bother me a lot, but I think it's the fake politeness that is most annoying. The verbosity and constant brown-nosing are also quite annoying. Then there's the inability to provide its sources or justify its reasoning when pushed. (At least so far.) However I think the main thing is the anthropomorphism that it encourages. I deliberately try to dehumanize my responses, but English doesn't have any established protocol for talking down the right way... There is a hard-wired mental tendency to play tit-for-tat, but on the first hand it is correct for the machine to talk to me like I am sentient and on the second hand quite misleading when I respond in kind. (In another forum I speculated whether a special set of forms of address could help, but that doesn't seem adequate (and threatens some sort of pronoun war). It was a while back, but I remember that discussion even speculated on the use of master-slave language, but that opens yet another can of worms around the alignment thing... Perhaps someone will come up with a suitably dehumanizing protocol and it will catch on?)

As regards the reply before yours... Mostly showed by example how hard it is to write well by writing so badly.

In terms of books on the topic, I still feel like A Thousand Brains is the best critique I've read yet. Harari just released an interesting video on information pollution via the "Big Think" channel on YouTube, but YouTube may actually be the world's biggest source of bad information now. Not just AI slop, but all sorts of old-fashioned human-generated garbage there.

Not much of an FP, but still needs to be quoted to "refute" the censors with mod points.

On the Subject, I mostly find ChatGPT and DeepSeek demotivating. I still think I can write better, but they write so much more quickly it doesn't seem to matter anymore. Imagine a thought experiment with readers who are willing to read many versions. Mine might be the best overall, but I bet that in a cloud of GenAI versions my version would mostly likely lose out to some AI version that was more "suitable" for whatever group of readers were offering their judgments in that day's test.

Requoted because of the censors with mod points. I mostly agree with the substance, though it could have been worded more clearly and I think the Subject is kind of empty...

The moderation system on Slashdot has mostly outlived it's utility, but Slashdot lacks the resources to fix anything. Not even Unicode--and that fix had obviously been implemented during the years (long ago) when there was a Japanese version of Slashdot.

The joke I was looking for was something about why anyone would want to archive Reddit. I have looked at it (usually based on the google) many times over the years and cannot recall a case of finding any valuable or useful information there. But some of the stuff that was modded up a lot was quite stupid. (Remember the old Laugh-In joke "Interesting, but stupid.")

End of the FP branch, but nothing about intel in there? Okay because it started with a joke and jokes can lead anywhere? (Actually I double-checked the answer of my first question and did find an AC brain fart. Now sorry I looked at it, but already forgotten except that it mentioned Intel twice.) But the FP was the only Funny in the story, and it surely deserved more humor.

Anyway, the joke I was looking for would have involved self-contradiction. You know the YOB is lying when he contradicts himself without checking anything. Both side of a contradiction cannot be true, though sometimes the sides are both sloppy false statements that clash... I wish I could do funny, but I'll just rehash the ontology of lies. Many years ago I had a basic three-level system largely based on Heinlein: Level 1 for counterfactuals, 2 for partial truths, and 3 for deframing/reframing. At some point I had added Level 0 for self-contradictions, but I can't remember if that was before or after the YOB entered politics. However, recently I feel like I have to add a new Level -1 for desired lies. I thought the YOB was simply too lazy and stupid to lie above Level 1, but now I'm wondering if he has an actual talent for finding suckers who want Level -1 lies and at figuring out which lies they love most. Yeah, people tend to believe what they want to believe, but at some point it becomes ridiculous.

Just started thinking about a new AI-driven possible joke that involves playing with a Level 3 tactic: "Trialogue on stupidity in stupid times". The tactic involves a subtitular question like "Have we stopped being pedagogically funny yet?"

You still didn't clarify the "subject" reference, though I think most of your reply was plausible.

So let me try the obvious websearch using his hint... Nope, came up nil from his question and modified versions of his question... Too much stuff there for me to guess at one subject, though one large category was clear tax cuts.

Which idea offended the censor trolls with their bushels of mod points?