There's a lot of fuzzy use of "psychopath" and "sociopath". My own feelings remains mixed. I think psychology and even psychiatry are fuzzy fields with lots of shysters, but the applied psychologists have made great progress in learning how to manipulate people into buying soap, widgets, and political shysters.

So now I'm curious about the "psychological justification" for this new school... Even Montessori can produce problems. You know the most famous alumni?

Presuming the AI is Gemini and you are again endorsing. However in this case I have read similar information in a number of books over the years. (And of course I've seen it on the Web, along with all sorts of noise.)

Thank you for this information, even though I found it depressing. Somewhat surprising I haven't run across it already.

By the way, I'm trusting you, not Gemini. I think you are endorsing the Gemini results in this case, even though that AI is generally quite unreliable. Just had another encounter with the hallucinatory bogosity a few minutes ago. Not only a crazy and incorrect answer, but it wasn't properly related to the question I had asked. So perhaps that's one of those cases of a self-contradiction where both sides are false? (But I suspect the EVIL google may have put me on some kind of mushroom blacklist. The personalization I deserve from the google's perspective?)

Remembering back about 20 years when I had an email discussion with rms about better financial models. He didn't seem to understand how money works, though he still asked a very insightful question that helped improve the CSB (Charity Share Brokerage) idea. Now I regard CSB an early fork of what went wrong and led to crowdfunding...

The ACs will have a great business model when they figure out how to turn brain farts into electricity.

Come to think of it, there probably isn't much Funny potential here.

Interesting seed of conversation for FP, but I disagree with your premise. Any evidence why this approach will produce psychopaths? Or care to explain the attempted joke that didn't work?

I think the larger risk is that they will become mentally crippled. People are too ready to learn to think like machines and these kids will mostly learn to ask questions that the machines are good at answering. Unfortunately, those are the same kinds of questions that are easily tested, thereby producing test results that look great for sufficiently superficial values of "great".

If they need to do some human, dare I say creative, thinking in the future, then things may not go so well. How badly can they end?

(My morning speculation was actually "Is anyone working on accelerated education for effect?" This story is about one of the answers that seems quite bad to me...)

Mostly the ACK and unhappy concurrence.

Not a bad FP, but I have a large list of books I want to read. Actually in the form of bookmarks in a "Pending" section of my browser, organized by libraries where the books are... Can't really continue your topic without examples, but your Subject was empty, so I decided to try a fresh joke on top.

Another variation could have been "We don't need no stinkin' societies!"

Or how about "Let's build a society on top of anti-social anti-media websites". Or s/build/deconstruct/? (But that one's too long for a Slashdot Subject.)

Losing track of my deficient funny bone, my deeper reaction to the story (but Insight on Slashdot?) is that language is fundamental to who and what we are. Cats are clever enough and can even learn complicated hunting techniques, but without language they have no story and no personal identity and cannot abstract or transmit their experiences to other cats. We humans sort of stumbled into language by accident and it gave us ourselves, among other goodies. Then we stumbled again with writing, where language was able to invade the visual cortex and boost our intelligence with vastly more powerful compression of higher-level ideas and concepts into visual icons. Instead of recognizing corners and edges, we could represent "me" and "Fred" as entities. LOTS of stuff.

But now many of the kids are abandoning reading in favor of TikTok videos of cute cats. I doubt this is going to end well, but we had a fun ride. And still possible we will create our AI successors before we go extinct...

Really? What part of that joke triggered the censor trolls with mod points? Perhaps the reference to he who should not be mentioned?

No, I got that idea about the PET bottles because they put water in them and tie them around the base of telephone poles. Not exactly sure how it works, but apparently dogs don't want to mark the apparent wall of water?

But now I'm not sure if you know PET is from the chemical name of the kind of plastic. But I'd have to look it up to spell it correctly in English or katakana.

The whole idea of news for profit rather than to inform the public may be the root of the evil? When the REAL goal is to attract eyeballs for advertisers, the value of truth becomes dubious...

So we should blame "60 Minutes" because it was the first profitable news program? But that was built on the Golden Age of Journalism fantasy when frequency-based monopolies were auctioned off subject to the constraint of providing specified amounts of news as a public service. Or more blame to CNN for trying to do it on a 24-hour basis? Or FAUX for the complete facade of selling ads they don't actually care about?

I'm going to have to see how they write it, but definitely not in Romaji. However if if the original word was based on a foreign language there are lots of cases where the Japanese meaning is not closely related to the source meaning.

Funny joke? There was a long time when I had the impression that the Japanese called them PET bottles because they used them to discourage pets from pissing on telephone poles.

Hmm... I think it's an interesting question as to whether FAUX should be allowed to brand itself as news. They do want to sell advertising, but I think that's for credibility and their real business model is different. They can have as much money as they need under the table as long as they put out the "news" they are being paid for... Truth in advertising has become a rather sad joke, too.

Rage against the AI machine? People want wise oracles, but the AIs are stupid and some people are therefore learning to limit their thinking to what the AI is good at talking about. Even worse, some folks think the YUGE Orange Buffoon is some kind of gawd king...

How about updating the old song to "AI can do anything better than you"?

(And I think all the ACs could be replaced with a genAI set to the style of "stupid".)

Don't you wish you could fix your typos on Slashdot? At least for a short while.

But now you have me confused about what they call them in Japan... I'll need to visit an electronics store and pay attention to those displays.