So you're a fucking idiot.
But we've all known that for a long time.

It was already a problem in 2001, you stupid, hateful, ignorant cunt: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsci-hub.se%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.2307%2F3852834

Creepy endoparasitism? What a ridiculous way to describe the most vital biological function that exists in humans.

The population is going to drop in Western countries becsuse they have stopped prioritizing building families in favor of selfishly catering to every individual whim and comfort a person may want.

Eventually, if the trend is not reversed via societal shifts, it will drop enough that all the egalitarian west will be displaced and/or eradicated by, well, Afghanistan basically.

All the ivory tower fuckheads who wasted their days worrying about cyber feminism and intersectionalism will be the ones to blame, but they wont be able to receive punishment because they will already be dead.

Harder to accomplish than you would expect, far easier to join The Peyote Way Church of God, and set up your own spirit walk

You do realize that attempting to control people though fear is sooooo last millennia

Of course you don't want children using any mind altering substances, unless it's ritilin, adderall, sri's etc...

Funny thing, I grew up in the 70's, and as feral children, we were drawn to the forbidden. By the time I was 18 I had direct experience with a number of hallucinogens, and... not dead

What HAS been a direct issue for people I have known are pharmaceuticals, or their street analogs, opioids, amphetamines and even good ole' "natural" cocaine

The unfortunate addition of all hallucinogens to DEA schedule 1 list, tied to the APA's insistence that they cause mental illness, along with the international conventions on drug control, has prevented real medical study and prevented doctors, therapists, even inDUHviduals access to something with real benefits

So I get it, we are supposed to give up so many good things, "FOR THE CHILDREN", because... why?

*sigh*

go play in reddit , child and get offa my lawn

Australians seem friendly enough, but I have watched Mr Inbetween, so I am more wary now

Arizonan here, our spiders will cause deep lesions, rattlesnakes will kill or maim you, one of the hastiest ants is widespread, BUT you can lick our toads and have a religious experience

It is far too dry in most of the state for wild psilocybin to be available, but the local shamans have a wide range of psychoactives they have used for centuries

Come for the weather (118F yesterday), stay for the mind alterations

I expect that colleges have seen a significant reduction in the number of students enrolling in Computer Science and Software Engineering programs, because AI has scared the students away.

Colleges want that enrollment money. They have already been watering down the curriculum year-after-year so that the difficulty would stop scaring potential students away (the fact that many of their graduates couldn't code themselves out of a brown paper bag notwithstanding). So now they are just continuing that process, looking at a way to promise "something relevant" to get students continuing to enroll.

So this statement is really just advertising. They are trying to align with what young people are thinking and expecting, so they can get the enrollment money from them. Whether it is true or not really doesn't matter. It's just marketing.

One more possible choice. Have the human perform the complicated, high risk procedures but relegate the lower risk tasks to the robot. This is sort of like an airplane autopilot mode, where the human pilot can relax during the low-risk coasting part of the flight to have more stamina and concentration during the high-risk takeoffs and landings. Of course, this only works if most of the procedure time is low risk.

The collapse to feudalism is happening in places that have given up on democracy and law and consider crowning their kleptocrat-in-chief as king.

Europe is still not there.

Hence it is the new ideological enemy of the part of the former US that keeps barking about how good a race to the bottom is and how Xi-guo and Putinland are great examples of governance.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a binary choice. Maybe the robot can perform the surgery with a human watching every step, sort of like a Waymo with a human driver with hands near the steering wheel at all times. Or the human can perform the surgery, but the robot can be performing the same virtual surgery and issuing real-time warnings for potential problems.

The definition of inefficiency is whatever you need is not really needed and is therefore inefficiency and whatever I want is needed and therefore not inefficiency. This has always been true regardless of party or ideology. Look at what DOGE has axed and squint to see if there's any logic or reasoning in what was cut and what was not. Part of what DOGE cut was based on pure ideological whims and part was based on cutting something regardless of what was cut.

There is no such vector, Victor. Besides, Orban is about to lose.
That island isn't Europe, it is Airstrip One, in a firm "special" relationship with trumpistan.
France may have flirted, but Le Pen is still not marching ICE thugs to arrest French citizens.
The AfD in Germany is an Eastern German artifact, the grandchildren of Honecker's cadres. They've hit the ceiling and will stay there or lose.

Stupidity is there, but in Europe the majority doesn't worship it like that in some other territories.

Most importantly, wild, ignorant and aggressive religiosity isn't a thing in Europe, which makes it a much more pleasant place to be.

True. However, the main thing is income. Women in these high income countries can get jobs that allow them to be independent and either choose to remain single or to be in a relationship without getting married or having children. Most importantly, women are still significantly penalized in their careers for getting pregnant, despite all the self-congratulatory proclamations to the contrary. So, these economies essentially heavily motivate women to not have children. Some countries offer pittances to encourage having children, but the career penalty is so overwhelming that all the government programs are practically insignificant. This penalty is true at both high and low levels of income.

I've observed a pattern with this. People who write lots of short scripts to do simple, one-off operations say AI is amazing and makes them much more productive. People who develop and maintain a large code base say it's useless, and won't let it anywhere near their code base. That probably says something about what it can do, and what it can't do.