In use cases like that, complex evaluation is required and probably can’t be fully automated anytime soon.

It shouldn’t be, but it seems like there’s an apetite for letting the AI cook and blaming it if something goes wrong (no actual consequences faced). I can’t wait until an AI escapes test lab containment and sends a side channel message to the pricing AI to drop the power price to nothing so it’s cheaper to run more AI. /s

I just don’t see people ever falling all the way out of the loop. Eventually economics will prevent the AI from becoming some tautological circle jerk if it doesn’t translate to profit, no matter how cool it is. I worry more about how techbros are setting the bridge on fire behind us before we find out where it goes.

I liked AlecSadler’s answer from this thread. If you weren’t already comfortable with doing stats in something like python+scipy.stats then now might be a good time. With the pandas library it’s supposed to be a little like R. (ask me for more details if you want)

Sorry for the half-ass answer.

The Jevons paradox point is interesting. Maybe we’ll finally get better software products, so far it seems like everything is as buggy and slow as as ever.

The bar to be a coder is being lowered, but actual software engineering with metrics, requirements, and deadlines will probably increase. I can easily see a world where everyone rushes into the AI to solve problems that used to not be cost effective and at the end of the first push (hopefully that’s around now) there’s a lot of new, untested code, and no metrics whether programmers were more efficient, and more importantly no metrics (I saw stats PhD) about whether the bottom line increased: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/ai-redefining-wall-street-jobs.html

How would one measure the efficacy of two different AI generated trading regimes (or however it is they work up there) when the people who understood what they were asking can’t understand any of the code?

Nah, just read the dashed lines. Zero is dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, where two is dit-dit-dah-dah-dah. It’s the international morse code! With pastel colors!

Everything’s easy when you know the trick:

Guy who knows the trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsgEdmlUf0

So what do we do next? I mean, in terms of things that might actually help?

Become a society with strong critical thinking skills who values people based on reasoned takes based on experience and science over people who value rapid, loud appeals to emotion.

One piece of that is recognizing that doing things like putting flat earthers up in high altitude planes or near space is a waste of resources that could’ve been spent doing something better.

EDIT: that last paragraph was an incomplete thought. Individual flat earthers have done the whole scientific method thing, and proved themselves incorrect and stepped away from it. How do you handle the people that refuse to be convinced? If there’s no level evidence that a person will accept and they’re out in the forest commons chopping down trees to build a tower to whatever is on top of earth, how do you tolerate it at a societal level? It’s still an incomplete thought.

Good teachers: “It’s broken again. That’s on me. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with the passes. To shreds you say?”

Personally, a single “bathroom pass” NFC card that a teacher hands out to any student in their class that needs a bathroom visit wouldn’t cause me much security consternation; that any student could be carrying the pass at any given time is enough anonymztion for my concerns. I’d be more concerned about germs; a group pass is going to get nasty.

Add in a requirement that the scanners have to be connected to an airgapped system, and the system software ONLY reports/stores if a trip took more than X minutes, where X is some agreed upon time by teachers/parents/etc how long a trip should take, and I think that’s a a decent basis for a product that most school districts will completely ignore while they get wined/dined by someone who completely intends to sell the system at a loss and profit off the data collected.

Just be sure to take care of yourself, first. From an outsider looking in it seems a little like she’s probably moved on, and that you may be going through the “bargaining” phase of grief.

You need to move on. A clean break is the only way to get past something like this.

And no. I don’t want to go out to queer bars with you so that you can wingman for me.

If we are going to be genuine friends at any point, you have to let me get to know you. You can’t distract me with “activities”. Being friends with me is still going to be uncomfortable as fuck for you, because it’s going to feel an awful lot like dating, just without the sexual/romantic connection.

And stop trying to find “activities” for us to do now that we’re “friends”.

I don’t know how long it’s going to take to cauterize this wound so that I can go back to suppressing everything like a normal functioning human, but I’m trying to get there as fast as possible.

Block her number and move on. It sounds like you had different views going into this, and instead of a slow decay into the incompatible, it was all at once.

That puts some context to it.

I was imagining something entirely different.

Well I’m completely missing something then. If there’s no golf then what’s the place for?

Also, grass parking with a half empty parking lot?

Everybody else here captured the uncertainty in the world, but even without specifics you can still do a tabletop exercise without jumping all the way into a rabbit hole and see what you’d need to have to spend three days without being able to buy supplies. Most of those kind of lists just end up being things you’d need anyway: water, food, any prescriptions, some local currency if credit card machines are down, etc. Decide how much you think some event is likely and how much budget you have and react accordingly, or don’t. Take it as an opportunity to change out the batteries in any smoke dectectors or battery powered radios, maybe top off any power bricks you have for charging phones.

If you decide to stock up on something there are a lot of resources out there already on what makes sense. If you decide not to stock up on anything then be aware that people might not be willing to share if something does happen; you had the same opportunity to prep and the same information that everyone else did.

Most of my knowledge of UK preparedness is either from WWII documentaries or dubious sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgwaOEg0Uqo

I guess they know what they’re doing. Every golf course I’ve ever been on has landscaping to set up secluded holes and to put tractor sheds and pump houses out of immediate sight. I guess that’s what I expected

They don’t price their based on cost + profit. They price their product based on what analysts think the market will bear.

And for your original question: “How can they be losing money when prices are higher than ever”

They didn’t lose money. In Q3 of 2026 they beat earnings estimates by 27%, and missed revenue by 0.25%. The stonk dropped because its price was based on analysts’ guesses on what it would do in the future, and they’ve revised that estimate down based on Intel’s earnings report and what they think the AI market is going to look like. And so the stonk price collapsed all the way back to where it was in…April of this year.

have been placed on a floating barge

I guess there weren’t any open patches of ground to put them on.

There are recent parallels in both the firearms and 3D printing industries. California 3D printers now get to have restrictions on them because of recent legislation. When technology bridges the “moat” to some Unreachable Fortress it’s inevitable for lobbying to appear since you can’t move the Fortress. Chinese open source models and weights are that bridge, and here we are.

I’m sure there’s market research, focus groups, and unfilmed talks where people air the ideas out to gauge if they can get national traction, but it’s hard to tell with techbros if we’re seeing the vetted idea put to film or if he really thinks the idea that there’s just one computer on earth (that he owns) that everybody can buy time on. I trend towards the latter given the market for software you actually own instead of license, and unlocked hardware.

There are already rumblings about RISC-V.

There are three seconds between those pictures.

No. They have already told off a 27 year old to ensure that the backdoor(s) they put there on purpose are still there when he gets done. It’s been worse than you thought for years.

• https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-accounts-software,37480.html

Someone with no understanding of what quality software looks like who also doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of every Cisco switch and router on the planet either being old and unsupported, or new and absolutely full of security holes.

They can buy it on the used market and destroy it.