oddstorms

Perfect summary of what's wrong. I often wonder what would happen if the best minds were trying to solve the world's problems instead of getting people to buy things they don't want.

How bad is IE these days actually? I haven't used it since 2001.

They all moved on so they have no idea how good it is.

Just because you don't care about freedom doesn't mean no one cares about freedom.

Actually, machines will never replace human judgment. It's absurd to even think machines are capable of such a thing. Machines are tools for humans to use. If your job is adding numbers or stacking boxes or something, sure. But anything beyond the basics is science fiction or delusion. A machine will never even approach an understanding of psychic continuity, for example.

Now, I'm absolutely not saying that we can't engineer solutions in the medical field. You know more than I do about what diagnostic evaluation takes and how procedures are performed, so I don't pretend to understand that aspect perfectly. What I do know for sure is that a machine cannot and will never replicate human thought and decision making and cannot replace a doctor ever until the end of time.

Also, you bring up a good point about salaries. Doctors are important and do great work but deserve to make no more than double or triple what the lowest paid person in their society makes. It's time to bring lawyers, doctors, accountants, developers, engineers—the professional class—back down to reality with the rest of us.

But that's not the problem here, as everyone is explaining. The problem is that they are wasting all their money paying massive interest on massive debt. One of those times that a business gets caught up in tie same cycle as is usually reserved for people. It's quite treasonous and the first things to get hacked are decents who are just trying to get by.