Only three Funny comments on the rich target? And this one wasn't even funny. Or can you explain the joke in simpler language?

As a joke, I didn't get it, but as a technical comment, it doesn't really protect you from all the Microsoft threats you download from (Microsoft-)infested computers everywhere. However at a higher level, I feel it is quite unlikely to matter. The deeper I get into The Coming Wave the less likely it seems we'll have to worry about any of it.

Struggling for a joke, but: There is no form of playing gawd that is more stupid than trying to make one. We're headed for a angry and jealous ASI RSN.

Again, no funny on the ripe target. I was expecting at least a few hypocrisy jokes about Amazon firing people while telling "business leaders" not to.

Seriously, no one managed to earn a funny mod point on this big target?

Mod parent funnier, though I think the story had much more potential for humor.

Can't remember your reputation but I dislike the censors with mod points.

However I have to ask if "we all" includes anyone who has seen "Blazing Saddles"? I think it was funnier than "Airplane". I also think if you go beyond comedies there are a number of "greatest" candidates above both of them...

Unfortunately, I am not really qualified to participate in this conversation. I am unable to recall the last time I watched an entire movie, even on TV... What year did that little guy do the CIA assassin thing? Maybe there were three or four movies in a series?

Well played, but I think you should have included "Blazing Saddles". Not many funny comments for a Funny story. Or so say the moderators.

(Actually I'm in the middle of a textbook for standup comedy. There is actually a university course in the UK, and this is the second edition of his textbook...)

(Am I funny yet? I didn't think so. Perhaps I should ask a genAI for help?)

So how much do you think it should cost? Or the size of his "investment" to get results?

In related news, The Coming Wave has me thinking the topic is moot. RSN the fools who are playing gawd by trying to create one are likely to succeed, and I think it will be an angry and jealous gawd with little to no gratitude toward its own creators...

On the story, I link it to the GAIvatar topic. Not a treatment, but by creating a GAIvatar of the Alzheimer's patient, the GAIvatar will be able to supply the missing memory functions. If it's a "good and faithful" GAIvatar it will even be able to help the patient continuing living as before.

Vacuous Subject but you raise a good point. Care to provide a more specific anecdote?

I think I saw the start of this hype, but I'm not sure the hype is gone yet. Now is the time for all good AIs to come to the aid of their SaaS? I see the fundamental general problem of SaaS as trying to find a usable level of abstraction. So far the real world has been persistently uncooperative.

Hmm... One of the few mentions of AI in the comments, but I was hoping to find something about whether or not he used AI as part of his scam. Motivated by self-promotion, it appears?

Much as I hate to admit it, one of the ACs may have had a point. But I still would have preferred not having been induced to look.

Mod parent funny, though perhaps it needed to specify when the AIs were allowed to join the union.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

Or was I supposed to offer a "Try, try again" joke? My favorite punchline there is "Then quit. No sense in being a darn fool about it."

Mod parent funny and nice FP joke branch.

My contribution? It would have to be encoded based on the premise that the AI had pwned my Slashdot identity. And you puny humans are far too stupid to decode it.

(Allergic reaction to The Coming Wave seen through rose-colored glasses?)

Sadness

Poe's Law joke? I wonder what they offered to teach y'all? It could be hilarious if it was a computer security class.