Debt Rattle February 14 2026

[Michael Reid]

We are in a period of global plunder

[D Benton Smith]

@WES

I still think a well rounded human being, is still smarter than any artifical intelligence.
And cheaper too!

I agree completely, although AI’s are one hell of a lot faster and easier than a drive to the library and hours poring over card catalogs and bookshelves. I’ve done both, and have mixed feelings because AI is here whether we like it or not, and if you know how to ask the right questions (NOT easy!) you can get great right answers … but only if you can discern the good answer from a bad one.

A so-called AI derived answer is no better (or essentially different) than a book written by a person who offers up for your evaluation the same answer to the same question. The AI may be a thousand times faster and easier, but it is still 100% completely up to the human being to intelligently decide whether the answer is true and good, or not.

[Michael Reid]

[Michael Reid]

40:36

[phoenixvoice]

regression to the mean:
Imagine Dr. D^1000 making all the decisions.

AI makes mistakes constantly.
My spouse has been working with AI…and following its instructions managed to delete his entire Windows partition from Ubuntu, losing more than a decade of data.
Yesterday, at the grocery checkout, AI “saw” my daughter put a metal bowl into a bag and erroneously presumed that she had failed to scan something. (Why she was carrying around a metal bowl is not relative to the narrative….)
At a local hospital, their AI-powered weapons detection system is convinced that my purse itself is a concealed weapon. Every time I enter the audio signal is triggered. I go through the posts, wait 3 seconds, hear the mild alarm, and take my purse to the inspection table. I really don’t look like the kind of person who would be toting a weapon…because I’m not.
I was interviewed by a lady for something for my son a few weeks ago. She apologized for how long it was taking her to record my responses. See, the management had forced her to implement AI. AI was endlessly suggesting how she finish her sentences. She kept having to erase the AI entries and put in her own words. Management is apparently very excited about AI — “It can create templates for you!” She told me that she has done this job for 20 years and already has her own templates. She is far better at her job than AI will be…but they are likely using her entries as a training set, and frothing at the mouth with excitement over replacing her and her peers.

We are constantly losing efficiency in one sphere in order to pander to the capabilities and deficiencies of AI. We are going to end up being the ones forced to wait for AI, endlessly appealing for relief from illogical decisions because AI was not up to the tasks thrown at it.

[userzeroid]

Hey Phoenix, thanks for the stories and I am in agreement with you. I have popcorn ready for the “big replacement” that they have planned for us. It is sure to be as you say. I had a dream over a year ago that the future was chaos set in apple stores and mostly empty retail space where nobody knows anything about anything and people are herded about by one data centre to another. Today’s debt rattle (Feb 16th) is an uncanny siren song headed in that general direction.

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