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Monday August 24th, 2026

cognitive atrophy in bankers Dan Lyke / comment 0

Goldman Sachs partner warns of ‘huge danger’ in letting AI replace bankers’ reasoning skills

“There’s a huge danger here that in the era of AI, we outsource our reasoning to these models, and we have cognitive atrophy that stops us being able to reason from first principles ourselves,” said Chris Churchman, who leads Goldman’s digital platform for institutional clients called Marquee> .

The comments came during the latest episode of the firm’s “Exchanges” podcast, according to a transcript provided exclusively to CNBC.

Via Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social who notes that

Over the last 20 years, banks have showered money over people like Elon Musk and capitulated to DJT in his shady dealings. I'm not sure replacing that reasoning is a bad thing

But I'm pretty sure that the magic-smoke-up-ass-blower is not the right replacement.

slop in the wild Dan Lyke / comment 0

lcamtuf @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange posted a screenshot of this book with the caption

rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?

A quick "look inside" of Practical Electronics for Inventors and Makers 2026: A Step-by-Step Guide to Circuits, Components, and Real Projects (The Practical Electronics & Electrical Engineering Series) by Wesley Crest verifies that it is indeed the worst sort of AI generated slop, you can scroll down as far as the diagram that lcamtuf posted in the free bits.

And for all that is holy, do not reward this crap by buying it...

It looks like it's an attempt to profit off of an O'Reilly book or something, but it's pretty bad.

Figured I should note that on Saturday Dan Lyke / comment 0

Figured I should note that on Saturday we went to the Aqus Community's "Big Social" event, in which much conversing with people you didn't already know was encouraged.

I did find a bunch of people I didn't already know, but I learned that talking with random people isn't what I'm seeking.

I need a social filter other than "wants to socialize" to help find a larger proportion of interesting people to make a space worth putting energy into.

I never know how far to go in sanding Dan Lyke / comment 0

I never know how far to go in sanding and finishing outdoor furniture, I like texturing with an angle grinder, but the pores are gonna open, and some tooling marks give it character. Anyway, some scraps and a $20 piece of garage sale glass... And an awful lot of dust.

Sunday August 23rd, 2026

It was around this time that I opened Dan Lyke / comment 0

It was around this time that I opened the windows and turned on the fans...


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