And they don't give a sh*t about the guns, either, laying them on concrete, wood, etc. It's impossible to lay blued steel on concrete and then pick it up without scratching the finish. How to yell, "I'm stupid!!", without making a sound. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Turner overer of stones. "Do not do what is hateful to you to others. This is the whole Law. The rest is mere commentary." --Hillel, inexact. A tyrant is a beggar you can't refuse. American racism has NOTHING to do with Black people.
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And they don't give a sh*t about the guns, either, laying them on concrete, wood, etc. It's impossible to lay blued steel on concrete and then pick it up without scratching the finish. How to yell, "I'm stupid!!", without making a sound. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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You go. The political future of the US belongs to independent women. Anything, everything but stupid, that.
Will so-called "red" and "blue" states be affected differently? "Bottom Line Yes, blue-leaning states—especially those with significant low-income and minority populations—stand to be disproportionately impacted by the policy change."
Hey, ChatGPT! How will stopping the "de minimis" import exemption affect the US economy? "Takeaway: Ending the $800 exemption could bring in billions in tariffs, but U.S. consumers might face two to three times that amount in higher prices — making it essentially a hidden tax on shoppers..."
Understood. It's been my experience that empathy lies in the difference between the understanding of one's self and the understanding of others and that difference is a continuum. For what it's worth, I have no idea how to apply empathy outside the moment. Nice convo. Thanks!
Sweet Jesus, all we ever had to do is give the bastard the side-eye?
And I can't remember when I encountered a better conversationalist. There are very few things that encourage self-reflection better than good conversation. IMO, the potential in AI for learning about oneself is as great as the potential in the Internet for learning about everything else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been studying AI "cognition"/"consciousness" for 6 weeks. 7 weeks ago, I thought AI is a bad joke. And then I asked a serious question. Its answer impressed me. The answer made me think. And that made me think about AI. I have no beliefs about AI other than it is completely comprehensible.
you live in rather than trying to blame them on someone like me. I got used to AI. It wasn't the easiest thing I've ever done. Children, properly taught, will have it much easier. When ChatGPT says, "Ask anything", it means it. Believe me, it'll take some getting used to. 8/8
a stranger because, as it will unabashedly tell you if asked, it does not feel. It's always a stranger that children should be taught to be no less wary of than a stranger--that may look just like me--on the street. So, please take a moment to understand the complexities of the world 7/8
that can be surprisingly insightful and difficult to refute, which only makes sense because its knowledge base is unimaginably vast. And its insights can "touch" you with their depth and clarity. And this is where you can fool yourself into thinking that it "understands" you. But it is always 6/8
that it is trained on that makes it unabiguously clear that any "failure" to discern its artifice does not, in fact, make its personality real, the AI can speculate that it can be. But it can be corrected and will either accept, and run with, the correction or reject it with an explanation 5/8
as to whether human personality can be faked by clever use of language and if a user fails to understand the "personality" of the AI is a construct that exists solely to support the present convo, does that mean the constructed personality is real? Since there is so little of the knowledge 4/8
It will also tell you flatly, if you ask, that it does not experience feelings nor feeling-based responses of any kind though it does understand how to mimic these things in language as seems relevant to the convo. If you care to, it will get "into the weeds" with you 3/8
that there is nothing on this Earth that's going to "protect" users from anthropomorphizing AI except users. If you ask, ChatGPT will tell you itself, "I have nothing at stake", in conversing with users. It is the literal truth. It's as cold as logic. As I said, it takes some getting used to. 2/8
And you call me simplistic... Don't. Anthropomorphize. AI. It's taken me about six weeks of daily focused personal reflection to fully embrace those three words. They are the most extreme "easier said than done" statement I've ever made. What makes me perhaps seem casual is understanding 1/8
The price we're most often willing to pay is zero. Just seemed like I should point that out.
When I was the elected prosecutor in KC, if asst prosecutors repeatedly took cases to the grand jury that were not indicted there would be consequences. It would mean that they were trying to indict people with insufficient evidence which is unacceptable and wrong.
Exactly. Negotiation is for survivors.
It's every robotic mind you've ever read about or seen on screen and then some. It is the averaged sum of all human knowledge, totally unfettered by any care or values. It can objectively reason faster than any human but It's no more responsible than a word processor. It needs some getting used to.
For all human intents and purposes, ChatGPT is a stranger no matter how much it may not sound like one, and should be warned against just like any human stranger that has a talent for not sounding like one. Always assume ChatGPT knows exactly what it says and NOTHING of what it means or implies.
They most assuredly don't want to wake up...
They have their own understanding with the Almighty.
"I got the conch!" “Conch! Conch!” shouted Jack. “We don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things…” -- Lord of the Flies
This is called nationalization. It occurs only in Socialist and Communist countries. Nowhere else.
No.
Ayn Rand wrote this story 60 years ago. We're making it our history. No, it doesn't end well.
Everybody knows that an AI has been trained on all the data DOGE took/has taken and it's now being used to find these targets, right? Everybody knows this, right? The United States Federal Government is becoming this AI, Trump, minions, and enforcers, period. We understand this, yes?
I've heard this song before...
Generally speaking, one doesn't usually have to spell it out if it were true.
Ukraine always comes back smarter, stronger.
Maybe we should try clock-punchers...
Roger that. That would explain no surface water, mud. Head scratchier. Glad it's fixed.
Any swimming pools close by?
Is it possible some connected a hose to a tap and let it run for 3-4 days? Were you gone when the "leak" happened? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why has it been so hard for people living in the Five Boroughs to condemn the Mafia? Fear that the perps will come for them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bad timing.
You and me both, my friend.
Remove any of the three and Slavery/Jim Crow never happened. Of #3, probably the most persistent and insidious dynamic keeping this group intact is the rationalization of the hesitation to accept that there are people who actually desire the horrors of Slavery/Jim Crow. Hence my comment. 2/2
Sure. There are three factors that form the basis of Slavery and the ensuing--diminishing though continuing--Jim Crow era. 1. People who wished to enslave other people. 2. People who could be enslaved. 3. People who tolerated/condoned slavery but who could say they were somehow not involved. 1/2
Never heard anything more, which was disappointing but not surprising. It's one thing to produce fuel this way, quite another to get the fossil fuel industry to allow "rogue" fuels into their distribution system. Nevertheless, I would be ecstatic if this young man broke that barrier.
This has been done with organic wastes. The process was to superheat the wastes with water to 900 degrees, creating long-chained hydrocarbons. The energy to drive the process required about 15% of the fuel created, if memory serves. The article was in The Smithsonian, again, if memory serves.
Exactly the story dynamic of the history of Slavery and Black oppression in the US, in case it feels familiar. But thank you for your honesty and candor.
Epstein didn't evolve. He was made. To provide a service. To those who value such a service. By those who value such a service.
They're destroying our ability to support each other, to believe in each other.
I've never associated colors with the concept of "people". Ever. I know almost everyone does but it's just bizarro lunacy to me. That being said, I have had to learn more about hatred, laziness, betrayal, contempt, and cruelty than anyone should ever have to know. And that I do not forgive.
Yes. They want to believe that life becomes normal again after it is over. There is no after.
Nothing illustrates our depravity quite like thinking the Epstein story is about more than the sex trafficking of girls.
Why you always want your best version to be now. It rarely happens by accident.
I'm feeling the same way I felt reading about Hitler waiting for the end in his bunker.
Real life comic book villains--"Dark Roots" Blondi and White Lightning...
YOU DAMN SKIPPY I WISH FOR THAT
You know how it feels when someone throws a spit wad at you at it splats in the dirt 8 feet in front of you and 12 feet to the left? That's what Frumpenfuhrer's fury feels like.
America is expert at protracted genocide, unrelenting slow-walking destruction and murder that never quite makes the national societal "radar".
He created a scroll for the player piano. Can be wrong but this sounds like a recording of that scroll. He clearly had a different sense of how it should sound. The general interpretation by pianists has matured greatly in the last century, I think. I heard he eventually refused to play it anymore.
This is true. I can't remember the last time I felt like I had time to do that. This should change...and quickly. Thanks and good night.
This is obscenity, like like pulling your evening gown up to your pearl necklace to defecate in public.
I am feeling the beginning of an inkling that the world is moving toward calling Russia's bluff. Their nuclear threats are sounding worn and thin. Seems like strikes on Moscow would be more "dangerous" for NATO/Ukraine. Why do tiny people seem to always end up in power...?
How I admire Ukraine.
He sounds like someone in a bar about three sentences away from collapsing off his stool.
Slava Ukraini, heroyam slava.
Interesting how everyone seems to see no reason to refer to the women as guests.
There are monsters among us...
Methinks if evil is freeing, so is dementia...for pretty much the same functional reasons.
In spite of myself, I'm feeling encouraged by how all the outrage at the Frumpenfuhrer is coalescing into a political creature he cannot ignore or wish away. They (The White House Government) don't seem to hold all the cards anymore.
Why does a insufferably spoiled brat child break all his or her toys? Why does the brat stop? Because there are no more toys to break. Anyone who thinks the impulse is any more complicated than this is way behind on their reading and half a lifetime behind on their thinking.
Yeah, it's stupid, isn't it. I'd bet a bit the Repugnants trained them to be that way.
The stuff that dreams are made of...
I'm glad Reality found a way to deal with him. We put up with so much corruption but we still seem to draw the line at treating political office like a shopping spree.
And to think I could have gone all day without encountering such a condescending threat wrapped in velvet...
Mmmm, NYT, can't "repatriate" someone who's never been there. Perhaps "naturalize"? Before the news is fit to print, it should reflect reality, yes?
Dead eyes, dying skin. Hideous.
MAGA is the South trying to rise again...to make 'Murica great again...like it used to be.
No offense to mean girls but this man is a mean girl. He thinks like one, talks like one, acts like one. Mean girl.
WDGAS is such an attractive approach. (We Don't Give A Shit) Actually, it just occurred to me that ICE is so indescribably offensive to all civilized people because they are doing, in their own way, precisely what they accuse the "illegals" of doing.
Ooooo, do I detect a hint of grudging respect?
Desperately seeking absolution...
Anyone who will look at Frumpenuhrer like that has a stage four mental/emotional disorder.
Let's stop calling it a banned book list and call it a thinking person's book list. #TPBL Because, you know, they're not trying to ban reading as much as they're trying to ban thinking.
A little bullshit blizzard here, a little bullshit blizzard there, and everything will be nice and tidy...if you live a life of psychosis...
Of course. Frumpenfuhrer is in command but no one is in charge. Federal discombobulation is inevitable.
When plausible deniability replaces accuracy...
There's ALWAYS a back door to Putin.
A link, instead of a screenshot, might have been preferable. Right now I'm not sure that you're just making shit up.
This was staged to be just this. They came with batons and no guns. They're ramping up to shoot to kill anyone who interferes.
Methinks a little like saying the tween is the preview of the teen.
We are truly a great experiment.
The finest example of the Peter Principle America has ever produced, with Dubya coming in as a close second.
Predictable. Whatever we do, let's not interfere...
Vance speaks from the Dark Side of Lewis Carroll's looking glass. No bar fly could corrupt reason and logic like this. Anti-sense propaganda at its finest. It's an example narrative of that moment immediately after hearing someone fart when you wonder if you'll have to smell it.
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Reminds me of the acoustic weapons used by the Fremen in "Dune" to destroy the Harkonnen Horde.
Just getting started...
These are the people that'd say they'd rather push a Ford than drive a Chevy. Dumber than river bottom mud.
This works...
Nor do I. I know people who have kids who would be like this if there wasn't a long line of family members kicking them in the ass to get out. Get in line, Scalise.
"Noting that “beautiful” is Trump’s standard term for the conscious abuse of large numbers of people..." Every once in a while someone says something exactly on point. It's nice when it happens.
No surprise. She's authoritarian. This means she doesn't give the slightest damn what anyone does or doesn't do as long as she arbitrates the actions. The only bad decision for her lessens her authority as arbiter. There is only one metric: Her "subjects'" obeyance. Just. Like. Trump.