I was born and then things went downhill from there. I talk about different things to avoid becoming boring. I'm an old guy who loves new stuff. Science & technology intrigue me. I enjoy strategy games and it shapes how I view problems.
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He died of cancer a long time ago, but yes he had plenty of stories Despite never sewing combat. I mean, no one ever tried to escape - they were safe & getting fed. Sure beat the collapsing western front. The prisoners liked him because he was good at catching rabbits, which Germans eat, apparently.
Nah, it's all just people who suffer from a belief in magic lashing out at the latest evidence that magic isn't real. They can't accept a universe where they aren't a fictional sky daddy's one and only intelligent creation.
(insert link on studies connecting psychopathy to a desire for power here)
I'd say that a lot of video generations end up there, but fake videos on TikTok go back to the very invention of TikTok. It just took more effort. Then again, such fakery goes all the way back to the National Enquirer. The crap has always been around, only the tools and media platforms changed.
If I figured that when I mentioned Paperclip that it was moot. My grandfather, a WW2 veteran who was a guard at a POW camp for Nazi prisoners that got sent to the states, was the first one to tell me about the whole thing. Said it was a big mistake. I agree with his assessment.
QFZKJHLSRNWVMYTDXACGOPUEBQIHFZKJLSRMNVYTDXAGCOPUEB Completely unrelated, can you decipher the above message? It was made by emulating a 3-rotor Enigma machine. Starting my stopwatch now. Good luck!
If I have a science question, I always tell it "Source from peer reviewed scientific journals & papers only." If I want news I say "Ignore anything from Fox News." So yes, you can train it to ignore bullshit that causes hallucinations, but you *do* have to train it. It won't know better otherwise.
If your only sense was the ability to read, how could one tell the difference between the actual events of the Titanic disaster and the screenplay of the movie of the same name? With zero other senses or inputs, both can seem equally valid. Confusing reality & fiction become unavailable.
To understand AI hallucinations one must first understand two philosophical ideas: 1) Plato's "man in a cave" 2) Garbage in, garbage out To the machine without eyes or ears, text is their only window to the world. Without any context outside of that, how can it tell the truth from fiction?
Long ago, western powers flooded China with opium & reduced the population to a bunch of useless, brain dead lumps. TikTok is their revenge. That's not hyperbole. There have been studies linking TikTok to shortened attention spans and decreased cognitive abilities. It's electronic opium.
Bingo!
I am not bothered by Elon rolling out an AI girlfriend app for Grok, because let's face it, anything that keeps Elon fanboys from having real sex only improves the gene pool. What I am bothered by is that he didn't make her look like Mitsuko Myazumi. Talk about a missed opportunity.
So Pritzker... what are your plans to stop all these crimes about to be inflicted upon you & your citizens? Actual plans. Not gripes, not statement, plans.
I should try Gmail one of these days.
Replace ChatGPT with TikTok and I'd agree... mostly because it's already happened.
Actually, a LOT of Project Paperclip guys ended up in Texas & Alabama. Call it traditional.
That all changed with Project Paperclip.
RFK is the avatar of the modern American eugenicist because he, himself, is so feeble, sickly, ugly and just plain dumb that, according to their own professed beliefs, he should be euthanized for the good of us all. And for once, I agree with that idea.
Because that's what makes him useful to his handlers who are making all the real decisions. He's a convenient sock puppet and so long as he's around they can deny direct involvement.
Funny how all the anti-science grifters sell the kinds of same snake oil and all of it is based around sexual insecurity. It's always fake testosterone dick & jizz pills, all the time, every time. Really tells you something about conspiracy loons that they'd rather not admit, eh?
"If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation and sale of any of the necessaries of life." - John Sherman, 1890 We sure threw that idea out the window, eh?
Get better soon.
It's funny how all these "master race" guys look like boiled potatoes.
"Then one day the entirety of MAGA leadership was wiped out after a distracted employee accidentally dropped rat poison into a batch of fake penile enlargement pills destined for Washington DC."
How history will record the Trump years: "Dumb people recruited armies of even dumber people to wage war on smart people who made them feel insecure." Which has happened before, mind you.
Fun Science: When EMR passes through aluminum foil the damaging effects become AMPLIFIED, not reduced. Specifically, learning & memory impairment due to neuron loss and increase in phosphorylated tai proteins which has been linked to Alzheimer's disease.
So let me get this straight... the company that built the ovens for the Holocaust now owns Monsanto. Evil has a gravitational field. It attracts and combines. youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?...
To be fair, insects do indeed breed very quickly.
It's quoting a human on Tumblr. Garbage in, garbage out.
Why only centrist Democrats? Why not everyone?
Americans determine their self worth via two things: 1) The amount of the world's finite resources they can waste. 2) The number of other people they can inconvenience.
Everyone changes their tune when it's themselves who do something.
I think it's safe to say that we are no longer sliding into a fascist dictatorship. We're already there. All that remains is for the last few deniers to finally realize it.
#movies What the company behind Jurassic World needs to do is make a deal with the Predators to turn their parks into big game arenas. It gives the Predators something to do so they leave humans alone, and they won't care if one or two gets eaten now and then - that's part of the game for them.
The best way to avoid conflict is to make yourself too powerful to defeat.
*soda exiting through nose sounds*
They only speak Russian, sorry.
It's basic math. Republicans attack a group that represents, say, 5% of the population. Democrats throw everything into defending them. They win that 5%. Yippie. Where does the other 95% of the vote go? They're up for grabs to whoever they think is actually paying attention to them.
Bonus: Any Democrat politician who wants to focus on the majority vote gets eviscerated for "not doing enough" for the small group(s). And that, kids, is how to lose every election. But hey, who cares so long as you score lots of ideological purity points along the way, right?
By accident or design, the Republicans landed on a clever game plan: 1) Attack a group that represents a very small portion of the general population. 2) Wait for Democrats to leap to their defense. 3) Watch as majority of voters feel abandoned because all effort is now going to small group.
Tell your programmer guy to get off his butt and fix it, then.
Isn't that the guy who falls out of the sky in the starter area?
Indeed, it is in personalization of individual, user-adopted models that I see the future. One-size-fits-all methods hold everything back.
Not even. I think you're on to something.
Still leaking memory? ðŸ˜
Funny how even in the 21st century many people still believe in magic. They'll point out all the processes that "don't count" as thinking, oblivious to how those are the same processes humans use, and claim that it's somehow different when we do it because... magic. 🪄
How much will it cost to remove all the dead bodies? Burial, press cover-ups, etc?
Every economist eventually comes to the realization that Karl Marx may have been right all along.
Making a benchmark for human intelligence is impossible because it varies so wildly, depending on both the particular human and the chapter of life that they're in. Every human is born with an IQ of basically zero, grows to whatever their peak will be and eventually declines back to zero.
Intelligence isn't magic and it's not spontaneous. It is grown within the same component atoms as everything else. An adult human is probably smarter than a dog, but an adult dog is smarter than a newborn human infant. A genius in their youth can become a mental invalid in their final years.
Then again, look how many posts you'll see here in BlueSky that are just parroting $Popular_Opinion to farm likes. I seriously wonder how many actual humans could pass a Turing Test. They're so completely & utterly programmed and they lack the self-awareness to even realize it.
Politicians: "We Must Do Somethingâ„¢ about $Issue_of_the_Moment !!!" Voters: "Agreed. What is your plan? Give us the specifics." Politicians: *cricket noises* They don't give a shit. It's all just emotional pandering. It's marketing for the midterms. It's all just $Popular_Opinion, Vote for Meâ„¢
I eagerly wait for the link to the PDF of the bill you are proposing.
From what I've seen, every recipe from the 1950s is basically throwing random things into large bowls, mixing them together and calling it some kind of salad. What's crazy is that it sometimes actually works.
Oh boy... well since you're one of those "Narrative > Facts" people there is no point in trying to educate you on the subject. Good day, then. youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg?...
Star Trek runs on Apple. Cyberpunk runs on Windows. Star Wars runs on Linux.
I believe that the real thing that makes people so uneasy is that the ease in which intelligence can be faked threatens some people's belief that human brains are somehow made of magic and are not, in fact, just a bunch of neurons spewing sodium at each other.
That was true once upon a time. There's been improvements since then. I suggest looking into it if you're interested.
America's economy in the future is going to be ten million people 24/7 streaming themselves on phone cameras, hoping for even one viewer, while they wade through the mountains of unburied corpses that RFK created and a foot deep lawyer of sewage because there's no more plumbers.
Sometimes you really do have to just settle for the lesser evil, though. We're no longer in a position to disavow someone because they're not ideologically perfect. We got into this mess precisely because we insisted on perfection and shopped until the store closed, then left empty handed.
There is nothing new about "surge pricing." All night diners routinely change prices depending on the time of day you order food. Clothing stores have been busted raising prices in catalogs sent to women. And let's not forget the California Gold Rush. Surge pricing is just how America does business.
Anything that shuts them up for five minutes works for me.
Genocide isn't a contest.
Would Luke ever give up? Then you won't either, because let's face it, you were never just acting a part.
Correct, you should use a system designed specifically for math & science like Galactica, DeepSeekMath or Strawberry instead.
If you still think there is anything that the news media won't do for attention, views and clicks then you're far more optimistic than myself. They would live-stream executions if they could get away with it. It's not about people, it's about the ratings.
You're holding the reason right now.
They are really playing into the idea that this is the same universe as Blade Runner.
Nine books of "The Expanse" turned into three simple panels. Optimizing win!
What are your plans to promote clean energy? Link to PDF please.
Hug your kids close because your body can slow down the incoming bullets enough to save them.
Fascinating!
I could never play hockey. If someone dressed me in armor, put blades on my feet, handed me a giant stick and then said "defeat those guys" my brain would forget that this is just a game and instead automatically begin optimizing for rapid & efficient target elimination.
You know criminals keep getting caught because they post their crimes on Facebook? It's kind of like that.
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Yep! They'll immediately switch right back to yaking about "building bridges" and "reaching across the aisle" just like before. They'll never learn, sadly.
Even if it's more expensive they'll do it just to set precedent.
The massive spike in ICE recruiting would have happened sooner but they needed a few months to teach all those recently laid off Wagner Group guys basic English.
That the temperature of the surface of the sun. Methinks their math is a bit off.
No, you are an alien from Zardanopokapok who has accidentally merged with his own cover story. The key phrase is "Cajun Jelly Popcorn Mash" Your original memories should begin returning shortly.
And winner of this year's Hipster Olympics is...
Clancy and the Chocolate Factory
What if I told you that I am a vanilla white hetero male that has no problem with trans people enjoying their own lives? Can you fit that into your worldview?
Since Data doesn't sleep, it's kind of a given, yes?
I want some of whatever you're smoking.
Or no, they care if we live or die... and they want us dead.
Impressive!
Gun laws get in the way of profits and in America *nothing* comes before profits.
I was wondering where all those Wagner Group guys ended up.
One down, hundreds to go.
I've been voting Democratic since the year AOC was born. I will keep doing that, but I have no delusion that they're ever going to actually fix anything. They just hold the status quo against those who want everything to get even worse, and since that's the best I can hope for, it'll have to do.
