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Comment Re:unhinged strawman and other fallacies (Score 1) 148

I'll overlook your bizarre definition of related.

It must be a very comfortable world where every act is equivalent based on the numbers. No ugly politics, no unpleasant history, no complicated circumstances and no messy ethics to concern yourself with. Simply logic: does X = Y ? then TRUE.

I can find 100 people that died of preventable childhood illness. Should I add that to the pot that we consider in this conversation? I think it will help if the goal is to bog down every discussion with unrelated side arguments, it's the ultimate distraction.

Comment unhinged strawman and other fallacies (Score 2) 148

Non sequitur. One event does not relate to the other. There's a lot of bad shit in the world, it doesn't mean that we can ignore some of it by some arbitrary metric of harm. Nor did the poster try to argue that Pakastani terrorism is more serious than the Russian-Ukraine war, in fact the poster NEVER BROUGHT IT UP.

I honestly don't get the attitude that so many people have these days. It's like their brain is broken or something. Is there too much shit going on in the world to have a rational discussion anymore? Is everyone's brain broken by 24-hour news feeds? I don't know!

Comment Re:Countries do this every few years (Score 1) 263

The problem is always the training costs because people can't adapt to new software.

Then replace them with AI.
But seriously, I kind of hate this kind of argument. People can learn new things and be trained to use different tools. They either aren't offered the opportunity to learn, through their employer or school. Or choose not to learn. It has nothing to do with "can't"

Comment Re:There will be sites (Score 1) 133

But the one divergence from the pattern you didn't list is, that because most AI. (and Google's AI specifically) is very left leaning, it will feed you only left leaning news...

Yea. Those leftists at Google. Always trying to help the proletariat and radically destroy our traditional hierarchies based on class, wealth, and political power.
Surely we'll soon see Alphabet donate its entire fortune towards the biggest voluntary redistribution of wealth to the working class in history.
I hope George Soros invites me to party on his yacht to celebrate this victory for the far left and the communist ideals we share.

Or, perhaps your idea of what is left wing in deeply corporate America is so off base as to be ridiculous.

Comment The predator that eats all it's prey (Score 5, Insightful) 133

When an invasive predator enters an environment and wipes out all the prey, then the predator too starves.

Without news sites to scrape, there will be no feeding the AI. With one key exception. When a site is driven by political agenda instead of advertisement revenue. And imagine the sort of scenario where one AI spews generated fake news, and another AI ends up mainly consuming it.

Comment from JFK to The Mystery of Al Capone's vault (Score 1) 39

It's all Boomer shit, nobody cares!

Release Gitmo and ICE detection files.

And political leaders need to actually talk about the ongoing and recent open conflicts and shadow wars that the US has been involved in. NEITHER side wants to talk about any of the nasty shit we've been up to in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Operation Juniper Shield (Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria), Somalia, Afghanistan (heavy CIA presence), Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Northwest Pakistan), Iran–PJAK conflict, Insurgency in Paraguay, and of course the Fatah–Hamas conflict in Gaza.

Comment Re:You have to forgive tech CEOs (Score 1) 46

It's a lack of class conscious working a bit in reverse. The rich sometimes like to pretend they are just like everyone else, and frequently they believe that little fantasy. MBAs believe that because work 50+ hours a week, they are just like a hard working blue collar worker. Except that they don't lose their house if they leave their job. And they aren't likely to be part of a layoff. And they don't have to take out a second mortgage to get their kid braces or to pay for home nursing for their disabled mother.

Shit seems really rough until you look at how other people actually live. And that level of extrospection simply isn't possible for an MBA, it's like it's been surgically removed from their brain.

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