Altman and the other techno-bros need to face this: About the only thing LLMs have done is provide a mediocre outlet for narrative porn. It really isn't even good at that, by the way, but it's at least better than slamming an LLM into technological data and expecting it to come up with a good response. So these things might be valuable if you want to lure basement dwellers out, but for any real use it's crap. (At this point I have to qualify my comments saying that machine learning has benefits, but what people typically classify as "AI" (i.e., an LLM) does not.)

They don't want to list the fees because so many of them are stupid. Imagine:

1. CEO fellatio fee: $2.95
2. CEO bonus contribution: $2.50
3. C-suite lunch fee: $1.50
4. Political lobbying fee: $2.00
5. Arbitration retainer fee: $1.00 ...
   

This is just so delicious I cannot stop laughing at it.

My multiple state medical licenses, almost twenty years of experience, and the lives I've saved might prove otherwise. On the other hand, your reflexive hatred towards anyone who might challenge your distorted worldview speaks volumes. Please get some professional help for your psychopathy before you show up in the news as another deranged shooter.

(I'm a doctor, so you see my perspective.) The response to COVID was idiotic. You did indeed have coroners swabbing people who were killed in car accidents for COVID because it became protocol. If it was positive, the cause of death was COVID. I guess the second cause of death was "unrestrained driver exiting vehicle via windshield at 70mph and impacting ground."

But worse was the testing mentality. I worked at an urgent care center in 2021 and had to leave in disgust. Tests were readily available from the government, but those were antigen tests. The schools decided that those were not good enough and demanded PCR tests. I actually asked a school nurse if she knew what PCR even was an acronym for and she couldn't tell me. I actually had a cardiac event during this mess and wound up in the ER, and they delayed the heart cath for almost two hours while they waited for some COVID test.

So as a result, you had kids who came down with a random cold or allergies. The parents would bring them in, sit in a waiting room full of other sick people for an hour or more, and their chief complaint was "COVID test." But because they were trying to bill it against their insurance, they had to be evaluated by a doctor. The problem was that we had maybe 10 rooms. The PCR test took 20 minutes and we could only run one at a time. You see the problem. Many times I had to tell people "Well, she tested negative, but I guarantee she was exposed in that waiting room, so I still have to tell you to quarantine (etc, etc.)" I had one situation where (I kid you not) a school ejected an eight year old girl from school and wouldn't let her come back until she had a negative COVID PCR -- she was lactose intolerant and shared some other kid's breakfast, and her crime was that she farted.

I had one family who brought their fourteen year old daughter in. This particular clinic was kind of remote, so they were really the only ones there and we got to them immediately. I walk into the room and ask, "I see you're here for a COVID test. Why do you think she needs one?" The parent looks at me like I had two heads or something and says, "She was exposed." "Where was she exposed and when?" The parent actually looks at her watch and says, "About three hours ago. We were at a church picnic."

Okay, now first off, any test I run isn't going to show shit. But the corporation took their money happily. Second, what person took their COVID positive kid to a church picnic (some other family)? Third, it takes a special kind of biologically knowledge impaired idiot to think that it will show up conclusively in 3 hours. And fourth, it was obvious that the real reason they were doing it was so they could get a negative test result and flash it to their daughter's school. Now if she did contract COVID, she's spreading it all over the place with the shield that she had a negative test.

Our COVID response was absolutely asinine. We destroyed the economy, destroyed peoples' lives, and generally spread chaos. It's now generally agreed that we should have isolated the most vulnerable (the very young, the elderly, and people with comorbid conditions) and let the virus otherwise run its course like any other cold. It would have burned itself out a lot faster. We didn't need to go through hell for 2-3 years, except to further various political agendas. (I'm talking both Republicans and Democrats here.)

Now of course during all this, the small stores had to close because of reasons. But you could keep Walmart open, in some cases strip bars open, liquor stores open, etc. Then there was the mask hoax. There are still people wearing crappy bandana masks in their car when nobody else is in the car.

I sense a great disturbance in the Force. As if punctuation itself cried out and was silenced.

Then why are they running Windows?

I'm writing this on a 386 from 1993 using a dialup, old school CRT monitor, Linux 0.99, and Lynx, you insensitive clod! I have a whole 100MB HDD space too!

Now it's on! Jack with my coffee and you're gonna have one hell of a time with me in the morning!

In my car, I have an after-market satellite radio and navigation system installed. Every time I turn on the car, I get some idiotic disclaimer saying not to use it while driving. The system takes a few seconds to boot up, so often I'm already started and in reverse by the time the stupid warning comes up. I back out, shift into drive, and start moving. Then I see the stupid warning, and it distracts me to dismiss it so I see the damned map. So it accomplishes nothing, and actually worsens what it tries to prevent.

Today I was in a Buick with the factory satellite radio, navigation system, and Bluetooth installed. I was the passenger. We're on a long trip, and I decide to change some settings on the device. This has no effect on the driver, and no effect on the safe operation of the vehicle. But it won't let me do it, and claims that it can't perform such and such an operation "while the vehicle is moving." So the driver pulls over on the interstate, in the dark, off to the side in the emergency lane, and halts the vehicle so I can change the damned setting and option. Then she has to merge from a stop on the highway back onto the highway, accelerate into traffic, and carry on. So this improved safety...how?

My neighbor has a potato plant called Joe Biden.

Those same people would probably buy a solar powered keyboard and charge it with a 100 watt incandescent bulb while claiming how they're being environmentally conscious. It's the same mentality we saw during COVID with people wearing cloth masks they never washed while sitting at a traffic light alone in their cars.

For all we know he's spending all his time masturbating to the females of Ukraine, because he fantasizes that he can just go into their country and rape them, whereby his Russian countrywomen might object regardless of what he looks like on a horse.