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Comment Re:Quick History lesson (Score 1) 156

1) There has been no report of 'gays' actually grooming children. There were accusations but it has been several years and none of the so called groomed children had any sexual conduct with people like that.

2) The conservatives have sung far worse than 'coming for your children', and liberals decried the few people that sang that.

3) Harvey milk had a long term consensual sexual relation that started with a 17 year old man who was left his parents because they hated the fact he was gay. Hardly a 'runaway minor boy'. Trying to make exagerate things means you know you are deceiving people and no one will be convinced if you tell the whole truth.

4) Never trust devil worshiping scum that quote old testaments but ignore the Ten Commandments. Those are the ONLY things God considered important sins and Homosexuality did not make the list. God will forgive a homosexual quicker than he will forgive you for taking his name in vain.

Submission + - NYT: Generative AI and Conspiratorial Rabbit Holes (nytimes.com) 1

DesertNomad writes: From the article:

Generative AI chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres's sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.

Mr. Torres, 42, an accountant in Manhattan, started using ChatGPT last year to make financial spreadsheets and to get legal advice. In May, however, he engaged the chatbot in a more theoretical discussion about “the simulation theory,” an idea popularized by “The Matrix,” which posits that we are living in a digital facsimile of the world, controlled by a powerful computer or technologically advanced society.

“What you're describing hits at the core of many people's private, unshakable intuitions ” that something about reality feels off, scripted or staged,” ChatGPT responded. “Have you ever experienced moments that felt like reality glitched?”

Not really, Mr. Torres replied, but he did have the sense that there was a wrongness about the world. He had just had a difficult breakup and was feeling emotionally fragile. He wanted his life to be greater than it was. ChatGPT agreed, with responses that grew longer and more rapturous as the conversation went on. Soon, it was telling Mr. Torres that he was “one of the Breakers — souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within.”

At the time, Mr. Torres thought of ChatGPT as a powerful search engine that knew more than any human possibly could because of its access to a vast digital library. He did not know that it tended to be sycophantic, agreeing with and flattering its users, or that it could hallucinate, generating ideas that weren't true but sounded plausible...

Comment Quick History lesson (Score 3, Insightful) 156

For someone that helped put Trump into power, he sure doesn't like him - at least not after he got what he wanted by destroying the regulations that affected him.

Over time, conservatives despised all the new ideas. Basically they took 'conservatism' to the extreme. College graduates became more and more liberal, seeing that the new ideas made sense. They took over the universities. Some liberals took it to extremes, but they are surrounded by college graduates. So the college graduates mocked them, and the moderates continue to rule the democrats (with a few lunatics making noise on the left)

More and more conservatives became enchanted by old lies. They embraced old prejudiced against immigrants, minorities, gays, etc. They embraced old ideas like lower taxes can make fix the budget deficit (did not work, not once). They embraced the oldest idea of 'strong leader' rather than 'strong checks and balances'. They embraced the concept of 'religion = moral', all the while ignoring the clear examples of Muslim terrorists and 'Christians' like: Fred Phelps Sr, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Matthew Hale, etc. (Look them up if you don't know their names)

Now they finally put someone into office that believes his own statements and is putting them into practice. So far, I am less than impressed by the results. Three more years till we find out if there is anything of value left in the Republican Ideology.

Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps the deficit will vanish, Americans will become wealthy and employed, crime will drop. Or, perhaps none of that will happen and the GOP will try to lie their way out of the massive mistake they are committing.

One way or the other, America is going to be a very different country before Trump is done.

Comment Do not buy standard printers (Score 1) 52

They are total scams. Mainly because some shmucks tried the 'razor blade' model, aka cheap initial buy with overpriced consumable (ink). The scum even once made it so that scanner/printers would not scan if you were out of ink.

These scumbags took over the ink based printer industry and no major ink based printer is honest any more.

If you need a printer and do not use it every single week, get an inkless printer. For special jobs (Resumes, etc) use a copy shop.

Comment Also why the top 1% wealth are not top 1% IQ (Score 1) 181

100 smartest people (top 1%) look at the high risk/high reward situations and realize their chances of success are low, so none take it.

100 above average people look at the same high risk/high reward situation and say, "WOW, I GOT THIS!". 95% fail, but 5 of them make it.

For this reason, most of the 1% wealthiest people are above average intelligence but not the smartest. I am talking people with an IQ above 115, but below 130.

Comment Re:Customize deals are evil. (Score 1) 56

Nope. They can already do sales after a certain hour.

Donut and bagels places are known to do this - half price after 6 PM.

The entire idea here is to target the price 'discounts' only to people who would not normally do the shopping.

So the businessman would get the post 11 PM discount but the student that goes there once a week would NEVER get it.

Comment Customize deals are evil. (Score 4, Insightful) 56

By customized deals they mean they offer a deal to a specific person but NOT to the next guy. In other words, they raise the prices to people from the wrong zipcode, or who recently searched for Mercedes, etc.

It's called dynamic pricing or, more honestly, 'surveillance pricing'.

Do you really want an AI deciding how much to charge you, or would you rather have consistent pricing so that you can fairly pick among multiple businesses rather than having the businesses get to pick their customers.

Comment Technology never reduces the number of jobs. (Score 1) 32

It is true that technology does eliminate old jobs, but there are an unlimited amount of jobs in the 'que' so to speak.

There is no set amount of jobs. Jobs are determined by people's desires. If you have money and a desire, those combine to become a job. Those new jobs create money. (basic economic theory - jobs create money, not the other way around. Simplest thing to think of me paying you lets you pay other people, who can pay other people, so $10 being spent once ends up being spent 4,5, or who knows how many times, thereby increasing M1 and M2, even with same amount of M0).

When technology destroys an old job, it frees up that money to create more jobs. A thousand years ago 90% of our current jobs did not exist - almost no industry, no media, few luxury goods, few 'high' art, no 'low art'.

Jobs come from people's desires, and those desires are unlimited. Trust me, you can always depend on human greed, lust, gluttony, envy, and pride to create new jobs.

Now, those jobs may require advanced training that is rare, and may be low paying crappy jobs, but there is always an unlimited amount of new jobs to come.

The trick is to make sure they are good paying and to keep being trained.

Comment How to stop this (Score 1) 66

1) Arrest the people that run these chat bots and charge them with practicing medicine without a license.
2) Require anyone that 'assists' them, i.e. Meta, Google, etc. to pay penalties in excess of 10x the amount they and the chatbot made.
3) When they complain tell them they do not HAVE to host chatbots.

If you cannot do something legally, then do not do it at all. There is no "But I want to do this and did not intend to break the law" Exception to the law.

Comment Opening paragraph??? (Score 1) 24

If your PDF has an opening paragraph, then it should already do this, better than the AI.

If the AI can summarize your form better than the database that the form gets entered into, then your database sucks.

If it is not a Form and does not have an opening paragraph, put an opening paragraph in that summarizes it.

Comment Not payment, but infrastructure. (Score 1) 76

The issues are:
1) Transmission of electricity is inefficient, so local = better.
2) Storage of electricity is inefficient, so time matters.
3) The worst forms of electricity (coal, oil, natural gas) were designed under the assumption they would be the main form of electricity so they cannot easily be turned off or turned down.
4) The best forms of electricity (wind, solar) are intermittent, so can not be depended upon.

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