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Comment Re:MOST artistic output is garbage (Score 1) 17

People still talk about many bands from the 70's. I was just watching a youtube video(Rick Beato) and he was talking about what a big year for music 1978 was... Van Halen, Dire Straits, and other bands that started. Then watch the documentary 'Sound City'. It's about a legendary sound studio that they made music at in the 70's. Part of it is about how this place was made irrelevant because of computers coming in. Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters got involved with it at the end. In that documentary you will see the love for music.

IMHO, 80's music wasn't bad, but I like electronic music so when the synths came in with a person playing them I found that cool. Then in the 90's there were a lot of real bands. But at that point, R&B was catching on in the US and it was a kind of R&B that adopted a formula and I think that's where music kind of lost its personality. There was a study that determined that the things that make music interesting like key changes, tempo changes, etc... were reduced by a massive percentage throughout the 90's and percentage of the song that were plain repetition increased. Perhaps a result of now being able to copy a section of a song in a computer and paste it after the next verse.

But yes, you are right about more garbage quicker. The thing I find though is that having more garbage makes the good stuff hard to find. I personally find all the consoles for streaming like Netflix, Prime, Spotify, very overwhelming in that they want to play a video with sound and they want to thrust all these images on me so that they can dictate what I watch rather than finding what I want to watch. Probably because they actually have very little of what I want to watch.

Comment Re: Liberals being Liberals, new ways to tax Canad (Score 1) 36

So kids should just live with no teeth? Do you think about the conditions you are subjecting people to? How about you make a sacrifice and identify a service that you use that maybe could end so that the government could save money. That's the thing, fiscal conservatives always talk a big talk about cutting this and that but as Musk found out; things were instituted because America has grown and more people need more things. With every thing he cut, millions of people's lives got worse. In the end he cut 150 billion out of two trillion he predicted. A pretty easy thing to say.

As for whether this is a provincial or federal responsibility, it doesn't really matter. The federal government is responsible for a percentage to give to the provinces and tied into that is the responsibility to enforce the Canada Health Act. Lines are blurred, it's all money coming from my salary. Also there is plenty of money circulating to solve this problem, society just needs to figure out how to reallocate it away from private ownership and towards government funding. So no I don't really want to sacrifice the services my current kids will have. They have already decided that this world is such a shitty place that they won't have kids anyway. I'll just live my life and wait for 1% of the population to stop owning 80% of the wealth or whatever the ridiculous numbers are.

Comment Re: More garbage (Score 2) 17

It's funny that they seem so clueless as to why people don't go to movies any more. I just read an article about how the recent pixar movie had the worst opening ever... Only $35 million. A lot of people are pointing fingers at the fact that the main monster character is just a blob. I have to admit, I saw the trailer before and I thought it was a spin-off of monsters Inc because it looks just like two monsters in that movie.

Comment Re:Quick History lesson (Score 1) 142

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.

Comment Re: Liberals being Liberals, new ways to tax Canad (Score 1) 36

I happen to like a lot of things that the government does for me, like ensure I have access to healthcare or fix roads. Unfortunately these things get more expensive every day. Are we going to keep harping on about wasted money? Musk proved there wasn't all that much to cut in the US, hard to see there would be much more in Canada.

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 Re:Unfortunate (Score 1) 48

It's a consumer thing. If they have to set a password they will either use "password" or "12345", and then forget it anyway and call tech support. So you might as well generate a good password at the factory and have it on a QR code on the device, or some kind of authenticated way for your app to request it from the device. Then it magically just works, and it's all fine until someone figures out how you generate the passwords.

You have to think like a business. Security is a factor, but not as big a factor as reducing support overheads and customer returns because they couldn't set up their printer. If you check Amazon reviews people do say that they had difficulty with Brother devices initially.

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