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jakelafort wrote:
AI will control us by 2034? That is absurd. Humans are discerning, have free will and make decisions for themselves!

There is no free will. Just like billiard balls, their actions (and thoughts) emerge inevitably from the antecedent conditions going on in their nervous system and mind, many of these antecedents beyond their…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
I like the distinction he makes about humans v AI with the former having free speech and the latter not.

Yes, I forgot to mention that! If only I had an AI implant… Oh, what I could do to for the world.

I have empathy for Hamas’s and other terrorist’s kids. Some Palestinian adults are also innocent victims, like gays who need…[Read more]

PopeBeanie’s setup

I pay $20/mth, directly to openAI for ChatGPT. I like them because they keep improving their features, although once in a while their servers respond slowly, I assume caused by periodic growth spurts. They started out prioritizing an ethical business model and operational awareness of ethical uses of AI, e.g. don’t teach how to…[Read more]

Pope,

So many threats to civilization!

I like the distinction he makes about humans v AI with the former having free speech and the latter not. If i understand algorithms to date they are essentially businesses influencing consumers of information to be in Plato’s cave and see those shadows. And i suppose there are nefarious actors attempting…[Read more]

Some really good musicians here.

jakelafort wrote:
AI will control us by 2034?

I like his analogy of junk information to junk food; how they’re addictive and unhealthy. (I don’t remember his exact words, but that’s what I took away.) Taking this further, the agents are fast food sellers getting your lunch money, analogous to social network AI algorithms getting your clicks.…[Read more]

AI will control us by 2034? That is absurd. Humans are discerning, have free will and make decisions for themselves!

Arthur Miller was a Harvard law Professor and a priestly one at that.

Stephen Miller is filler emptier than a hillbilly beer can.

His audience eating it up…now that’s portrait of an ideologue. Doesn’t matter what is on the menu. Mindless and swept up in the current.

@ Jake

Matt Gaetz is a kind of Picture of Dorian Gray of himself.

What about Stephen Miller? If he looks, acts, and talks like a Nazi…

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Matt Gaetz withdraws?

Oh that sucks. Loved that guy. Man if you can judge a book by its faccia brutta? Guy is the arch criminal…i think a composite of Nixon, the Joker and somebody else. Wow does he look like a nefarious mofo. I think there is some science supporting the how they look is how they are.

Hate Club v Blood Tribe.

Old time religion. Free speech. Good people on both sides.
This is so refreshing after the left wing racism.…[Read more]

As a kid i loved B. Russell. All of those my dearest Berty letters…

Reread one of his books as an adult and said…meh…

Ever do that?

Wittgenstein was my Master’s thesis (“Wittgenstein and Moore on Certainty”). He’s up there with Berty Russell as a quotable philosopher.

“Light dawns gradually over the whole” is about as perfect a description of how a subject matter becomes understood as there is.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A new system of Logic could boost Critical Thinking.

This is really interesting, in that it uses Wittgenstein’s definition of the meaning of words – how they are used in real life; in what contexts – in a way that can be understood by computers.  A computer can analyse the way a word is used by humans, and so, its…[Read more]