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Superman is in the building.

Reg, how long before your superpowers will be executed by AI without need for a human?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Arian Playing Cards are great. Aryan ID Cards are not. Must always be bigger than the enemies of science, even if they don’t want to return the favor.

Correction and benevolence appreciated.

I lost sleep again, getting wind of even more horrible destruction in their cards by Thanksgiving or so.

Yay!! Thanks, Reg!!

Have a great week everyone!

I got called into work last weekend to solve an emergency in a hospital IT system. Luckily it was a holiday weekend so I managed to get systems up and running again, 2 hours before the first scheduled operation.

PopeBeanie,

Arian Playing Cards are great. Aryan ID Cards are not. Must always be bigger than the enemies of science, even if they don’t want to return the favor.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Polititains with the power to endanger the health of their citizens should be the ultimate Null Set. Getting them out of office is the first aid and keeping them out of office is the prophylactic.

By the way. I made The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thread for entertainment and leisure, so replies can be at leisure as…

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Jake:

What i’d be interested to know is how various individuals from various ideologies v those sans ideology change their viewpoints once they learn the evidence demonstrates a belief associated with an ideology is BS.

Leopard sightings, being on the wrong end of Madame Guillotine, visits to the “Worker’s Paradise,” nights of long knives, an i…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Wouldn’t this be a great period in USA to run tests on the most anti-science politicians?

Anti-science polititians who take their own positions seriously are too unsteady as a supply of lab rats.

(This is clearly the case with vax-skipping, rattlesnake-fondling, raw milk-drinking, fecal and cocaine-snorting, sewage-swimming Bobby B…[Read more]

What i’d be interested to know is how various individuals from various ideologies v those sans ideology change their viewpoints once they learn the evidence demonstrates a belief associated with an ideology is BS.

Secondarily how do beliefs that are divorced from ideologies get jettisoned by the aforementioned groups.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
And carcinogenity is discovered by tests on rodents that notoriously don’t extrapolate well to humans.

Wouldn’t this be a great period in USA to run tests on the most anti-science politicians?

Jake:

Pardon me, I meant to type “Rotem” but the rotten Autocorrect spelled “Rotten”. The Autocorrect must have The Sex Pistols and Johnny Rotten on the artificial brain. 🤪

Now is “AYA” said affirmatively or as a sign of cynicism? Everything about pesticides was corroborated. I wouldn’t be drinking caffeine pesticide right now if it weren’t…[Read more]

Enco,

AYA

That is what they say in NH.

Jake:

The discovery of Levy, Fennec and Rotten is great. And it is even tastier without chemophobia and the Appeal to Nature Fallacy.

As Biochemist Dr. Bruce Ames pointed out:

99.99 % of Pesticides We Eat Are Made by Plants
By Josh Bloom
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/06/07/9999-pesticides-we-eat-are-made-plants-12962

Those pesticides are put…[Read more]

In the last Sunday School of recorded time i add tomatoes to the bill of fare.

Yeah so am i the only one who has noticed it aint easy to find a good tomato? It is unreal man. I picked up an heirloom recently and was presently surprised to discover it was good. Not excellent. But good.

Apropos of nothing but tangential relevance in tact a…[Read more]

Reg:

Those are pretty funny. Did Perplexity write those all by it’s lonesome? If so, that is impressive!

It’s like Ambrose Bierce was somehow transported in time from 19th Century Mexico (perhaps by Santo in The Treasure of Dracula*) and Bierce’s mind was uploaded into the innards of Perplexity!

Now, is Perplexity going to be doing the…[Read more]

I asked Perplexity for some modern entries to the Devil’s Dictionary’…

God — n. A hypothesis invented to explain the unknown, then promoted to a tenant who refuses to pay rent or leave.

Faith — n. The art of holding a belief so tightly that facts bruise their knuckles trying to get in.

Prayer — n. A one-way telephone call to an invis…[Read more]

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers:

I just recognized something: Where is the latest Sunday School?

Did Israel have a day without bomb shelter drills?

Did Christian Nationalists start considering Crusades to be forbidden work?

Did Mullahs now issue a Fatwa stating that Jihad after Eid al-Adha was forbidden?

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Here is the afforementioned Q & A with DuckAI. I approached the AI with no presuppositions or expectations for a particular answer and no desire to cherry-pick for such. Again, the answer was forthright and extensive:

Could AI perform at its present or better capacity if it were located in the vacuum of space to cool it’s…[Read more]

Jake:

Enco has hit on a major issue with LLM’s.

How about an LLM that does not have its tongue up our ass? Make it argumentative and cynical. Not gratuitously so. But when users champion dumb ideas push back. Being affirmed in all of our viewpoints as opposed to challenged is not optimal. Have a socratic mode available. Can we play some g…

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Enco has hit on a major issue with LLM’s.

How about an LLM that does not have its tongue up our ass? Make it argumentative and cynical. Not gratuitously so. But when users champion dumb ideas push back. Being affirmed in all of our viewpoints as opposed to challenged is not optimal. Have a socratic mode available. Can we play some goddamn ball?