Strega

Fellow Unbelievers:

This thread also needs re-reading 25 years after 9/11/2001 and one year after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

Although my assessments of Charlie Kirk’s views have gone down, especially after platforming Christian Nationalist lunatic Victor Marx, I still say he and no one else deserves murder for mere words.

And as always, in this…[Read more]

Jake:

Ferguson says a borderline contradictory and stupid statement at end of vid in which he asserts something like ‘if we maintain our faith in god and uphold the values of a free society’.

You are indeed right here and it’s more than borderline contradictory. Like I said earlier:

Leaving aside insidental God-talk at the end, he has cha…

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I oughtn’t quibble when i see the ocean as it is and except a dribble.

Good stuff Reg. And now the dribble. If it is rebel with too many causes that seems inapposite when the predicate is algorithms driving the soon to be drowned in belief to one cause. And that susceptibility to that particular cause results in more of the same and therefore…[Read more]

Reg and Jake:

“Rebels with too many causes.”. That is genius! May I borrow that when suitable?

Perhaps what social media and AI need is an algorithm that detects and mines for opposing viewpoints and fallacies as well as provides fact-checking. It couldn’t save everyone from the rabbit hole, but could guide users to watch their step.

I think that Ferguson has characterized the mechanism correctly. Social Media rarely creates extremism from nothing. I like the term “activating” and it is aptly used. The algorithm finds susceptible people and supplies them with validating material  and then connects them to communities in which their prejudice is normalized. “You have found…[Read more]

That’s a good vid Enco.

Humans are impossibly stupid. Bark like a dog. Woof. Woof. Evil Zionists. Woof. Woof.

Jake and Fellow Unbelievers:

Here’s a video where historian Niall Ferguson explains how AI has been weaponized by the algorithms of social media and AI geared toward rage-baiting, by the contrarian drift of youth towards older generations, and the ability to spread a message worldwide in seconds. The end result is what we see every day. Leaving…[Read more]

Jake:

I had to look up Ghibli. Dont think i have seen an anime film.

I’ve only seen still-lifes of Ghibli. They are just sickeningly sweet, not at all like humans even in good times, especially during workplace injuries.

Ghibli will not replace us. Here is a pretty safe bet. if AI begins to send us to a dystopian hell the Jews will be…

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Enco,

I had to look up Ghibli. Dont think i have seen an anime film.

Ghibli will not replace us. Here is a pretty safe bet. if AI begins to send us to a dystopian hell the Jews will be blamed.

Jake:

Reg,

Curious to know how you see AI’s impact on us in near and long term.

Well, I seen a T-shirt promoting workplace safety whose imprint was created by AI. It showed a big-eyed Ghibli person smiling in obliviousness as they slipped on a wet floor, destined for a head concussion with said floor.

In an AI-produced promo on the break r…[Read more]

Reg:

Great video on data poisoning as a line of defense against data scraping. (I say this as one of millions of signatories of John Perry Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Indepence of Cyberspace.”). Combined with hostile takeovers by shareholders who don’t want suits from creators eating into profits, this is a good strategy.

Now aren’t you glad…[Read more]

Reg,

Curious to know how you see AI’s impact on us in near and long term.

Well, there’s no harm in learning from AI how it cracked a proof.

Human: “Our time of 40 math professors spent fourteen months checking the proof.”

Lean: “I spent 14 seconds.”

Human: “Yes, Lean is correct.”

OpenAI just solved a 90 year old math problem in 88 hours. Here.

For me, the remarkable part is not the solution, but the ability of how 10,000 concurrent AI agents were split into groups, each exploring different variants and approaches and then sharing everything. Basically, the AI agents cross checked each others findings. I suspect their…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

An interesting piece of archeology to add to the ideosphere of the Middle East:

Jewish presence predates Islam in Arabia
08.31.2026, by Sylvie Dauvillier
Reading time: 10 minutes
https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/jewish-presence-predates-islam-in-arabia

The looney “Free Palestine” crowd are now going to “just ask the questions”:…[Read more]

Iran’s respite from attacking Israel may not simply be or be at all about not wanting their tops to die. I just wonder if it is true whether they plan to invade again.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-907636

Reg:

Hamas has “achieved” nothing but repression and destruction and the only way to “Free Palestine” is to free it from Hamas as well as their Palestinian Authority rival Fatah.

One can rightly criticize Bibi’s Intel for their failure of imagination, as well as Trump for his “Board of Peace” which is just his attempt to make the Israel-Hamas…[Read more]

I always found it idiotic that so many Western ‘activists’ continue treating Hamas as an emblem of liberation. They bite down on the bait every time in order to confirm their biases. I am yet to meet one of them that has any real understanding of the history of the area. Maybe change does come from within. As “Bibi” said after October 7th, “Hamas…[Read more]

Jake:

BTW Enco i was ridiculing my own confirmation bias. It is nearly impossible to kill all of the time. We are human.

Nothing per se wrong with confirmation bias as long as you acknowledge it and keeping it in perspective.

My confirmation bias is assuring that I have coordinates on Earth as a living, rational, free, flourishing human…[Read more]