tom sarbeck

Promoting Incompetence

Wannabee authoritarians can “take over” institutions by corrupting them first, then claim it’s proof that they need to eliminate or rebuild them. It’s a wrecking ball approach.

E.g. usurping the authority of well trained and dedicated experts in the field of medicine. Obviously there are a lot more examples of this in…[Read more]

Lezbrews?  Need any research help, just give me a shout, guys.

edited to clarify – we are not talking about coffee, right?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Translated: “Speedrunning democracy%” = self-sabotage for clout. “Jesus co-signed the tax fraud” = mixing religion with political delusion. “Bible thumping with zero patch notes” = outdated beliefs, no updates. “NPC behavior” = mindless repetition of slogans. “Revelations didn’t cover indictments” = karm…

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Thanks, I appreciate those examples of radio history. Even that recently, I was in a stage of ignoring most radio shows. Even as an atheist back then, I didn’t like Dawkins or Hitchens because I thought they were too strident or disrespectful. It took a while for me to mature enough to appreciate them. I was more in awe of Dennett at the time.

I…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
However he stands on the shoulder of a giant from the not too distant past.

omg omg lol lolrotfl [sic?]

That is hilarious! (I actually did laugh out loud, but didn’t rotfl.)

Almost halfway through, I switched to the youtube original and turned on captions, which helped a little, but not enough. That was good, especially…[Read more]

Thank you Jake that was just what I needed.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Once again, AI has miles to go before we can sleep with ease about it.

And those miles will be on fundamentally different kinds of roads. Currently, I liken AI to Reddit, in that there is some really great, useful stuff there, written by humans. I think if AI now as amplifier to whatever’s available on the internet, just…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg 🙂

jakelafort wrote:
AI has been so many things. Some positive. Some negative. As things stand they are accelerating our path to destruction, causing our worst impulses and behavioral glitches to a place beyond snitches get stitches.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Until AI can express thoughts like these without prompting, it is not an equal, much less…

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This accidental find is for @jakelafort

jakelafort wrote:
I would be in favor of AI taking the fuck over. Just go with it however it evolves cuz we are on a highway to hello.

I’ve been saying for at least a year, but it bears repeating, although it is just my opinion. The danger of AI won’t be the fault of AI, but bad actors. How Putin wants to influence it with misinformation is just…[Read more]

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i think this can’t be done with regular user rights, so i’ll do more tests

@Enco

I’ve just come off the phone with my Israeli client, who a) lives in Tel Aviv,  b) is a Brigadier General in the army (top cyber expert) and c) cares deeply about the food issues in Gaza. He describes the efforts being made to pump food into the area.  Until all the remaining hostages are released, this situation is likely to continue.  I…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Oh yeah, the extra trillions of national debt to support that horny billionaire class.

Hey to be fair, we’ve always needed more billionaires and corporations to fund political campaigns. Luxurious vacations for SCOTUS. More dynamic gerrymandering. Protection for our pets from rapists, murderers, and other Lefties.

This is my new,…[Read more]

@Reg

I cannot believe you ignored my pun

I’m not even going to explain it to you. Of all the people. You. The Pun Lord.

@Reg

”I have started to use it but only on foods I suspect are highly possessed”

You’re OK with these foods, but only if you exorcise daily 🙂

Another side bar on high fructose corn syrup vs cane sugar, is that the US makes an enormous amount of the high fructose stuff as a by product of all the corn they grow. However, it would appear that the US does not make cane sugar to any large extent, and would need to import the cane sugar from South America. This of course, will also be…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Recently i wandered lonley as a cloud by the boat launch awaiting a day of luxuriating in squamous surroundings under a beating sun.

Awesome prose, as usual. I was impressed enough to ask AI, and see if it seems smart enough to know if it was written by AI. IMO, it passed my test, although I don’t think the reasoning it gave was…[Read more]