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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]

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?

Are Hindus still resting from…[Read more]

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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But surely the point is, even if we don’t move in space, we still move past the time coordinates (at the speed of light).  What makes this happen?

PopeBeanie:

Faith No More also did their cover of “Easy” that would be sure to outrage both MAGA and the ex-MAGA Nick Fuentes/Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens/Megyn Kelly audience:

PopeBeanie:

I kinda wished that Lionel Ritchie and The Commodores had stayed and sang some reworded versions of their songs to riff Trump:

“I wanna be HIGH…like Elon!”
*ZZZZAAAAAPPP!*
“I wanna be free to know the things I do are FCC-approved!”
“I wanna be free! Just me…without tarrifs paying for slush funds and vanity!”

“‘Cause I’m EASY!…[Read more]

Reg:

Ackshuyally, you didn’t punctuate your input to Perplexity as a question, but as a statement, which might affect the reply.

And while Perplexity may do a good job explaining the view of time-flow in a block Universe as relational, Perplexity only expressed it as a conjecture, not as a falsifiable statement and doesn’t make an effort to…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

The DuckDuckGo privacy-friendly browser and search engine also has DuckAI, which I’ve found is very good at answering questions I’ve had about AI and provides links to at least a couple of external primary sources.

Searching with DuckDuckGo also frequently turns up DuckAI answers at the top of the page. All free to the end user,…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Not to be outdone by anyone else, now he wrangled with a rattlesnake.

Some suspect this was set-up in advance but either way, this helps confirm my ideological prognosis of RFK Jr:

He is not a Eugenicist as some have pronounced. A Eugenicist who held his own genes as…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Bobby Brainworm looks like he would be quite at home shipwrecked on Malta with the Apostle Paul or in certain churches of Appalachia:

He also hasn’t heard that even non-poisonous snakes can give Tetanus with their bites. Take care of yourself folks. The cavalry is…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Fear not. My question was not a “Gotcha”. If you served, I salute your service in whatever capacity.

Members of the Armed Forces deserve our respect, regardless of the ridiculousness of foreign policies set by Congress and the Presidency.

Jake:

I hope you’re better now.

I have yet read the Pope’s full Encyclical on AI and I’ll have to brace myself for vertigo to try. Those things get wordy and Gish Gallop-y.

Jake:

Enco,

I don’t think they are hiding it as AI.

They are trying to follow Arthur C. Clarke’s dictum that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”…But they only have the grandiosity of magic without yet any of the omnific benevolence or competence.

Big Papa Leo’s hokus-pokus input and Chris Olah taking the k…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

I am still trolling for fighter jet video companions. I’ve learned A LOT ever since air power would potentially be an issue during the Ukraine invasion. Air Force veteran here who did not even know the difference between any fighter jets, just radar jammers.

Oh, had you served?

PopeBeanie:

Nothing distracting meant here. It all revolves around Trump in some way or another, since it is his world. /Sarcasm

And they say we hold nothing sacred:

‘Looks bored’: Onlookers crack up as Trump appears to be asleep at event for dead soldiers
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sleeping-2676938699/