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Comment Re:This is predictable (Score 1) 105

The bell curve is a map.

What would it look like if several of the multipliers in the equation that generates it were from the same float variable (lets call it 'trust', just for entertainment's sake), and that variable's value started to go down?

People, I think, can tell you that playing with a chatbot on a webpage doesn't give them the insight to see how it could be used in business except, by default, copying and pasting existing questions into the chatbot when they don't know the answer themselves. And... those who have tried to rely on this know that they can't, because it will be vaguely correct enough to trust it at first and then it'll be wildly wrong with no warning.

This seems kinda obvious to me, so apologies if I'm missing something in your question.

Comment Re: This is predictable (Score 2) 105

I'd say they tried to use them as sources AND processing systems all in one... But to an extent that's what they were told to expect by the sales pitch. It should have been obvious that they can't generate new facts from just strings of data, but also people who were trying to explain how they worked were shouted down in favor of a vague consensus about the potential.

To me, this sort of exposes the do-what-I-mean mentality of some parts of the business world, and it seems likely it's businesses whose management class have outsourced comprehension that will suffer the most in this environment.

Comment This is predictable (Score 2) 105

You sell someone a product that you claim can do something, and then it fails to reliably do that thing and does completely different things... so you tell the customer that they're using it wrong but also it'll improve over time.

That's gunna set an expectation. It sure would have been unwise to do this with a technology that is... provably limited in its ability to improve.

No matter how much fluff you put on top of it, no matter how many times you tell them to suspend their disbelief and claim that your technology is beyond comprehension (as if that wasn't also unwise to begin with)... if the customer has expectations and those expectations are not met, excuses and promises are only going to take you so far.

Comment Re:The government has been pushing college for yea (Score 1) 266

That wasn't the government, it was your parents. They're the ones who aspired for you to have at least as comfortable a life as they had, and hopefully moreso.

If the government wanted you to study, they could institute a loan scheme that doesn't leave you under an unserviceable debt. Instead they largely leave that to 3rd parties who charge higher than market interest.

Even so, this isn't directly the government's fault. If large portions of your country's economy wasn't captured by vested corporate interests and enslaved to shareholder dividends, something better might just emerge by itself.

Maybe you could look at some other countries, where the education system is better.

Comment Re:Ok serious question (albeit unkind) (Score 1) 323

While everyone is sorry for any trouble he's going through

anyone with any knowledge of actual operations, either military or medical, can tell you that there are so many other things he could have been exposed to that caused these health problems. Vaccines are just something you've had your attention drawn to by current events.

I've had several friends who attributed problems they experienced to vaccines due to correlation, and both of them have since discovered the real cause of their illness because they let doctors actually try to heal them instead of deciding what the problem was in advance.

And you know what. I hate to tell you this, but it's my lived experience: sometimes people who are really fit and healthy, even like... world class level fitness... just develop a disease one day. And that's it. There's no more narrative to it. We're biological, there doesn't need to be a narrative justification for us getting sick. It just happens, and before vaccines it used to happen A LOT more.

Comment Re:Nice theory but... (Score 1) 97

There is no such thing as a 24/7 job in Australian law. There are minimum required break times and maximum allowable work hours.

You can tell me that managers will ignore that and rely on people not knowing better and you might be right... but in practice I've seen people try to assert in court that the business they were managing wasn't subject to this law due to operational necessities or whatever and in the process being told that they were risking contempt of court, ending up losing their positions and becoming unemployable as a consequence.

Yes, I understand that it may not play out this way elsewhere.

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