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Comment Re:Elites took 90 jets (or yachts) to Bezos' Weddi (Score 1) 175

Your job exists because people in that group want things done a certain way, and they tell underlings what needs to be done, who tell underlings all the way down to you. You either work for them, following their rules, or you work in an independent company that serves their companies, doing what they want done.

That makes no fucking sense. Companies at the top got there because lots of other companies are their customers.

Amazon may be influential in the realm of cloud services for example, but we are their customer and I don't owe my job to them, I owe it to OUR customers, because that's where the money comes from.

Your idea, that my customer can't tell Amazon what to do inverts the whole fucking power structure, that's batshit. Also the premise that Amazon would cease to function without Bezos and his personal wealth being what it is, that is doubled-down on batshit insanity. There are lots of valid reasons personal wealth distribution shouldn't be so fucking disparate that don't have fuck-all to do with the environment, and all of your personal choices affect the economy and environment. Tax Bezos, regulate Amazon, educate yourself.

Comment Re: Bullying... (Score -1, Troll) 126

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, how did that work out for Mark Carney? Or Iran? Maybe Canada shouldn't have overplayed its hand by threatening a retroactive tax.

How did it work out, let me get you straight. When Trump announces a ridiculous new punitive tax like 100% on inbound moose nuts, then TACOs a week later you say it was a brilliant negotiation strategy because the real 4d chess goal was to gain things like .... uh, IDK, this? Which is a net gain because no math allowed we say so.

Then when another country announces a dumbass punitive tax and later drops it, you say haha, got'em. Like you can't see they did the same thing back to you to show how dumb it is and everyone can do it. This is why we think Trumpism is a cult.

Comment Re: Backlash or opinion drifting towards the scien (Score 1) 130

That its primary useful skill is its ability to manipulate human beings. We mistake that ability for human intelligence.

That's bullshit, an LLM can mimic how humans write very well, but they can't manipulate you. They entirely lack a model of a human mind. They're not capable of modeling your state of mind to infer why you said what you did or to reason about cause and effect of what can be said to influence your mental state.

You can mistake its mimicry for intelligence if you don't really think very hard... look, the thing is some people are one step away from joining a cult. They are looking for someone to think for them. We do need to look out for them and chatbots should be written responsibly to protect people from themselves, but an LLM is no more a risk of manipulating you than a book is. Some books need guardrails too, they need an appropriate amount of context presented alongside them to protect vulnerable people. I guess we could say books are manipulative, but we all know this entirely depends on the reader being easily influenced, same with chatbots.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 181

I don't know what you mean by "go to the dogs", but I fail to see the problem with settling an immigrant population in a particular town.

You fail to see the problem because it is not your problem and you are not willing to listen to people affected by this problem. Such attitude within Democratic party is exactly why Trump won.

You accuse others of not listening to people affected by the problem, and here's the governor of Ohio telling you your problems are made up and exactly what the real problems are which are basic needs for any population boom - more funding for schools, law enforcement, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

Time and time again, this is what the Republican Party represents. It does not listen to Republican governors on refugee settlement issues. It does not listen to Republican mayors on border issues. It does not listen to Republican women on women's issues. The finger is always pointed somewhere else. You "make things up to bring people's attention to the real problem" - JD Vance, but accuse others of not listening. This is why nobody takes you seriously, notably your own constituents who are happy to vote for made up things but aren't really that stupid to believe it, and you'll always be fighting that internal inconsistency. Good luck, moron.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 181

There area also a lot of people who say that "nobody is eating cats" and that's not exactly true either. I'm personally sick of the partisan rhetoric. Talking heads blatantly ignore the half of the facts they don't like, and it's pathetic.

You're both-siding "residents of X are doing Y" with "someone somewhere did Y sometime"

Saying nobody is fucking goats in Boston is not partisan rhetoric ignoring the fact that somewhere a goat has in fact been fucked.
Those are not two "halves" of the truth unless you're fucking a goat in Boston. ARE YOU, RobinH? How do I know, because if I have to make stuff up to bring the media's attention to this goat fucking problem, I learned that skill from a highly regarded, Yale educated hillbilly that certainly knows a thing or two about goat fucks.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 181

But remember not every high(er)-IQ person is smart. In fact a majority probably is not. Many chose to use their skills very selectively and are wilfully ignorant on some questions.

On the other hand, some people with lower IQ are smart, because they have a realistic evaluation of their own skills, know what they do not know and hence are able to get good insights, even if sometimes with help.

It's like any other strength, having it and applying it are totally different things. Nobody uses all of their potential all of the time. It comes down to willpower and training. Like being able to paint well but never finishing a painting, being strong and not knowing how to fight or lacking endurance, being smart and buying crypto.. IQ tests are like pull-up competitions, it'll help you find strong people, not people that don't suck at everything.

Comment Re: Predictions = planning ahead (Score 1) 181

If that were true you'd see it in at least some other species, and you don't.

Our survival didn't depend on beating the environment or our development would have stopped a long time ago. You don't need what we have to do that, look around at everything else that does it.

The only thing that makes sense is we were competing with ourselves, or a more intelligent predator, which doesn't exist. Like a shit ton of humans were living together and had fuck-all else to worry about but outwitting each other to survive. I can't think of any other way to evolutionarily force runaway intelligence gain. It had to have happened where food was abundant and there were a lot of people. Or precursors to people, whatever.

Comment Re: Who gives a damn? (Score 1) 56

Dude are you a flat earther or something?

Rinsing soap off is a physics problem not chemistry. Taking aerators off your faucets wouldn't help you wash more efficiently either for example, try it. Try doing dishes like that with the sink stopped up, no aerator vs the sprayer. The volume of water doesn't get shit done. Most people figure this out the first time they wash a car with a garden hose. They stick their thumb in the stream to fan out faster moving water.

It's summer, get off here and go wash dad's car kid, stop bitching about shower heads. The second hand embarrassment is getting too much. If you're an adult go outside and play with a garden hose for a few minutes if the assisted care place will let you. I don't know what else to say.

Comment Re: BlueSky is for radicals (Score 1) 73

ZERO effort was spent to verify prior to ban

You made that up. Every social media service has tons of impersonator accounts being created, and you act like they can just pick up a red phone to the VPOTUS or whoever to verify each one. Far, far less damage is done by proactively blocking impersonators of VIPs, and in the rare one-time event they are actually intending to create an account either themselves or through a spokesperson they can have their account confirmed.

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