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Comment Re:Hp to cut 4000 out of 58000 jobso r7% (Score 1) 28

Conjecture: A decade of established companies focusing on their stock analysts numbers improving leads to a culture of stagnation, status quo, decay and lack of innovation.

It's HP, they've had a culture of stagnation, status quo, decay and lack of innovation for decades now. You could also add backstabbing, lack of transparency, insane office politics, corporate hellscape as a part of their culture. Their existence shows how far you can get based on a culture of stagnation.

Comment Re:Apple is cutting jobs too (Score 1) 28

Before that, la Presidenta did not force Democrats to vote for the next Bozo in line for presidential elections or to nominate Hilary who could not read a room if it was explained to her. And Bernie Sanders is a poor loser and caused them to lose that election as well.

That said, a good portion of the sainted American people actually believed the shitload of lies shoveled by la Presidenta even though they had years of experience. They still believed that idiot had more than two brain cells to smash together. They ignored all the prior evidence of his totalitarian nature, the coup that failed (both the attack on the Capitol and the attack on the Electoral College with fake electors and the false claims of the election being stolen), being Putin's bitch, and his natural talent for the Art of the Grift.

For his next act, he is trying to sell America on the AI slop with the usual set of vacuous promises repeated nightly at Fox News, when all he really wants is to sell the America Gov. with the profits going into his pockets. His "administration" is populated by dolts (most of them rich), e.g., RFK Jr., and somehow he or they are suddenly going to become competent? There's no fixing stupid.

Comment Re:Apple is cutting jobs too (Score 1) 28

The appeal of Fox *News* is that it is selling a vision of America that is about circa 1955-1965. It makes the Blue Haired feel at home to revel nostalgically in their bigotry, at least the white portion of their audience, which is most of it. Fox tells them they do not have any White Privilege and that they have achieved their length of years and money entirely on their own not past science support, migrants, the lower classes paying for their retirement, etc. Fox greases those lies with more modern slop like la Presidenta pushes. Fox doesn't not challenge them to think; they do not want to do that anymore if they ever did. It is a happy place that tells them what they already believe.

There's no changing them, even if the wheels totally come off the U.S. and their retirement money is siphoned off by the rich, inflation, a dumbass president who continues to tell them what they already believe, a government sold off to the highest bidders, his grifting, etc. And there will still be Fox picking new scapegoats for them and they will happily glom onto the new goats as the sources of their troubles. They were Maggots before la Presidenta, he just gave them a social club in which to wallow.

Comment Re:Anything for money (Score 3, Informative) 73

Most of the vehicles sold internationally meet **EU** safety standard. Standards which are almost always higher than those here in the US.

(Even more so today, in fact, since Trump has been busy cutting back US agencies ability to actually do what they're tasked to do.)

But yeah, convince yourself that they're all cheap low-quality garbage and that fat-assed American SUVs and pickup trucks are exceptional....

Comment Re:What is thinking? (Score 5, Insightful) 142

As much as I agree with the statement that contemporary LLMs certainly differ a lot from what we experience as "thinking" from other human beings, the problem with this line of argument remains that there is no consensus on what exactly manifests "thinking",

The problem with this line of thinking is that you are ignorant of the fact that we CAN say what is not thinking, and we've narrowed down the problem quite a bit.

It is generally agreed that chocolate bars do not think. Rocks do not think. Pocket calculators do not think. We know what thinking is not, even if we can't define it fully.

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