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Comment Re:We allow false choice. (Score 1) 39

"We the People" are an armed mobocracy , tending toward violent tyranny.  Such socialists are rotted with envy of their betters. Think ant-hill and Maoism. Corporations are sets of freely organized subscribers. Such productive liberals thrive in a (re)publican  marketplace / bazaar. Think guilds and David Packard.

Comment Re:This might be a tangent... (Score 1) 2

Legally that makes sense. Although, I really think AI's paying content producers for providing access to their information is the right way to go, long term. If NYT is going to hire reporters to go places and find out stuff somebody has to pay for it. AI is great partially because it bypasses the horrendous mess the Web has become, but that's too good to last.

Comment Re:Life is extremely improbable (Score 1) 39

Sorry Charlie.  The  19-th Century competition/trait  model of evolution is dead. It's all  genetic drift and macro-happenstance ... that is apart from trivia no fitness-criteria supports species survival. When the asteroid hits or the volcano vomits or oxygen skyrockets  or the sun farts  radiation or the earth wiggles ...  species either live or die.

Comment Re:vast demand for AI (Score 1) 87

Claims, predictions , circle-jerk financials and personal experience are simple ...  generating net profit to shareholders  is hard.  Post-modern *.ai companies are ( expensively ) packaging guessed text-completion  very like 2008 banks packaged insured mortgages.  Results will be the same, tho I pray  gub'mnt lets GOOG/FBOOK/AZON etc go broke rather than refinance their "exuberance". Fetterman ( I assume the next president ) seems quite unlike the Bush family.

Comment Re:Here we go (Score 1) 43

The M.E. has a way of driving everyone crazy; you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Put HAZMAT tape around the area and warn everybody away. Leave them on their own, giving them no food nor weapons; if they bonk each other to oblivion, it's their problem, not ours. I think it's God's Insane Asylum.

Non-nuts have migrated somewhere quieter, leaving mostly nuts in place, a Sanity Filter. I'm just the messenger.

Comment Re:Not cool! (Score 1) 149

You may have more music than me, but how much of it do you actually listen to? I keep that flash drive mounted in my car at all times unless I'm adding more to it and I've got a a wide variety that keeps it from getting dull. Various classical pieces going back to Bach, various arias, show tunes, TV themes and even different versions of a few songs, set so that they're not together. How much variety is in that 80 Gig of yours?

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 76

For some things you don't even need ChatGPT. If you're having the flu, it would be really nice if you just call the doctor to get the prescription instead of having to pay a visit where the doctors says "Yeah here is the prescription, bye and come back if it doesn't get better". Sometimes you really don't need a long diagnosis.

What meds for the flu?

I mean, there is Tamiflu (sp?)...but that's really only effective if you catch it at the beginning.....but the best diagnosis is generally, treat the symptoms, plenty of fluids, rest and let it run its course...

Flu is viral....so NO ANTI-BIOTICS....no matter how much the patient bitches and asks for them....

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