For any particular one, yes. For the claim for an entire category... that needs proof.

Well, I know about that, so I guess I should have been more specific. What I don't get is the perpetual falling for it again. They get nothing they were promised, or they get a little bit of it temporarily (like Trump(1)'s tax cuts for lower income people which expired after two years) and then it gets yoinked away and they just come back for another round.

It really has to be the cultism that I don't get? Because I think we've all been where we thought we could do things we couldn't, some of us just extrapolated from lessons learned from failure...

A commodity is an investment when you invest in it, expecting it to increase in value.

Most people didn't choose that part of this consciously, because they didn't understand it, and if they did, they didn't believe it.

What I don't get is how those people can think they're smart when the counterevidence is so persistent.

Because it costs money to leave, and I don't have enough. Another in a long line of stupid questions from cowards there, jerkoff.

No need to tell us you don't care about anyone but yourself, because you've told us in so many words many times before. What a waste of everyone's time.

Since you don't care about anyone but yourself, caring about what you think or have to say is inherently destructive to anyone who wants to have a working sockety.

I call it a stupid fucking idea that can't work proposed only by idiots, assholes, or assholes who are idiots.

It's not super intelligence because it currently has tremendous blind spots. But so do people, just different ones. I *think* that blind spots are a necessary feature of the compression used to take a huge volume of signal and compress it into something that will fit into storage.

OTOH, note that the "blind spots" are only "relatively blind". And can be worked around. Actual human 6D geometricians exist, but they approach it via symbolization. (Actually, they are really n-dimensional geometricians, but some specialize on problems in 6 dimensions.) But an AI could presumably be designed to work natively in 6 dimensions (or any specified number), however for most problems this would not be an advantage, but rather the contrary.

Note that human thinking is basically either planar or linear. To handle 3-space we use various short-cuts than enable dimensional reduction. (Unless you are counting time as one of the dimensions...then it get more complex.) Compare the way you play 3-d tic-tac-toe toe the way you play 2-d tic-tac-toe. That's not really fair as the 3-d one is inherently more complex, but it give you an idea.)

The electoral college was necessary to get the states to agree to join under a single government. It wasn't, exactly, corruption. And it wasn't argued that it was "for democracy". States were where the power was at the time. Even in the 1860's many people were more loyal to their state than to the federal government.

And I think the direct election of Senators was a mistake. Democracy when actually practiced routinely tramples on the rights of minorities.

Unless you give sources, I'm going to assume you are stating your opinions rather than facts. ISTM that I've heard of a few "vibe coded" successes, though I'll admit I wasn't interested enough to either document or remember them. And lack of marketing is a sufficient explanation.

No. But I'm sure they expect there not to be many jobs in computer programming when an AI can do it cheaper than they can. And that's what's being advertised. And entry level jobs are already down.

The side where they commit fewer crimes than the people hired to police them, and pay more in taxes than it costs to support them. You Nazi maggots don't have any good arguments, run along now.

Surely we can trust Microsoft's statements on the matter! They have never lied before!

What drugs? There was no evidence of drugs, only of war crimes.

Between that and all of the AC posts about how anyone who thinks American officials should be held accountable is supporting Iranian terrorists this place is creepy AF. It's like the haunted woods in Oz.

Yes, but same for America as we know it. It's always operated as an oligarchy, no matter what dressings-up have been wrapped around that. It was founded on genocide and treaty breaking and slavery is in the constitution today and we still have slaves picking cotton.