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Comment Re:That's not how humans learn (Score 1) 119

Humans are vastly more efficient, at assuming.

And yet, we humans are harsh critics of AI hallucinations, even though the machine hallucinations pale in comparison to the quantity and quality of human hallucinations. Of course, we don't label human hallucinations as such. Rather we use words like assumptions, extrapolations, inference, confidence, and bravado. It's a good thing we don't use the same standards for hallucinations for our human friends because we likely would have no friends.

If a person I call friend is acting a bit too assumptive with excessive confidence and/or bravado, I’d probably remind my friend of how delusional they’re acting. Fitting enough word to describe a hallucinatory mind, with the ability to both educate and offend depending on reception.

Comment Re:That's not how humans learn (Score 2) 119

Humans are vastly more efficient in terms of how many "tokens" they require to learn the same amount.

The human mind is a machine so “efficient” it’s born in completely helpless and totally stupid state, and requires a proverbial village just to raise it just to become capable enough to start learning. Provided you’re rich and lucky enough to be not born into poverty, since that human mind requires “tokens” in the form of food and every few days (minimum) to simply survive. If “tokens” were viewed as dollars, we’re probably talking $250-500K from birth to value-add in society.

Humans are vastly more efficient, at assuming.

Comment Time to Analyze WTF Demand.. (Score 1) 37

When we used to see an unstoppable force consume infrastructure at a “sudden” rate, a network engineer plugged the sniffer in and declar3d “What the FUCK, Netflix.”

Who (and/or what) exactly is contributing to this voracious and practically instantaneous (by comparison) demand for data center power, and why in the fuck are we not questioning this demand more instead of considering even nuclear power to fuel Greeds lust?

Sure, we all have our suspicions (cough, $hitcoin, cough ), but I’d just want to hear Greed confirm it before we merely dismiss a 12% tax on the entire fucking power grid before it’s even energized. That 12% will grow to 20% before you even understand Greeds real plan.

Comment Re:US sanctions (Score 1) 77

This is the reason I said sponsored doctors and subsidized insurance plans. Hell of a lot easier to kill with addiction when Greed is driving the pen down on the Rx pad and the government-subsidized price is ten bucks a bottle. As proven by statistics.

I just think demonizing the opium drug den is an bullshit stance when turning a blind eye to a the directly related problem of shoving opium in a prescription bottle and pretending those deaths don’t count.

Comment Re:US sanctions (Score 1) 77

Oregon tried legalizing hard drugs, and that didn't go particularly well, did it? Only 4 years later, those masses that voted overwhelmingly in favor of decriminalizing drugs, repealed the act.

When you say “didn’t go well”, are you referring to the 30,000 people who died in America abusing illegal hard drugs, or are you referring to the 100,000+ people in America that died abusing shit in a prescription bottle given to them by sponsored doctors and subsidized insurance plans?

Just trying to understand THAT fucking voter mindset.

Comment Re:And Trump will just crap on the environment (Score 1) 167

Sometimes it is a real pity when people do not care or do not understand how history will remember them.

Maybe history will remember Biden as pulling some grade-A last-minute HunterPardon brand bullshit goals out of his ass to throw at the next (enemy) Administration as a gesture of political fuckery under the guise of environmentalism, in order to scream like rabid monkeys weaponizing it for the next election when Republicans fail to meet what they’ll likely never meet either.

Obvious politics, are obvious. I’m all for cleaning things up. Not as a fucking political football.

Comment Re:Feudal Lords (Score 1) 113

This is the beginning of the 21st Century Feudal Lord system.

Lets analyze that a bit, shall we? Employees who voluntarily took a position with an American corporation that is currently not blocking the selling and ownership of property (developed or not) in the area, enabling American employees to obtain a mortgage and deed. On top of that, they are actively being encouraged to not promote the traditional Lording over power and gasoline, promoting solar power and EV transportation.

Doesn't sound like a traditional definition of feudalism at all. Let me know when Elon starts preventing ownership acting as a land baron. Then you might have a point.

Comment Re:All of a sudden, (Score 1) 113

That's the definition of a fascist. el Bunko is selling off the U.S. government agencies to the billionaires one bunko scheme at a time. So Elmo will be in good company.

One wonders what el Bunko's minder in the Kremlin will offer for Ukraine.

Do you feel that the alternative to “Elmo” with NASA getting spun back up at 10x the cost, only to regurgitate some warped version of Reagan’s Star Wars program so we can all be more than prepared to blow each other up from orbit while insisting there’s a nameless, faceless “enemy” out there that needs trillions of taxpayer dollars to protect against, is better?

Tell me what the definition of that is, taxpayer.

Thirty minutes to nuclear annihilation? Trips to Mars? Ain’t nobody got time for that shit. We need Nuukes in Spaaace.

Comment Re:Matters? (Score 2) 137

Would this really matter? By they time they get around to banning anything, a different Chinese company will pop up and make the same thing with the same cheap price and same lax of security.

Probably doesn’t even take a company change to plasti-dip the same box in a different color and slap a new logo on it. Could probably be done in a couple of days. Or hours, if the graphics guy in Marketing is feeling it that morning after a third cup of coffee.

Yeah, it’s weird the invoice is coming from the same address, but the guy buying 5,000 of them only gives a shit about the number in the bottom right corner. They don’t put addresses there.

Comment Re:And webcams that *require* chinese server? (Score 4, Insightful) 137

What about all the cheap webcams that *require* the use of a chinese server? What we need is a blanket ban on any device not letting the purchaser simply choose what IPs the device will ever talk to.

Line up 100 consumers. Ask them what an “IP” is. Ask them if they know why they should know.

You’ll see rather quickly why GUIs are written for toddlers, and why admin functions were reduced to an touchscreen-enabled app permanently logged in, a while ago.

Comment Re:We buy and sell our news now. (Score 1) 97

root cause analysis states the “real” media brought this on themselves.

No. Fake news is the intentional false information intended to influence people's opinions and actions. It is also ancient and international, but according to Northwestern University 30% of all fake news comes from Facebook.

Fake News is also when Truth is covered up by lies. Or censored altogether. The problem becomes exponentially worse when sponsored by Government, which should be a primary concern since THAT source will never be allowed to be labeled questionable or suspect.

Our problem may become more about what is NOT said, than what is said. Another timeless issue born from corruption.

And quite frankly, 2 billion humans are on Facebook. Doesn’t take a University to know it’s a significant source of grade-A premium bullshit. Put that many humans together, and you’re bound to get results as old as time.

Comment Re:We buy and sell our news now. (Score 1) 97

but root cause analysis states the "real" media brought this on themselves

This is blatantly false. Please print a retraction.

* grabs media policy handbook *

Lets see here. Rejecting facts..Retracting offer letters..Retracti, ah here it is. Says here I’m supposed to buy the domain beware-of-basement-tigers(dot).co.uk 18 months from now, post my retraction in 2-point white-colored font on a password-protected page running over a custom HTTPS port, and advertise it with a local hosts file that exists for..seventeen seconds?

Weird. It’s almost as if we’re still wondering why media has an ethics problem.

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