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Comment Re:Fireworks Fatalities Much Lower in UK where Leg (Score 1) 106

so how is it that guns are perfectly legal while you are banning fireworks?

It's not legal to fire guns indiscriminately or in lots of specific areas, either.

So making fireworks legal - while putting some limits of the types of fireworks allowed

If they cut us off from fireworks, we make them.

Comment Re:Is this a surprise? (Score 0) 23

It's not that AI "knows" anything. It's just a big statistical web programmed with mass amounts of data

This just raises the question of what it means to "know". The LLMs clearly have a large and fairly comprehensive model of the world, the things in it and the relationships between them. If they didn't, they couldn't produce output that makes sense in the context of the models we have of the world, the things in it and the relationships between them.

Comment Re:Singularity via Human neural network (Score 1) 49

This is kind of funny, but if you assume that this book was written by AI, which is being used to train humans on it's hallucinations to program / improve AI, this almost becomes a link to singularity, with humans brains as part of the neural net.

That would be a hive mind, not the singularity, because at no point will it become effectively infinitely intelligent. Instead, the stupidities multiply. It's literally the opposite of a singularity.

Comment Re:Shows how worthless most interviewers are (Score 1) 82

That's like a man only dating married women....hoping they will leave their husband for him...problematic, foolish, stupid...but that's how tech works, unfortunately.

That's exactly what I thought of. Not even necessarily married, just in a relationship. But if he'll leave someone for her, he'll leave her for someone else, so that's the dumbest possible decision.

Comment Re: Time to resurrect the old meme... (Score 1) 244

The dollar rose like a rocket from 10/24 to 1/25. Then it reversed and went back to right where it was before the sudden rise.

That has nothing to do with the comment you replied to. I was talking about Trump's cluelessness what is needed to retain the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency which is at best weakly related to its valuation relative to other currencies.

It was most likely driven by hedge funds speculating that Trump would replace Power and dramatically lower interest rates. That didn't happen and the trade reversed.

Only if hedge fund managers don't understand how the Fed chairmanship works. Trump can't replace Powell until February 2026, when Powell's term expires. Not unless Trump can make the case that he needs to be removed for cause, which would require evidence of misconduct, not just policy disagreement.

Comment Re:I'm ok with this... (Score 0) 106

I'm sure the state needs all the money it can get from it's citizens. You know, to give them all the social services it gives to those in need.

Correct. Since the federal government is cutting essential social services which keep people alive, California is going to have to step up again and pay for the stuff you broke bitches can't afford, like health care.

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