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Comment Another word for stupidity. (Score 4, Insightful) 98

I think what is really going on is that is not 'fluid IQ', but regular, normal "IQ".

That is, stupid people either do not realize the AI is wrong, or more likely, they are so used to being corrected by more intelligent people that they just assume the AI must be smarter than they are and do not challenge it.

I can also see a small number of submissive/shy/apathetic people just accepting the wrong information and thinking it is not worth fixing.

This kind of thing gets me so mad that I would never just accept that.

Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 140

While it is true that most speed limits are placed due to risk, that is not always true.

There are places in the US and other countries where speed tickets are used to raise money from out of towners. They do things like down shift the speed by 10 mph for a 1 mile stretch and then station a cop near there. The cops know the local cars and if they do happen to break the law they get warnings.

In addition, often speed limits are set differently for wealthy parts of town vs the poor parts of town - to give out more tickets in the poor areas.

Similar things happen with parking enforcement. My personal 'favorite' is looking at police cars illegally parked all around the police station. Or the slightly more sophisticated version of this where the parking laws around the police station are different than those around the rest of the city.

Comment Re:Did they fire their paralegals? (Score 2) 46

1) If your lawyer does not have a paralegal, you should fire them. Law is a very paperwork intensive industry. Now a days you can get away with 1 paralegal serving multiple lawyers, but nobody and I mean nobody goes without a paralegal. Smaller shops may have only one person doing the work of a receptionist and paralegal and other things, but they will always have at least one person.

It is inappropriate for a lawyer to have the paralegal check his work, but if you are not going to check it at all, that is incredibly stupid. Stupid as in how the hell did you get into law school and how did they not kick you out.

2) I never said the lawyer is not responsible. He signed it, he is responsible. If you are not personally going to check it, at least have your paralegal do it. That is simple logic.

Comment Re:Sounds familiar (Score 1) 56

Doesn't even have to be a plant trying to get more capacity. Corporate utilities look at the cost, X, and what you're willing to reasonably pay, Y, and refuse to build if Y is less than 2-3 times, at a minimum, what X is. Which is a big part of why common infrastructure shouldn't be in corporate hands in the first place, but publicly operated. This is legitimately a serious problem for households in the US since the end of the public push for rural electrification in the 90s. The only thing that's changed in the last 30 years since Republicans gutted the Rural Electrification Administration is that there's finally relatively affordable, turnkey solutions for household electric, but that still leaves tens of thousands of people in the US without electricity while that rolls out (since it's not yet something you're likely to find at your local TruValue or Lowe's yet, and if you don't have access to electricity, your access to internet is probably not much better). And without electricity, this also usually means no indoor plumbing since there's nothing to run a domestic wellpump on. But now that Republicans have ruined relations with everyone who wants to sell us what's needed for high capacity batteries, it's unclear if that's going to last.

Comment It's not the infrastructure, it's the conjob (Score 2, Interesting) 56

The bigger factor is that their whole "AI" thing is collapsing before their eyes, because once "AI" is explained, you can either replace "AI" with "magic" or a quantifiable, describable existing technology. And in this particular bubble, it's not a describable existing technology, it's "magic". And while investors might be fooled, the accountants aren't, and management's starting to figure it out (or aren't fooled in the first place but are intentionally misleading investors).

They're not exactly helping their own cause by not just planning in parking sheds and rooftops covered in solar panels on the infrastructure front. Bruteforcing magic into existence with a billion virtual typewriter monkies takes a lot of electric.

Comment Re:Not as good as it looks (Score 1) 119

You are wrong, the shots do NOT affect happiness from eating at all. They actively negate hunger and also affect how sugar is manipulated by the body. Nothing they do affects dopamine.

Moreover, you have overly simplified an extremely complex issue, in large part to blame the fat people.

Dietary fiber does not totally suppress appetite. Feeling full discourages eating, it does not negate hunger. You can very easily feel hungry even if you also feel full. That is one of the issues that many obese people face.

Moreover, obesity is not merely an addiction. There are multiple other factors, including exercise. People with physical impairments that preclude exercise are much more likely to be obese, and this has nothing to do with addiction. Depression is related to addiction, but is not identical and also plays a part.

Most important appears to be metabolism. There are people that can eat twice as much food as others and still maintain their weight. And there are people that do not lose weight even if they cut their food intake significantly.

One of the ways you can tell addiction is the correlation with other addictions.

Alcoholism, drug addiction, and gambling are all highly correlated. People that have problems with one are extremely likely to have problems with the other two.

Obesity is slightly correlated, but nowhere near the correlation between the three main addictions.

Does addiction play a part? Yes. but the studies all show it is much less than you suggest.

Comment We need to increase the penalties. (Score 3, Funny) 46

I suggest:

First offence: Have to watch CSPAN for 5 hours a day, for a week, without sleeping through it - evidence to be provided in court

Second offence: Have to sing Miley Cyrus songs and Baby Shark on TikTok - sober

Third offence: License to practice and all memberships of country clubs and golf courses revoked

Comment Re:BitTorrent (Score 1) 60

Yes there is, it's hardware and driver version dependent. It's far more efficient to just do the compilation in the background than to keep a precompiled version for each game for each combination of hardware and driver, x2 once for Vulkan and once for DirectX for games which support both.

They could take that one step further: once your computer has compiled the appropriate shader for its particular combination of hardware/driver/etc, the game could upload that particular shader to a repository, so that the next install with the exact same combination of conditions could just download it instead of having to duplicate the work. I imagine there are a lot of people out there running functionally identical systems that would benefit.

I suppose they don't do that because they don't trust people not to repurpose the mechanism as a malware vector, or something.

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