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benjs

Halifax2TheMax said:

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

It appears you already got what you got out of it. Congratulations. Thanks for reading though. Sorry to have wasted your time.

I just figured if you shared such a lengthy essay, there was some novel conclusion. My question is genuine - am I missing something, or are those the conclusions? 

Halifax2TheMax

benjs said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

It appears you already got what you got out of it. Congratulations. Thanks for reading though. Sorry to have wasted your time.

I just figured if you shared such a lengthy essay, there was some novel conclusion. My question is genuine - am I missing something, or are those the conclusions? 

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

It stands on its own. You got out of it what you did. I’m not going to try and convince you to take something else out of it. It is what it is and you got what you got out of it. Thanks again for reading.

Lerxst1992

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

The point of using AI is to challenge it to give better responses. Sometimes poor questions lead to poor answers. So continue the dialogue and see how it can think. It’ll give far more intelligent replies when challenged than most of what’s on the internet.

Its miles and miles ahead of social media and anecdotal one sided opinion stories, which is bombarded on this forum regularly, while no one else questions the value of that.


 

Lerxst1992

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Bentleyspop said:

Gern Blansten said:

Tldr 

ETLDR

The article is using extremist facts to make its point. It’s a version of trumpism (without the electoral successes) and that author is too shortsighted to understand. For example, attacking DEI is wrong because they didn’t start the LA fires is true, but completely irrelevant to the fact that DEI tricks like giving executives bonuses based on gender and skin color hiring and advancement is wrong.

Also, AI can give bad facts but it is light years ahead of social media and the general internet. There will certainly be some AI  volatility that will bounce markets, but its capabilities are next level. I’ve put advanced calculations regarding long term investments and present values done with one click in seconds. I’ve used ai in a lengthy conversational manner to help with a complex injury rehab and it’s next level compared to any tech previously  available on a phone or tablet.

That article is just another long winded version of an anecdote to dismiss the lessons we should be learning from trumpism and the recent tech advances.

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Reads like an AI answer.

Topic avoidance, ridicule and mocking. The playbook is getting old.

Halifax2TheMax

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

US tourism declines from Canada to Flo Rida, Cali, Nevada and Louisiana. Appears down significantly.

https://apple.news/Al8YhYlPVR1aLSLGOorRN2A

Halifax2TheMax

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Bentleyspop said:

Gern Blansten said:

Tldr 

ETLDR

The article is using extremist facts to make its point. It’s a version of trumpism (without the electoral successes) and that author is too shortsighted to understand. For example, attacking DEI is wrong because they didn’t start the LA fires is true, but completely irrelevant to the fact that DEI tricks like giving executives bonuses based on gender and skin color hiring and advancement is wrong.

Also, AI can give bad facts but it is light years ahead of social media and the general internet. There will certainly be some AI  volatility that will bounce markets, but its capabilities are next level. I’ve put advanced calculations regarding long term investments and present values done with one click in seconds. I’ve used ai in a lengthy conversational manner to help with a complex injury rehab and it’s next level compared to any tech previously  available on a phone or tablet.

That article is just another long winded version of an anecdote to dismiss the lessons we should be learning from trumpism and the recent tech advances.

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Reads like an AI answer.

Topic avoidance, ridicule and mocking. The playbook is getting old.

 * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

My honest opinion.

mrussel1

Lerxst1992 said:

Bentleyspop said:

Gern Blansten said:

Tldr 

ETLDR

The article is using extremist facts to make its point. It’s a version of trumpism (without the electoral successes) and that author is too shortsighted to understand. For example, attacking DEI is wrong because they didn’t start the LA fires is true, but completely irrelevant to the fact that DEI tricks like giving executives bonuses based on gender and skin color hiring and advancement is wrong.

Also, AI can give bad facts but it is light years ahead of social media and the general internet. There will certainly be some AI  volatility that will bounce markets, but its capabilities are next level. I’ve put advanced calculations regarding long term investments and present values done with one click in seconds. I’ve used ai in a lengthy conversational manner to help with a complex injury rehab and it’s next level compared to any tech previously  available on a phone or tablet.

That article is just another long winded version of an anecdote to dismiss the lessons we should be learning from trumpism and the recent tech advances.

South Park took on that entire thought process a few weeks ago. Nailed it. 

benjs

mrussel1 said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Bentleyspop said:

Gern Blansten said:

Tldr 

ETLDR

The article is using extremist facts to make its point. It’s a version of trumpism (without the electoral successes) and that author is too shortsighted to understand. For example, attacking DEI is wrong because they didn’t start the LA fires is true, but completely irrelevant to the fact that DEI tricks like giving executives bonuses based on gender and skin color hiring and advancement is wrong.

Also, AI can give bad facts but it is light years ahead of social media and the general internet. There will certainly be some AI  volatility that will bounce markets, but its capabilities are next level. I’ve put advanced calculations regarding long term investments and present values done with one click in seconds. I’ve used ai in a lengthy conversational manner to help with a complex injury rehab and it’s next level compared to any tech previously  available on a phone or tablet.

That article is just another long winded version of an anecdote to dismiss the lessons we should be learning from trumpism and the recent tech advances.

South Park took on that entire thought process a few weeks ago. Nailed it. 

Agreed. The tendency for LLMs to reaffirm a person’s position makes it inherently dangerous. I can frame the same question in two different lights, and expect two different answers (based on what it thinks I want to hear most). I tend to ask multiple ways intentionally, to find points in favour or opposed to any topic. If I didn’t, based on what I wrote above, it would just lead to confirmation bias.

Lerxst1992

benjs said:

mrussel1 said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Bentleyspop said:

Gern Blansten said:

Tldr 

ETLDR

The article is using extremist facts to make its point. It’s a version of trumpism (without the electoral successes) and that author is too shortsighted to understand. For example, attacking DEI is wrong because they didn’t start the LA fires is true, but completely irrelevant to the fact that DEI tricks like giving executives bonuses based on gender and skin color hiring and advancement is wrong.

Also, AI can give bad facts but it is light years ahead of social media and the general internet. There will certainly be some AI  volatility that will bounce markets, but its capabilities are next level. I’ve put advanced calculations regarding long term investments and present values done with one click in seconds. I’ve used ai in a lengthy conversational manner to help with a complex injury rehab and it’s next level compared to any tech previously  available on a phone or tablet.

That article is just another long winded version of an anecdote to dismiss the lessons we should be learning from trumpism and the recent tech advances.

South Park took on that entire thought process a few weeks ago. Nailed it. 

Agreed. The tendency for LLMs to reaffirm a person’s position makes it inherently dangerous. I can frame the same question in two different lights, and expect two different answers (based on what it thinks I want to hear most). I tend to ask multiple ways intentionally, to find points in favour or opposed to any topic. If I didn’t, based on what I wrote above, it would just lead to confirmation bias.

Any new powerful tech tool can be manipulated to nefarious ends. We are on a forum that is inundated with biased social media copies and links  and one sided political opinion articles. Not sure how that’s better.

I try to use ai to find balance which highlights my political views, and I approach with caution. When someone posted an article about how bad housing costs are now it included a key sentence warning that interest rates are much better now than 30+ years ago, which has an impact why housing is so darned expensive now. I was able to use the articles data to present current housing costs with both interest rates, and then calculate the present value of the annuity of mortgage payments based on savings on current lower rates. I could have even gone farther with the impact of inflation.

That kind of computing power, what can now be done in seconds by asking the right question, was previously much more difficult , especially on a phone. We know for artistic reasons folks like South Park creators can create impressive deep fakes. But the challenge is on us to know that’s possible.

benjs

Lerxst1992 said:

benjs said:

mrussel1 said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Bentleyspop said:

Gern Blansten said:

Tldr 

ETLDR

The article is using extremist facts to make its point. It’s a version of trumpism (without the electoral successes) and that author is too shortsighted to understand. For example, attacking DEI is wrong because they didn’t start the LA fires is true, but completely irrelevant to the fact that DEI tricks like giving executives bonuses based on gender and skin color hiring and advancement is wrong.

Also, AI can give bad facts but it is light years ahead of social media and the general internet. There will certainly be some AI  volatility that will bounce markets, but its capabilities are next level. I’ve put advanced calculations regarding long term investments and present values done with one click in seconds. I’ve used ai in a lengthy conversational manner to help with a complex injury rehab and it’s next level compared to any tech previously  available on a phone or tablet.

That article is just another long winded version of an anecdote to dismiss the lessons we should be learning from trumpism and the recent tech advances.

South Park took on that entire thought process a few weeks ago. Nailed it. 

Agreed. The tendency for LLMs to reaffirm a person’s position makes it inherently dangerous. I can frame the same question in two different lights, and expect two different answers (based on what it thinks I want to hear most). I tend to ask multiple ways intentionally, to find points in favour or opposed to any topic. If I didn’t, based on what I wrote above, it would just lead to confirmation bias.

Any new powerful tech tool can be manipulated to nefarious ends. We are on a forum that is inundated with biased social media copies and links  and one sided political opinion articles. Not sure how that’s better.

I try to use ai to find balance which highlights my political views, and I approach with caution. When someone posted an article about how bad housing costs are now it included a key sentence warning that interest rates are much better now than 30+ years ago, which has an impact why housing is so darned expensive now. I was able to use the articles data to present current housing costs with both interest rates, and then calculate the present value of the annuity of mortgage payments based on savings on current lower rates. I could have even gone farther with the impact of inflation.

That kind of computing power, what can now be done in seconds by asking the right question, was previously much more difficult , especially on a phone. We know for artistic reasons folks like South Park creators can create impressive deep fakes. But the challenge is on us to know that’s possible.

I guess we’re talking about two different use cases. If I recall, that South Park episode was primarily about a shitty business idea being called great by a ChatGPT-like voice, and Randy pursuing it endlessly, completely assured now that his ideas are brilliant. I don’t see that as being at all positive for society en masse, as it supports people using critical thought even less than they do today.

And for what it’s worth, I’d love to see the questions you ask to get your results, as I’ve posited questions to it and received radically different responses from yours. I’ll go back and find some examples a bit later tonight if you’re interested. You say you use it to find balance which highlights your political views… sounds kinda like a Jewish democracy.

PJ_Soul

Lerxst1992 said:

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

The point of using AI is to challenge it to give better responses. Sometimes poor questions lead to poor answers. So continue the dialogue and see how it can think. It’ll give far more intelligent replies when challenged than most of what’s on the internet.

Its miles and miles ahead of social media and anecdotal one sided opinion stories, which is bombarded on this forum regularly, while no one else questions the value of that.


 

AI is going to be even worse for society than social media has been. 

static111

PJ_Soul said:

Lerxst1992 said:

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

The point of using AI is to challenge it to give better responses. Sometimes poor questions lead to poor answers. So continue the dialogue and see how it can think. It’ll give far more intelligent replies when challenged than most of what’s on the internet.

Its miles and miles ahead of social media and anecdotal one sided opinion stories, which is bombarded on this forum regularly, while no one else questions the value of that.


 

AI is going to be even worse for society than social media has been. 

It already is!

josevolution

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5539238-miller-portland-troops-deployment/amp/

The states burning down is all in his and this administration’s warped agenda! Nazi Miller doesn’t like hearing NO 

Lerxst1992

PJ_Soul said:

Lerxst1992 said:

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

The point of using AI is to challenge it to give better responses. Sometimes poor questions lead to poor answers. So continue the dialogue and see how it can think. It’ll give far more intelligent replies when challenged than most of what’s on the internet.

Its miles and miles ahead of social media and anecdotal one sided opinion stories, which is bombarded on this forum regularly, while no one else questions the value of that.


 

AI is going to be even worse for society than social media has been. 

I’ve said often that unfortunately I’m done with first year of a complex injury rehab and overall doing ok but recently had a setback. The concise and detailed medical information, the way I can pinpoint Gemini to focus on specifics and a back and forth, covering SCORES of detailed and specific questions that pertain only to me, simply was not available even three years ago, when the first hint arrived I’d need to be doing a lot of medical research. Although, thankfully not life threatening at all, my case may be one of the most complex ones to exist. AI has been incredible in its focused information, getting it to focus on my specifics, that was not available three years ago.

 It’s a shame people don’t realize AIs potential, and are unwilling to consider change, which was something Dems were supposed to champion, at least in 2008. Oh well


plus for the advanced financial calculations, calculating a net present value on two different interest rate mortgage cash flows , and then discounting backward  forty years so we could attempt to have an intelligent dialogue at how bad current housing is in real terms to back when Ten was dominating rock radio, can now be done in seconds. On a phone. This was impossible three years ago

i challenge any commenter that the ai data Copied onto this forum is far more informative and exponentially less biased than the social media crap and anecdotal opinion pieces that the far left posts here regularly 

benjs

Lerxst1992 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Lerxst1992 said:

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

The point of using AI is to challenge it to give better responses. Sometimes poor questions lead to poor answers. So continue the dialogue and see how it can think. It’ll give far more intelligent replies when challenged than most of what’s on the internet.

Its miles and miles ahead of social media and anecdotal one sided opinion stories, which is bombarded on this forum regularly, while no one else questions the value of that.


 

AI is going to be even worse for society than social media has been. 

I’ve said often that unfortunately I’m done with first year of a complex injury rehab and overall doing ok but recently had a setback. The concise and detailed medical information, the way I can pinpoint Gemini to focus on specifics and a back and forth, covering SCORES of detailed and specific questions that pertain only to me, simply was not available even three years ago, when the first hint arrived I’d need to be doing a lot of medical research. Although, thankfully not life threatening at all, my case may be one of the most complex ones to exist. AI has been incredible in its focused information, getting it to focus on my specifics, that was not available three years ago.

 It’s a shame people don’t realize AIs potential, and are unwilling to consider change, which was something Dems were supposed to champion, at least in 2008. Oh well


plus for the advanced financial calculations, calculating a net present value on two different interest rate mortgage cash flows , and then discounting backward  forty years so we could attempt to have an intelligent dialogue at how bad current housing is in real terms to back when Ten was dominating rock radio, can now be done in seconds. On a phone. This was impossible three years ago

i challenge any commenter that the ai data Copied onto this forum is far more informative and exponentially less biased than the social media crap and anecdotal opinion pieces that the far left posts here regularly 

This is now way off-topic. You should re-post this in the AI discussion. 

Lerxst1992

benjs said:

Lerxst1992 said:

PJ_Soul said:

Lerxst1992 said:

benjs said:

I found that article to be a huge waste of time. There’s a lot of stupid in the States’ culture and society, starting with leadership on down. Shocker. People value sensationalism over truthfulness - shocker. AI will be used in place of people utilizing their brains - shocker. 

What was I supposed to get out of this? 

The point of using AI is to challenge it to give better responses. Sometimes poor questions lead to poor answers. So continue the dialogue and see how it can think. It’ll give far more intelligent replies when challenged than most of what’s on the internet.

Its miles and miles ahead of social media and anecdotal one sided opinion stories, which is bombarded on this forum regularly, while no one else questions the value of that.


 

AI is going to be even worse for society than social media has been. 

I’ve said often that unfortunately I’m done with first year of a complex injury rehab and overall doing ok but recently had a setback. The concise and detailed medical information, the way I can pinpoint Gemini to focus on specifics and a back and forth, covering SCORES of detailed and specific questions that pertain only to me, simply was not available even three years ago, when the first hint arrived I’d need to be doing a lot of medical research. Although, thankfully not life threatening at all, my case may be one of the most complex ones to exist. AI has been incredible in its focused information, getting it to focus on my specifics, that was not available three years ago.

 It’s a shame people don’t realize AIs potential, and are unwilling to consider change, which was something Dems were supposed to champion, at least in 2008. Oh well


plus for the advanced financial calculations, calculating a net present value on two different interest rate mortgage cash flows , and then discounting backward  forty years so we could attempt to have an intelligent dialogue at how bad current housing is in real terms to back when Ten was dominating rock radio, can now be done in seconds. On a phone. This was impossible three years ago

i challenge any commenter that the ai data Copied onto this forum is far more informative and exponentially less biased than the social media crap and anecdotal opinion pieces that the far left posts here regularly 

This is now way off-topic. You should re-post this in the AI discussion. 

Hal posted an article that LLMs are “ comically stupid when stretched beyond them” because they can’t explain idioms. That’s not what I’d use LLMs for. Obviously there are far better uses.

I was the one commenter that treated the article as a reasonable opener for attempting an intelligent dialogue. As I’ve been using ai to try to specifically calculate why mamdaniomnics is dangerous for nyc and better wealth building tools and tax advantages are currently available to New Yorkers, it fits fine as a rebuttal to the article they posted,

and of course it’s always the centrist that gets told it’s off topic? Gonna pretend there’s no bias in that

gimmesometruth27

how is ai specific to your specific condition? if it is that rare, is ai speculating now? or are there other documented just as rare, just as complex, case studies it is referencing?

i am in the medical field and i would honestly like to know.

Halifax2TheMax

  * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

For the love of the sweet baby Jebus, someone please start an AI thread. As usual, the “context”, remember that, kinda like dots?, of my posts are lost on some.

gimmesometruth27

CNN viewers demanded “proof of life” after the 79-year-old president conducted the interview entirely by text.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/cnn-viewers-demanded-proof-life-160955661.html

Donald Trump has sparked a fresh frenzy about his health after giving a very unorthodox CNN interview. The 79-year-old president gave an exclusive interview to State of the Union host Jake Tapper Sunday, but bizarrely texted his answers in at an unspecified time before the show rather than speaking in person or calling. In his interview, graphics of Trump’s texts were shown on screen.



there is video at the link. so how is this acceptable? his text responses were ridiculous.
why is tapper not writing a book about this right now?

why is this ok for trump, but unacceptable for biden?

cable media is in the tank for trump and is normalizing everything he does. it is exhausting.

Halifax2TheMax

gimmesometruth27 said:

CNN viewers demanded “proof of life” after the 79-year-old president conducted the interview entirely by text.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/cnn-viewers-demanded-proof-life-160955661.html

Donald Trump has sparked a fresh frenzy about his health after giving a very unorthodox CNN interview. The 79-year-old president gave an exclusive interview to State of the Union host Jake Tapper Sunday, but bizarrely texted his answers in at an unspecified time before the show rather than speaking in person or calling. In his interview, graphics of Trump’s texts were shown on screen.



there is video at the link. so how is this acceptable? his text responses were ridiculous.
why is tapper not writing a book about this right now?

why is this ok for trump, but unacceptable for biden?

cable media is in the tank for trump and is normalizing everything he does. it is exhausting.

  * The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Tens of millions of ‘Murikkkans are normalizing CCOOTWH’s behaviour. A significant portion of them would prefer to live under authoritarianism.