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I don’t understand the joke.

Edit: My dyslexic brain skipped right over RFK Jr.

Elections are always a binary choice. If you want to send a message, the time to do it is during primaries or any day other than election day. On that day, you can choose to support the lesser evil, or you can support the greater evil. It’s up to you to decide which is which, but that’s always the choice. Staying home, voting for a third party, or writing in some name that will never win, those all support the greater evil.

They supposedly have been learning that lesson since the Carter administration.

Came here to mention this. The whole video is worth watching, but the short version is that some machines have a sensor that detects when steam releases from the bag and automatically stops then.

The problem is that there might be a difference of a few seconds depending on which way the popcorn bag is facing when it pops open. So you should still listen for when the popping slows down.

It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing. Fighting a “losing issue” is exactly how you persuade people you’re right about the issue. That’s called “leadership”.

I mean, can you separate those things? Like I’m not saying all Christians are KKK or anything of the sort, but there seems to be a common thread among religious extremism, and that’s faith in the divine authority to justify any act of violence or malice.

I want these stories to be true, but nobody expected the previous election disasters, and people are stupid.

Symbols are easier than actual people. Nobody is just one thing, and complexity doesn’t travel well. Revolutionaries are either lionized or demonized, and so it becomes easier for the critics to ignore valid points while simultaneously being easier for the supporters to ignore atrocities. Rather than an objective, complete understanding of the man, you get polarized factions that don’t see each other as people.

Sure, of course it’s all fiction. LLMs didn’t exist as a concept when TNG was being written, so of course they didn’t write them to do that. Data was also an AI, and the holodeck was able to create a Moriarty so intelligent that he became self-aware and avoided deletion.

My point is that modern LLMs are an approximation of intelligence that permit contemporary computers to respond to novel stimuli in a way that seems like intelligence. The computer on the show was far more advanced because it was fictional and set in the distant future. They never bothered to explain how it works, but there was nothing approximate about the intelligence it created in the holodeck.

It doesn’t. An LLM uses modeling to approximate the shape of a question and generate a novel answer within the parameters. It’s like a shortcut to actually knowing everything and providing authoritative answers.

Sort of like the Scrabble champion who won in Spanish and French despite not knowing those languages. He simply learned patterns of words he could build with letters, but he didn’t know the meaning of any of the words.

The holodeck ostensibly has access to all of federation knowledge and history, and when it has to generate novel information (like what would Einstein say to Newton while playing poker) then it extrapolates that informtation based on the sum total of existing information. The holodeck computer has a thorough understanding of the question, the parameters, and the answers (holograms) it creates. It isn’t abstracting the question or approximating the shape of the answer.

That’s even worse than I imagined.

The fuck is Grey Baby syndrome?

Despite some Republicans ostensibly trying to do the right thing, the effort failed because Fetterman is a piece of shit.

Ok but maybe was there a map to a treasure printed on the back of the hard drive?

I think we got a preview during Covid of just how selfish and lazy people can be. Stay home and wear a mask outside was far too much to ask of the American people. People murdered people over masking. Little piece of fabric over your nose and mouth, and only when you’re inside a store or public building. “No, I’d rather you be dead.”

When the water runs out and the air is toxic and the grocery shelves are bare, it’s going to be chaos.

I think the joke is that management thinks the jobs replaced will be the workers. But even CEOs work for the capital class.

We are going to avoid doing the hard things until the hard things are forced upon us. There’s too much profit in keeping things status quo, so any attempt to make the world a better place is met with the unified forces of unfettered capitalism.

Starting and ending every prompt and response with Sir probably doesn’t help.

There’s dozens of us