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Not learning
Suckers are still spreading the fake threat that AI will become fully independent and take over the world. They overthink and overwrite, inventing thousands of terms and diagrams and organizational charts and algorithms to “prove” how it can happen. Calling Doc Ockham! It’s physically impossible and IRRELEVANT. The large-scale AI is ALREADY owned by Gates…
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Interesting question
Denyse points to studies that seem to show the placebo effect is getting stronger now, at least inside the clinical trials where it’s used as a control variable. Placebo is part of an innate social structure. When the Healer gives us a Healing Token or a Healing Touch, we get healthier. If the placebo side…
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Fairness Doctrine by accident
At various times I’ve stupidly donated to both D and R candidates. I think the most recent D was Tulsi when she was a fake D. Being on the email list of both teams provides a simulation of the Fairness Doctrine, with equal time for both campaigns. I get the same emails from random candidates…
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Precisely wrong
Seen on Reddit: Kids ask how people knew facts before the Internet. Well, we asked Aunt Marge, and she gave us a pack of lies. NO. Precisely exactly diametrically wrong. Here’s what we really did: We read our school textbooks and listened to the teachers, who filled us with violently wrong toxic poison. We DIDN’T…
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Reminds me…
This Brit pollster is talking about the complete loss of trust in media and politics. Also applies to every other institution, churches, schools, big business. Reminds me of an old Kingston Trio song. Every word is still precisely valid. The media side has been going on longer than the others, and SHOULD have offered a…
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Who rejects Google?
This map seen at Reddit is informative. It shows all the streets covered by GoogleStreets, condensed onto a world map. In most of the world the streets are where the people are. Northern Canada, northern Russia, inner Australia, and the Amazon region are blank because no cities or roads are there. Some entire countries are…
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Simmering 2
The simmering metaphor in previous item reminded me of a picture I’ve been wanting to make. Back in 1970 when I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the larger world. I…
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Simmering
Denyse discusses censorship in academia, and gets the facts right as always. She worries that too much censorship ruins the chances for fresh ideas. I arrived at a different conclusion a few years ago. Secrecy is the default. Secrecy is the PURPOSE of language. We talk and write for the benefit of our family or…
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Reprint on two-way obligation
Linked in previous about AI and compensation, worth reprinting. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via Evolution News, a POWERFUL idea from Neil Thomas. It was the would-be rehabilitation of those ancient materialist thinkers by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, in the late 18th century, coupled with the later Victorian crisis of faith and…
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Soap opera continues
Now Satan is back at OpenAI and Microsoft is still the major shareholder. My initial guess, after Satan’s first fake return: So the whole stageplay was orchestrated by Sam to get rid of a board that wasn’t following his orders instantly and perfectly. OpenAI now becomes a standard tech company where the founder is the…
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Spiritual Helmholtz
Noted by BigPulpit, this article reveals an entirely unfamiliar religious practice. = = = = = START QUOTE: It’s suspected the bottles found along Texas originated in the Caribbean and South America, according to Jace Tunnell of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. Witch bottles, also known as spell bottles, are intended…
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Greenwald at his best
Greenwald gets distracted sometimes, but at his best he’s unbeatable. Nobody else can write such a precise sustained rigorous attack on modern lunacy. In this clip he’s discussing the endless phasein and phaseout of crazy wars. Eastasia/Eurasia/Eastasia/Eurasia. The flips happen instantly, and all previous propaganda turns seamlessly upside down to make way for the new…
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Artistic expression
This British group claims to be defending genuine freedom in art. As with the Free University of Austin, I’d like to see such a group working clearly and concisely toward its goal. The art freedom group has a fine manifesto. Nothing arguable there. But as with Austin, the board of advisors is Woke. Most of…
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Scratched an itch
Bought Pat Foster’s book on the history of Hudson. He covers the founding decade from 1909 to 1919 in satisfying detail. The early part of the story isn’t mentioned in the usual magazines and websites. Most of the later years are familiar material, but this picture finally answers a question I’ve wondered about. Other sources…
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Pile of crap
Some writers were praising Jordan Peterson’s latest Hope And Change conference. I listened to a couple of the speeches. Jesus, what a pile of ancient trite repetitive stinking shit. Same nonsense I was hearing from Romney and other Repooflican politicians and talkers. Our Precious Liberties, God-Given Rights, Unifying Force, etc. The audience was allegedly invited…
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