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Thrown fights, talked books
When the Bud Light thing started, my first thought was corporate sabotage. A giant corporation, even in the ESG era, usually knows its customers and doesn’t make serious mistakes. As ESG is fading, many corporations have caught the turning wind and shifted out of woke gear. DeSantis’s flopped debut smells the same. He’s an experienced…
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True cybernetics
Reading about the Geniac ‘logic machine’ reminded me of an IBM machine that turned digital counts into an analog balance measurement. This was cybernetic in the true sense, directly modeling an analog neuron. Modern AI is strictly digital. WHEN ANALOG FERTILIZED DIGITAL IBM started with the purely digital and mostly mechanical Hollerith sorter. The sorter…
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Possible in 1956, not now
Janelle at AIWeirdness is having fun with ChatGPT’s supreme cognitive abilities. She played several games of tic-tac-toe. Chat confidently lost every one. I haven’t played the game in decades, and I’ve never been good at strategy, but even I can see the instant win for Chat’s human opponent in each case. There is no end…
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Barkott
Dog logic: I bark at the stranger walking by, and he stops being a threat. Therefore my barking drove him away. Human logic: I boycott the woke corporation and it stops being woke. Therefore my boycott drove the woke away. In fact the walker was going to continue walking past the property, and the woker…
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Edwards = Empathy
A newly uploaded issue of a Los Angeles radio mag at American Radio Library contains a feature on Frank Edwards, the archetype of GENUINE independence and empathy. = = = = = START QUOTE: Four or five hours a day, news analyst Frank Edwards is spending his time deliberately provoking conversations with total strangers. Sometimes…
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Neuralink vs Alidade
Elon’s Neuralink is the latest and nastiest step in our long departure from senses and reality. Elon wants to get directly into our brains with both transmit and receive so he can update our software in the same way he updates the Tesla. Maximum Github, maximum Room 101. Last year when I was showing the…
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Just like the old
Sam Altman, the evil godfather of OpenAI, has started another evil project which is brazenly dystopian on the surface. No doubt at all about the purpose. Now he’s pretending to be concerned that some “scammers” are hijacking his scam for unlicensed scams. BlockBeats, a Chinese news site, said in tweets posted earlier today that people…
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Aptronym alert
Via DailyMail: Four Las Vegas men have been accused of illicitly winning more than $200,000 in a ‘dice sliding’ scheme at a craps table on the Las Vegas strip. Antcharaporn Kamonlert, Hau Duc Ngo, Max Edward Rappoport, and Oscar Ovidio Rodriguez Alvarado are charged in the case, which stems from an alleged scam at The…
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New phenomenon
This month has been constantly convective, with weird rotating patterns of popup storms every night at my bedtime. I’m losing sleep and getting grumpy and tired and dysfunctional. Tonight’s weird rotation produced an interesting phenomenon near Moses Lake, shown and described by the Weather Bureau. It’s a mini-tornado that doesn’t move and doesn’t appear to…
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There were some Bud errors.
Continuing pointlessly from here, since I seem to be hung up on this subject. There were some badly chosen endorsers before the era of pure profit. Share Value dominated in the 1920s. Companies attracted stock traders instead of customers, just as they did in the more recent Share Value era. Unsurprisingly, Studebaker made the same…
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Don’t be there
Trannies continue entering and “winning” all sorts of events, and the honest competitors keep complaining. Bitching won’t do any good. You’ll only get canceled. Why don’t they just quietly walk out when a known cheater enters? This applies to steroid users and corner-cutters in marathons as well as trannies. As soon as a known cheater…
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Good regardless
The supremes struck down EPA’s overuse of wetlands laws unanimously. No partisan divide. Looking at it naively: Maybe the courts are starting to realize that they’ve been failing at their basic job. Jaded: Now that environmentalism is switching back to a Repooflican movement, the Supremes are able to disapprove. The motivation doesn’t really matter. The…
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NO.
Latest from Kirn: The full story of consciousness can only come from literature. Read the best of the new stuff, not just the old. Don’t get jaded. NO. And FUCK YOU. I tried that for several years in the ’90s and found EXACTLY ZERO worthwhile fiction. EVERY BOOK was designed to destroy the reader’s soul.…
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Duane does Bud
Duane Jones dealt with the Bud Light problem. I cited it before, in a discussion of AI misunderstanding human motives: = = = = = START REPRINT: The Jones agency had produced a successful magazine ad for Heinz ketchup. A painting showed an elegant waitress holding a silver tray with a single bottle of Heinz,…
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