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They were also known for surveillance, picking people off the street and holding with no due process, deportation to camps…
All things these guys have already done.
You can choose not to see the similarities, but ill stay on the right side of history thanks.
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Secret police combining many organizations.
Umm, masked, some uniformed some not (sounds like many orgs and we don’t know who they are) = secret, yes?
Their tactics are for the primary purpose to create fear, so people will cower to their authority.
I don’t see any difference.
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What’s false about that statement?
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So was the gestapo.
What’s your point
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i'm sorry, the local school board does not pay $275M to buy a president.
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so where do I bet on whether Tomlin loses his job by 26?
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Now do research into TX: Teacher's Experience.... meaning, show the correlation between teachers feeling disolutioned by the low pay/and on the job environment with kids feeling disolutioned, SPECIFICALLY in early childhood education.
My bet is there's a pretty close to 1:1 correlation.
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stupid ass take.
SS is not why our credit rating is in the tank. Trump 1.0 increased the deficit by 75% (none cuz of SS). Biden increased the deficit (not cuz SS).
Trump wants to raise the deficit another $5T (not to give to SS).
Try again
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we need to stop assuming this is an intelligence issue. This is why we lost.
It is a FAITH issue... people make decisions with their emotions, then they try to rationalize it with logic, with sparse facts provided by folks like Fox News.
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It’s not about intelligence.
It’s about beliefs.
We need to stop underestimating trump’s ability to move his cult followers simply because of faith.
This means facts or education won’t fix our problems.
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This is the beginning of austerity talk. This is what they are thinking the new normal
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Unelected bureaucrats running this country
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So… it is the fault of unelected beaurocrats…
Didn’t they run on a platform that was AGAINST control by unelected bureaucrats?
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Desantis’s are as corrupt as the rest of them. Ask them about the $10mm charity funds
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You can choose not to believe me. That’s fine.
My last rec tho is to find some other sources to trust.
If you think AI is the same as nft’s, it’s clear you don’t understand either.
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To be clear, my post point out that blindly trusting LLMs is diametrically opposed to my recommendations.
It is a potentially powerful tool. At the moment responsible use is completely in the hands of the user. Treat it accordingly.
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I have 35 years in tech, and understanding that LLM's are nothing more than a prediction engine trained by history.
The potential for this technology is scary, because Humans as a race are not good at slowing down. And that is why it won't stop. So the best thing is to understand and guide
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guess I'm unfamiliar with what NFT's would ever have done for me. I see the potential tech capabilities of the 2 vastly different.
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NFT's were supposed to have market value, but they performed no function. LLMs will DO things for people.
The value proposition is dramatically different with AI, this is why it will be different.
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Agree. Some humans are born creative and will ALWAYS be creative. In my experience, most others are creative, but will subdue that if they are told to follow the rules... that may now start to come from AI (by definition, a historical context). Its hard to untrain these type of rules.
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BUT:: Cats out of the bag and there's no putting it back.
So the question becomes how to lay down the guardrails in a way we can drive maximum productivity/privacy for the people.
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well I've been in a tech field for 35 years.
The same was said for the Internet when it was in its infancy. I share your fear of surveillance. Govt/BigTech ALREADY doing that.
I'm no fan of the COMPANIES that are driving the tech, and their motives.
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I use it for very productive use cases for me, and I validate the things it tells me through alternative means. But I find that even getting the info from the LLM + validation is still more productive then me searching from square 1 on my own.
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Honestly... I'm sorry I offended you. was not my intention.
Just comparing platforms on the basis of your statement.
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well, I'm not sure I agree with your original comment, personally. But I do find WAY more trash and nonsense on SM than I do in my engagement with LLMs.
So I'm honestly not sure how to reconcile your stated aversion to LLM, in the context of everything else out there.
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I realize that's not what most are doing. and I see the lack of warning is like laying out a highway in which you can go 100 mph, but it is littered with massive potholes. It's seriously dangerous, some people will get hurt.
IMO, that does not make the tool bad or good, it needs guardrails
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I use them for coding.
The fact of the matter is that the results I get correlate directly with the prompts I give it. Better direction = better result... and in those cases its dramatic productivity improvement. There are times I choose NOT to use it at all, because I don't trust it.
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I've been in a tech field for 30 years. I've said for decades automation is generally good, but 'makes us stupid'.
There are really positive use cases for LLM's, but I fear it will lead to loss of understanding, rather than make us smarter.
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Trying to just have a healthy debate here, really.
If you are serious in your comment though, I'd recommend staying away from social media altogether.
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yes, and the main problem with them now is that there is no WARNING label on them. Agree with that. This, is however 1 use case out of thousands they can be used for. That's WHY they're dangerous. There's no WARNING label, and they're addictive.
Its still though, users choice for the tool.
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ehh... not the best analogy, cuz there are many situations you can use an LLM for that are not dangerous, and getting a wrong answer causes no harm.
whereas every time you pull the trigger could cause you harm.
a user has that choice with LLMs, to only use it where its not life threatening.
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They are dangerous.
Why? Because they offer a high % of good info that is accurate, but also include some % of info that is totally WRONG. But because the reader is using it because they don't know, They potentially don't know when its wrong.
A tool is not good or bad, its how its used.
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Your assumption that they follow any moral code…
Is not supported by facts.
They only care about what works and what doesn’t to achieve their goals.
Moral outrage is merely a tool to rile supporters
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This is a sign they know what they are doing. They are afraid of people joining together in opposition, as they would rather take on these institutions 1 by 1… like law firms.
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This letter was strategic. They were testing to see if it would work. Trump doesn’t view the world thru any moral code… simply did it work or not. If this had worked, they would have had control of it and called Harvard the best. Only a ‘mistake’ after it caused growing opposition.
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SharpieGate 2.0
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not to poopoo the significance of this... but we're all gonna react to him firing Powell/NLRB and putting his cronies in there, but we've become all good with him taking over the DOJ and making them his personal legal goons?
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Cybertruck is the Electric Edsel
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which is why it will never be adopted as such
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To be clear, 'deportation' is IMO inaccurate. It implies being sent to a country.
It does not imply being basically sold into slavery in a high security facility with no means of escape unless the President of the US stops paying the subscription dues
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It’s not funny, but it’s who Trump thinks he is
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I'd personally like to get to real data either way. Everybody's talking about trans athletes in general.
Give me raw numbers:
- # girls participating in sports
- # of those that are trans
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He gives away the administration's premise. The Constitution is subservient to their political goals.
Thats not the oath they took.
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This is a nod to the value of musk integrating twitter into xai.
And endless stream of training data. Data is the growth engine for ai platforms
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Disagree. SCOTUS is absolutely in cahoots with Trump. Most of them want this… but they sometimes abide by the law when their hands are tied.
In this situation, she needs to tie their hands as best she can.