NABDad @ NABDad @lemmy.world

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Try to separate the AI hype from AI.

AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.

Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.

It's the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it's no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what "intelligence" means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.

Even LLMs have value, just not how they're being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.

I'd love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn't want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.

The state has no say in the matter. Neither does the Democratic caucus. The Constitution defines the circumstances under which a member of Congress could be removed. The only way to change that would be via an amendment to the Constitution.

Duh?

He's a senator, so it would be the state of Pennsylvania.

From my googling, there's no legal mechanism in Pennsylvania to recall an elected official. However, even if there was, recalling a member of the U.S. Congress would be unconstitutional.

The Senate would have to throw him out, and that's not likely as long as the Republicans benefit from having him there.

Move all the books to the Canadian side now.

For me it is the faith in the non-existance of a supreme being or deity.

I agree. I prefer to consider myself agnostic rather than atheist.

I'm really a dishonest agnostic since I can't really imagine a proof of deity that I wouldn't discount as a hallucination.

I did have a dream many years ago in which I woke up with absolute proof that God existed, but then I went back to sleep.

When I woke later, I couldn't remember what the proof was. If the proof was real, and God let me forget it, then he's an ass and he doesn't deserve my belief.

Based on what the article said, your general intolerance of religion might be the very symptom they were referencing.

Their research doesn't suggest that damage to that particular area of the brain causes religious beliefs, but rather that it more or less locks you into your beliefs religious or otherwise.

The injured brain becomes less able to consider other viewpoints, so changing beliefs becomes less likely even when confronted with facts that disprove the belief.

Do you realize...

Dude started out by mentioning a couple of concussions and ended by stating he might not understand the research because of the concussions, so perhaps the answer is...maybe not.

Nope. Toof. Singular.

He has a front tooth. Where most of the rest of us have two upper front teeth, co-captains of the mouth, he has one right there in the middle.

I don't have a problem with Tom Cruise as an actor, but ever since my daughter pointed it out, I can't help staring at his tooth.

Words matter. Fascism is a very specific thing. Calling every authoritarian government fascism just dilutes the meaning of the word.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

US parents only last for 20 years.

Jeez, I'm way past my warranty. Almost at 27 years.

Was it the fascism?

A real government would just make it based on mileage and weight regardless of how it is powered.

Learner.

I do that.

It's the team I previously managed. We all still work there (so far), but I'm no longer a manager. The team was disbursed for various reasons.

We didn't want to say goodbye, so we set up a discord so we could keep shit-talking. We still get together every few months for dinner.

...the game ends and we all head home because we have to get up early for work tomorrow.

I'm going to disqualify your second scam on a technicality: it's part of the first one.

It is.

Just like it would be outrageous to claim that Hitler was a Nazi. It's outrageous to claim something that everyone already knows.