anachronist @ anachronist @midwest.social

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Naw if they're publicly bashing it they've already dumped on all the downside risk onto their customers and now they're net short.

Game of Life has cool emergent properties that are a lot more interesting and fun to play with than LLMs. LLMs also have emergent properties like, for instance, failing classification due to the manipulation of individual image pixels.

I suspect Intuit fired those workers for other reasons (free file) and are using AI as an excuse because to admit that free-file is an existential threat to their business is to admit that their company has no long term business prospects.

This is the same middlebrow dismissal that AI advocates have been using for years.

"It's just a stochastic parrot." "How do you know that you aren't just a stochastic parrot?"

Well we do know. There are experts on human cognition. They have been studying it for decades. We may not know enough about it to know how to make a computer do it. But we certainly know enough about it to know when a computer chatbot is not doing it.

China never would have allowed these transfers to begin with. And if they did happen they would have been reversed with no recourse to the foreign investor. China has actually screwed foreign investors in a million different ways without any real response from the west.

"We were so poor we had to sell our private plane!"

I heard Biden is serious this time. He's going to send Bibi a very strongly written letter to accompany the next shipment of napalm.

Nobody ran in the primaries

That's because the party elite told all the strong candidates to stay out and "wait their turn."

If the party wanted someone diffrent they should have got someone else during the primaries.

The Democrats ratfucked the primaries. They even rearranged the states to make it easier for Biden!

Yeah even a senile biden is better at public speaking than Kamala.

And he’s getting results.

On the flip side I got ten emails from Democrats yesterday telling me that our entire country stands on a precipice and the whole thing pretty much rides on me making a donation.

So you know, they're showing some urgency on that side of it.

I feel like people who said he had a good conference are either

• back to covering for him or
• have been caught in the "boiling frog" of Biden's long decline that they have a warped sense of what people expect from their president.

I watched maybe half of it. It was painful. He was mumbly. He misspoke. He lost his train of thought. His expressions and body language were stiff and unnatural. Occasionally he remembered some talking points and was able to regurgitate them without messing up too badly.

If the guy we saw last night was my waiter at a restaurant I would assume my food was going to arrive late, cold, and not be at all what I ordered.

I was just wondering what it'd be like to have a McKinsey president.

I guess his version of the Project 2025 would be to outsource the entire federal bureaucracy to India?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mtGkUAAfec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNb-7Cy_INo

Reminds me of this:

Remember the good old days when we got to choose between a giant douche and a turd sandwich?

has cool stories to tell

Biden has a history of telling crazy stories even before he went senile.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/politics/fact-check-biden-amtrak-grandfather-pittsburgh-bridge-debt/index.html

Kamala is literally the only person in politics who would be a worse candidate than Joe...

And then spent the next several cycles systematically forcing anyone who supported him out of the party.