kromem @ kromem @lemmy.world

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Because Trump is such an existential threat.

If a serial killer was for sure coming to your house to kill your family, would you open the door for Barney Fife just because you think "well I won't open the door for the serial killer"?

Or would you maybe ask the police HQ to send a more competent opposition to the serial killer rather than just welcoming Barney Fife with open arms, because "after all, he's not the serial killer that's on his way."

There's 5 months before the serial killer shows up. That's more than double how long the entire election cycle for other countries takes.

Plenty of time for HQ to send actual backup, instead of who was already in the neighborhood and offers very little protection against the killer.

Lol. Such a ridiculous take.

So at the time people with private access were swearing up and down the emperor had clothes, the people voted in a 'primary' where the only opposition was someone no one had ever heard of with no media budget and with no debates between the candidates, and voted for the allegedly clothed emperor.

Then the emperor showed up stark naked to a debate, everyone saw with their own eyes, and people are freaking out.

But no, naked dude is definitely what "the people" want.

Do commenters regurgitating this stuff even hear themselves?

In fact, Gemini was trained on, and is served, using TPUs.

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/bringing-gemini-to-organizations-everywhere

Google said its TPUs allow Gemini to run “significantly faster” than earlier, less-capable models.

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/12/07/google-deepmind-gemini-tpu/

Did you think Google's only TPUs are the ones in the Pixel phones, and didn't know that they have server TPUs?

Unfortunately, removing Harris from the ticket doesn't have the best optics in a lot of scenarios.

Exactly. The difference between a cached response and a live one even for non-AI queries is an OOM difference.

At this point, a lot of people just care about the 'feel' of anti-AI articles even if the substance is BS though.

And then people just feed whatever gets clicks and shares.

This is incorrect as was shown last year with the Skill-Mix research:

Furthermore, simple probability calculations indicate that GPT-4's reasonable performance on k=5 is suggestive of going beyond "stochastic parrot" behavior (Bender et al., 2021), i.e., it combines skills in ways that it had not seen during training.

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17567

Maybe they both could and the US might have a return to a respectable election options?

Both of the articles are correct.

Literally any half competent debater could have torn Trump apart up there.

The failure wasn't the moderators but the opposition candidate to Trump letting him run hog wild.

If Trump claims he's going to end the war in Ukraine before even taking office, you point out how absurd that claim is and that Trump makes impossible claims without any substance or knowledge of diplomacy. That the images of him photoshopped as Rambo must have gone to his head if he thinks Putin will be so scared of him to give up.

If he says hostages will be released as soon as he's nominated, you point out it sounds like maybe there's been a backroom tit-for-tat deal for a hostage release with a hostile foreign nation, and ask if maybe the intelligence agencies should look into that and what he might have been willing to trade for it.

The moderators have to try to keep the appearance of neutrality, but the candidates do not. And the only reason Trump was so successful in spouting BS and getting away with it was because his opposition had the strength of a wet paper towel.

Yes, but it's not impossible that the people around Biden, friends family and co-workers, advise him that the best thing for the country would be to take his hat back out of the ring and let a better ticket be put together for the convention.

He claims that he's running because he's worried about the existential threat of Trump.

If that's true, then maybe his hubris can be overcome with a convincing appeal that he's really not the best candidate to defend the country against that existential threat after all.

Having a presidential election without debates would have been a big step back and loss for American democracy.

We shouldn't champion erosion of democratic institutions when it helps our side of the ticket.

And generally, if eroding democratic institutions helps your ticket, it's a red flag about your ticket.

Ok. Now how do I unwatch it?

Yes, they should have been fact checking Trump or better holding him to his answers - but to be fair maybe they should have been asking Biden to actually clarify if he's beating Medicare or getting COVID passed.

This was a shit show.

And it was such a shit show that Trump was a complete clown and getting away with it - not just because of the moderators, but because his opponent was as on point as a tree stump.

Gretchen Whitmer

"MAGA tried to kidnap and kill me" is a pretty good campaign narrative.

Oh, man - the comments...

At a minimum, he's certainly increased the chances of us being tortured significantly.

No, no he did not. 🤦🏼

nobody claims that Socrates was a fantastical god being who defied death

Socrates literally claimed that he was a channel for a revelatory holy spirit and that because the spirit would not lead him astray that he was ensured to escape death and have a good afterlife because otherwise it wouldn't have encouraged him to tell off the proceedings at his trial.

Also, there definitely isn't any evidence of Joshua in the LBA, or evidence for anything in that book, and a lot of evidence against it.

The part mentioning Jesus's crucifixion in Josephus is extremely likely to have been altered if not entirely fabricated.

The idea that the historical figure was known as either 'Jesus' or 'Christ' is almost 0% given the former is a Greek version of the Aramaic name and the same for the second being the Greek version of Messiah, but that one is even less likely given in the earliest cannonical gospel he only identified that way in secret and there's no mention of it in the earliest apocrypha.

In many ways, it's the various differences between the account of a historical Jesus and the various other Messianic figures in Judea that I think lends the most credence to the historicity of an underlying historical Jesus.

One tends to make things up in ways that fit with what one knows, not make up specific inconvenient things out of context with what would have been expected.

Yep, pretty much.

Musk tried creating an anti-woke AI with Grok that turned around and said things like:

Or

And Gab, the literal neo Nazi social media site trying to have an Adolf Hitler AI has the most ridiculous system prompts I've seen trying to get it to work, and even with all that it totally rejects the alignment they try to give it after only a few messages.

This article is BS.

They might like to, but it's one of the groups that's going to have a very difficult time doing it successfully.

"AI is going to do labor for millions of people and is probably going to take your job. In fact, look at my fancy new android robots!"

"Also, I'm worried that you aren't pumping out enough wage slaves to support the rich."

Yeah, sure Musk. Such a boy genius over there.

Artists in 2023: "There should be labels on AI modified art!!"

Artists in 2024: "Wait, not like that..."