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zdo
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AI hallucinates.
No agent, biological or digital, is reliable if it hallucinates...
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Piezo. ... Just sayin'
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"We see again and again, within environmental organizations, within leftist political groups, the same bullying of underlings, the same power grabs, the same egoistic rivalries as we see everywhere else. If these are played out in our organizations, how can we hope that they won't be played out in the world we create should we be victorious?" Charles Eisenstein just sayin'
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23 hours ago, analyst75 said:The only thing that actually causes inflation is printing money.
Between 2020 and 2022 alone, 40% of all money ever created in history appeared overnight.
Thx for reminding us... I don't bang that drum often enough anymore
Another part for consideration is who that money initially went to...
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QuoteRe: Trade and Tariffs. Fkn drop this fentanyl boolsht... focus on reciprocity... bust the inequities. re “free trade” vs “fair trade”, Friedman wasn’t considering having to deal with the likes of the CCP, etc. Contrary to the narratives they’ve beat into their own heads and the narratives they are trying to beat into us, the US was not built on their countries’ backs. The US economy emerged on its own. A more accurate narrative accentuates that they were all built/rebuilt with our help... mostly after globalist kinetic, ideological ( and trade) wars. Examples are Germany, France, etc. Japan, Korea, smaller SE Asian countries, etc. and then, via some MONSTER lies, China during the 80’s, 90’s, 00,s... ... Fk this “we don’t want a trade war” narrative ! We’re already in a trade war and have been in one for decades now. All those countries and mouthpieces who are hypocritically whining have been charging more tariffs than we have for fkn decades. Going forward - If other countries’ gov’ts subsidize and engage in theft, make them pay.
... just sayin’
Hello citizens of the U.S.
The hundred year trade war has leaked over into a trading war. Your equity holdings are under attack by huge sovereign funds shorting relentlessly... running basically the opposite of PPT operations. As an American you are blessed to be totally responsible for your own assets - the govt won’t and can’t take care of you, your lame ass whuss ‘retail’ fund managers go catatonic and can't / won’t help you, etc etc.... If you’re going to hold your positions, it’s on you to hedge your holdings.
Don’t blame Trump, don’t blame the system, don’t even blame the ‘enemies’ - ie don’t blame period. Just occupy the freedom and responsibility you have and act.
The only mistake ‘Trump’ made so far was not to warn you more explicitly and remind you of your options to hedge weeks ago. FWIW when Trump got elected... I also failed to explicitly remind you... just sayin’
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“The democratic party is now purposefully controlled by an extremely radical 10% of the membership... “ That leaves most traditional democratic and millions of independent voters unrepresented. Will they recognize that and do something about it? We’ll see ...
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Big picture Fiscal situation: ‘they’ got about 8 weeks max to turn the ship ... pass ‘radical’ bills, etc. etc etc ... or Trump’s 2nd term is wrecked... a waste... a stupid interruption on the way to the end of the road ... when and where the can can no longer be kicked... nothing has happened for decades and decades and decades, now ‘decades’ need to happen in a few weeks... odds are low...
And as far as the US economy goes ... ‘forget’ the media over and over narratives about (actually exploitive, btw) labor supply issues - Use our energy advantage to move productivity here. Trump needs to continue to aggressively MOVE capital OUT of the gov’t. ... needs to hasten the transition out of the ‘biden’ economy. Stop the trivial tweaking the economy with threats and retreats. Don’t worry or blabber about consumer sentiment and activity... it’s about time for a fkn return to good consumer practices at the individual and family levels anyways...Don’t fall for the deflation bs either...
Re: Trade and Tariffs. Fkn drop this fentanyl boolsht... focus on reciprocity... bust the inequities. re “free trade” vs “fair trade”, Friedman wasn’t considering having to deal with the likes of the CCP, etc. Contrary to the narratives other 'cultures' have beat into their own heads and the narratives they are trying to beat into us, the US was not built on their countries’ backs. The US economy emerged on its own. A more accurate narrative accentuates that they were all built/rebuilt with our help... mostly after globalist kinetic, ideological ( and trade) wars. Examples are Germany, France, etc. Japan, Korea, smaller SE Asian countries, etc. and then, via some MONSTER lies, China during the 80’s, 90’s, 00,s... Russia is the prime example of a country too stubborn to accept a 'rebuild'... . Anyways, fk this “we don’t want a trade war” narrative ! We’re already in a trade war and have been in one for decades now. All those countries and mouthpieces who are hypocritically whining have been charging more tariffs than we have for fkn decades. Going forward - If other countries’ gov’ts subsidize and engage in theft, make them pay.
... just sayin’
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The democratic party is now purposefully controlled by an extremely radical 10% of the membership... So ... “follow the money” - above the surface you’ll find all the distorted screamers and ‘woke’ corporate fascists , near the surface disturbed technocratic ‘billionaires’, and in the depths you’ll find the CCP ... which is voraciously buying as many politicians as possible...
Gave In Newsom is prime example... he will now temporarily move to the center or wherever the CCP tells him to move, but make no mistake he’s itching to resume his failed extreme policies.. more and more governmental capture of capital, etc etc - all of which serve nothing but damage to an aging republic... just sayin'
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My dominant concern with how AI will unfold world wide is that it is being trained to control population (ie being trained to manage depopulation ) by those with a bias - they ‘care’ about humankind but do not give a fkn sht about humans.
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“re” means over and over. Contrary to what you have been / are being taught - here is something that needs to be repeated millions of times.
FDR / newDeal made things worse! Today, “woke services” are making things worse!
Just sayin’
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re TikTok
Recently metafakebook made what was apparently a move to stay aligned with ‘culture’ - no more fact ‘checking’, no more censorhip... basically ‘Zucker’ was shown that his mission was failing because they were only building profiles on ‘useful idiots’ instead of those who oppose the great centralization (... just like long ago he only saw campus potential and had to be shown the promise and rewarded for fronting the great spyware and social engineering project called Fakebook)... ie they could have replaced him long ago
In the same vein, who holds ‘title’ to tiktok doesn’t matter either... it will remain a spyware project regardless of who ‘buys’ it... and the data will forever be available to the CCP
Just sayin’
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Omobola,
As an engineer surely you have money to buy a ticket to Monterey, Mexico... just a hop and a jump from there to Texas...
hth
zdo
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"To make more capable, powerful AI models, developers need a steady flow of fresh data to train their models on. However, they’re starting to run out. Current generative AIs have scraped everything from the Internet that can be scraped.
The alternative is to use “synthetic” data—training data generated by earlier forms of AI instead of original sources found on the Internet.
Using synthetic data is tempting. It’s cheaper than licensing datasets (an increasingly common requirement); there’s virtually no limit to the amount of data, text, or images AIs can create; and no one’s privacy is violated.
The problem is that, over several generations, AIs trained synthetically develop what has been called “Model Autophagy Disorder,” or MAD, by the researchers at Rice University who discovered it.
They like the acronym “MAD” because it’s similar to “Mad Cow Disease,” a calamitous, fatal brain disease that turned up in beef cattle in the 1980s when they were fed the ground-up remains of their butchered colleagues.
The word “autophagy” is a combination of the Greek “auto,” meaning self, and “phagy,” to eat.
After training successive visual AI models on synthesized data, the scientists found a disturbing pattern: images of faces began to show grid-patterned scratch marks and eventually began more and more to look like the same face.
Images of numbers gradually distorted until they became a mass of unintelligible squiggles.
“Even after a few generations of such training, the new models can become irreparably corrupted,” computer engineer Richard Baraniuk said in a university press statement.
As synthetic data, and synthetically trained AIs, proliferate online, the problem will feed on itself and become steadily worse, he warned.
“One doomsday scenario is that if left uncontrolled for many generations, MAD could poison the data quality and diversity of the entire Internet,” Baraniuk said. “Short of this, it seems inevitable that as-to-now-unseen unintended consequences will arise from AI autophagy even in the near term.
“Without enough fresh real data,” he added, “future generative models are doomed to MADness.”
TRENDPOST: If AI developers come to believe that it is no longer possible to advance generative AI much beyond its current state, two things will happen.
First, engineers will switch from developing new models to tweaking existing ones and continue customizing them to make off-the-shelf versions for specific industries.
Second, developers will turn their obsession with AI power from generative systems to general AI, which can reason and make decisions without the need for human guidance.
That day might be closer than any of us, including AI engineers, are ready to deal with."
Zgbs73
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Depressions aren't real either... ??
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Dear B4 #42,
I heard you can't get out of bed and decided you were going celibate and shaved your head and “reconsidered” having children. If it took Trump getting elected to get you to stop fkn every Dum, Harry, and Dick you meet, we’ll take it. thx
Sincerely just sayin’
zdo
PS To all the other girls I loved B4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVq0ONrSH-Q
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Nothing wrong with being a ‘progressive’. Nothing wrong with being a ‘conservative’.
Very generally, ‘conservatives’ have preponderance of the here and now neurotransmitters, prefer empirical references, the rule of law, and value individual agency (It has been said that conservatives love humans and progressives love humanity) .
Very generally, ‘progressives’ are dopaginaric - driven by passion for a better possible future, prefer references to others (Example Karmela won’t answer questions with facts. She cites the opinion of 18 ‘experts’), have a penchant for rule by man/mobs not by law , and value ‘societal' agency.
However, excesses of either tendency indicates mental illness, collective malaise, and has consequences. When either camp is systematically captured by control seekers and/or, situationally by mobs, the whole is lessened. A key sign that is occurring is when one side no longer allows disagreement. Progressives have currently gone crazy in those excesses and are no longer allowing anything but unithought... examples -
You can still be a vocal pro choice republican. Try being a vocal pro life democrat. For snicks just try it. You’ll get cancelled.
Bust a myth about blacks in America, true up the real history of Republicans ending slavery and what has happened since, how the democrats are the party of the KKK, how Obama did not a fkn thang for blacks in general, be a black republican, etc. You will get canceled in a heartbeat.
Step up and question the social agendas of federally subsidized schools at a board meeting... get treated like shit and also get an immediate case number with the FBI ...
Question the requirements to watch and lickkiss the 'rainbows' and also make sure your kids show up for it, not to mention fund transitions out of your pocket and see what you get ‘labeled’
Question mainstream media bias - even just to mention that biased, agenda driven narrative is different from truth in reporting - and see what happens to your voice...
Excesses have consequences... imbalances have consequences... just sayin’
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The only thing Karmela has made her positions clear on and really stood up for this whole dam campaign is abortion ‘rights’. A lot of ‘liberal’ women don’t understand how men can have ANY say in the matter. “It’s my body” etc etc. Well, men start to get a say when the interests of the unborn male or female person are completely fkn disregarded - that’s when. I don’t quite know what it’s like to go through utero process in an unloved, or maybe worse, an ambivalent ‘field’, but speaking as a human, adoption seems to be preferable to a saline abortion or a knitting needles abortion or a drug that starves the fetus to death abortion or a plain old standard black clinical abortion. Karmela has definitely not made friends with unborn babies... Tim Tampon Walz also hasn’t made friends with unborn babies. Instead he literally said “I’ve made friends with school shooters”. Folks on some levels it’s ok to be a school shooter if it’s ok to be an abortion doctor... both performing the same task... both ending lives. Absurd? Yes. But no more absurd than the devaluation of life shit ‘social engineering’ is attempting to normalize... just sayin’
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As I shouted 4 years ago folks, the cheat is on. The easiest states are those like PA where you can mail in as many votes as you need to win ... postmarked even after election day.
All the media has to do is repeat over and over again is how close it is...
just sayin'
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The income tax saga is even a better example than this but is too long and complicated so...
Things every US citizen should know and remember about Social Security
Short History Lesson on Your Social Security Card . . . Just in case some of you didn't know this... and it doesn't matter whether you are ‘progressive or ‘conservative . . . If you don't believe, Facts are Facts ... it's easy to check out...
Franklin Roosevelt, a progressive Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program.He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary.
No longer Voluntary
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program.
Now 7.65% on the first $90,000.
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year.
No longer tax deductible
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program.
Under Democrat President Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent.
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Under Democrats Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed.Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.
Actually, Democrat President Kennedy and Sergeant Shriver were the first ones to misuse the Social Security account. They used Social Security funds to start the Peace Corps. Not the first or last time our money has been taken from American citizens and given to foreign governments.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we were taxed and paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democrat Party.Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!Q: Which Political P arty expanded the scope of the Social Security retirement program to include 'disablities'
A:Who fkn cares... Point is that should be an entirely different program... distinct from 'retirement' program
Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! Old Soviet / Saul Alinsky trick - accuse the other side of what you are perpetrating... -
One more thing re: the debate - no one mentioned the national 'debt', / the printing of fake money that literally IS the massive inflation?
No one mentioned the 100 nations planning to 'join' the BRICS starting in 2025... and boy are they ever in for a shock...
ALL of us lost in that debate, americans, europeans, indians, middle easterners, mexicans, asians, australians, etc etc . ... just sayin’
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re: The debate. Imo, both lost
Trump: nothing new = “old”. His Worst fail - Didn’t really freshly elucidate policies
Harris: Didn’t run far away from Biden and certainly didn’t run far enough from her herself and her own past ... ie now ‘running’ as a moderate as a moderate (and being ‘painted’ by the media as a moderate) when she has always been the opposite of a moderate before... big lies are easier than little lies, etc, etc. Hm ... more of the "We got 70 days to act right, y'all. Now, after 70 days, we can go back to acting crazy, right?" Rev. Mark Thompson on Day 3 of the DNC in Chicago. Her Worst fail - Didn’t really reveal any policies...
In a way, the debate was 3 against 1... Examples: Trump was ‘fact’ checked 5 times. Harris was ‘fact’ checked 0 times - while she told at least 7 little stinkers of her own that also should have been ‘fact’ checked... not to mention the big lies about what she want’s for / to do to the ‘republic’, the constitution / bill of rights. ...such as - just bcse she has a gun does not mean she wants you to have one... etc, etc.
Anyways, they all 4 delivered their lines and ALL of us lost. ... just sayin’
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If you not a ‘collectivist’ when you are 20 you don’t have much of a heart. If you’re still a ‘collectivist’ when you are 30, you don’t have much of a brain.
Just sayin’... and painting with a real wide roller ☺️ ...
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Karmela had a bad dream last night. In the dream, she was being interviewed by an independent journalist.
Interviewer: “Vice President Harris, you have asserted you would use price controls. Are you aware that price controls have never worked anywhere they were tried - Soviet Russia, the US in the 1930’s and in the 70’s, South America, Africa, Europe... wherever ?
Karmela: “It depends on the situation. When the proletariat ‘people’ are ‘suffering’ ,we must accomplish something politically...even if it’s wrong economically”
Interviewer: “At root, price controls are a marxist procedure. Are you a marxist?”
Karmela: “No I am not a Marxist. I’m offended you would even ask me that. Being aligned with Marxists is not the same as being a Marxist. I’m ‘just doing my job’ saying what they tell me to say..."
She almost ‘woke up' in the dream, but never got to a place where she could actualize any content. Her experiences in this dream were that she was shocked she was saying what she was saying... That shock almost roused her from sleep ... then it moved on to another dream... When she woke up in the morning that shock was almost all she remembered from the dream...
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Advisor says “We need a populist win. Let’s ‘negotiate’ a deal with pharma for them to drop or hold the prices on a bunch of drugs... and we can swell that way up with the dummies with speeches, mentions, and news bites. ... main thing is to definitely NOT inform the public that most of the drugs on that list are due to go generic in the next couple of years anyway... [voice goes to almost a whisper] Pharma takes a tiny hit for the team but remains a selected ‘winner’...”
We are way past cynical... I’m just sayin’
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Dear Google and Karmela,
"City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man, and she won't have to worry
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You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' " ads.
just sayin',
zdo
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...hallucinates....
Student: “What if we gave the monkey LSD?”
Guru: “The monkey already did LSD”