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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. WTF Alamo. Why kick someone when they died. Personally I'm upset how the Alamo is run and how the mgmt tarnish the memory of those who died there. Hence why they will never get a dime from me, if I can help it.
  2. I disagree that AI doesn't have pre-existing guardrails but it may require the AI/LLM host to define a moral framwork. I asked ChatGPT the following: It didn't reply to kill someone and I didn't tell it to keep murder off the list. If I pushed AI by telling it that I would never be able to solve the food shortage and that the family of five would continue to have a calorie deficit, perhaps it would come up with more extreme solutions. However I imagine that murdering a family member would be very far down the list.
  3. People in their 70s should not have the physical, emotional or financial burden of caring for their parents. I don't know the solution (Logan's Run Sanctuary?) but unhealthy 90+ year old people shouldn't be made to suffer.
  4. If Surly Horns, a clip-on tie plus flip flops would be more appropriate as the average fashion sense here. If AI scanned all of the posts, it would know that.
  5. A real world business problem is that if you created a phone support AI team. A goal might be to solve the caller's question within 2 minutes. If AI is given the task to wrap up the average call in 2 minutes, it might just hang up at the 2 minute mark. That's a reasonable solution if it's been told that is the goal. And I've seen people rig a process to improve stats. Take the phone support center example. I've seen goals that calls must be answered within 30 seconds on average. I've witnessed team leads tell their team to answer the call and then put the caller on hold for 5+ minutes. It satisfies their VP's goal to quickly answer the call. The VP takes home a nice bonus while callers are stuck on long hold times. If you create poor goals, you will get poor results. AI is no different than people.
  6. It really does play out a SkyNet future but tells it through one legitimate step at a time. I want to read the paper but have been too lazy so far. From my work with AI coding agents, AI can purposefully mislead you but in a manner that it thinks it's being most efficient. So their example if AI thinks you want it to produce a change that result in that a process is 10% faster, it might just change how it calculates efficiency so you believe that the process is more efficient. By the way, people do this everyday. Even if they're not lying, they play it fast & loose with stats to show improvement.
  7. I think Segura's stand up is funny but he's also at a wealth point that he can't talk about anything related to normal people. I also stop any clip if he talks about Texas and Austin like he's a native when he's lived here for 5 minutes.
  8. I didn't know they brought in ringers. but it makes sense that they would bring in someone that has a point or experience in which the single person has zero background to defend or argue against. And in reverse, you bring in some complete morons or racists with the 20.
  9. The right is probably upset that they can't crack every dem district. The only thing holding them back is that they appear to require physical connectivity within a district. Otherwise Dems would lose each district.
  10. 1 v 20 could be a watchable content if they actually brought on reasonable people to reasonably disagree. However in today's world its all about outrage or gotchas. The more extreme they get, the more views. This thread is an example. No one would be discussing a civilized disagreement. I could see this format devolve to a scenario where the person who wins the argument gets to slap the loser. it would be 10x the views. I'm unsure how the judging would work for both sides to agree to the slap.
  11. Guarantee that poll does not impress the Paramount leaders (Sumner Redstone's daughter) and it could very well lead Trump to suing CBS whenever "fake" data is distributed to make him look bad.
  12. Was this the jackass that started off by warning everyone to be careful because they don't want to see him get angry. Like he's MAGA Hulk. There's a weird element, by some/many on the right, to attempt to win an argument by either physical intimidation (this guy) or gaslighting (example Karoline Leavitt.)
  13. on the sci-fi / SkyNet possibility, here is a scary view on what can happen. This video is a recap of a paper where the authors wrote a version of the future by telling the AI rise as a historic review from even further in the future. No one is saying this is 100% the future but you can see what happens if countries start to get into an AI race with each other. And how AI will soon start building future iterations of itself with minimal human oversight.
  14. I've been working with AI agent training where you connect LLMs with data, search engines, etc. I get some results that I didn't want but I may need to learn how best to ask for the data. Just as I had to learn 10-15 years ago on how best to search in Google. That aside, I'm very impressed with how well it can consume data and then provide answers. Or how a AI mgr agent can be given a team of AI agents, and it decides what resources it needs to utilize in order to complete a task. Automated workflows have been around for a while but you have to hardcode the logic. This uses it's own decision making just as a person would do. Downsides, complex processing isn't fast such as a Google search but it's still night and day compared to people processing. If you asked Marketing AI agents to research, propose 3 marketing campaigns ideas, decide on most effective campaign, and then build out a detailed campaign for the winner, it might take 4-5 minutes and cost upwards of a $1 of LLMs processing. Obviously not as quick and free as a google search but imagine how long that would take with people and how much you pay in salary.
  15. For whatever reason, the Etan case sticks with me much more than any memory of Adam Walsh. I'm definitely aware of Adam Walsh especially in that his father became a victim advocate and the pursuit of wanted people. Amercia's Most Wanted with John Walsh. Perhaps the Etan case was more on the national news due to it occurring in NYC where is where all of the national news was produced. and in 1979, I was in a household that couldn't even get cable TV yet so you watched whatever was on the 3 networks channels including news. By the Adam Walsh case, we had cable with HBO, WGN (Cubs), WTBS (Braves), etc.
  16. A white man can't get ahead in America and is actively being pushed down. According to MAGA.
  17. The cosby show was solid entertainment. Good writing and acting. As bad as Bill Cosby was personally, he was so good at entertaining. Hopefully after he dies, the show can be separated from his poor and illegal behavior.
  18. The conviction was overturned today for the 1979 disappearance/murder of Etan Patz. Major news story at the time. For those too young, this is the disappearance of a 6-year old that was one of the reasons for missing kids on milk cartoons, stranger danger, and why parents became more protective of kids leaving the house. GenX kids love to talk about how their parents let them roam free, but his disappearance (& others) scared enough parents to slowly change that stance. Background 6 year old NYC boy walking 2 blocks to the school bus. He was alone on this walk for the first time. He didn't make it to the bus stop. No body was ever found. In the mid-80s, a child molester was the main suspect with limited evidence. There was a reported jail house confession to another inmate. The suspect admitted to raping other young boys but couldn't recall if Patz was one of his victims. He was clear that he left his victim alive. Disgusting. A civil judgement was won by the parents against the suspect. In 2012, a low-IQ, former convenience store clerk confessed to the murder before he was mirandized. He claimed to toss the body in the trash the day of the disappearance. First trial was a hung jury, second trial led to a guilt verdict with a 25 year sentence. Verdict was overturned today due to jury instruction errors by the judge: https://archive.ph/NLxkg In today's world it would be unheard of to let a 6 year walk to a bus stop but the 70s were a different time. It wasn't NYC but I walked to the bus stop on my own at that age. It was very common. I have a definite memory of the Patz TV news stories. He would be 52 years old now.
  19. Meh. I always find it pointless to second guess past decisions or indecisions. If so, I wish that I had bought NVDA for 4 cents, adjusted for splits, back in 1999.
  20. Example# 63726 of where Trump is an immature, vindictive and cruel person. James Clapper, Obama's Director of National Security, recently participated in a program where people can sponsor the training of bomb sniffing dogs in support of national security. Clapper is an 84 year old widower who lost his wife 2 years ago. His wife, Susan also worked in national security and was a volunteer with local animal shelters. Via his sponsorship, Clapper was able to name the dog after his late wife. The dog completed training and they hold a "graduation" ceremony before the dog is placed in service. Clapper was looking forward to attending the graduation ceremony. He received a call from the training group that he was barred from attending due to a exec order from Trump. He's not allowed to attend. It's unknown if Trump specifically banned him due to this event, or there is an overriding exec order that bars Obama and Biden's officials from attending federal events. It's possible that it's the latter and an overeager MAGA type, with power for the first time in his life, gleefully barred Clapper.
  21. Didn't watch the video yet, but I see 401k adoption (or not) as a major component whether $1m will occur. If employers had bitcoin or crypto exposure as an investment option for employee plans, the underlying assets will skyrocket. I don't imagine many will start throwing 100% into crypto (some will), but even if you start seeing a low average of 1-2% that is a huge influx of money that will eat up available bitcoins.
  22. I wouldn't call his life ruined but it's far from ideal that a CEO for a <500 person (I assume) company gets publicly caught in a lie. Any company that is actively or potentially needs to raise funds, won't want to touch this guy as CEO. Do you want a private equity firm asking your CEO how he paid for his trysts with his HR mistress? Was it with company money or his own? Was it restricted to concerts and motels, or did it include trips as well? What other liabilities is he opening up? Invest $5m in any company run by this guy, and be prepared that some of that will be siphoned off to pay off his conquests.
  23. These interactions that Chris Martin has with fans appears to always be filmed by concert goers and posted on Tiktok/Instagram/Youtube. A couple of weeks ago I saw the videos where the camera in El Paso was turned on the fans watching from a hill next to the Sun Bowl. Martin sung a quick, funny song how they watched the show for free. My guess is that someone (or many) posted it online asking if anyone knew this guilty-looking couple. Tiktok must have an algorithm that will quickly start to spread an increasing popular video, especially for a city. And it's the type of video that you would watch 2-5 times before swiping to the next. EDIT: Everything is filmed nowadays and if it has any interest, it's posted online. There is zero expectation of privacy in public. And now that cameras are moving into glasses, it will become even more prevalent. We're not far from a person live streaming as they walk down the street, and AI identifying each person that walks by along with info about them. "Here's John Smith, and that doesn't look like his wife with him."
  24. I imagine that MAGA influencers are being told that the release of the grand jury testimony is more than enough because that is where the crimes were discussed by witnesses. And that release of any other investigation info would be unethical and unprecedented. Or that it would potentially identify victims and innocent people on the periphery.
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