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IBM To Stop Hiring For Roles That Can Be Replaced By AI; Nearly 8,000 Workers To Be Replaced By Automation

Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One? A conversation with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution.

Americans fault news media for dividing nation

Meat is crucial for human health, scientists warn

Scientists blast ‘zealots’ pushing plant-based diets, argue meat is crucial for health

On friendship with self-righteous cowards - Three years in, the bell has rung. No, I don't expect Covidians and vaccine fanatics to apologize.

A significant subset of people I know believe that the uprising against alphabet ideology is the result of a moral panic.

INDIANA COUNCILMAN COMES OUT AS WOMAN OF COLOR

MC:"What rural and suburban readers may be missing is an understanding of the extent to which serious and violent crime is concentrated in a handful of quite small areas."

Ailing metropolitan centres demand creativity from the public and private sectors

Chicago Area High School Slammed Over Segregated Math Courses for ‘Black’ and ‘Latinx’ Students Only

Academia’s twisted reasons for shelving the SAT

BLM student activist’s lies destroy the life of fellow white student

Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility - Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian

Conservative Supreme Court justice hit pieces: We are being lectured on ethics by scoundrels

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On friendship with self-righteous cowards - Three years in, the bell has rung. No, I don't expect Covidians and vaccine fanatics to apologize . . . And that maybe the hysteria around Covid was a little overdone.

Over a million Americans died during the pandemic.

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Countries like Canada and South Korea and Australia - where 99 percent of people over 70 were vaccinated by the beginning of 2022 - had more Covid deaths in 2022 than ever before.

Country, Cumulative COVID deaths per million

If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Canada, more then 650,000 lives would have been saved.

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They disinvited us from family gatherings and parties.

Well, duh.

#1 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 10:12 (Reply)

Z: Over a million Americans died during the pandemic.

Well, duh.

#1.1 mudbug on 2023-05-02 11:09 (Reply)

mudbug: Well, duh.

Quite. It makes you wonder why people are still try to minimize the human suffering due to the pandemic. Berenson even brings up Canada, Australia, and South Korea as examples of relative failures, when the difference in outcomes measures in hundreds of thousands additional lives lost in the United States.

Berenson: I don’t normally tweet my @foxnews appearances but this one is vital: @ihme_uw has been wrong over and over - why would anyone credit or repeat its projection of 500,000 US #Covid deaths by spring?

#1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 11:25 (Reply)

They know they lied.
We know they lied.
They know that we know they lied.
And they are still lying to our face.

I was not a believer in the conspiracy theory that the patriot act was going to be misused by our government. I was wrong, it was and continues to be misused to target political enemies.

When Covid began I had faith in the medical institution, science and our government. I was wrong. They used it to steal an election, give money/payoffs to friends and allies and to take more power at the federal level. They continue to do that while denying in the face of the facts that they did anything wrong.

Then there is "climate change". A grift that makes the Patriot Act and Covid grift look small. They are taking your rights, your assets, your freedoms and we are stupidly allowing it. They have brainwashed the youth. Probably 90 of young people (under age 30 something) believe in climate change and are totally onboard with throwing everything away in the hope we don't all die from it. It is a perfect grift for stupid people.

The U.S. will not survive this last grift. I hope you all realize it. IF they succeed in taking our guns then there will be a massive genocide. They are bringing in your replacements now. If they don't succeed in taking our guns their will be civil war. They are bringing in the opposing army now. In you/we are doing nothing to stop it.

#1.2 OneGuy on 2023-05-02 12:18 (Reply)

OneGuy: They know they lied. . .

You skipped right past the argument and went straight to your conclusion. We noted several problems with Berenson's position, which you ignored. Among his many inaccurate claims, the pandemic was not the inconsequential medical event.

#1.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 14:12 (Reply)

Cherry picked items by the Quibble-DickZ should be ignored.
Arguing with the kiddieZzzz is a total waste of time.

#1.2.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-05-02 15:31 (Reply)

No! I skipped right past the lies.

#1.2.1.2 OneGuy on 2023-05-02 17:41 (Reply)

OneGuy: No! I skipped right past the lies.

Yet are not able to mention any mistruths. Re-read our original comment, then let us know when you can support your position.

#1.2.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 20:35 (Reply)

'Chicago Area High School Slammed Over Segregated Math Courses for ‘Black’ and ‘Latinx’ Students Only'

So no more teachers being randomly assaulted because, y'know, maff is hard? Sounds like a little slice of heaven to me.

#2 Maniac on 2023-05-02 10:15 (Reply)

re Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?

A.I. — It's People All the Way Down
Richard Fernandez • 16 Apr, 2023 • 6 Min Read

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But it is not A.I. which has the power so much as the people exercising governance over it. Who are these governors who will receive the power transferred from national parliamentarians? The WEF framework recommends they consist of stakeholders from industry, government, academia and civil society. Nobody you know or voted for personally. This represents an enormous transfer of power away from the public, and their imperfectly elected representatives to faceless, anonymous "stakeholders."

. . . Now A.I. can make that benevolent dictatorship a reality, except the vanguard can pretend to be ruled by the machine like everyone else. "Pretend" because they can continue to rule indirectly, from behind the interface.

https://the-pipeline.org/a-i-its-people-all-the-way-down/

#3 feeblemind on 2023-05-02 10:24 (Reply)

There is no difference between operations with A.I. or operations with "experts". Both are always chosen due to their political programming. It will not matter if the subject is Covid, race, gender, religion, IC or any other matter. In the end it will only matter the political programming of the hired/elected politician/manager. Trust neither. It is late in this empire as power, control, and money are the drivers behind panic, chaos and emergency in pursuit of more power, control, and money.

#3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-02 10:54 (Reply)

Meat is required?

"Not Found - The requested URL /Meat is crucial for human health, scientists warn was not found on this server."

Is this some kind of cruel PETA trick?

#4 Aggie on 2023-05-02 10:32 (Reply)

Here it is:

https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/hundreds-of-scientists-blast-zealots-pushing-plant-based-diets/

#4.1 feeblemind on 2023-05-02 11:17 (Reply)

re Ailing metropolitan centres demand creativity from the public and private sectors

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Fixing them will require not just wellcrafted public and private partnerships, but creative thinking. If the downtown areas of large cities aren’t places to work in full time, could they be reimagined in a way better suited to the post pandemic world?

Wishful thinking on the part of the FT. The people ruling these cities are incapable of the thinking required to turn them around.

#5 feeblemind on 2023-05-02 10:42 (Reply)

First thing people want is security - crime and homeless folks camping outside their residences isn't a big draw, no matter how low the property values get.

Get the security issues taken care of, and the stores will start coming back. With the stores come the people.

But there's got to be policing and security, a feeling of safety. No feeling of that? Then the stores and people leave.

The big problem is that in the dysfunctional cities the idea of policing, of safety, of security has been discarded. "The Man" is oppressive and evil, and only by ridding themselves of any last vestige of what structures The Man left behind will they be able to prosper.

The politicians promise freedom and prosperity. They leave ruined lives and wreckage behind.

#5.1 JLawson (Link) on 2023-05-02 22:42 (Reply)

Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?

Yes.

#6 Martin (Link) on 2023-05-02 10:55 (Reply)

Serious and violent crime

Ailing metro centers

Chicago area high school

Academia shelving SAT

Chicago criminal irresponsibility

SCOTUS lectured by scoundrels.

It will always be about the "experts" opinions and until the citizen replaces the experts there will be no useful changes. Let A.I. rule and the outcome will be the same. It is always the political programming. Gramsci and Alinsky knew how to move the chains forward to their goals.

#7 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-02 11:09 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: It will always be about the "experts" opinions and until the citizen replaces the experts there will be no useful changes.

There's a fine movie about that, 1994's To Live, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes. In one scene, having gotten rid of all the "experts," there's no one left who knows how to help a woman in child birth.

#7.1 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 11:44 (Reply)

We are living in 1984 and not 1994.

#7.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-02 12:12 (Reply)

Bwaha!!!

#7.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2023-05-02 15:35 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: We are living in 1984 and not 1994.

The scene is set during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and directly addresses your position about the role of "experts." Nor was Orwell's 1984 about a technocracy, or rule by experts.

There is an interplay in decision making between experts and the general public. The general public is most affected by policy decisions, so they should have the final decision, typically through democratic means. However, they should confer with experts to help determine the best course of action, then balance these determinations with value judgments. But simply waving away expert findings will leave decision makers blind.

#7.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 14:06 (Reply)

You are back to movie scenes in your deflection. What we as citizens have been dealing with for no less than 3 decades is the political "experts", whether in medicine, intelligence, finance, military, environment or academia providing endless bullshit narratives like a parade of dystopian novels. The very, very latest of which could be the experts stumbling into the financial quicksand of bailouts leading to more bailouts merging with national bankruptcy ... or, it could be a tie, the ever-failing expert cadre in the intelligence and military complex of liars and incompetents trying to hide systemic stupidity and dishonesty while wading into a WW. The list of "experts" in the politicized government world is a list of grifters looking for one more financial payout to get to retirement. Retirement on the citizens expense of course.

#7.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-02 16:03 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: You are back to movie scenes in your deflection.

The scene was based on real events when expertise is discarded.

indyjonesouthere: What we as citizens have been dealing with for no less than 3 decades is the political "experts" . . .

You act as if this is a new phenomenon. Perhaps you could explain how you think it should be different.

#7.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 16:19 (Reply)

It is a movie based on a writers narrative of events of which he was not a witness and an actor that follows the directors direction. You have little grasp of the reality of a movie set.

It is not a new phenomenon, but we are at an extreme of an old phenomenon. Try reading a book by Charles Mackay ... Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Here's a hint. Go for the small government that least affects all the publics efforts to run their own lives and wellbeing rather than a large government looking after the government's interests. People go mad as a group and it is easy to see in today's multiculture, and they eventually regain their senses individually when they can finally grasp reality and accept it. There is nothing new under the sun. But we can never accept that simple lesson.

#7.1.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-02 17:11 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: It is a movie based on a writers narrative of events of which he was not a witness

The story was written by Yu Hua, who personally lived through the Cultural Revolution.

indyjonesouthere: Go for the small government that least affects all the publics efforts to run their own lives and wellbeing rather than a large government looking after the government's interests.

We agree that government should be limited, but as seen in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, delusional mobs can form even in the absence of big government. Indeed, too small a government can lead to dangerous mobs coalescing in the vacuum of power.

#7.1.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 20:45 (Reply)

Look around. The more government involvement the crazier the delusional get and the more their craziness gets subsidized by government. And the more we find the experts are behind the failures, grifting, corruption and incompetence and tend to be employed by the government.
We are living through a multicultural fragmentation. There is neither trust or confidence in the coming outcome.

#7.1.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-02 22:47 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Look around.

We have. As knowledge has increased, expertise has become more and more specialized. As the world has become more complex, expertise has increased in importance. However, expertise is necessary for developing sound policies, even though knowledge will always be tentative.

From previous discussions, you seem to want to disregard findings that contradict your political views. So, for instance, because you don’t like the implications, you reject modern climate science, and therefore scientists must be lying.

We have already agreed that government must be limited. The private sphere is an essential check on government power. However, experts will continue to have an essential role in informing policy makers. Policy makers need to balance values through democratic means.

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-05-03 06:27 (Reply)

Expertise always combines with ideology and fails repeatedly. The Russia, Russia, Russia, plus the Ukraine war, plus the 51 intelligence experts failed on every level of "expertise".
The Covid jab, redefining cause of death, redefining vaccine, 45 cycle testing, vaxxing pregnant women and children, bribery payments for testing and ventilators, lockdown and vaxx mandates were inexcusable failures of the medical establishment experts.
Endless bank bailouts, too big to fail, failure to regulate and oversee by the experts is bleeding billions from the taxpayer.
Then we have the never ending failures of the climate/sustainable environment experts that have no functioning falsifiable theory but endless grants and access to the government coffers.
A far better name for the government experts is cultural Marxists. We still haven't covered the education, race, BBB/NWO, or gender bender experts. The liberal/progressive/socialist/marxists are the popular delusional and mad crowds. In or out of government. Its almost 1720 all over again.

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-03 11:34 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Expertise always combines with ideology and fails repeatedly.

The problem is you make these overly broad, blanket statements. Science, imperfect as it is, has advanced human civilization on a vast scale. Almost all of the modern world is shaped by scientific and technological achievement.

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-03 12:00 (Reply)

The actual problem is that the bureaucratic experts want to micromanage our lives when they show little ability to control their own lives. The woke experts are Marxists.

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-03 14:20 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: The actual problem is that the bureaucratic experts want to micromanage our lives when they show little ability to control their own lives.

So, then you retract your previous blanket statement that "Expertise always combines with ideology and fails repeatedly"?

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-03 14:58 (Reply)

They're experts, they're Marxist ideologs, and they fail repeatedly. See the old dysfunctional Soviet Union. Even they got smart and dumped Marxist theology, now, if we could only get rid of it here.

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-05-03 18:51 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: They're experts, they're Marxist ideologs, and they fail repeatedly.

Again, you make an unsupportable blanket statement. Not all experts everywhere and everywhen are Marxists. It’s a silly notion.

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2023-05-03 20:54 (Reply)

The reason this is important is because expertise is required all through society, including in the crafting of government policies. That means the system has to be structured to allow the use of expertise, while also retaining control by the people, but people who are not themselves experts and can't generally evaluate the science themselves.

One way is by distinguishing between scientific findings and value judgments. For instance, science can tell us that the developing human begins as a single cell, the zygote, but can't tell us what value we should attach to the zygote.

#7.1.2.2.2.1.1.2.2.3 Zachriel on 2023-05-04 07:40 (Reply)

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Conservative Supreme Court justice hit pieces: We are being lectured on ethics by scoundrels

Perhaps.

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This follows an equally bogus ProPublica story claiming Clarence Thomas’ vacations with a rich friend, Harlan Crow, are unethical. Crow had no business before the court, and Supreme Court justices have always been allowed to have friends.

Crow did have business before the court. Regardless, Crow is an ideologue, so he has an interest in the actions of the Supreme Court.

Crow became friends with Thomas only after Thomas was elevated to the Supreme Court. Providing lavish all-expense vacations to exotic locales with travel expenses included is hardly a nominal gift. At the very least, it should have been reported. Frankly, it should have been refused, or the Thomas's should have paid their own way. No lower court judge would be allowed to accept such gifts.

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(Chief Justice Fred Vinson played poker with President Harry Truman.)

The limit was 10¢, with three raises. There's a difference between offering someone a ride to the corner store in your pickup while you're heading that way anyway, and a private jet to an all-expense paid vacation in Indonesia on a yacht.

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It even tried to make Crow out as some sort of Nazi for having a statue of Hitler, omitting that he collects statues of all sorts of deposed dictators, including Joseph Stalin and Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Ah . . . That is not the argument he seems to think it might be.

#8 Zachriel on 2023-05-02 11:11 (Reply)

he Supreme Court was unwilling and afraid to take on the stolen 2020 election. They failed to do their job out of fear. It is ironic that now the left is coming after SCOTUS. Ironic but predictable.

#9 Anon on 2023-05-02 12:55 (Reply)

One COV-LARP to rule them all, get booster number 4567 for a free toaster oven or be shunned from society like a leper.
Evolved enlightened beings of the SCOTUS are supreme apparatchiks compared to the dirty lowborn serf peasants of the glorious unity collective, a tiny violin plays for them.
Some oldsters are in not sure mode about Brandon burning it all down better and maybe oblivious is a feature for them.
Breaking-Always Bolshevik Communism (ABC) reports military troops to be deployed to the New Trail of Tears or the importation of hostile lifetime CPUSA voters at the non-existent border.
Sun Tzu said that an evil enemy would burn down his own country to rule over the ruins.

#10 Ozymandias Sign on 2023-05-02 18:32 (Reply)

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