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But a significant part of the new problem is it is the chatbot that is giving them the overconfidence, as it is programmed to reward the user by telling them how clever they are, to keep them engaged.

What verse is that?

Yes indeed. Actually we had a thread on this just recently: https://scienceforums.net/topic/136533-vibe-physics-aka-why-we-wont-tolerate-ai-use/#comment-1294686 But since then further examples of the genre have appeared. It looks like the beginnings of a wave of physics cranks, all implacably convinced they are geniuses and hence impervious to criticism, because the chatbot has egged them on. My worry is that with all these pay-to-publish “vanity” journals on the web, the chatbots will take this deluge of crank material into their datasets and may start regurgitating it, spawning even more cranks!

I have no idea whether the observation that follows is in any way original and I advance it with temerity, not being a US citizen, but it is something that has struck me due to a book I am reading on the lead up to the English Civil War.https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/blood-winter-jonathan-healey-review It is notable that at the time it was the monarch who ran the government, appointed ministers and took or endorsed the decisions they made. Parliament's job was chiefly concerned with approving taxation. Watching the shocking ease with which Trump is able to turn the USA into an absolute, capricious monarchy, it occurred to me that the basics were perhaps already in place, due to the way the founders set up the President as the head of the government. France did something similar after the French Revolution. It is as if these early Republics moulded the office of President loosely on the monarchs they were intended to replace, with a lot of the same powers, though supposedly better controlled by a Legislature. In England - later Britain - after the Civil War, the power as head of government made a gradual transition away from the monarch and towards the chief minister, who by then was an elected member of Parliament, not really appointed by the monarch (though a fig leaf of monarchical "approval" was retained for the sake of tradition). In the later republics, notably those brought into being after WW II, they opted instead for a symbolic role for the President as Head of State, while the head of the government was the leader of an elected parliamentary party, as in the UK. So I wonder if this quasi-monarchical position of the President of the USA (and France) now looks something of an anachronism, mimicking the monarchs of 4 centuries ago to an undue degree. As an aside, we in Britain are used to being teased about our quaint and old-fashioned monarchy. But actually I now wonder if our system is not more modern than that in the USA! This is a thought that would never have occurred to me until recent events.

Let me guess; you have seen the writing on the wall and are retraining to be an AI chatbot.😄

By green banana do you mean plantain?

Heh heh. Very good. You’re a pro. 😁

Yes it was more the excessively flowery language: "paradigm" when it is just a scenario, "become extant"when it means occur or come to pass. I dunno but we seem to get a lot of posts now with this kind of grandiose verbiage.

Post some examples then, to substantiate what you are claiming. Don’t try to send your readers off to find substantiation, themselves, for your claim.

I'm not sure what we are dealing with here. "If the above predation paradigm to actually become extant" etc.

Chat on a single internet forum is not evidence the subject is one “of much debate” in science. For that statement to be true, one would expect to find numerous research papers , or articles in the scientific press, supporting and contesting the theory or hypothesis. You seem to be making up statements here.

There used to be a cafe near me that proudly advertised its retox breakfast, at weekends. I think this was aimed mainly at young men, rugby players and rowers etc. It was of course the traditional English fry-up (eggs, bacon, black pudding etc).

Some silly people get obsessed with shit being “dirty” and want to “clean” out their systems, I think. It seems to me to be a terrible idea, seeing as the microflora in your gut are essential to your health. But maybe I’m too sceptical. Let’s see what others think.

Re section highlighted, I was unaware of this debate. It sounds interesting. Can you link to some sources illustrating this debate?

The "special" in special relativity just means it applies to certain simple cases. It came first historically. General relativity came later and is much harder to work with but, as the name indicates, applies far more generally. I suggest a little bit of reading about the subject.

Thanks it was a Sonos product that the Richer Sounds guy suggested. But What Hi Fi gave it a bum review on sound quality, suggesting instead a Bluesound Node. What I still can't understand about these boxes is: a) whether they are transmitters to the house wi-fi, or receivers from the wi-fi that can power speakers. The comment about sound quality suggests they may amplify and they have socket outputs for things like sub woofers as well as inputs, both of which suggest they are receivers, which then leaves open the question of what you use to transmit a wi-fi signal from your stereo system, b) if they are indeed transmitters to the wi-fi, can they accept an analogue input from the tape monitor output of my amp?. The descriptions wax lyrical about digital inputs but that does not help. The write-ups assume a level of familiarity with the technology I don't have, and the manufacturers' website are worse. I'm reminded of Flanders and Swann's "Song of Reproduction". "I see you've got your negative feedback coupled in with your push-pull input-output. Take that across to your head-head pickup, to your tweeter, and you'll get wow on your top. You try to bring that down through your pre-amp rumble filter to your woofer and what'll you get? Flutter on your bottom!" That was 60s techie-speak. I'm experiencing 2020s techie-speak now. But this discussion has given me more clarity about the issues so thanks to you and @toucana for all the help. I think next I'll have to get on my bike to the Lower King's Road and beard the Richer Sounds chap in his den, now that I have at least a better idea about what it is I don't understand.

OK.

Oo-er, the needle on my nutcase detector has moved off its end stop now. What do you mean?

That’s odd. I thought you worked at Chatham. Or did you drive the crane for fun at weekends?

Heh heh. So you too bear the scars.

My experience was that IT systems in businesses evolved from custom-built versions in the 70s and 80s that were often disastrously expensive, due to trying to do too much and accommodate everyone, towards semi-standardised systems (for instance ERP systems like SAP) with a lot of knobs on that could be twiddled to fit, more or less, the needs of particular businesses but within a fixed overall scheme, to which the business had to adapt if it was not already following it. Quite a lot of businesses think they are unique, but a lot of that is balls. It's just that they have never properly analysed out how they work and compared themselves to others. But yes, the experience as a user (of SAP in my case) was we were effectively forced to use a new language for business processes and do things a certain way, demanded by the system. But it was, I have to admit, logical once you got your head round it.

Yes that's what I mean. While there are some reputable members whose profile has it disabled, every single person who I have suspected of being a spammer, troll or sockpuppet has also had it disabled. So for me it is a bit of warning indication.

I found this paper: https://webstatic.niwa.co.nz/library/rs365(1856)p1889.pdf which suggests that life could actually have been able to colonise both the land and the oceans in the presence of the UVC flux that would have reached the surface before there was a screening ozone layer. Iron once again features as one of several potential screening agents. Though it seems to be Fe(III) rather than Fe(II) they considered this time.

What has this to do with my post? I either know nor care what country the forum is "from". The members seems to be an international bunch. Some of the mods appear to be from N. America, but so what? I am British by the way. And you are - what? - a Russian troll? 😆

Thanks but I think I probably need wi-fi rather than bluetooth. The distance is ~12m (I have a 30ft knocked-through sitting/dining room) and of course it's the other side of a brick wall.