dimreepr

Which one is real?

Sorry, I'm dyslexic, but may I say you lucky barsteward...

First rule of collecting, don't take the toy out of the box. 😉 On a slight tangent, I think there's going to be a stiff challenge to American democracy, coming up in November; I'm not sure what he can do if he loses, but he's always going to try ignoring the fact. Has Trump replaced Hitler, in the current version of Godwin's law?

Are you trying to demonstrate your ignorance of the economy?

I honestly thought the joke was more obvious. ChatGPT et al is an existential threat (IOW magical), ATM, and whether it's real or not is irrelevant, since we have no, effective, off switch.

What discussion is that, is magic real? If it's AI, and it's potential, then I think Isaac had a lot of relevance to add.

Isaac Assimov, I can't remember the specific novel, but a rogue robot (edit-with one of the 3 law's switched off) was shut down by a logic loop paradox. I think it may have been 'I Robot'.

No one learns anything from history, otherwise we'd still have an empire; contraction, under it's own weight, is inevitable. Let me qualify that, no one with any influence on those who want a simple/specious solution, learns from history.

Wouldn't that be fun???

Isn't that the Achilles heel of AI, in fiction, the logical paradox?

I get all that and much of the above points on fashion et al, but it does go to the heart of the problem as in 'I'm alright Jack'. I suffer with chronic procrastination, "as do we all" I here you all say, but mine is so extreme that even a catastrophic dead line is, for me, somehow negotiable and putoffable. It's much easier to accept that a paraplegic can't work, for a reason, rather than an invisible excuse.

The fundamental problem is, the conflation of excuse and reason; we can see a reason for the excuse (a broken leg/spine etc) but we can't see the reason for the, so called, excuse bc it's not fair, I work hard so why can't they???

Indeed, but how do we know that it relates to reality? That's like suggesting that there's an absolutely perfect thing, at the end of the evolutionary process...

What I'm implying is, you're not smarter than the collective smartery of all human smartness... I wonder by "colonsolting" do you mean a colonoscopist consultant plying his/her trade?

Indeed, as the late great Douglas Adams once intonated, when we finally understand this universe a great big sign will light up and say "Level two, begin"... Fundamentally, it's your choice, "I think therefore I am" is a flawed philosophy, but can you think of a better one?

Indeed, he's a blueprint of success in the current political landscape, (I don't think his removal would change much, perhaps delay the rise of the hard right) which is scarey enough to drive the humanity out of a large and increasingly larger portion of our population, which "might" have something to do with bank's and or Eton...

Almost everyday I hear, here on the BBC, that some British institution, or other, is 'the best in the world', does that mean that I'm automatically superior, due to my privileged culture???

How many asylum seekers have you interviewed? Seriously though, if you believe 3 and 4 you're dancing to someone else's tune. The narative is designed to play on your primate sense of fairness and your fear of losing your current level of comfort. Ironically, a truly poverty stricken culture tends to be generous to stranger's, especially when they're in such obvious trouble.

Do you mean them???

I think perhaps he was referring to our influence on the world, at the top of our game; at a time and place, when industrial printing came of age. His motivation is probably the same, but he's got a smartphone now... I tried Gemini today with an inane conversation, mostly on painting the skirting boards and ending with "is Nigel Farage a racist?". At no point did Gemini answer without a possitive assertion in the answer, we don't even need to seek out our personal echo chamber. Gemini can't afford to piss off it's client's... 😉 Ozymandias had something to say...

Keep it down mate, are you trying to evoke Godwin's law???

That's far too simplistic, emotions have many triggers and they all interrupt rational thinking, that's why pure reason/logic is a pipe dream of the class/room... I think our innate sense of fairness has a more profound influence on most societies, religious or otherwise, it's why we instinctively seek an external arbiter of justice; just so we're sure that that arsehole suffers too... 😉

Most religions got it right initially, all they had to do for assimilation is, say "I believe what your teaching.", even today it has value, with the right intentions; you don't even have to believe in ghost's or special rock's... Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone this side of the pond could understand your American dialect. Now that we know that God's not real, we need an ubermenche to explain why it doen't need to be real or relevant.

When has any nation been dependable/trustworthy? We're all in it for ourselves, at every level of the cultured; that's kinda the point of diplomacy And why we get confused with certain pronunciations; is it Farage with an extra aaghe or garage without?