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bygtall
26 @02:23PM
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Attached to: Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
What happens when their regular operation is interrupted with ads? Once every 7 minutes and 19 seconds the lot of them in your body proper will transmit an ad their fellow bots in your brain. Near to an election, you won't have a coherent thought due to some pol describing the utter devastation that will befall the country if s/he is dis-elected.
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bygtall
026 @04:13PM
(#65957526)
Attached to: US Life Expectancy Jumps To a Record 79 Years
You are forgetting how the alleged administration operates. They know that people will see the headlines and since it came out after la Presidenta came into office, they will claim he is the cause and many people will equate the two. Of course his Maggots will but they'll believe anything he says.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you are attempting reason from facts to truth with this administration, you have to realize that path is a road to Hell, and it is not paved with good intentions.
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026 @04:04AM
(#65956130)
Attached to: US Cyber Defense Chief Uploaded Sensitive Files Into a Public Version of ChatGPT
If he's in that position, we already know he's good at brown-nosing. And getting "caught" means nothing, it is only the alleged administration moving the goalposts further down the Fascist road of Project 2025. Even if their useful idiot goes 'round the bend with Alzheimers, they won't easily give up their cash cow. They'll just AI the hell out of his alleged administration and the hallucinations will be indistinguishable from his regular behavior.
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bygtall
2026 @08:05AM
(#65954186)
Attached to: Amazon Cuts Another 16,000 Jobs
Of course is will be, and rightly so. Those dumb-ass tariffs are hollowing out small businesses, that's why you do not see the impact on Wall Street. Small business do not list on Wall Street. Many of those businesses relied upon stuff from China which now costs more. Added to that, the steel and lumber tariffs that go into many goods the U.S. produces (and it still produces a lot) are raising the prices of finished goods. The export driven farm economy is going down because his dumbass tariffs have caused countries to buy elsewhere; the U.S. can no longer be trusted. la Presidenta could see something odd in his corn flakes some morning and decide a new round of tariffs are in order.
The fun doesn't stop there though. The domestic farm economy relies upon migrant labor, the migrant labor la Presidenta is scaring the hell out of and shipping off to anywhere he can stick them. You might have noticed the mass migration of Americans to take those jobs, should be happening any day now, really, just wait, it's coming.....and the pink unicorns are froliccing in the fields.....the white ones are attending Christian Nationalist rallies, at least the humans seem to see them.
And the dollar has been losing value because la Presidenta cannot stop trying to euthanize the Fed. Reserve, so demand for dollars is shrinking. It turns out foreign investors do not trust la Presidenta to not screw the pooch. Speaking of which, la Presidenta says he likes a weak dollar because "you make more money". Whatever, it means that the regular proles will pay more for foreign goods of which the U.S. imports a lot. Ah, but then they'll be forced to buy American goods. Righto, at inflated prices because the reason they chose the foreign stuff was because it costs less. B....b.....but, then Americans will start new companies to replace the foreign goods. Maybe....in the fullness of time, but I doubt it. And if they do, they will still cost more than the foreign goods because those damn foreigners have been at a long time and know how to make them efficiently. And even if new American companies learn to make them efficiently, they only have to undercut the foreign competition on price by a little bit. The proles will still take it in the neck.
If you look at the jobs stats, then it is clear the economy is not generating jobs and is losing them. The coming LLM bots will cause more jobs to be lost. And if that doesn't pan out, then all that investment is lost. More pain either way.
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bygtall
2026 @04:39AM
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Attached to: US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year
Leopards do not change their spots. la Presidenta's alleged administration will continue to be antagonistic towards science because they cannot argue with it, so they try to get rid of as much of it as they can get away with. That alleged administration is populated by the bottom of the barrel dolts.
The long term damage will result from losing those people. Another source the long term damage, which in my opinion is more serious, is that PhDs (like people in other countries) are now realizing that they can no longer trust that a future alleged administration will not also be so dimwitted. Worse, they will have lost trust that the American people can see a lying, grifting, fraudster and criminal for what he is and reject voting for such an adolescent.
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bygtall
26 @12:01PM
(#65952514)
Attached to: OpenAI's Science Chief Says LLMs Aren't Ready For Novel Discoveries and That's Fine
Yep, things are not good now, but Wait!!! It will get better, you'll see. You better keep the feeding tough full or you won't see the wonders we have in store for you. Let me tell you about some of those wonders: Ooooga Boooga!! Whinge, whinge, whinge!! Burble furble....look at that Blibbering Humdinger in the Window.
They are just pols dressed up to look like CEOs.
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bygtall
26 @11:56AM
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Attached to: OpenAI's Science Chief Says LLMs Aren't Ready For Novel Discoveries and That's Fine
I think the best outcome is to wait until the C-Suites are replaced by LLMs, they''ll be dragged screaming and kicking to the door: "B....B....But you need me!, who will bullshit the investors like we do." Whereupon, the Bullshit Bot will finally be revealed as a component of the LLM C-Executive Team.
A little while later, the investors will realize they've been had and drag the LLM C-Executive Team screaming and kicking to the door: "B....B....But you need me!, who will bullshit the investors like we do." Whereupon the investors will say "precisely".
But who am I kidding, the investors will simply latch on the next buzzword bingo card game and go merrily along with or without the company.
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bygtall
26 @05:38AM
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Attached to: DOT Plans To Use Google Gemini AI To Write Regulations
With this alleged administration you actually believe anyone will proof read the result? If most is boilerplate, then build a stock of boilerplates (a stock probably already exists) and have a worker slap one on before writing new regulations. That is, if you haven't fired all the knowledgeable people and now must rely upon AI and all its ills.
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bygtall
26 @05:33AM
(#65951842)
Attached to: TikTok Alternative 'Skylight' Soars To 380K+ Users After TikTok US Deal Finalized
"orange man bad" Why yes, he is. I'm glad you finally see that. What monument to civilized society builds an army of masked Gestappo men out of thugs (see where he has been recruiting if you doubt this) and is building his own secure bunker under the expected new ballroom where the East Wing once stood?
Why would he need his own army of thugs? Why would he need a new secure bunker when one already exists under the White House? Even a dolt can figure that out.
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026 @06:41AM
(#65946338)
Attached to: TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users
Yep, the Maggots whined incessantly during the last presidential campaign about the Deep State. It turns out they were only concerned during a Democrat Administration. If their own Fascist Regime is setting up and controlling a Deep State, then they are as happy and docile as tree sloths.
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bygtall
026 @06:36AM
(#65946336)
Attached to: New Filtration Technology Could Be Gamechanger In Removal of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals'
No, the critical question is whether it can be made to be 100 times cheaper than the alternatives of the PDAS IN THE FUTURE.
What about R&D do you not understand? What? You think new materials spring forth immaculately from the Lab yelling "I'm Here! Yea!!!"
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026 @06:32AM
(#65946326)
Attached to: New Filtration Technology Could Be Gamechanger In Removal of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals'
Under pressure.
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bygtall
6 @04:57AM
(#65943646)
Attached to: EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants
Added to that, it isn't that Europe cannot trust la Presidenta, it is that they now realize they cannot trust Americans. If Americans are stupid enough to put that oaf in the White House, how can Europe be confident Americans will not do something similarly stupid in the future. How can any country make an agreement with the U.S. and have any confidence the U.S. will uphold their part? What does an agreement even mean if it is only an agreement for America to hit them over the head with a smaller stick? Any interaction with the U.S. is now being treated by the U.S. as some sort of transaction. See la Presidenta's speech at Davos, he wants Iceland or Greenland (he gets confused, hint la Presidenta: volcanoes are not rare earth elements) because the U.S. single-handledly defeated Nazi Germany. Oh? And the Europeans and Russians had nothing to do with it?
More deeply, la Presidenta has shown just how brittle the American system of governance is. The Republicans drop their pants for him if he even hints at the notion. The Supreme Court has been taken over by Nazis. The judicial system is being corrupted by his judicial nominations and the R's in Congress are just potty with that. He nominated Emil Bove who has to be one of the most corrupted lawyers in the country. And that moron from Iowa, Charles Grassley, determined he was "honorable". Pathetic.
It is clear that Americans do not value democracy or freedom or human rights anymore. And it is now becoming clearer that a major segment of the pop. never did.
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bygtall
6 @04:42AM
(#65943628)
Attached to: EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants
la Presidenta could get up tomorrow morning, see that he didn't get the promised prize in his box of cereal, and decide that he absolutely had to have Iceland after all. Okay, so he mixes up Iceland and Greenland (see his Davos speech....BEFORE you have lunch), is that any reason to take him seriously?
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bygtall
6 @04:38AM
(#65943624)
Attached to: AI Boosts Research Careers But Flattens Scientific Discovery
I'll assume the "current AI" is LLM based. Why would anyone expect it to make new discoveries of intellectual depth. All its doing is rearranging the deck chairs, there's nothing deep about that. It can do it faster than humans, I suppose there's that.
As someone above noted, most scientists are in trenches mining salt (my paraphrase). To put it in a different light, most science is pushing current theories a bit farther, or figuring out new consequences of current theories; they are not discovering new theories. Even there, physics is replete with "new theories" that are pretty much different spins on old theories. Creating anything ground breaking, in the sense of Einstein, is becoming increasingly rare because science has gotten so good at exploring fuck all. And the current physical theories, those that are verifiable, are damn good at describing what we see.
Also, groundbreaking to most people means a brand new widget has been developed. That's engineering, not science.
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