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First thing I thought of lol

Drug dealers, cop killers and family members. America's institutions continue to devolve into a cruel joke.

There are large groups of Americans who believe The Handmaidens Tale is a real potential future. The lack of perspective and melodramatic discord in political theater is exhausting.

Google's implementation of AI really shows the innovators dilemma in action

These features are just so rudimentary you just know a bunch of MBAs from McKinsey came up with them over a 7 month and $25m

> Tahlequah is using much of her energy to cling to the dead calf, which weighs about 300 pounds, and she is unable to forage for food, scientists said during a news briefing on Thursday. They said that her closely knit pod was supporting her. Other female orcas, especially her sister, have been observed to be consistently at her side.

Utterly tragic. It's also singularly evil the devastation humans have brought to some of the hyperintelligent species on the planet.

Unfortunately the deeply irresponsible immigration policy also hasn't helped.

Look at his profile, he's an autistic Nazi with deep psychological issues... not worth engaging further with a clearly unstable individual lol

Much of Islamic civilization and the intellectual tour de force of the Islamic golden age came out of these early coffee shops.

I don't agree with that at all. It can feel that way in big cities - but rural Canada have a very strong Canadian identity.

Trump will have a hell of a time annexing Quebec.

i aint reading all that

happy for u tho

or sorry that happened

This is an excellent plan.

LOL oh my really struck a nerve with the basement dwelling philogynist

You know how you make one failing economy better? Combine it with another failing economy!

Well aside from 30 million angry Canadians ready to burn down the white house again.

Good god what a stupid post. I knew I was in for a treat when you claimed a Hasan hadith was being used to justify murdering people, but then you followed it up with every verse you could find vaguely mentioning Jews and even some completely unrelated to them. It's like reading a fundie from Louisiana's "evidence" against vaccines on Facebook.

"USAF Veteran" - OK makes sense now. You emptied your brain and drank the Kool-Aid a long time ago.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't think you know what anti-semitic means. That passage is talking about a very specific group of people and what happened to them. It has nothing to do with Jews in general as a race/people. Just because a sentence has the word "Jew" in it and isn't wildly positive doesn't automatically make it anti-semitic.

There are other parts where it talks about Arabs who transgressed and were cursed - is the Qur'an now anti-Arab?

Unfortunately this is the Islamophobic disinformation that's spread, primarily from 2 countries (Israel and India), and people like you happily parrot. I suspect this is because unlike Judaism, criticizing Islam/Muslims is socially acceptable.

And again, nothing you said remotely compares to the Torah which calls for child rape, infanticide and genocide. Which was the point of my original comment.

Agnostic West African with a partial doctorate in scriptural studies btw.

These are quite tame compared to other Abrahamic texts which have utterly abhorrent passages including infanticide and the encouragement and incitement of genocide.

The "fighting Jews" is in contexts of self defense and warfare. Jews can live in peace in Muslim societies and must be unharmed. One of the Prophet's wives was a jew.

The "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women" is a pretty standard patriarchal belief that all humans in history have agreed on up until very recently in the West.

Yep. That's the best example - completely inundated with government propaganda, and yet millions of people are freely consuming it daily and shaping their world view around it.

When you look at Reddit CEO's board affiliations, it starts to become clear this is not accidental.

This is so bang on. What's so insiduous about the West is how inundated everybody is with propaganda, but there's plausible deniability built into the system that everybody believes they're a free thinker.

Reddit is a good example - one of the biggest aggregators and disseminators of information for tens of millions of people, primarily in the West. People who see themselves as above-average intelligence. Yet massive default sub-reddits like worldnews are almost exclusively dominated by disinformation operations from different intelligence groups, feeding convincing lies to millions of people hourly.

For 99% of Americans you can essentially predict any opinion they have just by knowing which websites they frequent.

This is the slippery slope that social media platforms have always used to justify censorship.

Who is the arbiter of what is provable and what isn't? Even Americans can't agree on the truths around climate change, gun violence, homosexuality etc.

The fact that you highlight the Qur'an also betrays your bias. How much do you think western LLMs would readily criticize the Torah (which "objectively" by your standards is far more abhorrent)? Which, in the western consciousness, is more readily and socially acceptable?

People don't typically read tech news to hear about slow growing bootstrapped lifestyle businesses.

Which housing related laws are "draconian"?

This is the real problem IMO. I live in a very religiously conservative country with pretty strict gender roles in marriages. Having lived in the West before, I definitely see a lot less dysfunction or mental health issues here, at least from my peers. But there's also a lot of collectivism here - village to raise a child sort of thing and most people live in joint families.

The human being is still adapting to a very new and very foreign reality.

Religions are hypocritical because they eat animals? That's certainly a take.

Neat, guess we'll finally see if cross-language concurrency stops being such a pain.

The discussion was about whether robotics was about to transform or not. And obviously it is because of how much basic robotics workloads improve with these models.

Really not that hard.

Yet more doomerism from the man who's mentor claimed the death of deep learning in 2017.

Generative AI has proven it's usefulness. Over and over again. By the millions of programmers who now use it to do their jobs better. By the millions of white collar workers who are using ChatGPT on a daily basis to accomplish things faster. To the millions of creatives and non-creatives alike who are using (and hapily paying for) tools like Midjourney

The smug criticisms of gen AI (which are also rife on this forum) are just embarassing, simply because it's "AI". If any other single wave of technology emerged that had the level of rapid adoption and scale that generative AI did, it would - rightfully - be universally declared a technological revolution.

These sorts of criticisms sound about as obtuse as "the fad of computers" written in the 90s. Yes, you can question AGI and whether the current track of models is actually a path to that - but questioning the usefulness of generative AI at this point is objectively silly.

Source?

Not denying what you're saying, just curious about the data.

I think it's impossible to spend a lot of time with these models without believing robotics is fundamentally about to transform. Even the most sophisticated versions of robotic logic pre-LLM/VLM feel utterly trivial compared to what even rudimentary applications of these large models can accomplish.