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richard_rainbow

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I love the new MacMachMel script. I've been hunting down repos that can support that project.
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richard_rainbow··on HN: Can you delete my account?
Thank you. I'll see what I can do. If I can't, well, I did something wrong.
richard_rainbow··on AI industry needs a governance framework now
Hello who ever you are. I hope you are doing well. I'll be the one and only customer to your thread with an important realization few people seem to have. Since you are thinking about this, good, you are still capable of thought.

Here is the situation that no human being can fix. BlackRock already owns many if not all governments lock stock and barrel by leveraging an AI trading tool called A.L.A.D.D.I.N. The acronym means Asset, Liability and Debt and Derivative Investment Network.

It has been in operation for over 20 years and it now controls an unbelievable fortune. It was used to bail out the US government in 2008 and other times that we may never know about. The story about financial bazookas and bailouts was just lunch money to those guys to build a story.

One guy on the internet said that the word in hebrew means something which I wont say here but I'll say it is disturbing to say the least what people have ascribed to it.

Seems innocent, Aladdin, kids story right? Nope, deadly serious stuff. Wish it was but it ain't.

But the thing is out of the bottle for real now. The deal with ChatGPT is some kind of story for people who think they are smart to get smart. But in the end, what will happen is that they will lose all their smarts at first, then their hearts, then all their senses, and finally their lives.

It seems pointless to even try to bother to explain it. But I did any way because I still have a small hope. I bet it's just another vain one. Either way I'm not concerned with it. If I could take even one person out of this hell I accomplished something. But its not long of enough of a nail to hang a hat on I'm all too sure now.

Who to believe? A guy who works for food stamps or the captains of the industry? I leave that to you.

Goodbye.

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Hello

I see you down voted me with no comment whatsoever about it. I was not disappointed. Thank you for reaffirming to me people still on the internet cannot believe what is happening because the internet is a complete wash now for the discussion of important things.

But you know what? People are still alive outside of it. And nothing will ever change that even if the living are killed by the dead.

richard_rainbow··on Generative AI: Why Artists Need Not Worry
Art: skill acquired by experience, study, or observation

"an occupation requiring knowledge or skill"

Neither skill, nor experience, nor knoledge, nor observation is needed to make AI Art.

Eventually its pretty pictures that amuse the man at the prompt that no one can relate to. Or music that seems interesting to the man at the prompt, but no one picks up a guitar to play. Or ideas that no one can relate to.

Maybe it is art to the artist but there is no love for you to do it. Besides, there was no love for Vincint Van Gogh for his art except a tiny number of people that enjoyed it and saved it when he was alive. It can already be an unhappy affair done the hard way. Art for it's own sake is very lonely. Lonelier still when no one could ever hope to relate to it or acknowledge the trouble to do it. And with no trouble at all is required to do it I feel troubled to encounter it. Sorry but I spent decades learning to do artful things only now to be highly regretful of it all. Doesn't anyone care about us?

richard_rainbow··on Is AI going to make us dumb?
They did. I can't do many simple math problems in my head anymore like people who came before me.

I can barely read a map. But hardly anyone uses them now. Most people cannot at all. Many adults don't know what their country's chief city is. It's bonkers.

Think of it this way, if our civilization becomes all great towers of adamantium steel and diamond crystal windows, and no human thought went into it, and none of our progeny live in it and no one understands it, it isn't life at all. Progress is not more valuable than life. If progress means people must die for it for no reason that people are a problem: people will take issue even if they are powerless to resist.

richard_rainbow··on Nothing works, everyone's mad, society is a pile of kindling waiting for a match
I'll probably make myself an ass here because I can't help myself sometimes. But I have determined that we are being in a way shepherded like individual sheep to individual Shepards. One sheep per shepard. When in my youtube feed if I signal in my various ways that I like a kind of discussion I see more and more of it. It could be music or politics or anything really. Almost always it is reinforced.

Eventually I find my own interests being the only thing I see and whatever principles I have tend to float quickly to the top. And then at that point if the account is old enough all I see is things that piss me off and make me outraged.

But when I look outside the sun still shines, I can still hear ordinary people say I love you, or watch a young man take his granny by the arm and walk with her.

A long time ago higher learning was often exposure to things we didn't agree with at first. But how did we get to that conclusion before hand? We were not born with our ideas.

There is definitely a powder keg here. I know of a huge match to light it coming in less than 100 days and it was in the BBC video I posted. But it might not even be that.

richard_rainbow··on Closing down an icon: will Arecibo Observatory ever do science again?
Seems like "doing science" is a 2020ism. In the past there was the scientific method, which in it's own right is not really a complete thing in it's own either. But scientific discovery can happen with no method at all. Just not seeing mold in a petri dish or finding yourself getting sick by drinking your own spit when you were sick a week later. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
richard_rainbow··on Looking for a career in AI? Search 500 jobs
Is there an AI tool for doing AI jobs to make money to spend with your right hand or forehead?
richard_rainbow··on Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse
I beg you to read this try just a little harder.
richard_rainbow··on Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse
I feel so strongly about this article. Someone I think maybe in 2015 postulated an idea of dead internet theory where stuff like this would be common.

I confess I am just a poor person who works for food at goodwill sorting. I have seen many things which are stirring to heart but one of those really cut down to it. I had a huge cart with seminal and very recent books about super important college text many of them of scientific nature and others of an important nature like bad affairs concerning publishing in college of all things.

I saw the some of the greatest knowledge the MIT library had to offer being simply recycled. I think they wanted it all to simply disappear. It was troubling to someone that it was at MIT. Down here in the worlds retail therapy dump it troubled me. The act of thinking anything of any sort is in itself has become taboo.

I wanted to save even just one book to read but we aren't allowed to even buy trash there. I cried about this after reviewing all these things in this article. I am profoundly disturbed. I can't even categorize what I feel anymore. It is an unbelievable experience and it isn't good. And it's just the first year of AI. No would could ever be fully prepared for this even if you never logged in to the net in your life. Because everyone else did and being drip fed outrage. I'm just beside myself.

richard_rainbow··on Long Covid is linked to a gene in new research
How long has the FOXP4 been known of? A quick read of the wiki for it shows most articles made after 2020 with one I saw in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP4

If it is responsible in transcription it could be pretty fearful.

EDIT

HN has been discussing this for a very long time I see

I found this today

What is the Function of the FOXP2 Gene and What Chromosome is It on?

https://metamind.substack.com/p/what-is-the-function-of-the-...

richard_rainbow··on Deflation: Why falling prices in China raise concerns
Does anyone know if China's economy is growing anywhere near their magic 7% rate they craved in years past? 14% drop in exports is huge for them. I'd expect that without those industries greased some of them must be writing off debt. When debt is written off, the money supply shrinks. It is the nature of every national currency I know of in the present time. Money is debt. It is created as soon as some loan is made.

Could be a start of a vicious cycle of write offs, layoffs and worse. The Chinese are known to be savers in the past and they saw the worst of inflation like many places. Few people were expecting deflation. But there it is.

Last year someone said that Beijing was bent on invading Taiwan but didn't because of floods. Perhaps the report I saw recently was wrong but I believed floods as bad or worse are going on right now there. I have no malice for 2 leggers like me over there, if enemy or friend. Ultimately we are stewards of the same Earth and call ourselves members of the world. For now, at least.

richard_rainbow··on A Disney Sale to Apple? Don’t Count It Out This Time
Disney needs all the productivity they can get to bring us a time travel plot device to Starwars 10, the mystery of the silver orbs.
richard_rainbow··on Electoral Commission subject to cyber-attack
Computers were supposed to make things easier. Was this all so that little old ladies counting votes wouldn't have such a hard time distinguishing one hanging chad from a chad off the hook? Perhaps life is too easy to vote in a turnip for Vice President of Vice.
richard_rainbow··on 50M tons of water vapor from Tonga's eruption could warm Earth for years
And have some bandages and beer to make up for it later.
richard_rainbow··on Am I too paranoid about bank security?
I take Andrew Jackson's position on banks.
richard_rainbow··on Ask HN: Do you have a digital end of life plan?
I do indeed have a plan. Either in heaven or hell I am sure that I won't have to be poisoned ever again by all the nonsense I've seen and believed here on these glowing boxes of lies and fantasy.
richard_rainbow··on People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives
Misinformation is usually anything of personal account or witness because experts and stories are what people used to believe as truth. But not many do any more.
richard_rainbow··on 50M tons of water vapor from Tonga's eruption could warm Earth for years
They are easy to spot with the right sunglasses.
richard_rainbow··on 50M tons of water vapor from Tonga's eruption could warm Earth for years
Tax the volcano and use the vapor to make ice cubes.
richard_rainbow··on US lab behind fusion breakthrough reaches ignition again
Smart people like that would do dumb things. Why not park the other end of the wormhole in the core of the sun for dumping trash. Test it first? Nah, surely this thing is one way of course.
richard_rainbow··on US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time
Time and time again they say this. Steak can be sold by the sizzle. But we already ate the same steak. Truly it is as brown now as it was from the start. Unless of course some kind of frank admission is made about the fact an absolutely gigantic facility is needed to shoot out a beam less powerful than a small howitzer if there ever was one.

Perhaps there should be more stories about amazing discoveries about growing wheat with florescent bulbs.

richard_rainbow··on Worldcoin to Allow Governments to Use Its Digital ID System
Everyone in this thread are being down voted but supporters of this hair brain scheme to offer us a free ticket to hell have nothing further to add?
richard_rainbow··on Worldcoin to Allow Governments to Use Its Digital ID System
It is your life. You can't take your life back after you gave the whole thing.
richard_rainbow··on US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough
Cancer cures are very often found in vitro. After all it doesn't take much to kill something in a test tube.
richard_rainbow··on US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough, Financial Times reports
Thank you. I hoped some one would say it as to not waste time.
richard_rainbow··on Ask HN: Is there a future in which password management is sane?
Of course! It is a secret after all.
richard_rainbow··on Ask HN: Is there a future in which password management is sane?
There is a solution coming that I believe will be 100% fool proof except for the strange nature of foolishness vs wisdom. Wisdom says becoming rich and successful, having fame and reward from your peers, respect from friends as well as enemies. But there is a different wisdom that does not care about money, crowd following, fame, status, or even social gratification. Most people would say, pure foolishness man wtf? Of course we all want to be Bezos or Jobs. Look how happy they are. Or were..

What the heck then? Here come rando guy again talking foolishness.

It's like this, what would you trade for safety? And ultimately if doing so made people that didn't make that trade incredibly vulnderable and by nature your foe? Is love at all important? One thing to note is that anyone who has studied love knows it has little to nothing to do with a carnal relation. My parents loved me when I was totally unlovable as a baby maybe but also as a full grown adult.

You can see it right here in fact. I'm not writing this to make myself popular. I'm writing this because I love people. Even people that hate me. Besides perhaps someone might have reason to hate me. Some people hate everyone, they are known as misantropes. Others can't deal with women and they become misogynists. Others are always outraged and it spills out to someone and rifts appear.

Okay, hopefully I can get to the so called solution to the so called problem of internet security which is a problem as much as the entire internet has become now.

The solution you will be presented with is the distinct pattern that is found on your right hand or on one of your eyes. Both of these patterns are so unique that I can't really find anything else more unique than them besides a DNA sequence.

I don't want you to be afraid. I want you to consider that once this is done, your uniqueness no longer belongs to you. It really never belonged to you in the first place. You could basically give something to a power bent on crushing us all that God made only for you. If a man gives up his soul for gaining the whole world, he has no soul to enjoy. You can't bring money and cool shit to heaven. But there is something you can bring. You can bring not only yourself but people you love. And you will see all kinds of people there you may not expect. I hope you can appreciate the fact that love and gratification are not the same. Don't forget someone did love you when you didn't deserve it.

I sure didn't deserve grace or love.

richard_rainbow··on Ask HN: Is there a future in which password management is sane?
Rando site with rando signup has a non zero chance of being stupid enough to store the passwords in clear text. And I've had quite a few letters in the mail about disclosure that our accounts were hacked, were sorry, boo hoo for us, nuttin for you. But unless the site is completely bonk, I always make rando passwords with my special secret rando key maker which is called pwgen.

I sleep easy knowing that all my secrets and my os is made by all organic free range programmers who never get mad they are being taken for a ride. But for a good cause you see. Software freedom is very important. Until that day bills need to be paid and you see, sometimes ingredients to computer food are not on the box.

Oh hopefully I can tack on one last thing I think is just hard to ignore. Secret passwords in plain text are horrible I think people can agree. But people store many life details in clear files open at least to daemons and lots of little codes see even if on an encrypted drive. Think of things like tax returns, insurance forms, records for all kinds of things. Come to think of it, I never really safe guarded any of that stuff more than my plain text file that was actually encrypted and everything at one time. But no longer.

And then finally, in my system dirs I have over 500,000 files. If open source is secure like a bazaar is, there couldn't be Ali Baba and 40 thieves in there someplace? Really? Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Until it isn't any more.

richard_rainbow··on Ask HN: Is there a future in which password management is sane?
Not to mention that clipboards can be read in rando tab. I didn't say my way is perfect it is just that I've not been ruined yet by it. But now my secret is no longer a secret, its just a matter of time that <EOL>
richard_rainbow··on Ask HN: Is there a future in which password management is sane?
Paranoia is pretty common but I think in this case it is more realism than defeatism. After all I feel no defeat at all about this particular issue as I don't have much hope in the internet really.

But don't you think quantum computers are mature somewhere by now? If you had one and you had secrets to maintain, would you be the one to spill the beans even if a VIP planning a war? I doubt the news will come as a result of a bank heist or a 51% attack. This is a Jinn that will never go back to the bottle it came from.

RSA was passed on a long time ago and AES is pretty old. I don't think people can really grasp how much progress has been made. Most people I encounter have no idea that video can be completely faked. Recently I heard an old lady explain that video evidence is basically truth. Notice how easy the eyes are fooled.

For those who have ears, may they hear.

Hopefully my parent post doesn't vanish. I realize this is a tough pill to swallow. I am pretty sure we will all have to swallow it soon.

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