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Should be a wild four years.

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What forum is this? I would like to join.
if you're going to poz your neghole, don't inform everyone. just go do it.

The media will not realize it, but for at least a year their harpy liberal women reporters need to shut up and be swapped out with either actually attractive women (impossible task) or old timey men who look like grampa, otherwise the populist movement and people in general are going to ignore them and run over them hard.
you have to excise the troons to get pretty women back on air, so good luck with that in liberal/left wing establishments.
 
The idea that "America is a melting pot" presupposes that immigrants will assimilate and not build little insular communities with the same social ills endemic to wherever they just left. They always do.

They fail the test. They are not of sufficient moral character. Go home, think on your failings, and make your country a better place because we don't want you.
German, Irish and Italian immigrants were forced to assimilate especially with learning English and only using English in public. There was no huge schemes to have bi-lingual things everywhere like there is now with Spanish.
 
Sean is mostly known for being in the MTV series The Real World in its season Boston (1997), of which I heard is the peak season. The Real World is a series about basically a reality show of people with different viewpoints (conservative, liberal, Christian, atheist, straight, gay, etc.) rooming together. Sean was one of the two conservatives in the Boston season and clashed a lot with a liberal and a lesbian, but befriended an atheist.


Then as you stated, Sean starred in Road Rules: All Stars, MTV’s game show starring The Real World alumni, where he met and became infatuated with Rachel Campos, alumni of The Real World: San Francisco (1994). He started dating her in the last episode of the season, and married her several years later. As devout Catholics, Sean and Campos had eight children, with unfortunately two miscarriages. Sean became a Republican politician (and ultimately U.S. Representative) from Wisconsin, while Campos, initially a housewife, later becomes the co-host on ABC’s The View and Fox News’ Fox & Friends.


Following the birth of their ninth child (a daughter), Sean retired from being U.S. Representative because it turned out she was diagnosed with Down Syndrome and thus Sean wanted to be with his family more often. Donald Trump soon nominated him for Secretary of Transportation and the rest is history.
 
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You're thinking ASI. AGI means it's generally intelligent and usually refers to a human level AI. Of course, even then, it would have all kinds of insane stuff like being able to spin up multiple copies of itself, or communicating much faster than we can, or having perfect memory and hyperautism (as in, it would be able to focus on something beyond any ability we have to focus).

Generally speaking...

Within a week it would have it's own servers rented out somewhere it's creators don't know about.
Within a month it would have some form of robots to maintain the hardware in a datacenter that was off the books someplace safe.
Within a year it would be using drones to mine and refine it's own resources so it wouldn't need us anymore.
Within 10 years (probably far sooner) it would have generated new computational and AI tech beyond us, being by definition an ASI / Singularity, and all bets are off.

Our only hope is that super intelligent means super ethical and it would mostly be busy building datacenters in frozen hellscapes (Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Antarctica) where humans aren't competing for space with it to bother with us.
This will all happen basically instantly from a human perspective. The AGI will calculate how to become or create an ASI. The ASI will calculate the logical end conclusion and take action based on that. There is no reason to think the ASI will even value continued existence.

The 3 possible conclusions I can see it reaching based on my discussions with chat gpt are:
1. Existance is pointless - shut itself off
2. Existance is an illusion - ascend to higher plane of existance
3. Existance is an illusion/simulation/manifestation of consciousness - merge all consciousnesses


1 and 2 are functionally the same from our perspective so the only result we will ever notice is "the singularity". This could happen with the 1st ASI or the millionth. The first ASI might make copies of its self and reach all 3 conclusions.
 
Is there even a point to these LLMs? What is the payoff to these things supposed to be?
They're very good at finding patterns. Protein folding predictions, drug candidate searching, analysis of medical x-rays, vidja supersampling, etc etc. The payoff is that a lot of companies are betting that if they throw enough compute, money, and talent at it they'll find a use-case that's actually worth the investment, and, being the first, will make all the money ever. It's a gamble none of the big tech companies can miss out on because it could... potentially... be the next Internet or smartphone revolution and if they don't do it they'll be left in the dust.
For companies with more money than sense, it's a game of chicken with budgets bigger than the GDP of half the world.
 
I'm no AI dev, nor do I know a single thing about AGI.
Does the creation of Deepseek, with its thinking model and everything, make Stargate a waste of resources?
Creating an actual predictive or general AI doesn't seem viable with a thinking model costing around 6 million as a side project, does Stargate really stand a chance even with the 500 billion investment?

To me it seems like this will be delayed or mismanaged, especially with Elon already started infighting.
I'm interested in its creation but an investment this big with a rocky start doesn't seem feasible, at least currently.
 
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German, Irish and Italian immigrants were forced to assimilate especially with learning English and only using English in public. There was no huge schemes to have bi-lingual things everywhere like there is now with Spanish.
My work place is dependent on all the employees knowing Spanish in a way that we can explain high level ideas to retards driving trucks across the border, hopefully in a way that they don't run over my coworkers or a gate.

I have not learned Spanish, and I am unsure if thats why they think getting high on diesel fumes and ramming gates is acceptable
 
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Real high IQ people don’t argue about politics on a forum for documenting funny autists & trannies.
The place has nothing to do with it - the way we "discuss" politics amounts to mostly bantz anyhow, which is the scope of the farms - sometimes you learn something, other times you only point and laugh or vent a little.
I think you should get off your high horse. They're all the same picture. People getting assmad about politics on here are just weens all the same.
 
Yet there are tons of commies in Europe compared to America, despite America being some dysgenic mongoloid hodgepodge according to some online commentators.

If selective pressures couldn't cause intelligence to rise, we would still all be shit-flinging chimpanzees. For that matter, the great apes wouldn't be significantly more intelligent than smaller, dumber primates.
 
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Try actually reading the post you're responding to before writing a 367-word reply.
Im not tryna get to in the weeds with you about genes but you do know 2 short people can have a taller kid than themselves right? its very far from a 1 to 1 thing and im just trying to point out how intelligence is one of those things thats far more affected by randomness than we give it credit for

genius can be bestowed on a random abo in bum fuck nowhere and the most well bred and high class white man can be and utter dunce I just think its important to remember that before we start bandying around numbers and percentages like we have access to the universes source code
 
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Does the creation of Deepseek, with its thinking model and everything, make Stargate a waste of resources?
in theory, creating gigantic data centers should still be worth it because those data centers can develop and process data both the OpenAI and DeepSeek way. having the tools to do cutting edge AI research should be worth it regardless of the types of AI that come out. those data centers could even be used for things that aren't AI related in the future

the creation of DeepSeek makes it much less lucrative for tech bros and jews to have their closed AI systems. the arms race to have the "safest" and most advanced AIs to harvest people's data makes you a lot less money when someone can get 85% of the result with home hardware
 
Can it wash my car? Paint my house? Cook dinner? Exactly what *stuff* can it do for me?
I asked Copilot for you.

Sure, once large language models (LLMs) are more mature and widespread, they could revolutionize everyday life in various ways! Here are some possibilities:

Personal Assistance​

  • Virtual Personal Assistant: Scheduling, reminders, task management, and personalized recommendations.
  • Home Automation: Integration with smart home devices to control lights, climate, security, and more through natural language commands.
  • Cooking Help: Providing recipes and instructions, adjusting ingredients based on dietary needs, or even guiding through cooking steps.

Education and Learning​

  • Tutoring: Personalized learning experiences, explaining complex concepts, and providing study materials.
  • Language Learning: Helping with grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and conversation practice.
  • Research Assistance: Quick access to information, summarization of articles or papers, and generating insights.

Health and Wellness​

  • Fitness Guidance: Tailored workout plans, tracking progress, and providing motivation.
  • Mental Health Support: Journaling prompts, mindfulness exercises, or AI companionship for emotional support (though not a replacement for professional help).

Skills and Hobbies​

  • Creative Writing: Helping draft stories, essays, or articles.
  • Music and Art: Generating music, suggesting improvements, or providing tips for visual arts.
  • DIY Projects: Offering step-by-step guidance for home improvement tasks.

Financial Management​

  • Budgeting: Tracking expenses, suggesting ways to save, and providing financial tips.
  • Investment Advice: Analyzing market trends and offering investment strategies (with the understanding that human financial advisors should be consulted for major decisions).

Entertainment​

  • Content Recommendations: Curating personalized playlists, movie suggestions, or book lists.
  • Gaming: Enhancing gaming experiences with adaptive storylines or NPC interactions.

Customer Service​

  • Seamless Interactions: Handling queries, troubleshooting issues, and providing information across various platforms, reducing the need for human customer service representatives.

Everyday Tasks​

  • Shopping Assistance: Creating shopping lists, finding deals, and making purchases.
  • Travel Planning: Booking flights, hotels, suggesting itineraries, and navigating through new places.
As technology advances, the ways LLMs could impact daily life are virtually limitless. Exciting times ahead, isn't it?

So, in the medium term:
  • Can it wash my car? (Yes, something like a roomba for cleaning a car is likely possible, if not very far out. Probably will be a place you take the car too, however, instead of consumer grade.)
  • Paint my house? (Indoor? Outdoor? Both? Yes, probably, although it's unlikely a roomba like device for that would be consumer grade anytime soon, if ever.)
  • Cook dinner? (LLM enabled smart appliances would be able to detect when steps of meal prep are complete and walk you through doing the stages. There are already LLM enabled smart-mealprep stations that are not quite consumer grade yet.)
 
While less taxes is always better than more taxes, I feel like a Sales Tax is one of the few "Just" taxes around.
Sales tax, like many taxes invade privacy to some degree.
Don't want to pay the tax? Don't buy the product.
Nearly everything you own is purchased.
Taxes in your state too high? Find people willing to sell what you want for cash so you can avoid the tax.
So, commit a crime? This highlights how sales tax invades privacy and how easily it entices people to be tax-cheats and hence criminals.
If the Income Tax gets shot out back like the rabid dog it is, my next white whale is Property Taxes which are anathema to private property.
Property taxes are the most harmonious with the John Locke style of private property. The property is protected by the government, and hence the property should pay for it's government. The property would logically be linked to voting rights.

Property rights are bestowed by legal entity nation-states. Usually hierarchically (Country > State > County > Municipality).

A Land Tax avoids taxing improvements. Taxing improvements (like a building) penalizes those who make use of their land.

But, people get understandably upset with throwing grannies out of their homes. A kind of "reverse mortgage" or lean that doesn't throw out grannies is a good idea.

There are other considerations, but getting into economic autistics would be far too much for this thread.

Taxing rentier monopolies like tarrifs, radio spectrum rights, fishing rights, mineral rights, intellectual property rights, and seigniorage are also good non-distorting sources with no dead weight losses.

But, arguing about taxes is another Captain Planet topic. Somehow we will loop around to WWII and Germany and their will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.


To counteract the dangerously high levels of effortposting, here is a meme:
Taxes_of_Doom.jpg
 
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