Because, in reality, peaceful protests don’t work. We’ve been taught that they do, but they don’t.

The most successful protest going on right now is against Tesla. A bit of anonymous property destruction and a boycott, crashing the stock price, those things actually work. Getting together and holding signs doesn’t actually do anything, especially in some place like California.

I actually like Teslas, I just hate Elon more. Fuck that narcissistic piece of shit.

The would need to crash another order of magnitude for anything to happen. Tesla’s stock is crazy overvalued even now and the only justification for the over-valuation is the track record and insane over-promises of Musk. That’s the reality as investors see it. They will still bet on him until they’re thoroughly convinced that he’s not the golden child anymore.

I think this all has to do with how you are going to compare and pick a winner in intelligence. the traditional way is usually with questions which llms tend to do quite well at. they have the tendency to hallucinate, but the amount they hallucinate is less than the amount they don’t know in my experience.

The issue is really all about how you measure intelligence. Is it a word problem? A knowledge problem? A logic problem?.. And then the issue is, can the average person get your question correct? A big part of my statement here is at the average person is not very capable of answering those types of questions.

In this day and age of alternate facts and vaccine denial, science denial, and other ways that your average person may try to be intentionally stupid… I put my money on an llm winning the intelligence competition versus the average person. In most cases I think the llm would beat me in 90% of the topics.

So, the question to you, is how do you create this competition? What are the questions you’re going to ask that the average person’s going to get right and the llm will get wrong?

I asked gemini and ChatGPT (the free one) and they both got it right. How many people do you think would get that right if you didn’t write it down in front of them? If Copilot gets it wrong, as per eletes’ post, then the AI success rate is 66%. Ask your average person walking down the street and I don’t think you would do any better. Plus there are a million questions that the LLMs would vastly out perform your average human.

Then asking it a logic question. What question are you asking that the llms are getting wrong and your average person is getting right? How are you proving intelligence here?

You say this like this is wrong.

Think of a question that you would ask an average person and then think of what the LLM would respond with. The vast majority of the time the llm would be more correct than most people.

Because it looks super bad if the party in charge of all three branches of government can’t actually run the government at the simplest most basic level.

Are you guys idiots? The republicans are already fucking up the government, cutting left and right without regard to laws and congress. So you want the democrats to shut the government down to protest … what exactly? How does this help? This basically takes the narrative that fucked up government programs are now the D’s fault when the R’s are currently 100% in control.

Too many people here are like kids just wanting to break things. I’m pissed too, but shutting down the government would be the stupidest thing Schumer can do right now. The R’s don’t care if you shut down the government. They’d be happy. They’d then blame all the liberals for social programs that wouldn’t be funded and broken things. If you want to negotiate and play hardball, find something they care about and use that. This aint it.

So I don’t get it, what did he say that was wrong?

It pisses me off that I’m rooting against Space X, a company with an unarguably cool mission and product. Fuck Musk.

They say he did what “appeared to be a nazi salute”… or “he did what critics say was a nazi salute”. Both of those are journalisticly accurate and a better description of what happened.

I actually bought a sex toy on Amazon a week ago and I was pissed that they asked for my driver’s license to purchase it. WTF? What a screwed up country we live in.

Sure, but sexuality is a spectrum, and if it’s more expected I would think more people would experiment and move farther away from the norms.

I’m rather shocked that it’s so low. Back in the '90s, the estimate for gay people was 10%,. Here we are 30 years later when it’s perfectly fine to be out of the closet and love someone of the same sex… And the numbers haven’t changed? I would have thought it would increase with the acceptance of being gay.

I’m honestly surprised that the Congress isn’t flipping their shit over this. I know the Republicans are trump lap dogs, but this directly undermines their authority and sets a new norm on executive power. I expected more self preservation from those cowards.

I wonder how Tesla sales in Israel are going?

That’s awesome! I didn’t know you could download an LLM and run it locally! That’s what I’m really interested in is something that’s on my side and not a conduit to Google, MS or other.

I’m so glad Hawley proposed this bill or I wouldn’t have known that deepseek was open source and downloadable! I’ll have to go look for a download.

So from the conservative viewpoint, what is the rationale for the tariffs? Are people really supposed to believe it has something to do with fentanyl? Like do conservatives actually believe that or is there some other narrative besides Donald Trump is looking to flex his power?

“The Trump administration has passed a resolution saying that Mexico will now be called ‘America South’ and Canada ‘America North’. Google said it will follow the government’s lead in changing the names on it’s maps app.”