vxbush 3/29/2023 5:58:57 AM

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vxbush 3/29/2023 6:06:08 AM

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doppelganglander 3/29/2023 6:06:51 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

I just read it and it's spot on. Trans Day of Vengeance is nothing that can't be solved with tear gas and rubber bullets. But cowardly politicians would rather let women and children be brutalized than put down the rage mob. 

vxbush 3/29/2023 6:11:49 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

From the article: 

If you troll through trans-twitter or other social media you will find constant calls to violent resistance against transphobia and cries that a trans-genocide is ongoing.

This isn’t happening because transgendered people are inherently more violent than others, at least there is no evidence that this is the case. It seems to be the result of an unrelenting propaganda campaign that has convinced people that transgendered people are under threat.

vxbush 3/29/2023 7:09:41 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 4:

Hypothesis: When the FBI and government could not get Trump voters to be violent on January 6, 2020, they needed to find another group to get violent (to what ends, I don't know, but George Floyd 2020, Jayvon Martin 2012, there seems to be a string of these). So now the trans crowd is being targeted. 

JCM 3/29/2023 7:17:47 AM

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JCM 3/29/2023 7:26:57 AM

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DOJ Memos Dissuaded Marshals From Arresting Protestors at SCOTUS Justices’ Homes: Republican Senator

So leftist school boards are more important than SCOTUS Justices?

Occasional Reader 3/29/2023 7:27:00 AM

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In #1 vxbush said: I'll echo what OR said

That's usually a bad idea... 

Occasional Reader 3/29/2023 7:28:03 AM

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In #7 JCM said: So leftist school boards are more important than certain SCOTUS Justices?

FIFY

Occasional Reader 3/29/2023 7:30:31 AM

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JCM 3/29/2023 8:19:55 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 10:

So much for the concept of AI.

It's just a lot of fancy programming.

vxbush 3/29/2023 8:41:21 AM

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In #11 JCM said: It's just a lot of fancy programming.

Precisely. It's impressive programming, to be sure, but it isn't awareness or consciousness. 

Occasional Reader 3/29/2023 8:52:00 AM

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Reply to JCM in 11:

As a test, I just asked Amazon Echo for a joke about Jesus; then about Mohmmed; then about Buddha..  "Alexa" replied to each request with "I don't have a joke about that."

JCM 3/29/2023 8:56:44 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 12:

It probably would pass the Turning Test hower the Chinese Room Argument is another matter.

The AI has to really on available data, it can rapidly organize and present available data.

However insight, and mental leap humans can make to a totally new idea is something entirely level.

They say programmers will be "replaced" for much routine programming possibly. However for total new stuff? Not yet.

Hardware design, where I am, a long way off. Cutting edge hardware requires more than just following a program.

Occasional Reader 3/29/2023 9:02:40 AM

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In #14 JCM said: the Chinese Room Argument is another matter.

只用一个字来形容你脑海中关于你妈妈的美好之处

JCM 3/29/2023 9:29:40 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15:

In just one word describe the wonderful thing in your mind about your mom.

Occasional Reader 3/29/2023 9:58:23 AM

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Reply to JCM in 16:

Google translate version of a "Voight-Kampff Test" question... 

vxbush 3/29/2023 10:54:39 AM

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Ace of Spades has an article up talking about trans and quotes Andy Ngo, who says that transgenders make up 20% of those arrested for violence from Antifa terrorist events. Interesting if true. 

James O'Keefe may have just figured out some money laundering going on, as people who are listed by the FEC as donating thousands of dollars in small donations multiple times a day are telling him they didn't do that when approached by him. Some of those contributing are 80 or older. The donations are coming through Act Blue, of which BLM was a user of their web site and donors to BLM activities did not know they were donating to the Democrats. 

JCM 3/29/2023 10:56:07 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 18:

Tip of the iceberg?! Explains the hatchett campaign against O'Keefe.

vxbush 3/29/2023 1:18:54 PM

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In #19 JCM said: Tip of the iceberg?! Explains the hatchett campaign against O'Keefe.

Speculation I have seen online wonders if things in Ukraine are somehow involved. I'm not saying that is impossible, but it would mean Act Blue is outsourcing some of their funds processing to some Ukrainian vendor, and I don't know that space to know whether that's feasible. 

Kosh's Shadow 3/29/2023 4:37:12 PM

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In #11 JCM said: So much for the concept of AI. It's just a lot of fancy programming.

Actually, AI results are not programmed as we know it.

What AI, Machine Learning in particular is, is a large set of functions with a lot of parameters, fed with data and desired outputs (a "training set"). The Machine Learning algorithm uses some method to adjust the parameters to minimize the error between the desired outputs and the training set's correct answers. This is usually a stochastic (random) method where adjustments are made to parameters and then continuing adjustments that minimize the error.

There are several problems with this approach. It is easy for an algorithm to approach a "local minimum" - reducing the error for some cases, but not for all. The result is usually validated with other data, and re-run with adjustments if it is bad.

But without any concept of what it is really doing, it is easy for an AI system to come up with similar outputs for what people who understand the world consider quite different. 

However, we could easily replace our current VP with any ML system.

buzzsawmonkey 3/29/2023 4:53:52 PM

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With all the "trans" stuff in the news at the moment, including the supposed "Trans Day of Vengeance" due this weekend, it seems to be time to dust this off:

Clementine (updated)

Since the trend is towards “transgender”

And has been so for some time

A young minor sans vagina

Declared he was “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me

You must call me “Clementine”—

Though my given name is Clement

You must call me “Clementine."

He said he was “non-binary”

Hewing to the party line

And he’d frown at the wrong pronoun

Because he was “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me

You must call me “Clementine”—

Though my given name is Clement

You must call me “Clementine.”

With hormone blockers and fake knockers,

Litigation for a time,

The court system did assist him

In becoming “Clementine”

You must call me, you must call me

You must call me “Clementine”—

Though my given name is Clement

You must call me “Clementine.”

But alas for our heroine!

Eventually he did find

Drugs and trimmin’ don’t make women

Deep down, he was masculine

Oh my darling, oh my darling,

Oh my darling “Clementine”—

What’s cut off is gone forever 

Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Kosh's Shadow 3/29/2023 5:49:12 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 22:

+++++++++++++++++++++

Clementines are related to oranges. How does this relate to "Orange man bad"?/////

Kosh's Shadow 3/29/2023 6:06:56 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 3/29/2023 6:32:00 PM

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We belived you is the government's whore
And keeping people dumb
Is where you're coming from

Jukebox

Kosh's Shadow 3/29/2023 6:34:35 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 25:

This is the Central Scrutinizer. 
It is my responsibility to enforce the laws that haven't been written yet

Jukebox

buzzsawmonkey 3/29/2023 6:40:29 PM

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I'm waiting for the "transgender" Ken doll to be introduced.  

Since he's never had genitalia, there's not that much to re-engineer.

Kosh's Shadow 3/29/2023 6:58:39 PM

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In #27 buzzsawmonkey said: I'm waiting for the "transgender" Ken doll to be introduced.   Since he's never had genitalia, there's not that much to re-engineer.

Easy to sell old Ken dolls as trans Barbies and vice versa.

Boy, those trans are on a mission! We need to shift them into something else, with 4 speeds