Everything posted by Vegas64
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
I think the joke is that it doesn't matter and there is no advantage as implied (a la, if playing Battleship or cards).
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Gemini got it right though.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Brother? I work in a large consulting firm (but double the size) and use a similiar AI agent for RFP's. Along with an AI agent for a lot of grunt work for internal work. Some of the AI stuff we have that accesses knowledge articles can be a little suspect because sometimes I get two different answers and if it's important I will still ask a human, but for 80% of the crap you have to deal with in a huge company, AI has been helpful.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
I think this is something that as an unknown, is informing everyone's opinions. Some are assuming orders of magnitude advancements (and arguably based on past performances) and some are assuming more middling and unserious advancements. Both are right because you can't prove anything wrong at this point it seems like. If nothing else, it makes AI and the business of AI super interesting theatre in a paradigm-shifting time that comes around once every few generations.
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Dallas - Even Shittier than Normal
Barely.
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Unpopular movie opinions
He is the one comic foil among three straightmen (well 2 if you account that one character was essentially a plot piece who had 10 minutes in the opening and 10 minutes in the closing).
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Unpopular movie opinions
It was a product of it's time and was creative and interesting in that era. You have to remember I think that there was a prolonged desert of comedies at that time and this breathed some fresh air and life into that genre after the "Frat Pack" had peaked and that formula had sunset. but yea, i watched it last year with 2025 eyeballs and it wasn't that great. But still decent, IMO.
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Unpopular movie opinions
Zoolander is peak humor to me. It's a laugh a minute. Or was the last time I watched it in 2004.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
This has been posted at least 3 times previously. Is this the dumb stuff posted on facebook thread now?
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Saw something today with some stats and wanted to circle back on this line of thinking. As I previously said, I think it's undisputed that AI will take jobs and is a labor net negative, in the short and medium terms. And maybe long term. Estimates are that AI destoyed 200 to 250k jobs in 2025 in the US. The methods were excess layoffs and independently looking at what a typical GDP growth by % would statistically mean historically for labor/jobs in growth (and that is controlling for things like tariff reductions and immigration supression). 200-300k jobs doesn't sound horrible in the aggregate, but the fear is that with only 5-6% of business cases and enterprise programs showing success of that famously cited Fortune study of 92% of F500 adopting AI, if the current estimates only reflect that 5-6%, and IF artificial intelligence gets better YoY, etc., that number can become more scary. and early 2026 data is not encouraging. January had almost 110k job cuts, the highest total since the last financial crisis (job opening continue to fall and hiring plans are lowest Jan on record). All that to say, it's still not a very scientific methodology for tracking these things and I think many camps can massage the data still all too liberally to curate a narrative, however they want. Stay frosty out there!
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms HBO Max
No. My recommendation is to wait and binge them all at once for an enjoyable time. Some have liked to watch it in a serial fashion, but for me it's been frustrating as the episodes are around 30 minutes and every episode leaves you on cliff hanger just as it was building up to something, almost like a telenovella.
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Evangelical Christians
I remember reading a few things about Luther. 1) His was derivative in that he didn't really create the theses out of any divine or even creativity, but maybe collated existing IP and memorialized it rather famously 2) He fought tooth and nail to not include the Book of James in the NT because exactly some things you describe and James being the "True Religion is helping widows" and "Faith without works is dead", etc. and 3) He was a very nasty person and became a very nasty anti-semite later in his life. So much so that his views and writings were later used by Nazi Germany to defend their vile behaviors. I'm always a bit confused when people lionize, if not diefy, old Marty Luther.
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Whatcha reading?
I largely agree, though I'd put Barbarians at the Gate a bit higher. But the reason I bit off on 1929 was that it was meticulously researched (8 years) by the same author as TBTF. Unfortunately it wasn't as good.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
From the NYT this morning:
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
There is no war but class war.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
What tribe is this? Edom?
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
Thanks for the education on this!
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ICE activity/raids
I mean, McKinney is very red, so that's saying something and good for them. But the immediate reaction because I'm of the internet:
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms HBO Max
What kills me is we've had like what? 2 hours of storyline? 0 action. And it's a herky jerky build. This is a series best binged, watching it as a weekly serial is frustrating to me.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Also, what is the over/under on AI/GenAI ads and all the A-list celebrities shilling AI in the superbowl. I have to assume this is the AI Superbowl like how 2023 or whatever was the Crypto Superbowl.