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  Do You Think Trump Is Done?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  certain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.

  some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!

  is trump’s goose cooked?

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  --The gun in the diamond store conundrum.

  You enter a jewelry store with a drawn pistol to stop a violent felony, you're a hero.

  You enter a jewelry store with a drawn pistol when there's no robbery in progress , then you are the felon.

  The indictment has clearly anticipated the, "I truly believed the election was stolen and acted in good faith" argument. (By noting that Trump ignored the army of attorneys in the Justice Department, his own hand picked Attorney General, his own head of Homeland Security, his own Vice President, etc., etc., and deliberately surrounded himself with lunatics.)
  

  Lauro (at least) seems to be focusing on Trump's right to believe what he wanted to believe without getting into the "why" of it.
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  Do You Think Trump Is Done?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  certain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.

  some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!

  is trump’s goose cooked?

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  I've been listening to John Lauro's interviews, as he seems to be laying the groundwork for what will be Trump's defense.

  It appears to be (speculating a little) that A. He was following legal counsel in good faith and B. That his efforts were aspirational (i.e. covered by the first amendment) and not criminal.
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  Do You Think Trump Is Done?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  certain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.

  some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!

  is trump’s goose cooked?

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  I made it to the 52 second mark.

  Every law school in the U.S. has a lengthy online article on 18 USC § 371
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  Judgement, as in understanding your information may be biased or inaccurate in any number of ways manifests itself in a human physician's ability to discern that a patient's symptoms may be psychosomatic or misreported, or a human engineer's ability to determine an Architect may be mistaken on anything from materials to the application of mathematics, or a human judge's ability to interpret the intricacies of existing case law.
  

  AI lacks judgement and there is not a consensus of opinion even within the field on how this hurdle may be overcome.

  I'm not saying it can't be overcome, but I am saying that quantum leaps can't be predicted or scheduled.
  
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  Slim,

  Much better.

  The key takeaways are not wrong, but they have the "ring" of someone who quickly scoured the internet on a subject they're unfamiliar with and now want to speak authoritatively. Oddly enough, that makes it sound more and not less "human." (That's not something we see on the internet at all - LOL)
  

  (Bulge is the ratio of the sagitta to half the length of the chord. As a ratio, like Pi for example, it is not dependent upon the size of the object, which makes it useful for curves that must be scaled.)
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  Do You Think Trump Is Done?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  certain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.

  some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!

  is trump’s goose cooked?

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  I recommend reading the indictment. (It's only 45 pages which is fairly short.)

  Trump is not being charged with incitement to riot, he's, being charged with conspiracy to defraud.

  About a third of the way through, it becomes apparent that Mike Pence is a primary source.

  The indictment lists 6 unnamed co- conspirators, 5 of whom are pretty obvious.
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  Do You Think Trump Is Done?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  certain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.

  some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!

  is trump’s goose cooked?

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  As an old school conservative, I'd point out that there was a time when we were strict constructionists when it came to the rule of law and most especially, the Constitution.

  Trump, who didn't know the difference between articles and amendments and who struggled to even read the document in public, came along and that all went out the window.

  Okay, fine. You don't necessarily need a good grasp of law to be President, but if you don't then you need to listen to those who do.

  In Trump's case this would have been people like Mike Pence, Bill Barr and others. Instead, he chose to listen to crackpots.

  There's nothing trivial or circumstantial about the criminal indictments against Trump and those who believe that are listening to some of the same crackpots that Trump did.

  This is a very low hanging piece of fruit at this point.
  
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  My favourite female protagonists: Ellen Ripley

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  next is ellen ripley, played by sigourney weaver, of the alien franchise.. ripley only just beat the xenomorph in ridley scott's alien (1979).. she spends most of james cameron's aliens (1986) dealing with and overcoming her trauma.

  eventually, she seriously kicks ass.. she also becomes a surrogate mommy to newt, the abandoned girl who the space marines find on lv-426.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qssrxuhfawy.

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  Don't need to tell me twice

  

  I was smitten here, but seeing her as Ripley a couple of years later was the icing on the cake
  
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  A little bit of biblical Math

  by psyco in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jacob had 13 children (am i wrong?

  ): 12 boys and 1 girl.. if you flip a coin 13 times, the probability to have 12 heads is about 0.002!.

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  Not completely unheard of
  

  14 Consecutive sons:

  

  14 consecutive daughters:

  
  
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  Is AI going to change the world?

  by Reasonfirst in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had lunch with a friend, whose a lecturer in the accounting dept.

  of one of australia's best universities.

  he told me he expects to lose his job at some point in the next 5 years, as the accounting dept, will disappear, as all accounting will be done by ai programs, so why teach it.. if his fears are correct, that means that any profession that involves the mind, may one day face the same future.

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  I do understand what you are saying, Slim.

  The manner in which a CPU actually performs mathematical functions is not even remotely like a human would, or even within the realm of what would occur to the average person. (Everything is derived from simple binary addition and logical operators)
  

  But if the computational ability of a computer completely eclipses that of a human being (And there's absolutely no question on that point) then it really doesn't matter what's going on inside a CPU as long as it is giving correct answers.

  As you said, "..it really does not matter that AI is stupid in how it goes about producing its outcome from our perspective. What matters are the results it produces."

  Or as Jeffrey Hawkins, neuroscientist and AI researcher himself observed:
  

  "...most people aren’t trying to replicate the brain. It’s just whatever works, works. And today’s neural networks are working well enough."

  But as Hawkins goes on to point out, that approach has made AI utterly dependent upon human knowledge (And by extension human error) on a wide variety of topics.

  Excerpts from a session with ChatGPT:

  

  Incorrect

  
  

  Incorrect - Song with the same title by a different artist
  

  
  

  Not surprising, I guess.
  

  
  

  Swing and a miss. --Common Engineering/Mathematical term

  

  Still no answer (Other than 'splaining to me in my own field)

  The AI is simply regurgitating the tribal wisdom of the internet.