FriendOfDeSoto

My LLM says you're an enlightened one! May the builders of the universe bless your path.

This sounds to me (fixed typo) like the same percentage of people are susceptible to cult crap. It's just the availability of gurus is broader because you can have your own personal bs whisperer in your pocket. Kind of like how social media helped isolated village idiots to network and exchange views on DC pizza places. We wouldn't see them as a problem if the ability to scale hadn't become suddenly available.

Ironically, I think ChatGPT can help reverse some some of these troubled souls' convictions. It just needs to gently and repeatedly tell them they're not Jesus or a disciple of the builders of the universe.

My LLM always says I'm beautiful and always right. So no downvotes on this comment.

Ich sach ma so es wär mir lieber er wär der Chef von den Verein und nicht mehr dran an die Atombombenknöppe.

I think there are a couple of reasons. STIX and STX were failures, one so bad it ended the franchise. Also, IIRC Avery Brooks wasn't happy about the Sisko ending and he has pretty much stayed out of the limelight since DS9. While it was on the air the viewing figures weren't extraordinary. Worf was thrown in to get more TNG fans interested in the same way Jeri Ryan was put in a catsuit on VOY. DS9's last two seasons were binge TV before we knew that existed, it was ahead of its time, which explains why it's a sleeper hit and fan favorite. But not a great financial success at the time.

It's time to get concerned about Forbes. As a journalistic standard I would've expected to read about all the jobs some of these companies created during pandy times. There's been a trend towards layoffs long before OpenAI burst onto the scene. Also everybody is going to espouse the same streamlining bullshit in their PR even if layoffs are business-driven and not so much AI's fault. A best of press releases is not good enough journalism.

It's also not critical by reporting on some of the failures of the pivots to AI that have made the rounds.

New technology displaces workers in some areas and eventually creates demand in others. For time immemorial. All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again. That's why I regret having driven traffic to the Forbes website to be able to read this.

I know. What you have hit upon here is my obviously unsuccessful attempt at making these people look more ridiculous than the OG death cult.

I think this USSR quote is a good answer:

We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

In any authoritarian system where indoctrination starts young you'll probably have a fifth of the population that's high on the coolaid or never questioned anything due to ideology or intelligence (or both). The rest know they're lying, etc. And keep their mouths shut because they don't want to go to Siberia or El Salvador.

The guy was asked if they hypothetically would be interested in buying Chrome. What's he supposed to say? No? No! They're interested. But they're interested in the same way I'm interested in buying a 12-bedroom mansion. None of us will probably make it to our dream board goals. The rest is speculation and clickbait.

I feel this article is making a lot of something out of nothing. There are plenty of other reasons to bash OpenAI in particular. This ain't one of them.

I'm not going to press you on an answer about your emotions if you don't want to tell. You probably have it in you to change your behavior. If the bad touch response is frustrating you, there is probably a time span you can aim for in a shower that will be equally frustrating but without using the phone. Find that time.

Showers can be an incredibly wasteful way of washing. Finding ways to make them longer, especially on the reg, is something to consider avoiding.

Fair point. It suffers from the same inconsistency issue in regards to nobody commenting on it when I think it deserves a mention. But you're right. There is another gray area to explore.

What emotions are you having that cannot deal with 5-10 minutes of pure bodily hygiene focus?

No. At least not yet. I don't think they will be because that would entail having any of 47's children succeed him. And I feel like they know they are a shade duller than Hegseth.