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#51
Income inequality / Billionaires
Last post by K-Dog - Sep 15, 2026, 03:49 PMQuote from: Frankhoutt on Sep 15, 2026, 04:46 AMGreetings! I came across a handy page and figured I'd share it here. Check it out — https://orbitthistle4.store/. Hope it helps someone
It won't help anyone since the link is dead. I hope you are not here to advertise, because if you are. You will soon be gone.
#52
Income inequality / Billionaires
Last post by TDoS - Sep 15, 2026, 02:20 PMQuote from: Frankhoutt on Sep 15, 2026, 04:46 AMGreetings! I came across a handy page and figured I'd share it here. Check it out — https://orbitthistle4.store/. Hope it helps someone
Yo Frank from peru! Where did you learn coolio English and find a blog like this where there are no customers to spam, so easily?
#53
Tech is always to the rescue / Tesla: The Cybercab Failure Is...
Last post by RE - Sep 14, 2026, 08:41 PM
Tesla: The Cybercab Failure Is Worse Than You Think
The Cybercab launch was the catalyst that was supposed to justify Tesla's valuation, and it delivered almost nothing that investors could measure. Instead of a fleet expansion plan, the company got a federal investigation, while its main competitor keeps adding cities. Meanwhile, the car business is heading into a tough Q3 comparison, and discounts are already back in China.
About time! SELL, SELL, SELL! 😀
RE
#54
Eat the rich / End Times Fascism
Last post by TDoS - Sep 14, 2026, 02:37 PMQuote from: K-Dog on Sep 14, 2026, 02:02 AMProper trolling would not misspell international. It makes it look like your criticism was not serious, which it wasn't.
Free from bias:
Scenario one : I drop a 10,000 word article onto one of the big name online foundation models. Foundation models are the big boys. The article deeply goes into the history of the Houthis and how they started out as ----- Ansar Allah ("Partisans of God"), a political-military faction and Zaydi religious movement founded in northwestern Yemen in the 1980s to fight corruption and foreign influence.
We do not have to know what else is in the article because if you have any common sense at all you know the foundation model which for the blink of an eye used as much power as a small city should say more than, after feeding in the rules I have created to extract a summary only says :
"The Houthis are a terrorist organization."
So, it turns out even silicon kisses orange ass. Not just silicone as it turns out.
In contrast my hardware only turns on the equivalent of a 300 watt light bulb for 20 seconds, and then an answer pops out that is shockingly accurate. And which would have taken a human twenty minutes to come up with. Because you would have to read the article thoroughly, taking copious notes. At the end of that write something only to encounter a rule that says you have to verify that the main point has been captured and is accurate.
It comes down to the system prompt, which can be as devious or as honest as you like. I think mine is pretty honest, and in a 10,000 word article it should always give more than one line of bullshit. But I can't give you common sense you don't have. An author can put out the good, the bad, or the ugly. And that is exactly what will be summarized if a fair prompt is used.[/color]QuoteSummarize the provided text in 50 words or fewer, excluding numbers and symbols. Output a single well-written paragraph containing no bullets, headings, quotes, or commentary. Capture the core theme and major points while ignoring extraneous content. Use standard English punctuation, but strictly avoid all dashes (em dashes, en dashes, or hyphens used as punctuation). Instead, use commas, semicolons, colons, or transitional phrases to connect clauses. Hyphens are permitted solely for standard compound words. Output only the final summary paragraph.
"seems to be free of bias" actually means exactly that. Propaganda can pass a smell test yet still be rotten. Propaganda can be subtle, and if it is hidden inside the model a prompt won't catch it.
Boy I don't have a clue how you went from refusing to answer the question, other than you obviously can't, to going to your current favorite hobby. I happily use AI in specific instances. But I know I can't even use it to summaize my career because it does a stone cold shitty job. It can't seem to properly decipher education from experience, and keeps pretending because of my published works I am something other than what I am.
I'm glad you enjoy your hobby. As far as being left only with spelling errors at 100 wpm....
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#55
The metacrisis / The Polycrisis: Disaster and ...
Last post by RE - Sep 14, 2026, 05:00 AM
The Polycrisis Disaster and Constraint
A devastating landslide in Nepal’s Himalayas, triggered by glacial retreat and climate change, destroyed infrastructure, killed over a thousand, and left thousands missing, exposing the acute vulnerability of developing nations to escalating climate disasters. Despite urgent needs for adaptation and recovery, global financial systems remain inadequate, with frozen climate aid funds, rising borrowing costs in wealthy nations, and shrinking development finance creating a cycle of disinvestment and deepening crisis that threatens both survival and stability.
Answer is THEY CAN'T.
Who is going to loan BILLIONS to rebuild entire towns which were already impoverished before the glaciers started collapsing on top of them? Even if somebody did loan them money, how could they ever hope to pay them back? They are DOOMED.
There's a reason remote mountainous communities are impoverished. They are too removed from trade routes and lack road systems to have any economic value. Even if there were valuable minerals to mine in those mountains, the cost of doing the mining and building the roads and railways to get the minerals out would be too high for it to be profitable. They don't have the electric power to build Data Centers or some kind of manufacturing and they never will. Their only source of FOREX is the Tourist Trade of climbers and folks on Spiritual Journeys.
Realisticaly, this should be a wake up call for the people to LEAVE and migrate to some location not on the leading edge of collapse, but who will take them? There's the real problem with this iteration of collapse, there's nowhere left to go to. Borders are being closed, even Cittizens are being deported from many countries. Millions of people are already living in Refugee Camps in MENA and SE Asia.
The Global South isn''t waiting for collapse to arrive. It's well underway and accelerating.
RE
#56
Eat the rich / End Times Fascism
Last post by K-Dog - Sep 14, 2026, 02:02 AMQuotenother old oil man with domestic and internation experience
Proper trolling would not misspell international. It makes it look like your criticism was not serious, which it wasn't.
Free from bias:
Scenario one : I drop a 10,000 word article onto one of the big name online foundation models. Foundation models are the big boys. The article deeply goes into the history of the Houthis and how they started out as ----- Ansar Allah ("Partisans of God"), a political-military faction and Zaydi religious movement founded in northwestern Yemen in the 1980s to fight corruption and foreign influence.
We do not have to know what else is in the article because if you have any common sense at all you know the foundation model which for the blink of an eye used as much power as a small city should say more than, after feeding in the rules I have created to extract a summary only says :
"The Houthis are a terrorist organization."
So, it turns out even silicon kisses orange ass. Not just silicone as it turns out.
In contrast my hardware only turns on the equivalent of a 300 watt light bulb for 20 seconds, and then an answer pops out that is shockingly accurate. And which would have taken a human twenty minutes to come up with. Because you would have to read the article thoroughly, taking copious notes. At the end of that write something only to encounter a rule that says you have to verify that the main point has been captured and is accurate.
It comes down to the system prompt, which can be as devious or as honest as you like. I think mine is pretty honest, and in a 10,000 word article it should always give more than one line of bullshit. But I can't give you common sense you don't have. An author can put out the good, the bad, or the ugly. And that is exactly what will be summarized if a fair prompt is used.
QuoteSummarize the provided text in 50 words or fewer, excluding numbers and symbols. Output a single well-written paragraph containing no bullets, headings, quotes, or commentary. Capture the core theme and major points while ignoring extraneous content. Use standard English punctuation, but strictly avoid all dashes (em dashes, en dashes, or hyphens used as punctuation). Instead, use commas, semicolons, colons, or transitional phrases to connect clauses. Hyphens are permitted solely for standard compound words. Output only the final summary paragraph.
"seems to be free of bias" actually means exactly that. Propaganda can pass a smell test yet still be rotten. Propaganda can be subtle, and if it is hidden inside the model a prompt won't catch it.
#57
Eat the rich / End Times Fascism
Last post by TDoS - Sep 13, 2026, 03:10 PMQuote from: K-Dog on Sep 13, 2026, 08:19 AMGenerating the summary on my own hardware is one thing. The model I am using 'seems' free of bias, and I check that it is. Only summarizing, and not injection bias the way an online request does.[/color]
So how about this question. What does "seems to be free of bias" actually mean? You believed in the past that your opinion on peak oil was free of bias, yet it was completely disconnected from the geology, engineering and engineering involved because an old oil man you spoke to said something you believed. Which then initiated a bias which you used against an actual expert who explained the discrepancies you attempted to use to make your point.
So if you are willing to go with your bias based on an old oil man rather than another old oil man with domestic and internation experience and scientific expertise, how can you ever be sure you can recognize bias in this regard?
#58
Eat the rich / End Times Fascism
Last post by K-Dog - Sep 13, 2026, 08:19 AMQuoteSomebody needs to turn it into a 3 minute video short on YouTube.
But only if they want to make the short as it would do no good.
When you ask a large language model a question. What is the capital of France. Answer: Paris comes back. I'm talking about one on my machine that is unharnessed. Not one one the web that is not inside chat software which knows all about you. A LLM running on my own video cards, the ones which generate article summaries at my behest. That arrangement. And helping me is more like it. People talk about AI replacing people, but with humans in the loop the reality is not binary at all.
Point is. Every time I use it on a new article I clear the memory so it does not remember anything from the last article. I think the same thing happens when people turn off You-Tube. Their memory gets cleared, and any snippet that is remembered is buried in the entertainment file.
The Illusion of the “Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire”: How Capitalism’s Defenders Uphold Their Own Exploitation
Capitalism sustains itself by convincing the exploited that their hardship is temporary and success within reach, fostering loyalty among those it harms most. Through cultural hegemony, consumer illusions, and survivorship bias, it masks systemic exploitation, alienation, and structural violence as personal opportunity. The myth of upward mobility silences dissent, turning victims into defenders of a system designed to enrich few while sacrificing many.
* Generating the summary on my own hardware is one thing. The model I am using 'seems' free of bias, and I check that it is. Only summarizing, and not injection bias the way an online request does.
#59
Eat the rich / End Times Fascism
Last post by RE - Sep 13, 2026, 01:40 AM
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
Naomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a paradise city, gated at every entrance, no need for weapons there, everyone in it rich. One of the men has tears in his eyes as he describes its beauty. The opening scene of End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, is not a metaphor, however. The men are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The year is 2026, the mountain is Davos. The paradise city will be called New Gaza.
Sounds like a worthwhile though depressing read. What is saddest is that the people who most need to read it no longer have the attention span to read a book. Somebody needs to turn it into a 3 minute video short on YouTube.
RE
#60
War / US and Israel carrying out str...
Last post by RE - Sep 12, 2026, 09:23 PMQuote from: K-Dog on Sep 12, 2026, 05:19 PMTo keep Americans from being sent over there could take a damn rebellion. The next move will be for Pox News to sell the heartland on their patriotic duty to restore order and peace to the world. America's prosperity is at risk. Only by going to Iran and kicking Persian butt can inflation come down.
It is a hard sell, but will America buy it?
They probably will. Bicameral cognition got him elected after all, and now his problem is America's problem.
The voices of the gods say rise up, the homeland could be next. Duty calls. That he is the source of all the trouble is irrelevant.
They will use the broken pipe and the dear oil to say we must fight the Persians to keep the bread cheap and the ships moving.[/color]
The only way to possibly get enough boots on the ground over there would be conscription. The Draft doesn't sell here until the fuel shortage is extreme or food prices double or triple. The Europeans have to go first also.
The other issue is the CHINESE. I can't see them allowing FSoA takeover of Iran.
RE