What do you mean? Trump has repeatedly told us that he aced multiple tests designed to screen people who are suspected of having dementia. Surely that denotes high IQ.

What i wonder is why the doctors keep making him do the test.

It’s probably some senile whim from Dear Leader. Remember when he told the navy what kind of catapult they should use?

Yeah. It is so much easier for me to believe that Americans are racist than to believe that 79 million people thought “The Apprentice” was a documentary. This born-rich imbecile is the opposite of a tycoon - he literally bankrupted a casino.

i had to search sepak takraw, but it looks awesome! my foot skills are weak, unfortunately

This is the first sensible proposal for regulating AI that I have ever heard. Make the chucklefucks who are unleashing this horror directly responsible for their bullshit.

Chat GPT hacks a government website? 5 years in jail for Altman. Claude agent deletes someone’s database? Amodei gets the bill to fix it.

All AI bullshit stops over night.

Stop me before I kill everyone!

Maybe some bullets would work better than regulations.

Squash! It’s the most fun way to exercise.

That is interesting. I admit I don’t keep up with the state of the art on foldable devices because they didn’t appeal to me (whenever I need a big screen, I also need a keyboard).

Someone else said they use their foldable phone to read PDFs; I can see how that would be useful.

Realistically, could a foldable phone last 5 years of daily use? (5yr is my minimum durability standard. I actually use my phones longer)

They fail faster on average. Just because someone out there is still driving an AMC Gremlin doesn’t make it a good car

Let me know in 3 years how it is holding up

They break faster than non-folding phones, giving manufacturers an endless source of new revenue.

Exactly. In Canada the grocery giants post a new record profit every quarter. They don’t need my unpaid labour.

Yeah. It has happened over and over. For Hitler, it was the Jews: they cost Germany the war, they are the root of all social problems, etc. It is almost always some minority like immigrants or trans people. Scapegoats unify, complexity divides.

Real-world problems are complex. Every solution to one problem affects other systems in unpredictable ways. When a large group of people agree on a solution, it is usually because it is simplistic and wrong.

Classic example: prices are high. The left blames actual scarcity, corporate greed, climate change, institutional problems. Any solution that might address high prices will be complex and will have side effects. This will cause people to disagree.

On the right, some jerkwad like Trump says “prices are high because of immigration - specifically, the immigration of brown people.” The solution is ICE! Simple, easy to understand, dead wrong. Everyone on the right cheers!!!

Americans have more exposure to AI. The rest of the world will come around.

Exactly! I am not anti-ai. I am opposed to corporate controlled, massively polluting, unreliable slop engines that will be used to surveil us and take our jobs without benefitting us in any way.

I can write my own Grade 8 essays, thank you very much.

One time I successfully used an AI to troubleshoot a sound driver problem in Linux. It was maybe a little faster than casting about on stack exchange. I had to prompt it like 30 times though because it kept being confidently wrong. I didn’t continue to use it.

Maybe there are people out there who need something to suggest “sandwich”. You buy water from the water company because you wouldn’t have water without them. I would be embarrassed to shop from a company that claims to sell “intelligence”

Why are you the way that you are?

Sorry for answering a rhetorical question, but self-checkout is the way it is because stupid consumers meekly agreed to do work for big corporations for no pay. They designed a bad system because they don’t respect you. They don’t respect you because you are a fool.

Please please please rename it American Intelligence. Something to finally pop this bubble.

Agreed. It’s not an accident or an attempt to drive engagement. It is a targeted propaganda and influencing campaign. That’s the exact reason I am on Fediverse.

A couple years ago I cut way back on YouTube because it kept trying to steer me into right-wing bullshit. Example: I like construction and I have dreamed about building a cabin. I watched a few videos about timber frame structures. A couple about hand-made buildings. All of a sudden, I noticed that the creator of one video was building a cabin with a holstered gun. Weird, I thought - until I checked the new list of recommended videos. I had fallen into the alt-right prepper wasteland, just because I think nailing boards is fun.