US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[Pascal's Wagie]

If you got beef then nigga eat a pork chop.

I show no love to homo thugs,
empty out, reload, then throw moh' slugs.
How you gonna explain fuckin' a man?
Even if we squashed the beef, I ain't touchin' ya hand!

 

[The Ugly One]

While I love to bash microsoft, I think it's a bit unfair. They've made some interesting (but not very popular) models, like the "bit" one, and things like onnxruntime are solid pieces of engineering "everyone" uses.
But it seems like more and more it's individual teams/engineers at Microsoft doing good work against the grain of the wider culture there.

It's not the "wider culture." Satya fucking fired all the seniors. Here's what happened:

1. Satya, who's been pretty good at figuring out what the next tech wave will be, figures AI will be it. (he is correct btw)
2. Satya does not actually understand AI at all. He just knows it's gonna be big. (He is correct btw)
3. Satya identifies OpenAI as driving the bleeding edge of AI (he is correct again)
4. A dead-eyed homosexual Jew, who himself doesn't understand AI all that well, is making moves to consolidate all the money and power within OpenAI in his hands, personally, to make himself, personally, insanely rich so he can buttfuck all the twinks he wants

======= THIS IS WHERE THINGS START TO RUN OFF THE RAILS =======

5. Satya does not realize this. He lacks the personal technical knowledge to understand that Sam Altman himself lacks deep technical knowledge. Altman is a lot like Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk, inordinately gifted at figuring out what you want to hear in real time and saying it, also extremely gifted at presenting as a genius despite not actually being one, by finding people who are smart, but not knowledgeable enough to realize how they're being bullshitted, and grabbing piles of their money
6. Part of Altman's gambit is to tell everyone that OpenAI's mechanical Turk just needs a few more datacenters full of GPUs, and V'Ger will emerge. Satya believes him.
7. Altman declares that ChatGPT has become sentient, has become equivalent to having multiple PhDs available via a simple UI, and has made knowledge itself obsolete as a skill. Every other AI CEO is declaring the same thing, like Dario Amodei @ Anthropic, who has declared Claude Code has made programmers obsolete (while himself hiring tons of programmers, it's uh, because only AI companies need programmers, goy). Therefore, Satya believes him.

====== THE TOTAL ENSHITTIFICATION OF MICROSOFT NOW OCCURS =====

8. Satya actually acts on this belief.
9. Rather than figuring out how to develop GPT-based applications that will add value throughout the stack, Satya's top priority becomes building chatbot-based replacements for Microsoft's senior engineers & managers. A mass purge of irreplaceable domain expertise, institutional knowledge, and product understanding occurs. Everyone who knows things at Microsoft has been replaced by an AI chatbot that might tell you to cook with turpentine.
10. Microsoft is now, as we said in the old days, fuxx0r3d.

 

[StMaryPiper]

Thank you greatest ally for continuing to drag us into a war we never should’ve bothered with. Trump just say the magic words, “you’re on your own”. Cut ties and leave, do not listen to the evangelical cucks

 

[Hannibalistique]

1. Satya, who's been pretty good at figuring out what the next tech wave will be, figures AI will be it. (he is correct btw)
2. Satya does not actually understand AI at all. He just knows it's gonna be big. (He is correct btw)
3. Satya identifies OpenAI as driving the bleeding edge of AI (he is correct again)

I disagree, Microsoft was very late to the party (and at the beginning Satya was just continuing Ballmer's cloud push, Satya didn't figure out shit), OpenAI itself was created because Musk et al saw were things were headed, and they were uncomfortable with ad-company Google being the lead.

Apple, for all its fumblings with it, were closer to the forefront (everything from the Siri mode of interaction to more low-level shit like their mobileclip models etc.), just as another counter-example.

 

[The Ugly One]

Microsoft was very late to the party

2019 isn't late to the AI party by any definition. That was back when everyone was still on Volta, and HPC was still driving as much more infrastructure capex than AI.

Apple, for all its fumblings with it, were closer to the forefront

Apple neither fumbled nor led in AI. They are the 19th century equivalent of a mail-order company realizing that becoming a railroad company is retarded - buy rail services and own the margin, not the capital.

 

[Hannibalistique]

2019 isn't late to the AI party by any definition. That was back when everyone was still on Volta, and HPC was still driving as much more infrastructure capex than AI.

It was very late comparatively, as I said OpenAI itself was created in response to Google's absolute dominance of AI research (and Google also popularized the attention mechanism in the transformer model, so it's not like OpenAI had managed to supplant them at that point).
The only thing Microsoft had was a ton of cash and data center capacity that they couldn't sell (Azure is still shit), and since all the other big tech CEOs were in an AI frenzy Satya decided to spend some of that. It wasn't a dumb decision, but it wasn't some visionary insight either.

 

[Jace on ice]

I disagree, Microsoft was very late to the party (and at the beginning Satya was just continuing Ballmer's cloud push, Satya didn't figure out shit), OpenAI itself was created because Musk et al saw were things were headed, and they were uncomfortable with ad-company Google being the lead.

Apple, for all its fumblings with it, were closer to the forefront (everything from the Siri mode of interaction to more low-level shit like their mobileclip models etc.), just as another counter-example.

Microslop made the same mistakes literally every other tech company did

Fire all their devs because they bought the ridiculous notion that glorified chat bots could produce viable code on their own.

Operating costs triple or quadruple because LLMs are expensive as fuck and also can't produce viable code.

Trump yeeted the jeet and made it much more difficult to mass import/hire them for pennies on the dollar like they used to.

Microslop is forced to hire the white and Asian males they initially fired in pursuit of the gay automated luxury Communist space utopia at great expense.

Couldn't have happened to shittier people, they deserve it.

 

[Mister Fister]

Is it even possible for a LLM to catch errors?
"AI" just seems like a sexy term for 2nd gen GPU computing where GPU computing can used already stored data vs first gen that couldn't. GPU computing is already great for modeling, simulations and anything else requiring a lot of simple calculations that can leverage data already existing.
Do retards really believe it will give you CMDR Data?

 

[The Nothingness]

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Thank you greatest ally for continuing to drag us into a war we never should’ve bothered with. Trump just say the magic words, “you’re on your own”. Cut ties and leave, do not listen to the evangelical cucks

Do the boomercons want endless impeachments?! Because that's how you get endless impeachments!

 

[Netizennameless]

Not sure if it's Global Warming or Cooling or Climate Change, but the UV Index is too damn high for my thin elderly skin to appreciate.
Clean air? Nah, I need pollution to block the sun so I can go outside without crisping up, thanks.

The oil and gas industry has been trying to make the world a better place by shielding us from radiation and the evil eco-terrorists have slandered them at every turn!

 

[Jace on ice]

Is it even possible for a LLM to catch errors?

Kinda

If they're given a set of rigid parameters and told to find aberration or deviations than yes they can do that.

If by catching errors you mean can they look at code and independently recognize whether something is broken or not with no instruction then no they can't because they're not people nor capable of independent or non linear thinking.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Do the boomercons want endless impeachments?! Because that's how you get endless impeachments!

That's coming regardless.

 

[Tom Peters]

The Trumps administration needs to investigate the possibility that Hindu Supremacists in the USA are helping to spread the Lone Star Tick and Alpha Gal, which is a potentially deadly allergy to red meat.

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After comparing maps of Hindu population centers and Lone Star outbreaks I see some correlations that need to be investigated.

If this was spreading solely because of global warming, as they claim, then how did these ticks migrate across a desert region in the SW USA when it also got hotter and less hospitable to the ticks? Desert is the complete opposite of their natural habitat.

Hindu Supremacists have the motive:

• Protecting their sacred cows by reducing beef consumption would be a religious victory akin to them building one of their monkey god statues.

Hindu Supremacists have committed violence before:

• They are an active terrorist group in India and are likely behind murdering citizens in Canada and possibly the USA in recent years.

There have already been discussions of the bioethical benefits of using Alpha Gal to reduce red meat consumption to protect the animals and the environment

• No doubt Hindu's supported this research.

Why has the tick spread to Hindu populations centers on the West Coast and in the NE USA when there is no natural method for them to spread to some of these areas OTHER than humans intentionally seeding them there?

More on my theory: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-india-menace.174997/post-24603955

https://www.fairus.org/issue/tuberculosis-mass-migration-drives-its-prevalence-united-states?__cf_chl_rt_tk=lSf_338WO0PUOk_Mo807IonljNZ9jNAXchehB.hC6rs-1779904469-1.0.1.1-xdakwcg73XqYqVSqoEqxKEhWq4ZvT4dlqxxRIBbl.Rg

I posited my theory that Pajeets are spreading Lone Star Ticks to infect Americans with Alpha Gal in order to protect their sacred cows since Alpha Gal makes you allergic to red meat. Got some good feedback on my theory, both supporting it and questioning it.

One point brought up was that Pajeets are too retarded and unorganized to do something as complex as bioterrorism. I have since learned about an incident in the USA involving Pajeets waging bioterrorism. In fact, this is the first and largest bioterrorist attack in US history and it was done by psychotic pajeets for purely political/religious reasons.

I'm sharing it now to inform everyone, please remain vigilant because it is possible.

1984 Rajneeshee Bioterror Attack

1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In 1984, 751 people suffered food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, due to the deliberate contamination of salad bars at ten local restaurants with Salmonella. A group of prominent followers of Rajneesh (also known as Osho) led by Ma Anand Sheela had hoped to incapacitate the voting population of the city so that their own candidates would win the 1984 Wasco County elections. The incident was the first and largest bioterrorist attack in U.S. history.


In 1981, several thousand of Rajneesh's followers had moved onto the "Big Muddy Ranch" in rural Wasco County, Oregon, where they later incorporated as an intentional community called "Rajneeshpuram". The group had started on friendly terms with the local population, but relations soon degraded because of land-use conflicts and the commune's dramatic expansion.



After being denied building permits for Rajneeshpuram, the commune leadership sought to gain political control over the rest of the county by influencing the November 1984 county election. Their goal was to win two of three seats on the Wasco county commission, as well as the sheriff's office.

The main planners of the attack included Ma Anand Sheela, Rajneesh's chief lieutenant, and Diane Ma Anand Puja, a nurse practitioner and secretary-treasurer of the Rajneesh Medical Corporation. They purchased Salmonella bacteria from a medical supply company in Seattle, Washington, and staff cultured it in labs within the commune. They contaminated the produce at the salad bars as a "trial run". The group also tried to introduce pathogens into The Dalles' water system.

Two visiting Wasco County commissioners were infected via glasses of water containing Salmonella bacteria during a visit to Rajneeshpuram on August 29, 1984. Both men fell ill and one was hospitalized. Afterward, members of Sheela's team spread Salmonella on produce in grocery stores and on doorknobs and urinal handles in the county courthouse, but these actions did not produce the desired effects. In September and October 1984, they contaminated the salad bars of ten local restaurants with Salmonella, infecting 751 people.

Local residents suspected that Rajneesh's followers were behind the poisonings. They turned out in droves on Election Day to prevent the cult from winning any county positions, thus rendering the plot unsuccessful. The Rajneeshees eventually withdrew their candidate from the November 1984 ballot.Only 239 of the commune's 7,000 residents voted; most were not U.S. citizens and could not vote.


A dedication plaque put up in the community infected by the Rajneeshee

Dedicated to those of this community who throughout the Rajneeshee invasion and occupation of 1981-1985 remained, resisted and remembered.... "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."



I think we should all dedicate ourselves to remaining and resisting the current Pajeet invasion.

 

[Mister Fister]

That's coming regardless.

Ahh yes, Wishcasting.

 

[Hannibalistique]

non linear thinking.

While I largely agree with the rest of your post, technically the universal approximation theorem implies that they can model non-linear relationships in data (like code).

 

[Mister Fister]

Kinda

If they're given a set of rigid parameters and told to find aberration or deviations than yes they can do that.

If by catching errors you mean can they look at code and independently recognize whether something is broken or not with no instruction then no they can't because they're not people nor capable of independent or non linear thinking.

So ,Artificial Indians.

 

[The Ugly One]

It was very late comparatively

No, it wasn't. Microsoft got into AI just 2 years after Google published the transformer paper. Anthropic wouldn't exist for another 2 years. The market doesn't care who invents the science first. The market cares who brings a good product to market first. Henry Ford built his first car a decade after Karl Benz. Sony didn't invent the transistor radio, Intel didn't invent DRAM, Google didn't invent search, and Amazon didn't invent storage-as-a-service. Nobody cares who published the transformer paper.

Late to the party is when there functionally is no price you can pay to get in. In AI, we're there now ,or perhaps will be soon, at least for this wave. We weren't in 2019. Microsoft isn't floundering because they're late--again, two years before Anthropic even existed--but because they made and are continuing to make bad decisions.

 

[Scale Smerch]

Is it even possible for a LLM to catch errors?

Kinda

If they're given a set of rigid parameters and told to find aberration or deviations than yes they can do that.

If by catching errors you mean can they look at code and independently recognize whether something is broken or not with no instruction then no they can't because they're not people nor capable of independent or non linear thinking.

Largely this. If you give them a restricted context and ask them to find why a data structure is breaking, a variable is being wrongly set, or why a logic path isn't working they are very good at finding it, or at least helping you narrow down where to manually debug.

They fall apart when you point them at a repo and say find all the errors present or ask on architectural improvements, in part because the questions are too broad, too open ended, and too large for their context windows.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

I posited my theory that Pajeets are spreading Lone Star Ticks to infect Americans with Alpha Gal in order to protect their sacred cows since Alpha Gal makes you allergic to red meat. Got some good feedback on my theory, both supporting it and questioning it.

I have a coworker who said his Canadian friends are reporting helicopters and planes "dropping ticks" though my coworker wonders how they could possibly see what the aircraft are doing from so far away. My coworker only talked about it after I read your post about the Poojeet Conspiracy so it was pretty interesting to hear nonetheless.

 

[Sammich]

You're not allowed to complain about beef prices. There's a few people here who live in places where beef is still reasonable, so therefore you're lying and full of shit. Leave your blue / dem dystopia, libcuck.

of course you can complain, who cares. Just don't tell me beef is 22 bucks a pound and expect to not get called full of shit.

If Donald Trump can be President, then Spencer Pratt can be Mayor.

Also ground beef is around $1 per pound higher where I live than it was a couple months ago. Grilling season is gonna be stressful for some folks.

Yeah, I was reading tomatoes are to be extra pricey too for some reason. Sucks for people all over the place.

With tomatoes you can pretty easily throw some good top soil in a bucket and grow your own. Tomatoes are pretty hardy outside of getting frostbit, but that's something you can easily overcome by just moving them inside if it's gonna be close to freezing.