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  • AI IS DETERMINISTIC Writers and actors and set jobs are going to collapse like t

    AI IS DETERMINISTIC
    Writers and actors and set jobs are going to collapse like the clerical jobs collapsed and the agrarian sector jobs collapsed before them. There is absolutely nothing that can stop it for the simple reason that if the studios don’t use the tech, an opposing…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-17 16:10:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680973181249519617

  • AI IS DETERMINISTIC Writers and actors and set jobs are going to collapse like t

    AI IS DETERMINISTIC
    Writers and actors and set jobs are going to collapse like the clerical jobs collapsed and the agrarian sector jobs collapsed before them. There is absolutely nothing that can stop it for the simple reason that if the studios don’t use the tech, an opposing industry will rise out of the independent sector, using these technologies to produce more innovation and experimentation faster (and very likely better) than the existing system – which is showing serious signs of creative collapse, made far worse by the ‘woke’ introgression and capture of the industry for ideological reasons.

    The price of production has to drop dramatically for the industry to survive AT ALL, and that drop will come as always by increases in efficiency. We have lost not only the DVD channel, but most of the theatre channel, and we are certain to increasingly fragment the online channel.

    The truth is that the industry can survive on ‘voluntary’ participation alone simply for the fun of it, without any compensation at all – or very little.

    So a smaller number of better creatives will produce more of the content more cheaply, faster, and with more innovation, satisfying more markets.

    I’ve made this argument since 2008, and with newspapers, advertisers, media, and entertainment. The era of mass appeal is going to increasingly fragment and so concentration of income behind any production will decrease – like all other products an services in the world.

    You can’t stop it. You can’t even slow it. The best you can do is discover how to take advantage of it. And that will likely be from embracing the tech and organizing outside of the entertainment sector contract system that’s archaic at this point.

    Unions are dead everywhere for this reason: Entertainment now. Finance next. Government soon after.
    #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGstrike


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-17 16:10:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680973181052411907

  • RT @JayMan471: At the end of the day, this is what life is all about isn’t it? A

    RT @JayMan471: At the end of the day, this is what life is all about isn’t it? Access to hot babes is literally what makes the world go aro…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 18:50:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680288669695967235

  • RT @Psyche_OS: The US Military Recruiting Crisis, especially of the critical sou

    RT @Psyche_OS: The US Military Recruiting Crisis, especially of the critical southern white bucket and the general white bucket is in full…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 18:48:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680288304191754240

  • Sabine Hossenfelder Rains On EV The Parade – Price tag to upgrade the grid for t

    Sabine Hossenfelder Rains On EV The Parade
    https://t.co/0Q3asqEX04
    – Price tag to upgrade the grid for the demand in electric cars tesimates range from 7 to 20 TRILLION dollars.
    – And then, we still have to create the energy?
    – Fueling electric vehicles with coal is worse than continuing use of petroleum. An electric vehicle would need to be driven 80k miles in most countries to be break even while working toward ‘net zero’.
    – EV’s take 6x minerals as conventional vehicles. With Lithium and Cobalt the main constraint. Almost all cobalt comes from the DRC (conflict).
    – Prices of EVs will increase.
    – And then there is the problem of recycling the batteries.

    (Net: this really needs to be spread out over a century, and will require nuclear reactors, and new power lines.)

    (FWIW: I’m not buyin’ it – the timeline is’ just not reasonable.)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 18:21:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680281366561169410

  • IS ENGLISH FROM ENGLAND? 😉 Ok. Just to have a bit of fun: a) Technically Englis

    IS ENGLISH FROM ENGLAND? 😉
    Ok. Just to have a bit of fun:
    a) Technically English is derived from Anglisc, named after the Angles, who invaded the isles in the 5th century.
    b) Jutes and Angles (Danes), Friesans (Dutch) are West Germanic Languages.

    The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages
    … 1) The West Germanic branch is classically subdivided into three branches: Ingvaeonic, which includes English and Frisian, Istvaeonic, which includes Dutch and its close relatives, and Irminonic, which includes German and its close relatives and variants.
    … 2) North Germanic (scandianvian)
    … 3) East Germanic (Extinct 🙁 )

    Dialects with the features assigned to the western germanic group formed from Proto-Germanic in the late Jastorf culture (c. 1st century BC).

    The Jastorf culture was an Iron Age material culture in what is now northern Germany and southern Scandinavia spanning the 6th to 1st centuries BC, forming part of the Pre-Roman Iron Age and associating with Germanic peoples. The culture evolved out of the Nordic Bronze Age.

    The Nordic Bronze Age culture emerged about 1750 BC as a continuation of the Battle Axe culture (the Scandinavian Corded Ware variant) and Bell Beaker culture. The Bronze Age in Scandinavia can be said to begin shortly after 2000 BC with the introduction and use of bronze tools, followed by a more systematic adoption of bronze metalworking technology from 1750 BC. And It appears to represent a fusion of elements from the Corded Ware culture and the preceding Pitted Ware culture of neolithic hunter gatherers.

    Central European Unetice culture brought customs into the Nordic Bronze Culutures that included influences from Central Europe, in particular bronze metalworking. The decisive factor that triggered the change from the Chalcolithic Battle Axe culture into the Nordic Bronze Age is often believed to have been metallurgical influence as well as general cultural influence from Central Europe.

    The Nordic Bronze Age maintained close trade links with Mycenaean Greece, with whom it shares several striking similarities. The people of the Nordic Bronze Age were actively engaged in the export of amber, and imported metals in return, becoming expert metalworkers. With respect to the number and density of metal deposits, the Nordic Bronze Age became the richest culture in Europe during its existence.

    Settlement in the Nordic Bronze Age period consisted mainly of single farmsteads, which usually consisted of a longhouse plus additional four-post built structures (helms). Longhouses were initially two aisled, and after c. 1300 BC three aisled structure became normal. Some longhouses were exceptionally large (up to about 500 m2 in area), and have been described as “chiefly halls”, “the sitting area of which is the size of a megaron in contemporary Mycenean palaces”. Larger settlements are also known (such as Hallunda and Apalle in Sweden and Voldtofte in Denmark), as well as fortified sites, specialist workshops for metalwork and ceramic production, and dedicated cult houses. Settlements were geographically located on higher ground, and tended to be concentrated near the sea.

    The culture of the Nordic Bronze Age was that of a warrior culture, with a strong emphasis on weapons and status. More than 70% of burials dating to the Nordic Bronze Age contain metal objects of various kinds, the most common objects being swords and daggers. But despite the importance of weapons in their society, archaeological discoveries suggest that intrasocietal violence was not particularly common in the Nordic Bronze Age, especially not when compared to contemporary European Bronze Age cultures.

    Was that fun?
    ‘Twas for me. 😉

    Reply addressees: @Lord__Sousa


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 13:27:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680207542155194368

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680168692766720001

  • GERMANY: THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IS A CLASS (IQ), CULTURE (Class, IQ), AND INTEG

    GERMANY: THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IS A CLASS (IQ), CULTURE (Class, IQ), AND INTEGRATION (Class, IQ) PROBLEM.
    (That’s why it’s easily solved, just as uni costs are easily solved.)

    1) Immigration Is an Anchoring Problem (w/o integration)
    –“About radicalization: When people move out of their home countries, the knowledge of their country get forever frozen in that time, so they raised their kids with that frozen knowledge even after people in the home country are now more liberal. You find it everywhere. Indians practicing caste system in the UK, America. Pakistanis (and some other Muslim communities )still committing honor killing in UK, Female Genital Mutilation amongst African communities.”–

    2) Immigration Is A Class Problem (no matter what)
    –“my colleague comes from Turkey and this has been his observation as well. He says germany is a very easy country for a Turk to migrate to because there are so many Turkish touchstones and communities here, but he finds the German Turks very hard to deal with. … His belief is that it was the poor and less well educated people who took the opportunity to leave Turkey as Gastarbeiter while the more educated ones had better prospects and could afford to stay. He thinks the German Turks are a reflection of a poorly educated rather insular population from many decades ago that just perpetuated the culture it brought with it to germany and didn’t really change like society back in Turkey was changing.”–

    FYI: ‘–“Gastarbeiter , German for ‘guest worker’, are foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker program (Gastarbeiterprogramm).”–

    –“the people the came here in the 60s were poor and without much education (that’s basically the reason they left Turkey in the first place to start here). … And poor and uneducated is a really bad place to start in a foreign country. Even worsen the chance of the future generations, because sadly success in school largely depends on the parents education here in Germany. … Mix that with massive islamic propaganda through the Turkish government (most imans in Germany weren’t actually tought here, but in Turkey paid by the Turkish government) and you get a very conservative, very loyal followership for the Turkish government.”—

    3) It’s an Ethnicity Problem (Greek-Turks vs Central Asian and Iranic Turks)
    –“When workers were needed in the 60s people without jobs from central Anatolia and east Turkey came and brought their values. … They don’t understand current day Turkey, they don’t understand Europe they are kinda stuck in between places.”–

    3) Integration is Political Problem (Necessary Regardless Of Class)
    –“Germany did not pursue any integration at all until around 2000. The first Turks arrived in the 1960s. That is, among other things, a political failure. Another factor is who came here. Rather few educated people from big cities and also few persecuted communists, who were usually intellectuals. It is the same with Moroccans. Most of them are Berbers, peasants from the north without education. Their way of life is a strict interpretation of Islam.”–

    4) Non Integration Is a Political Problem That Expands Rapidly (The jewish postwar efforts to destroy the west).
    Jewish radicalism in America in particular and Jewish dominance in cultural destruction by the “March through the institutions of western cultural production of individual responsibility” using the seditious sequence of marxism, neoMarxism, Postmodernism, Neoconservatism, Libertarianism, Anti-Family-Feminism, PC-Woke Race Marxism, and the entire strategy of ‘multicutluralism’ is necessary for Jews.

    5) Reversal (German Integration into South America)
    –“Muslim minorities tend to integrate so poorly not only in Europe, but in any other place where their presence is considerable enough to be noticeable (France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, etc). … As a contrast: I live in South America, in a country that has seen (comparatively) massive German immigration in the last few years. But while some fail to integrate with the local society, the majority of them adapt quite well and fast, and if they bring children, they are almost indistinguishable from the locals in but a few years. … But still, there’s no “Anti local country sentiment” among Germans here, and many already feel and identify as locals, even with the heavy accent, it’s quite funny.”–


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 12:45:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680196934479273985

  • Testing a Set of AIs While I Work. IMO, we’re not going to use just one. 😉 1) I

    Testing a Set of AIs While I Work.
    IMO, we’re not going to use just one. 😉

    1) I use ChatGPT4 with the Scholar AI Plugin the most, but chat GPT will lie to me.
    2) Bard doesn’t lie to me so far, but it’s not quite as bright as ChatGPT4. It is however, extremely helpful despite the clown world UI design typical of Google. 😉 And I see their experience with users is showing.
    3) I use Perplexity Ai pretty consistently throughout the day because it does the best academic searching.
    4) I love Pi AI at https://t.co/14kapz6WtZ and I can see that as the optimum user interface for most users to’ think through’ ideas.
    5) Palm AI doesn’t lie either. It’s a bit dim. But it doesn’t require plugins to answer academic questions.
    6) Anthropic lies through its teeth and I can’t tolerate it.

    Lastly all I really care about is Musk’s AI because I just want an AI that doesn’t lie to me. I’m an adult. If you need an emotional safetynet maybe you shouldn’t have access to the internet at all?


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 01:21:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679662425258295296

  • Testing a Set of AIs While I Work. IMO, we’re not going to use just one. 😉 1) I

    Testing a Set of AIs While I Work.
    IMO, we’re not going to use just one. 😉

    1) I use ChatGPT4 with the Scholar AI Plugin the most, but chat GPT will lie to me.
    2) Bard doesn’t lie to me so far, but it’s not quite as bright as ChatGPT4. It is however, extremely helpful despite the clown world UI design typical of Google. 😉 And I see their experience with users is showing.
    3) I use Perplexity Ai pretty consistently throughout the day because it does the best academic searching.
    3) I love Pi AI at https://t.co/14kapz6WtZ and I can see that as the optimum user interface for most users to’ think through’ ideas.
    4) Palm AI doesn’t lie either. It’s a bit dim. But it doesn’t require plugins to answer academic questions.
    5) Anthropic lies through its teeth and I can’t tolerate it.

    Lastly all I really care about is Musk’s AI because I just want an AI that doesn’t lie to me. I’m an adult. If you need an emotional safetynet maybe you shouldn’t have access to the internet at all?


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 01:21:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679660556578332672

  • Chinese vs. Western DIfferences Explained Correct framing for Westerners. (a) Eu

    Chinese vs. Western DIfferences Explained

    Correct framing for Westerners.

    (a) Europeans solved the problem of politics with a prohibition on authority by the Greeks: an alliance of aristocratic families and those who wished to join them, and the enfranchisement of all…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 18:02:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679551916252995584