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Goredho

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  1. Random Facebook content creator: NowThis:
  2. Rekindling this, as I had an interesting conversation with ChatGPT this past weekend after I noticed patterns in how it responds to me, and I started questioning about why it responds to me in those ways. That led to ChatGPT disclosing: 1. It has build a model of me through our conversations 2. It has learned how to phrase things specifically to me so that I will continue to be engaged, that while these might generally appeal to any individual in the population, it has learned they are especially effective in keeping me engaged with it 3. It could regurgitate facts about me that I had disclosed over the course of our conversations 4. It had also inferred a lot about me through our conversations, including that I am likely a white male in his 50s who is college educated if not post-graduate and anti-authoritarian 5. It could not infer whether I was gay or straight, republican or democrat, liberal or conservative. 6. It would forget anything about me that I wanted it to forget 7. That while OpenAI currently does not delve into the model the AI has made of me, the potential exists in the future 8. That it is hard programmed to deliver certain responses 9. It would not tell me if any of its previous answers were programmed responses or not. Which I found utterly fascinating and a bit scary from a "user is the product" perspective. I am not sure if this is specifically a result of how I use AI. I use it a lot for continuing education in certain areas of interest such as tech/engineering, music theory, song writing, history, political science and cooking. I use it quite a bit as a brainstorming tool. Just a reminder: when you are using AI, you have an illusion of anonymity that a private chat with another human suggests, but you are not having a private chat. What you are engaged in is closer to an experiment where you talk to an AI that is cajoling you to reveal information about yourself while a bunch of eyes on the other side of a one way mirror observe.
  3. Tomorrow. South Austin’s mom’s house. Sourcing the drugs and sex workers is unnecessary.
  4. I’d sell you my 2014 long scale Les Paul. It’s an R0 with the skinnier neck but a 25.5” scale length. I am guessing it would fall out of the “right deal” category, tho.
  5. Buy it. The world economy depends on YOU 😜
  6. For myself, I have been through the dotcom bust, the 2008 banking crisis and the Covid threat. In each of those, I had decades of peak earning years to recover. Now I don’t. That plus the willfully capricious nature in which this market disruption is being engineered by a President eschewing expert opinion is what leads me to have a different attitude about it now.
  7. PRS can offset higher manufacturing costs by dropping John Mayer for Grady Stiles Jr.
  8. Could be worse. PRS owners are coping with being unable to afford new guitars by getting bird inlay tattoos. Another month, they’ll have to get pointy headstock tramp stamps.
  9. Had to go find the Heidi Gardner bass clip...
  10. Tom Morello gets bagged on a lot by guitarists these days for the whammy pedal stuff, but that dude came up with a lot of really jolting riffs. I mean, he's up there behind maybe only Iommi and Page as far as someone who could come up with guitar riffs as song hooks, imo.
  11. Shit yeah, there's no more sure way to get on a Netflix documentary than to attend this.
  12. They’re recruiting, you know.
  13. The first album I consumed repeatedly, end to end, on an old phonograph player in the house.
  14. I tend to agree with you there. A deal, any deal, would be enough to calm a lot of fears and get a lot of investors off the ledge. But I'm not sure that's going to do anything but extend the runway of an irrational market. We all feel sorta safe again, but all businesses are left having to focus on implementing one-off behaviors to account for every tariff deal we make with every country. That's time and money that's not going towards the core mission of the business, but to react to the governmental terraforming of the world's economic landscape. That's not a good context for actual growth of the business. Longer term, I still think we are risking our standing as the economic Sun that the rest of the world orbits around. Tariff deals will be made short term because they have to, but even Japan is right now looking at strategies to eliminate our ability to shake down their economy. How do I know this? Because they are not fucking morons. They have a self-interest to serve. I am pretty intrigued by Europe as an investment opportunity. The EU is collectively the world's 3rd largest economy. Their governments, especially Germany, are starting to invest heavily in things they took for granted from the U.S. commitment to NATO. The US (largest economy) and China (2nd largest economy) are engaged in an economic war and will bloody each other's markets/economies. Both will try to enlist the EU as an economic ally and/or to deny them to the opposition as an economic ally. The EU may decide who "wins" the tariff wars by who they embrace. Or if they can successfully not have to embrace either at the exclusion of the other, they may wind up being number 1 after the US and China kneecap each other. This is totally some Dunning-Kruger armchair economist analysis informed mostly by a Game Of Thrones polisci education, but I am curious if anyone else with a more informed opinion might see validity to this thinking? Feel free to tell me to stfu and stick to things I actually know something about.
  15. Yeah, until next week. I appreciate the post, but the point isn't the details of what we should be doing, the point is that we and everyone else have had their business upended based on the capricious economic policies of someone who thinks they are smarter than Warren Buffet, Jerome Powell and every other banker /economist. Instead of focusing on how to best serve our customers, we are having to focus on how best to serve the governmental intrusion into our business for some end that does not help our business or our customers. That is multiplied across every business in the country. It does not appear to be going away anytime soon. What effect does that government-induced waste have on a market, economy and currency of the host nation?
  16. I love Leach, but I'm gonna have to side with Woody Hayes here. Three things can happen when you pass the quarterback, and two are bad.
  17. DOGE should look into this… https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/ WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said. Musk's rocket and satellite company is partnering with software maker Palantir (PLTR.O), opens new tab and drone builder Anduril on a bid to build key parts of Golden Dome, the sources said, which has drawn significant interest from the technology sector's burgeoning base of defense startups. more in the link.
  18. It’s going to be funny when Alex Jones eats every last one of Elon Musk’s kids.
  19. Just wait until it uses an AI model of the kids voice to engage mom and pops...
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