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by keernan 1y ago
I've suffered with social anxiety for a very long time. Thirty years ago a doctor prescribed a MAOI which immediately transformed me into a social butterfly (which in hindsight was a very difficult transition). This forever proved to m
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by keernan 1y ago
If we truly lived in a democracy which 'obeyed' the overwhelming will of the people, there would be laws with 'horrific' penalties for any effort to track devices or people online.
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by keernan 1y ago
In my mind, sentient is one element of the definition of intelligence. My understanding of how LLMs work means an LLM will never be capable of understanding its own output. It will never be able to ponder. IMO the distinction is an importan
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by keernan 1y ago
Back in 1977 I worked as a young lawyer in a firm of 10 which used a mimeograph machine in the basement to print (smelly) blue printed sheets of paper used for timesheets to record billing information. Case information was stored on index c
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by keernan 1y ago
>>the process of creation >>my original thoughts >>I’d have ideas As far as I can tell, LLMs are incapable of any of the above. I'd love to hear from LLM experts how LLMs can ever have original ideas using the current
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by keernan 1y ago
The United States government is destroying someone's private property simply because the government doesn't like the message written on the shirts. --------------------------------- "Fools" said I, "You do not know
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by keernan 1y ago
I see nothing wrong with using AI. The problem arises from attorneys not reading the cases they cite in the brief they submit to the Court. As a trial attorney for more than 40 years, that conduct just completely baffles me (and, I suspect,
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by keernan 1y ago
>The rich became owners of the US during the Reagan years. You don't think the rich were owners of the US at the inception of the constitution? They wrote the damn thing: people of color couldn't vote; women couldn't vote
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by keernan 1y ago
>Though I'm guessing tax returns for billionaires are a little more complex than what a Form 1040 can handle When it comes to wealth, the world is divided into two basic groups: 1. Those with sufficient wealth that they and their fa
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by keernan 1y ago
With each passing day I find myself increasingly happy I am 72 and not 22.
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Trump Scoffs at SCOTUS Due Process Requirements(newrepublic.com)
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by keernan 1y ago
I fail to see how LLMs are anything beyond a lookup function retrieving information from a huge database (containing, in theory, all known human information), and then summarizing the results using language algorithms. While incredibly powe
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by keernan 1y ago
I've owned a lot of computers (my first in 1978). For the past 8 years I have purchased ~10 used optiplex machines in various form factors and when my Lenovo laptap died at 18 months old last Nov, I decided to replace it with a used op
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by keernan 1y ago
>>Or worse, attacking anybody who says something mean about the government. I think there is only one copy of this data and it is possessed by Musk. I suspect it was his primary goal to provide him with blackmail power over every pers
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by keernan 1y ago
I've never been completely comfortable with the concept of potentially freeing criminals because of wrongful conduct by the police. The argument is there must be a way to protect society against the use of illegal methods by the police
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by keernan 2y ago
You can start with the Mayor of NYC
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by keernan 2y ago
>>An appellate court has nothing to do with the administration in charge at the time I know nothing about the Microsoft decision nor the politics involved. I am simply commenting upon the quote above. An Appellate Court rules, in larg
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by keernan 2y ago
Sam Altman calls for government intervention for the safety of the world, based upon the pretense that their LLM could reach sentience was nothing more than a publicity stunt (alas, one that worked and made billions for many people).
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by keernan 2y ago
I tell a painful story in a good faith effort to educate. My wife told me about this 30 years ago and that is when I did several years of research. So, just now it takes 20 seconds to run a check on AI which responds with the exact informat
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by keernan 2y ago
So, I just went to AI and it took 10 seconds to check... What do studies taken of anonymous women show the percentage of girls sexually abused before age 18 in the united states Workflow Percentage of Girls Sexually Abused Before Age 18 in
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by keernan 2y ago
By way of editing my comment above, put another way: One third of your mothers are secretly hiding their experience suffering serious sexual abuse. And one third of your wives. And hopefully you will do something to prevent it from happenin
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by keernan 2y ago
My wife was raped by her grandfather repeatedly from age 8 until age 13. I learned this when she was 40 - she had never told anyone before. She then went into therapy for many years while I commenced years of research into sexual abuse. I l
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by keernan 2y ago
>Most disheartening is the decades of press apathy - because holding the powerful to account High expectations of a press owned by the powerful
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by keernan 2y ago
I view it as a sophisticated retrieval tool performing lookups in history's largest encyclopedia and returns the information nicely collated. It has no independent 'understanding' of the information it retrieved. LLM's a
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by keernan 2y ago
I wrote the above comment on my phone while moving sentences around and totally mangled the entire comment. I apologize.
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by keernan 2y ago
There is much to disassemble here, most of it of little interest to non-attorneys. The ruling was made on the Court's 'emergency docket' is quite unusual because, although they said their ruling was a procedural question of j
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by keernan 2y ago
In a related article ... the Administration is claiming every person deported, including the 'Maryland man', has been accorded 'due process'. And then adds: "a different kind of due process for terrorists". Upo
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by keernan 2y ago
Doge demanded, and has thus far obtained, access to the databases of every government agency - including the IRS and Social Security. It is likely Musk personally possesses the personal data of every person in America.
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by keernan 2y ago
I turn 73 this year. The IRS requires me to report to them the value of my stocks and bonds as of 12/31/2024 held in my IRA. And then I am forced to liquidate a percentage of those holdings during 2025 so the IRS can collect a tax
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by keernan 2y ago
MSG has received over one billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-11/ny-should...

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