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[CleverNickName]

I doubt our new overlord would even be able to tell truth from fiction.

How Hurricane Milton and Helene conspiracy theories took over social media

The misinformation has been fuelled by a social media universe that rewards engagement over truth.

www.bbc.com

 

[Aeson]

I doubt our new overlord would even be able to tell truth from fiction.

How Hurricane Milton and Helene conspiracy theories took over social media

The misinformation has been fuelled by a social media universe that rewards engagement over truth.

www.bbc.com

What was the old saying? Junk in, junk out? Without critical thinking skills it's hard to discern what's real or not. Just like low information individuals, AI can start to learn the wrong thing. I think that's why it's important to evaluate what kind of data it's drawing from.
Occam's razor should be robot law #4.

Alex Jones claimed "THEY" would use his show to train an AI. The system would be infested with his garbage and they would have to start over. Could you imagine an immortal Alex Jones spewing misinformation practically forever? Actually, one of his minions created a video where an AI version of Alex from the future comes back to the present to warn humanity to listen to him or be DOOMED.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Occam's razor should be robot law #4.

I’d vote for that.

 

[Aeson]

I doubt our new overlord would even be able to tell truth from fiction.

How Hurricane Milton and Helene conspiracy theories took over social media

The misinformation has been fuelled by a social media universe that rewards engagement over truth.

www.bbc.com

Meteorologists are getting death threats. It seems they are the "they" the whackjobs are talking about.

‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge

Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans

www.theguardian.com

"A lie makes it around the world before the truth even gets its pants on."

I made a joke at work the other night claiming my day job was at one of the weather control stations. Now I guess I should be lucky the wrong person didn't hear me. He/she might have believed it. :tinfoil:

 

[Mad_Jack]

I made a joke at work the other night claiming my day job was at one of the weather control stations. Now I guess I should be lucky the wrong person didn't hear me. He/she might have believed it. :tinfoil:

I've tried telling people that I'm a 4th Order member of the Illuminati, but nobody believes me...

 

[Aeson]

I've tried telling people that I'm a 4th Order member of the Illuminati, but nobody believes me...

Because the real Illuminati don't just come out and say it. They make obscure references in movies and shows only Alex Jones can see. He then points them out to his dittoheads and then they can see the obvious right in plain view the whole time.

 

[Aeson]

The other night my mom handed me this paperwork from AARP. It was a form to sign up for life insurance. She said if I wanted to make an investment I should get life insurance on her. These were not large policies. If my math was right I would start losing money if she lived beyond 10 years. I would do better putting that money in a savings account or the stock market. It seems like a scam to me. My mom's family is long lived. She could easily make it 10 more years. I wonder how many people sign up for these policies and end up paying more than it pays out in the end. I imagine that's why they offer it. They're preying on the elderly in my opinion.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We’ve been considering adding a rescue border collie to our house, to be a companion for my Mom and our current BC. The first meeting was completely inconclusive. The dogs mostly ignored each other, but for a couple of minor, silent alerts. The trainer felt that our grrrl had probably been too stressed out by the long car ride to the meet up, and suggested a 2nd meeting around our house & backyard.

Well, our grrrl & Penny's 2nd meet & greet occurred today.

Unfortunately, the walking portion was just as ambivalent as the first encounter. And the few minutes we spent in our back yard produced small lunges, bared teeth and snarling.

The trainer advised us that our grrrl may not be suitable to having a new housemate. So that’s probably that until she passes away.

 

[Aeson]

Shouldn't some attempts at dominance be expected? This is my territory and my pack?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Shouldn't some attempts at dominance be expected? This is my territory and my pack?

Not really. Not after they’ve been introduced to each other a couple of times.

They had been within sniffing distance- mere inches- several times over the two encounters. They’d walked in parallel a couple feet apart in the neighborhood.

But even with her humans around giving explicit permission, our grrrl was only interested in making the other dog get out of her backyard. Even though we’d just concluded a walk on a warm sunny day, she ignored the water that had been put down.

That’s not just no, that’s HELL no.