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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9702925" data-attributes="member: 18">That's not really meaningfully condescending though. It's not even truly unhelpful - it still helps other by illustrating and labelling a dangerously stupid person as a dangerously stupid person, because sane people think twice before joining the guy people called dangerously stupid. It just doesn't help the dangerously stupid person not be dangerously stupid.But that's the core problem with people who reject rationality, reason and science. They're intentionally or unintentionally cutting themselves off from being reached by others, and you can't just magically fix that. Generally people who recover that particular kind of stupidity do so because something awful happens directly to them or a loved one, and they can square it with the irrational stance/belief they had, so they have to reconfigure themselves mentally, which includes recognising that they were a fool. Some people are too far gone or too narcissistic to manage that.Yup. There's a huge element of desperation and a smaller element of essentially being paid off here in the way politicians around the world are treating AI and LLMs with insane enthusiasm. They're desperate for it to magically reverse stuff they've caused by decades of policies, so are extremely keen to believe absolutely insane gibberish bollocks about it, and to protect it at all costs. Says a lot about the reasoning skills and ability to think long-term of many politicians, honestly (and it doesn't say anything good!). Re: paid off a lot of AI companies are promising to spend huge amounts and "create jobs", but in fact most of the spend is going to abroad to buy hardware, and most of the jobs are extremely low-paid security guards, and not even many of them!</blockquote>

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