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RWSGFY says

Why would anyone want to drive a school bus when UPS driver gets $170,000?

Because around here, a convicted pedophile can drive a school bus, but not drive a taxi or other commercial vehicle.

Semi-joke aside, there must be a long waiting list for a $170k unskilled job.

HeadSet says

Semi-joke aside, there must be a long waiting list for a $170k unskilled job.

I think you need a Class C license (?).

Trollhole says

HeadSet says

Semi-joke aside, there must be a long waiting list for a $170k unskilled job.

I think you need a Class C license (?).

I think that was $100K salary and $70K benefits. But still.

Patrick says

Trollhole says

HeadSet says

Semi-joke aside, there must be a long waiting list for a $170k unskilled job.

I think you need a Class C license (?).

I think that was $100K salary and $70K benefits. But still.

$40K in benefits.

Tenpoundbass says

BULLSHIT!!! You don't' need AI to figure out Bin Packing, or the most efficient use of space, or most efficient routes.
I have been writing such applications ever since Visual Basic 5. I have even done it using Javascript.

You absolutely AI to do chip and board routing, not really AI, it's evolutionary algorithms called simulated annealing. It's just one of the methods.

It's not like you have a couple hundred or thousand things to connection, you nave millions. Timing can be a problem.

Tenpoundbass says

There is no such thing as AI, not in the sense they want us to believe. Sure there is some new programming methods and standards, but they have nothing to do with the organic machine learning through Quantum computing that AI was originally sold to us as.

30 years ago, I was of the mindset "I'm a meat computer, isn't that interesting? It will only be a matter of time before we make a thinking cognizant machine, and when we make one smart enough to understand itself, that will be amazing!!!"

Nothing I've seen approaches something I'd consider living. They are clever, but they aren't motivated except for the one problem they are asked to solve, they can't think, they're not curious. Maybe consciousness isn't just a function of mechanics. I'd be screaming heretic at myself at 20, I'd be accusing myself as being a religious idiot at 20, just for saying this. We have made no progress in making a thinking machine. What we've made are not lifeforms at all.

Tenpoundbass says

I'm constantly gobsmacked at the seemingly intelligent people who keep falling for it, or perpetuating the nonsense.

We thought that we were meat machines. We use a SMALL portion of our brain for consciousness. We're digital, did you know that, either a neuron fires or doesn't fire. We understand how this works, we can make massive neural networks now. They are using SD Cards to do multiplication, if you know how data is stored in NAND flash memory, you can use V=IR to do multiplication, because the charge you put into a cell, that's proportional to R. You can change the current, and get analog multiplication which is "good enough". Generally R (the charge on the gate) it's 0 or 1, or was when it was the first NAND flash memories, now there's.... I don't know how many levels. We're not getting more cells, we're getting more levels of resistance. Well, this can be made to do analog math. We have ENORMOUS neural networks now using basically off the shelf parts.

Most "smart people" (educated people) who are telling you "we'll be making a thinking machine soon", are lying to you. Few believe it. We might get expert systems that can do incredibly well in planning. We actually probably have AI that is safer to drive a car than a typical human being now. We've had a handful of fatal accidents. We have them all the time with people. What's the percentage?

I think it's possible our general assumption of what constitutes consciousness and awareness, is fundamentally wrong - but I don't know. My computer has more storage, literally, than my brain does. It should be able to think, if the entire HDD could be used for data storage, and the computer chip for simulating neurons one at a time. If somebody could code it of course. We can't seem to do this.

I think some people ARE machines now BTW. I'm going the other way. Some people, they are just puppets. I don't hate them, I won't kill them because of it, I have a difficult time taking advantage of them because my moral programming prevents it, but they're literally machines more than they are people. System destroyed them. ALL the time, I hear people repeating what I recognize to be propaganda, marketing phrases, and they are totally unaware of it. Remember "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat's uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup?" I heard that over and over and over again, and I have no idea what was even being marketed, and I never want to know. I bet most people repeating it didn't know. I've heard "weapons of mass destruction" and "Putin attacked Ukraine for no reason at all" and "Qaddafi is about to cause a humanitarian crisis! We HAVE to intervene!!" without a hint that they spent even a second thinking about what they are saying. Robots, meat machines.

Whether we are machines or not, I don't know, but I can tell you that the people at the top think we are, and I doubt they think THEY are.

https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1693504040892776851

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/biden-under-fire-after-falsely-claiming-he-was-at-ground-zero-the-day-after-9-11-his-worst-one-yet/

Border chaos is now sparking a war among Democrats, with some, like New York Mayor Eric Adams, suggesting the migrant wave may “destroy” the city. His critique has been repeated by much of the border state Arizona Democratic delegation, as well as Independent Senator Kristen Sinema. But if sensible Democrats know the game is up and want to stop the flow, others, like Chicago’s ultra-progressive Mayor Brandon Johnson and Leftist members of the New York City Council, denounce Adams and others as xenophobic acolytes who are mouthing “repugnant Maga garbage”.

https://unherd.com/thepost/americas-sanctuary-cities-are-falling-apart/

The Great EV/Renewable Clusterfuck

https://youtu.be/5stPFdegJpg?si=aLnAAzuaZ0y_f7hA

If you don't want to watch all of it, just watch the first presentation by Simon Michaux.

Michaux is like the James O'Keef of greentard bullshit. He is not popular with the greentard grifting crowd.

Well, looks like Twitter is calming down and getting back to the normal stuff:

PumpingRedheads says

New Kentucky school bus routes a 'disaster,' prompts class cancellation as last kids arrive home at 10 pm some soaked in urine.

They need Patrick to chart out the route like he does for grocery stores.

Odd, since routing algorithms are a mature technology and several companies rent product out by the month, cheap. Must be something like a severe driver shortage combined with a large area district. Or the route was done by a Buttigieg style hire.

And in Frozen 4, it will be revealed that they are trans. Just a guess.

original link

richwicks says

AI isn't that bad, programmers are that bad.

A good programmer would never try to sell you their better algorithm as "Artificial" or "Intelligent".

AI is not here to help nor is the 20,000 person troll farm that curates and censors the content.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/31/kamalas-natsec-adviser-has-been-implicated-in-an-iranian-spy-ring-expose/

AI is the new crack

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

I used to never lock my manual car. I knew no one could drive it... lol. The people that "could" steal/drive it weren't the type to steal cars. Lets put it that way.

WookieMan says

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5 years ago the 'claim' that she was a mechanic wouldn't hold water with me either.

Now that we have DEI, however...

I always tell people who are concerned that their popular car might be a target, "The greatest antitheft device for vehicles is the manual transmission."

That doesn't help hybrid, EV, AT, CVT.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Holy fuck! I've been bitching about this FOREVER. Not here necessarily. Talking about work is not work. You have a job, do your fucking job. You should know what to do and not talk about it with other people that can't do your job. If you suck, you get fired.

Fine maybe a 15min Monday chat, but hour or two long meetings multiple times a week is absolute bullshit. My wife generally works from home. She puts her meetings on speaker. I want to take her phone and dropkick it into a pond. It takes away time from her generating sales. The idiots on the other end of the phone I want to punch their throat so they can't talk because they're so dumb. They can't do her job and they just talk about her job. They don't even have a fucking job without her.

It's why I could never do a corporate job. I'd just skip the meetings and probably get fired. Just keep it to quarterly meetings that are longer and stick to short meeting to "check in" at the beginning of the week and let people work.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

I bet she was really miffed when the 'fidget stick' ejaculated all the way back to her.

Just how Heinlein described in Starship Troopers ( the book)

Colorado #Libtards voted for this shit:

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/trouble-coming-washington-dc-stores-boarding-up-prior-to-election-day

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/trouble-coming-washington-dc-stores-boarding-up-prior-to-election-day

Might just go in a speedo for fun. We'll see the temps. I don't need the town seeing shrinkage though if it's cold.

I am going at 6am though before the losers wake up. I might try to vote for other people.... lol. I know illegal. I might though is all I'm saying. Hair is long, go get a cut and vote again. Then shave and vote again. Geezers run my polling place, I could easily pull it off. 3 votes. And I know the idiots in town not voting.

Biggest key is dragging the elderly out or voting for them. Not a joke. I'm not leaving the country, but I won't live under a Harris presidency. Shit will happen. SHE WASN'T EVEN FUCKING ELECTED TO RUN!

Was there someone in there?



30 day warranty won't cover this:

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Was there someone in there?

Probably. I wouldn't do it along a highway, but I dump and run at construction sites somewhat frequently. Always keep a roll in the car.

That was a display of straight up shitty driving by the pickup truck.

Hit & Run asshole runs a red light and finds out:

Good.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/em-assets-hit-negative-macro-backdrop-amid-trumps-expected-tariff-flurry-sparks-strong