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Month: April 2023

  • [So now outfits that collect and search internet content want to start charging AI companies that make chatbots for the data they use to train their LLMs.  Companies like Google and Amazon get this data for ‘free’ – actually, what it costs them to scrape it from the web – as it is provided also…

  • George Rebane The recent burst of large language models (LLMs) from AI research has reinvigorated the Singularity related topics of machine sentience, sapience, super-intelligence, agency, ethics, morals, …, along with prognoses of what they may have in store for humans when/if they become ascendant.  Most commentators, including yours truly, see a high likelihood of a…

  • George Rebane Fair, balanced, and scared shitless? Unbeknownst to Tucker Carlson, last Friday he broadcast his last show, a  program that has become an iconic fixture in the homes of the largest fraction of America’s cable news audiences.  Readers of these pages have known for the last several years of my assessment that Fox News…

  • [In updating the government’s butt stupid department, we witnessed today a major speech by SecTreas Janet Yellen assuring the Red Chinese that that US has no intention in surpassing them in international trade and economic progress, let alone outcompeting them in military matters.  Then for what in hell are these people getting paid??  gjr]

  • From each according to his ability and to each according to his need – Communist Axiom George Rebane California consumers will soon be paying for their utilities according to how much money they make.  The long-denied face of Marxism will have arrived in full force if the utilities and the Public Utilities Commission have their…

  • “U.S. Universities Urge Students to Report One Another for ‘Bias’ ” George Rebane Professors Ivan Mannovic (Stanford) and John Ellis (UC Santa Cruz) report that today’s universities are laying in another expensive layer of administrative bureaucracies designed to encourage students and other academics to report each others’ DEI infractions for general approbation, remediation of the…

  • [Good news department.  It turns out that if you drink both modestly and regularly, then all kinds of health benefits can accrue to you.  For most men that means no more than two drinks (wine, beer, whiskey) a day, and no more than one drink a day for women – a drink contains about 12-14…