Trump said about Putin: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
Julia Davis remembered that Stalin said about Hitler: “I think he’ll keep his word.”
That was before Hitler's armies invaded Russia. #history #gullibility #PutinsPuppet
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"LLMs believe anything you tell them. Any systems that attempts to make meaningful decisions on your behalf will run into the same roadblock"
Simon Willison’s WeblogThings we learned about LLMs in 2024A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
Newspaper fantasies.
Having 'cooked'up a storm, by commenting on a Gruaniad writers inevitable vacuity (and looked afterwards to see the strange alleys that went), I hesitate, but wot the heck, in for a penny in for a groat.
Will you devote half an hour to even bothering to do a taste test? No I wouldn't, but my beloved will. While I quaff wine, next week we will compare water, an air fryer (really) and this nonsense.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2467032-the-perfect-boiled-egg-takes-more-than-half-an-hour-to-cook/
#Cooking #Eggs #Nonsense #Gullibility #BlindTasting
New Scientist · The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook
A quotation from Rogers, Will:
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Call me a “rube” and a “hick,” but I’d a lot rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rogers-will/31786/
20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.
Day 17
There has never been a scientific theory that was later replaced with a supernatural explanation, but there is a long and extensive history of things having supernatural explanations that were later replaced with scientific theories. Humanity has yet to provide any rational or logical reason to accept supernatural explanations over scientific explanations.
#science #supernaturalism #materialism #idealism #atheism #theism #logic #illogic #rationalism #irrationalism #skepticism #gullibility
From Donald Trump to George Santos, fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives | Their victims were bankers, tech bros, and GOP donors — what they have in common is giant egos fit for manipulation
Salon.com · The Donald Trump, George Santos, and SBF fraud cases expose the gullibility of rich conservatives
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@ChrisMayLA6 @fkamiah17 as a ‘Smoggy’ - someone who grew up on Teesside - it is a mystery why anyone living there is voting #Conservative The only reasons I can imagine are the appeal of #facism and #racism or plain #gullibility