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#422

Good video SeanO’
Ha! Ha! Sitting and watching through all 59 minute could be said a measure of if a person is still capable of serious critical thinking. Has half a working brain left.
Seriously. I had some family needs interruptions that dragged me away at 39 minutes. And had to come back now 14 hours later, to finish.
A shame actually, because I went to bed with all of the doom&gloom early portions rattling around in my head.
ALL - start by watching at 40 minutes out to 59 minutes for the going-forward, hopeful, what-you-can-persoanlly-do optimism first. Then go back and fill-in the earlier minutes. How I read most all books now.

I do read a lot of books on histories and technical/social developments.
Two books in the last six months have given me much difficulty in completely reading:

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.Apologies. It is still early morning dark here; and the reading lamp has glared-out the one book cover.
It is “Imperial Cruise” by James Brady. Author of previous; Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers.
This Imperial Cruise book is his questing on why his father had to go fight in the far Pacific WWII.
Hard for me to finish because of what we, the noble Americans; did in the Philippines colonial “pacifying” starting in 1898 and for the next 56 months. Confirmed in published news accounts; letters home; written orders, and later Congressional investigations. Photographs.

The other book, “A Crack at the Edge of the World” is about the geography; the leading up to; and post learned knowledge consequences of the 1906 Earthquake centered around San Francisco.
I handily finished a book before this one; a great written human stories and characters book about the later, larger, 1964 Alaskan Earthquake. Written in plain text modern English. 50 years after, reflections.
Simon Winchester’s book however is written in flowery, overly wordy, high-fault’n, seldom used, University English Majors, advanced, 3%'er wording. I can actually understand his wording, but question why he would take a fascinating topic and use his book as a “Look at me! See how educated, smart I am.” Too much Peer-preening.

The AI developers, just the same to me. So in-love, happy, with their creations and never asking themselves about the full range of consequences. Half of the in US original nuclear bomb developers before the dropping; were horrified and signed a letter protesting that their creation would actually be used.

Genies can never be put back into bottles. Nor viruses.
Just learn to harness, and limit the worst of their excesses. Then learn to live in a world with them; and continue rolling on forwards. Nuclear bombs. COVID.
I WILL finish these two books as my own proof-test that my will-power is still is my best strength.
Steve Unruh

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#423

Mr Steve, your video is not for our country :frowning:. Anyone the same experience?
Sean, at about 8 min the same as overheren. We have three bright kids but only the girl want to study. The middle one wants to use his hands. Nothing wrong with that and he has holden hands. But the youngest thinks the same as in the video around 8 min. All about easy money, and a lot, thinking you can beat the system. To bad, and he is the brightest……

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#424

What you find out is there is no such thing as easy money, and it is all work. It is just what you enjoy doing that makes it seem easy. :slight_smile: If they are just motivated to make money, then stocks are a good way earn some cash without seeming like you are doing much.

I should add genZ is far more conscious about money management. They also drink a lot less something like 20% less over millenials and 33% less over previous generations. In part is health but another part is the cost. Plus they don’t socialize at bars and parties as much because they are constantly connected via the internet.

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#425

AI isn’t that far yet where you get into the horrors of sci-fi films. It is really just big data that is done by probability. It is just another level of machine. There are uses for it, but I haven’t seen much indication they are using anything but a huge database then compiling it down, then doing comparisons against it.

If you want something to chew on. The desktop/developer computer that plugs into the wall of the nvidia spark lineup, coming out next year. Is going to be able to do 20 petaflops of calculations. That is roughly the equivalent of the top supercomputer in 2012, called the sequoia, that drew 8mw of power, used 3000sqft of floor space, the list price was 200M. It was used to model nuclear reactions.

At 15a, it is like an electric space heater so for 5k we could be running our own models for gasifiers and heat the house at the same time! :slight_smile:

I don’t know about genies, but they are claiming virus, bacteria and other micro-organisms frozen for 1000s of years are re-appearing due to thawing of glaciers.

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#426

going to be able to do 20 petaflops of calculations

Is “petaflops” a real word? :astonished:
Hard to tell today…

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#427

yes. “Peta” (P) is a scientific prefix meaning one quadrillion (10^15).

a Flop is an acronym for Floating Point Operations Per Second. A floating point number is basically a number with a decimal 102.344 or .0093 an operation is a calculation using that number. Then how many operations it does per second.

It is a lot faster then I could ever do math. :slight_smile:

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#428

I had something in the back of my memory, that Peta was one of them prefix’es, among Giga and Tera and Yotta, and all.
Im going to use it, if somebody asks me about the topspeed of my woodgas car, like: it maxes about 2,7 Petaflops/quarter of an hour, if i hit the birch-flux-capacitor button. :smiley:

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#429

I would probably just say it goes zetta speed or yotta speed. depending on how it sounds in swedish, and if the is a similar sounding word to make it a bit confusing. In the US, Peta is too common, they might figure out what you are actually talking about. For instance we use Petawatts of electricity. Even computers are Exaflop now according to top500.org. :slight_smile:

For instance.
Yotta and Yoda from Star wars sound pretty similar.
or Yada (the English phrase "yada, yada, yada is a colloquialism for “blah, blah, blah,” meaning “and so on” or skipping boring details.)

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#430

Hi All
Another real-human made video pointing out the bad influences of AI generated “informations”:

Again learn a bit about engines oils we all must select and use.
But his real criticism is how AI content creators are large data sets just slapping togather shit informations.
Here what I am developing as my bewares:
If the voice over is too smooth of deliver, especially to an American ear, in a catch your attention not-American/not-Canadian accent: then just view away.
Listen carefully how spoken numbers we all use are AI butchered. Thirty 'aught six (30-06 cartrige) becomes a drawn out segmented either three zero zero six. Or thirty zero six.
Three O’hh eight (308 caliber) become thirty eight; or three zero eight.

Pictures scrambles and mismatches.
Voice over talking about one thing and with rapid pictures Net harvested changing flashing up and gone onto the next. Magician tricks brain splitting your attention. Half of the picture flashed up, are wrong for the item talked about.
Ha! Ha! One manufacture has a modern revolver in model number 351 with AI flashing up harvested pictures of a 351 Ford V-8 engines.

Go down and read the comments feed backs on a suspected AI presentation.
Most will be calling it out as AI assemble crappola. Not actually experienced learned informations.
Some criticize and correct pronunciations on the scrambles. Usually AI politely thanking them for pointing these out.
Don’t Feed The Problem. Don’t train the beast.
Laugh; and view away.
Knee jerk reacting just having to text and say something means the made-you-look, made-you-respond psychology worked.

Be the smarter guy in control of your own Life.
Steve Unruh (next onto 5W-20 in the Wife’s Toyota hybrid car)

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#431

Unless I’m actually watching the person talking I just assume it’s AI. A lot of videos I see on youtube are with the same voice. Must be the bargain of the week or something. Some are by the same voice with more British accent. I say that if I want to hear bad information I could just use a tape recorder.

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#432

It isn’t always AI, but most of the time it is, there are about 12 voices. However, some people just would rather write a script. Or the trickier ones are it is mostly AI, and they edited the script.

Some of the AI videos are good overviews. Some are merely entertainmet. And like always you need to fill in the gaps with something else. Even so called experts on youtube make mistakes.

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