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« Reply #56235 on: February 26, 2025, 12:05:19 pm »
My kids read books.
Yeah, so does mine. But I'm betting half the kids their age do not.
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« Reply #56236 on: February 26, 2025, 12:05:32 pm »
More than half.
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« Reply #56237 on: February 26, 2025, 12:09:38 pm »
That would be creepy.
It is creepy. The whole business. You can generate images that look like photos. You see those videos they have where it looks and sounds like a famous person and they aren't real. That's not good. We will never be able to trust the authenticity of anything again. It getting too weird. The whole internet's a little weird if you ask me. I don't think that, as a species, we are evolving nearly as fast as our technology and that disconnect is causing all manner of conflict on an individual level as well as societal and global level...obviously.
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« Reply #56238 on: February 26, 2025, 12:13:04 pm »
Yeah, so does mine. But I'm betting half the kids their age do not.
Tou are probably correct.

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« Reply #56239 on: February 26, 2025, 12:15:24 pm »
We live in a high developed and supposedly enlightened society. But the fact is, really, that most of the human population lives in near paleolithic states. Sub-Saharan African was absolutely stone age until Europeans colonized. Nothing had been invented there beyond stone tools and mud huts...really.  The effects of giving them machine guns and rocket launchers is self explanatory. Without the internet, 90% of the world conflicts in this Century (since 2001) would NOT have happened. Radicals, perverts, criminal gangs and scam artists, would be revolutionaries, spies, fraudsters and terrorists....have made better use of the technology than any of us. 
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« Reply #56240 on: February 26, 2025, 12:18:45 pm »
Kids today type with there thumbs and don't read or write anything longer than 3 sentences. They can't spell or solve math problems without a phone in their hands. In fact, their whole social life would collapse without a phone. And, of course, when I say "phone", I mean "device" but I'm not going to update my lexicon to accommodate either the woke bullshit or text slang.
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« Reply #56241 on: February 26, 2025, 12:23:03 pm »
It is creepy. The whole business. You can generate images that look like photos. You see those videos they have where it looks and sounds like a famous person and they aren't real. That's not good. We will never be able to trust the authenticity of anything again. It getting too weird. The whole internet's a little weird if you ask me. I don't think that, as a species, we are evolving nearly as fast as our technology and that disconnect is causing all manner of conflict on an individual level as well as societal and global level...obviously.
That os true. J am looking for them to integrate technology that will be able to recognize AI generated materials.

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« Reply #56242 on: February 26, 2025, 12:35:17 pm »
That os true. J am looking for them to integrate technology that will be able to recognize AI generated materials.
They're going to have to or else that every single school writing assignment will have to be assumed to be fraudulent.  I don't know what things were like when you were in school but when I had to write a 'research paper' I had to go to a library...a microfilm repository, periodicals catalog, etc.  And then you had to write and rewrite it half a dozen times. It took work.
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« Reply #56243 on: February 26, 2025, 12:40:57 pm »
Trump just basically told Europe to kiss his nuts...
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« Reply #56244 on: February 26, 2025, 12:42:29 pm »
We live in a high developed and supposedly enlightened society. But the fact is, really, that most of the human population lives in near paleolithic states. Sub-Saharan African was absolutely stone age until Europeans colonized. Nothing had been invented their beyond stone tools and mud huts...really.  The effects of giving them machine guns and rocket launchers is self explanatory. Without the internet, 90% of the world conflicts in this Century (since 2001) would NOT have happened. Radicals, perverts, criminal gangs and scam artists, would be revolutionaries, spies, fraudsters and terrorists....have made better use of the technology than any of us.
90% of all these kids who use cell phones have absolutely no idea how they work.

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« Reply #56245 on: February 26, 2025, 12:48:44 pm »
90% of all these kids who use cell phones have absolutely no idea how they work.
95% of the people in this country under 50 are pansies. That's been established.
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« Reply #56246 on: February 26, 2025, 12:54:46 pm »
95% of the people in this country under 50 are pansies. That's been established.
Rhymes with "bunts."
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« Reply #56247 on: February 26, 2025, 01:03:36 pm »
Me in high school according to the robot:

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« Reply #56248 on: February 26, 2025, 01:11:50 pm »
This is how Grok sees me. You can tell he has zero insight.

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« Reply #56249 on: February 26, 2025, 01:15:44 pm »
This is how he sees me? For some reason described me as "Michigan RC racing enthusiast" I have no idea where that comes from...anyhow....Really?

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This fat fuck looks like he could be my father, if my father was a dumpy loser that wore tie-dye shirts and played with toys.

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