One thing that is kind of encouraging is that just as the Delivery apps would send you to the wrong address or tell you to turn down the wrong way on a one way street or the self driving cars would mow down the lady on the bike...the Robots are going to botch shit.
Yes indeed the robots are, in my opinion, a grift. I don't think they will ever replace live humans for the services that matter, like eating food or harvesting plants or fixing a plumbing leak. Those who have the most to lose realistically are the well educated compliance monkeys. The one trillion pages of US tax code can be read quite well by the AI, as can rockerfeller based medical trials and the like...
The idea that these people, by merit of having a bunch of money or being promoted and endorsed by people with a bunch of money actually know anything is reprehensible to me. But hey they've got their great plans and nothing can stop them now!
Perhaps their own hubris will be their demise. That Yuval fella is a trip. Man I've got some post up with him kibbitzing with Russell Brand in a smarmy love fest, and now he's like Demented Eyes Flashing Bond Villain.
He genuinely believes in what he says. I sort of get it. An obscure academic writer is suddenly vaulted to super fame by some book endorsements by Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey of Sapiens. Now he knows how to fix the world. The fundamental issue is failure to understand that other people are conscious beings too. Instead we're just hackable animals dispossessed of thoughts or experiences or anything of our own...
"They" absolutely must find a way to control all of the information on the internet. Soon I (we) won't be able to write anti-establishment comments on these articles; soon these articles will be taken down as they're being written. So far, too many people who know what is really happening to us still have voices in some places on the net; "they" will do everything in their power (and I mean everything) to take that away from us. It is critical to their plans to ensure that only their approved propaganda appears on the internet. The only question is when they will finally succeed in shutting us down.
I'm not perhaps quite that hopeless, in part because if they asked me to go back into the digital gulag of approved narratives, I'd find the Internet so useless that I would both be building up real world connections and actively looking for alternatives that still allowed me to type. Their problem is that the Internet has turned into such a useful distraction for so many that shutting it down wholesale risks people taking to the streets, coming together, and evolving the use cases online. I already am aware of a great deal of the manipulation they are capable of. How many others are?
I've been using Office 365 (monthly subscription) for several years and you can use it as an offline application, no internet involved, you just need to set it so it doesn't save automatically to OneDrive.
I've used Office365 in the past but can't afford the subscription right now. I'm trying out OpenOffice and seeing how it goes. I can't be ragging constantly on Bill Gates but using the products, I suppose. ;-)
I know the feeling, I reluctantly use Skype as I have no choice for professional reasons…
The main issue I had with Open Office was compatibility when receiving Word-created files, especially when exporting them to other software, then reimporting in Word-compatible format… but that was 10 years ago and I am sure they have improved.
Ditto on Skype. Too many international calls. I had an Apple in circa 2006 that was not compatible with Word so I did use OpenOffice way back then. I guess it's my time to see how they've improved...
For what it's worth, I use OpenOffice, which is a free, open source suite similar to MS. It does everything I need it to do, including saving documents compatible with Word, and works offline.
I downloaded OpenOffice last night and was trying it out. Something that bothers me not about OpenOffice but about Microsoft is the document I opened was set at an earlier version where some of my last edits to it were apparently not tracked. If they can come in and retroactively delete parts of it how far are they from deleting all of it? Back up your systems, folks!
open office is great although it gets glitchy if you have too many documents open or too many in the archive. best to keep everything you don't immediately need in some kind of auxiliary storage (NOT the cloud) to ensure it works smoothly. for example the search function has never worked for me when looking through hundreds of documents.
Good to know thanks! I have a bunch of documents it's an ambitious project to get all of my writing together into this seven book series. I had been busy bee on it until this bizarre Word glitch happened...
i'm psyched to read it when you have it all together! may i suggest keeping chapters as separate documents for ease of editing and avoiding crashes - open office doesn't like big documents
I was doing remote access work in the early 2000s for internal IT support at AT&T. I'd often work from home, in the evening, and do whatever I needed to do, mainly so the updating or fixing I needed to do wouldn't disrupt that person's normal workday. It's also possibly to access someone's hard drive without using the graphic interface (your screen), so you'd never see a cursor moving, etc. You can see personal files, add/remove software, and edit the registry, etc. People are really dumb to keep a password list named "Passwords" in their Documents folder. I would also use the remote access programs to help friends and family, especially my elderly mother-in-law. There are permissions for Remote Access you can turn off on your computer AND
your router to prevent remote access. Port configuration on your router can be helpful, too, but require a bit more tech knowledge. If you mess it up, none of your info can get out or come in. The problem with permissions is that MS is pretty good about CHANGING your settings back when they force their precious "updates". We also disable the guest account, change the admin password and only login to the local machine, NOT to MS's network as they try to force people to do. My husband recently had to rebuild his profile on his computer because the MS update REMOVED several of his key programs (the Tor browser, for one) he frequently uses and just gave him a "new default" profile after a forced update. We still use Windows 10 and will not be upgrading because Win11 pushes even more for all cloud storage, forced MS login, etc. We're looking closely at reformatting and going with a different operating system such as Linux, but it's been quite a few years since I've personally worked with that. For the office suite, I use Libre and have had pretty good luck with it's compatibility with other's who use MS products such as Word and Excel. All in all, tho, with government projects like "Sentient World Simulation", they've already built pretty good data caches on each and every one of us.
Teledoc to be staffed by chat GPT?
The teledoc itself maybe not, but the codes that go into it certainly can be. I don't think the healing touch will ever be there...
I can see Teledoc going AI -100%.
One thing that is kind of encouraging is that just as the Delivery apps would send you to the wrong address or tell you to turn down the wrong way on a one way street or the self driving cars would mow down the lady on the bike...the Robots are going to botch shit.
Great post!
Yes indeed the robots are, in my opinion, a grift. I don't think they will ever replace live humans for the services that matter, like eating food or harvesting plants or fixing a plumbing leak. Those who have the most to lose realistically are the well educated compliance monkeys. The one trillion pages of US tax code can be read quite well by the AI, as can rockerfeller based medical trials and the like...
Either way, some people gots to get dead and stop pumping out dem dere babuhs.
Signed, yuval
The idea that these people, by merit of having a bunch of money or being promoted and endorsed by people with a bunch of money actually know anything is reprehensible to me. But hey they've got their great plans and nothing can stop them now!
Perhaps their own hubris will be their demise. That Yuval fella is a trip. Man I've got some post up with him kibbitzing with Russell Brand in a smarmy love fest, and now he's like Demented Eyes Flashing Bond Villain.
He genuinely believes in what he says. I sort of get it. An obscure academic writer is suddenly vaulted to super fame by some book endorsements by Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey of Sapiens. Now he knows how to fix the world. The fundamental issue is failure to understand that other people are conscious beings too. Instead we're just hackable animals dispossessed of thoughts or experiences or anything of our own...
He got invited to the party and feels pretty is explanatory for...(awkward)...a few of our local
zip code Stackers, but boy this dude zoomed right past Go and went to I'll take Turbo Evil for Infinity, Alex! 🏎
The "mow down the lady on the bike" feature will be an add-on, and quite expensive. The basic models will use "swerve off the road into a tree".
😹 The trolley experiment, AI Style!
As long as it's not people of color...
"They" absolutely must find a way to control all of the information on the internet. Soon I (we) won't be able to write anti-establishment comments on these articles; soon these articles will be taken down as they're being written. So far, too many people who know what is really happening to us still have voices in some places on the net; "they" will do everything in their power (and I mean everything) to take that away from us. It is critical to their plans to ensure that only their approved propaganda appears on the internet. The only question is when they will finally succeed in shutting us down.
I'm not perhaps quite that hopeless, in part because if they asked me to go back into the digital gulag of approved narratives, I'd find the Internet so useless that I would both be building up real world connections and actively looking for alternatives that still allowed me to type. Their problem is that the Internet has turned into such a useful distraction for so many that shutting it down wholesale risks people taking to the streets, coming together, and evolving the use cases online. I already am aware of a great deal of the manipulation they are capable of. How many others are?
I've been using Office 365 (monthly subscription) for several years and you can use it as an offline application, no internet involved, you just need to set it so it doesn't save automatically to OneDrive.
I've used Office365 in the past but can't afford the subscription right now. I'm trying out OpenOffice and seeing how it goes. I can't be ragging constantly on Bill Gates but using the products, I suppose. ;-)
I know the feeling, I reluctantly use Skype as I have no choice for professional reasons…
The main issue I had with Open Office was compatibility when receiving Word-created files, especially when exporting them to other software, then reimporting in Word-compatible format… but that was 10 years ago and I am sure they have improved.
Ditto on Skype. Too many international calls. I had an Apple in circa 2006 that was not compatible with Word so I did use OpenOffice way back then. I guess it's my time to see how they've improved...
nostr - https://nostr.com/
For what it's worth, I use OpenOffice, which is a free, open source suite similar to MS. It does everything I need it to do, including saving documents compatible with Word, and works offline.
I downloaded OpenOffice last night and was trying it out. Something that bothers me not about OpenOffice but about Microsoft is the document I opened was set at an earlier version where some of my last edits to it were apparently not tracked. If they can come in and retroactively delete parts of it how far are they from deleting all of it? Back up your systems, folks!
open office is great although it gets glitchy if you have too many documents open or too many in the archive. best to keep everything you don't immediately need in some kind of auxiliary storage (NOT the cloud) to ensure it works smoothly. for example the search function has never worked for me when looking through hundreds of documents.
Good to know thanks! I have a bunch of documents it's an ambitious project to get all of my writing together into this seven book series. I had been busy bee on it until this bizarre Word glitch happened...
i'm psyched to read it when you have it all together! may i suggest keeping chapters as separate documents for ease of editing and avoiding crashes - open office doesn't like big documents
Try to learn Linux--Ubuntu or Mint
I was doing remote access work in the early 2000s for internal IT support at AT&T. I'd often work from home, in the evening, and do whatever I needed to do, mainly so the updating or fixing I needed to do wouldn't disrupt that person's normal workday. It's also possibly to access someone's hard drive without using the graphic interface (your screen), so you'd never see a cursor moving, etc. You can see personal files, add/remove software, and edit the registry, etc. People are really dumb to keep a password list named "Passwords" in their Documents folder. I would also use the remote access programs to help friends and family, especially my elderly mother-in-law. There are permissions for Remote Access you can turn off on your computer AND
your router to prevent remote access. Port configuration on your router can be helpful, too, but require a bit more tech knowledge. If you mess it up, none of your info can get out or come in. The problem with permissions is that MS is pretty good about CHANGING your settings back when they force their precious "updates". We also disable the guest account, change the admin password and only login to the local machine, NOT to MS's network as they try to force people to do. My husband recently had to rebuild his profile on his computer because the MS update REMOVED several of his key programs (the Tor browser, for one) he frequently uses and just gave him a "new default" profile after a forced update. We still use Windows 10 and will not be upgrading because Win11 pushes even more for all cloud storage, forced MS login, etc. We're looking closely at reformatting and going with a different operating system such as Linux, but it's been quite a few years since I've personally worked with that. For the office suite, I use Libre and have had pretty good luck with it's compatibility with other's who use MS products such as Word and Excel. All in all, tho, with government projects like "Sentient World Simulation", they've already built pretty good data caches on each and every one of us.