I sympathise, but the cliché is not strictly true. Nature is all about diversity. Just like humans have a certain ratio of “bad apples” born where someone is hard wired wrong, so do dogs, and likely all animals.

Psychopathology is real. It would be a mistake to deny Nature it’s agency. There are people who belong in an institution. Dogs perhaps moreso.

To your point, yes most problems are attributable to bad trainers, but even here there is something missing. Bad breeders - natural reproduction would select for fitness, and truly bad dogs would be limited to a small fraction of background instances. We have lots of people actively breeding killers with outsized agression and fear and ferocity, with hair triggers, on purpose. I’m not talking about guard dogs where fierce protective instincts are balanced with loyalty and bonding and intelligence. I mean literal psychokillers.

I’m circling around Pit-Bulls and the like, but I need to be clear. The breed is fine. Some of my best friends are pit bulls. Diversity naturally makes most of them good dogs, just more context dependant and trainer demanding. I’m not talking about those. I’m only referring to a small subset that were overbred and the natural background level of freakshow.

If you’ve only known pets from reputable breeders, accidental litters or the shelter rescues, understand that these select for the good dogs. If that’s all you know, you would have reason to doubt that bad dogs are possible.

Fine. Winning lottery numbers then. I can ponder the depths of the other ineffable questions from a beach with a tasty beverage somewhere nice.

How does one get grants for this type of research? Asking for a friend.

Not all. There are some bad boys out there.

Winning lottery numbers for next draw. When will humanity go extinct? Where are the nearest 1 billion species with near human level intelligence or greater. How do we safely and conveniently travel faster than light.

So many to choose.

You sure you want that?

When the drugs wear off.

Well, there’s your problem. Don’t get high for the job you have. Get high for the job you want.

Ask Schumer what his real job is.

Some people take “No Stupid Questions” to mean, it’s ok to ask a genuine question in a safe space where you won’t be made to feel like an idiot for the asking.

Others take it as a challenge. “Oh yeah? I’ll show you a stupid question.”

The… the… the PoPresident?

I just KNOW there is a record label executive with degrees in economics (math) and a side interest in quantum computing who is taking notes trying to figure the opportunity to produce the next thousand years of our greatest music.

Thompson Reuters is controlled by the Thompson Family, Canada’s richest and famously aligned with conservative politics and funders of right wing think tanks.

None of this should be a surprise.

happening in my lifetime.

How long is that?

5

5 what? Decades? Years? Months?

4,3…

I have no idea how to even try to tackle this. Yet this is one of the best “no stupid questions” in a long while. Not only is it not stupid, it’s inspired. Complex yet impractical, thus perfectly suited to this sub. Bravo!

AI replacement of CEOs is brilliant. Replace your most expensive employees. CEOs hallucinate so much on their own no one will even notice it’s an LLM. Let the bodies hit the floor!

How on earth did he overwhelmingly pass leadership review? It’s a mystery to me.

I have a theory that fits the data surisingly well. Poilievre is recognized throughout the party as one of the few with the oratorical skills to flood the Liberals with their favourite brand of hollow, vaccuous critique in parliament and in the media. Simultaneously, he is one of the rare few who can mask his ghoulishness, unlike almost everyone else who goes mask off if they open their maws.

The last strong leader the conservatives had was Stephen Harper. Harper’s political superpower was that he got the party to shut the fuck up. He was a control freak who made most communications flow from his office only. In the rare and unavoidable instance where anybody did speak publicly the messages were short, carefully pre-scripted pieces design to stay locally relevant and not embarrass with national escalation. Avoiding the stuff that plays fine locally, but turns off the public regionally and nationally.

Everyone in the conservatives wants to express their mask off maga chud rhetoric. Only tiny pp can keep the mask on, barely.

+1 for gigglesnort.

This is exactly the S-Tier business move I’ve been calling for all along. The most impactful places for AI automation are the c-suite. Think about it! The most expensive employees. Mostly useless and performative. They “hallucinate” at least as much as LLMs. It’s the perfect place.

It also has proven business parallels. Remember when EVs started. Car companies struggled to break into markets with low end, eco & cost conscious models. EVs kicked into high gear with the high margin performance models like Tesla S. The high margins justified the production costs and only as they gradually refined the technology and scaled up did the costs go down to fit successively lower markets.

Zuckerberg gunning for the Global C-Suite is exactly what McKinsey&Co would advise complete with entirely predictable distrous consequences for anyone even remotely involved. We’re entering a new era - This bad-boy right here is kicking off what historians will refer to as The Second Corporate Wars. I approve. Let the bodies hit the floor.

What if “burning cash” wasn’t a metaphor? The grift collects cash. Then there is a pit surrounded by stones and a significant pyre?

Let me put this into my trusty Hyper-Normalization translator:

Wrrr…bizzt…click…click…blu-blu…ding!

“The circus is refining their act to adjust to an audience who is bored of business as usual. The clowns are being replaced with a freak show comprised of shit-eaters, geeks who bite the heads of chickens and a bearded lady whose beard is ZZ Top grade but the beard in on their ballsack. The lion show have reversed the roles and now one lion tames a group of ravenous trainers and makes them do tricks. The mime has been supplemented with pickpockets in the audience.”