I'm willing to be wrong about this but it's going to take more than high paying jobs to do it. Maybe a paper written by one of those guys in those fancy jobs could convince me.

US East 1 went down last fall because of a clanker. If Amazon knew what was broken it would have been fixed in minutes, not hours.

"If you were correct then backpropagation, debugging, and pruning would not work."

If I was incorrect we wouldn't need those tools because we could know explicitly the contribution of every node in every hidden layer.

it's just an encoded representation.

I'm aware.

Without the ability to decide it, we can't establish "what it was thinking." Or how. Or why.

It's a liability nightmare.

Not that the law seems to matter any more, since the first step in building a LLM is "Download The Internet" which clearly ignores centuries of copyright law dictating that royalties are owed when copyrighted material is used in a commercial application.

"They're not hidden, that's a euphemism that means it's not part of training data or prediction target."

Dude. They can't be interrogated with any sense of what their respective values mean.

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Well that's quite a different take than yesterday!

"Immigration laws were broken."

Not really.

Most people being deported aren't being found guilty of breaking any immigration law.

There's no trial, no criminal conviction.

There are some people deported for breaking non-immigration laws, like writing bad checks. Including people whose immigration law record is spotless.

People like the five year old boy and his father, both here legally, no immigration laws broken. Still taken by ICE and flown to camps at the other end of the country.

"a $212k tax bill for working one week"

Hard to say.
How much did he make that week?

What up Boaz.
Lots of good stuff coming out of the Epstein Files over the past 72 hours.
You still think Trump had zip zilch nada to do with all that, and that just tickles me to no end!

What do you think about Ehud Barak being buddy buddy with Epstein? Surely you're no stranger to "Zionist Occupied Government." Or are you down with ZOG so long as ZOG is down with Trump?

"How about we start taxing the uber-wealthy who have, for the past 40 years, been able to dodge their financial responsibilities that provide them with a country that protects them and their money and their property?"

^
They don't accept that these "financial responsibilities" exist.
They only ask what their country can do for them.
They don't ask what they can do for their country.

They fundamentally reject the idea that the government should be in the business of making America a better place.
Except they also say that's what ICE is doing.

America needs to stop helping the poor and instead starve them out, like we did the Indians.

#4 Lying by omission seems like one of bell boi's signature moves.

It is, but this is a meme that's been going around on right wing social media.
Not to say he didn't think it up himself!

California taxes you on money you make in California. New York City does the same thing. When I was a kid, mom was paying New York City income tax on her New York City job while living in New Jersey.

I can't remember if California technically taxes everybody (non-Californian) like this, or if it's targeted at high salary people like pro athletes and Taylor Swift. So if California is being discretionary, then California is actually better than NYC, if you think this is unfair. Unless you think it's extra unfair to only tax the rich, which Republicans probably do.

"Darnold net loses $14k in Cali taxes for winning Super Bowl"

I did my own math and I think it's more like 2k.

Holler back the next time you turn down $188,000 because of the $2,000 Participation Trophy Fee.

Dr. Oz. Haven't heard that name in a while.

Dr. Oz barely rates on the scale of how morally crippled Republicans are these days.

"yet how many people were saying they wanted something done about illegal immigration."

Propaganda is effective.

People will say something should be done about almost any problem you can name. From Global Warming to the price of eggs.

Seldom are the people making the ad populem argument (a logical fallacy) mentioning the scope, or the costs, or the trade-offs.

This is closer to propaganda than it is statistics. I think that makes it marketing.

People believe in global warming, and they still drive a car.

Remember when you said that means people don't really believe in global warming, except it's Obama's oceanfront property?

The biggest unresolved legal issue around AI in medicine has always been:
If AI gets it wrong, who do you put on the stand in the malpractice trial?

A doctor, you can ask them what they were thinking, and how they came up with whatever procedure they tried, was it supported by the literature or their training.

AI can't explain how it got its answer. The hidden layers are just that -- hidden.

This is not to deny "hidden layers" in the human brain -- implicit bias, all kinds of fun things.

But that's a separate problem.

"Death-bed confessions actually hold more weight in court or inquiries than you might be aware of."

Oh, I don't doubt the sincerity. It's all the insincerity in the years prior that renders them somewhat less than convincing for me. I'm speaking about the person, not the veracity of the confession. It has "serial murderer gets into Heaven by accepting Jesus moments before the throw the switch on Old Sparky" vibes.

"She was nine, but she had the body of a twelve year old."

"The grass had to hide the show in part."

That's probably just the zoom lens foreshortening things.

"Sen. Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, announced on December 19, 2025, that she will not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2026, ending her one-term tenure after serving since 2021."

Death bed confessions are the least believable confessions.

If she says she'll vote to impeach President Trump, then we will consider the possibility her words mean something.