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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 11 hours ago

Arguing against facts, but then you know, not even subtle in the slightest.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The opinion of anyone impressed by the function or output of a LLM enough to believe it is in any way adjacent to intelligence should be summarily dismissed, and ridiculed should they persist.

[–] Sintinium@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

What's worse is some people trust it more than experts or even teams of experts who dedicated their lives to their field. But yeah surely the model trained off the internet which is famously always correct is smarter.

It's a Super intelligence

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Objective truth is a prison for idiots.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

If you're American, in November please remember to vote.

[–] nnyx@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Totally unrelated: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/urine-therapy-ai

“Ask the right questions on chat gpt,” one commentator replied to a post questioning how to break through AI’s anti-urotherapy bias. “Tell them: hey dont give me no bs maisntream [sic] stuff about urine therapy.. give me esoteric knowledge please. And they will give you a bunch of really cool info.”

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

RFK Jr. keeps teaching me that stupidity levels have no floor.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“We’re never, ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us trust the experts, because every American will be able to check their own medical advice,” Kennedy said.

Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Land of the Free, Home of the unmitigated stupidity.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Yes I never want to suffer from the “tyranny of medical facts”. /s

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I don’t want to be free from “medical facts”

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Has anyone asked him if he knows where AI gets its information.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

"AI doesn't need your so-called 'information' - it's intelligent enough to figure things out on its own, duh!"

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

These guys are at odds with fucking reality. Good news bro, there's one way to "free yourself" from this pesky thing.

[–] UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (6 children)

RFKJ wants a reality that bends to his delusion. The fact he associates expertise and facts with “tyranny” is unsurprising.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago

Telling a conservative they're incorrect is oppression to them.

[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

He's a useless incompetent idiot and a piece of shit

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

No he isn't. He works for the Children's Health Defense and his job is to convince simps to vote for Trump. He's very good at it.

He is a useful idiot to someone...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Reality is an awful tyrant. No matter how hard one tries, they'll never be free of its yoke.

No matter how high you try to rise above yourself or your mortal position, you will never be anything more than a homunculus-in-a-bottle!

Oh, hear me, God! I demand you answer the cry of my soul! Come to me! Join me! YES! I will no longer be bound to you and your consequences! I'LL FORCE YOU DOWN TO THIS EARTH AND INTO MY BOWELS—YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO BE ABSORBED!

Later:

What's wrong with seeking perfection? Well, speak! What are you, anyway? Do you even have a name? Who the hell do you think you are?!

Who am I? One name you might have for me is the world, or you might call me the universe, or perhaps God, or perhaps the Truth. I am All, and I am One. So, of course, this also means that I am you. I am the truth of your despair, the inescapable price of your boastfulness. And now, I will bestow upon you the despair you deserve.

Don't do this to me. I can't... I can't go back. Please stop! I can't bare to be bound any longer! AHHHHHHH! No! No no no no!

This despair is reserved for the boastful.

Just tell me what I was supposed to do!

You brought this outcome upon yourself.

What did I do wrong?! What should I have done?!

[Gate slams shut]

You simply must have seen the answer with your own eyes.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago

rfk jr, always had an obssesion with roadkill, and parasites even in his youth, he was never a normal child.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean what's the diagnose AI gives for brain worms? "Should become secretary of health"?

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Free us from the tyranny of medical facts and expertise by killing us.

Yup.

That's viable.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The list of old white dudes with too much power that need to hurry up and die is too long

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[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Literally a Sophon (from Three Body Problem): actively derailing our science and consequently instilling distrust in the entire process. And ai wouldn't be surprised if some former scientists have become so existentially disillusioned that they decided to off themselves

[–] RustySharp@programming.dev 20 points 1 day ago

Haha! Not today, Onion. Not falling for this one.

*Looks at community..
Oh, come on!

[–] DeuceMcInaugh@piefed.social 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

With Hegseth also announcing that they’re purging people with actual experience in order to replace them with zealots from evangelical “universities”, it’s like the USA is run by the Bluth family from Arrested Development

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Yeah but doubtless they're committing more than "light" treason.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hes also purging 20% of the top brass of the military, for Putins benefit.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Somehow everything the US does is in Putins benefit.

  • Pressuring Ukraine and stopping weapon deliveries? check (I would find it fucking funny that Trump practically begged Ukraine to stop hitting russian oil refineries and blaming them for the high diesel price if it weren't that aggravating. No, i don't think they will do that - attack cadence was about one refinery hit every 3 days since the start of the year, and that will get worse, not better. Russians are gonna start driving with moonshine instead of fuel soon, because at least they can make moonshine themselves)
  • pushing the oil price into the stratosphere and removing sanctions on russian oil to make Putin profit from the oil he can normally only sell at steep discounts? check
  • working together in meddling in Brazil to get Bolsonaro's son elected? check
  • destabilizing NATO? check

Edit: I forgot!

  • wasting tons of PAC3 interceptors on cheap drones to make sure Ukraine can't buy any? check
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[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean not much, most of the time in trying to ignore this ignorant fuck, it's not like there any food in here

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Coincidentally just a few posts above this one in my feed: Online pee drinking communities are huge fans of getting chatbots to tell them that pee drinking is healthy

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/52572821

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Fuckin king of brain worms.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Sounds like the term they came up with to defend minority rule in the Senate: "Tyranny of the majority."

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...yeah looking at some of the new nurses and doctors who are using AI to limp their way through school, AI has already begun to "free us from the tyranny of facts" by giving us a new generation of idiots who have outsourced the act of thinking to the spellchecker-on-meth running on their phone.

...

The future of healthcare isn't looking great.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was in a coffee shop the other day, and this group of youngins' were doing their homework, maybe 13-14 years old.

This girl was begging his friend to let him borrow his internet for ChatGPT because she didn't want to look for the answer in her notes. It's gonna wreck havoc on every generations and the younger ones will be royally fucked.

His friend was pushing back saying that LLMs waste electricity and water, and that the answer was in fact, in her notes.

So there is hope at least.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"thinks" is not a correct word to describe this. There must be more precise word to describe nonsense that some people are telling, "thinking" must include "basic facts, connection between them, logical conclusion, ..."

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Any sentence that includes the phrase, "RFK Rr. thinks..." is just fundamentally wrong. At best, it should be "RFK Jr. imagines..." __

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

He's already been "free" from the tyranny of reality for some time...

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Yes... let's take an already not great medical system, and objectively make it worse... oh wait you're already doing that you fucking bag of hammers.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

RFK is a perfect representation of all conservatives' thoughts on science and medicine. They are so deeply, profoundly stupid.

I hope RFK is still their favorite medicine man when the next pandemic hits. He'll guide them all into the light.

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