Moonbox

That's why the quote function is there, genius. Your unwillingness and inability to back up your bullshit just highlights your dishonesty and your ineptitude.

Nobody said that western goods weren't still getting to Russia, but when your entire western border (where most of your population lives) is closed and no western countries are willing to trade with you, secondary and black markets are all you've got. Your prices will be worse and your supply much lower too. Pretending that the sanctions haven't had effect is deluded.

No you didn't, you just claimed it was. Repeating it isn't demonstrating anything. ?

I don't think that schoolboard trustees should be elected, honestly. There is very little access or information on any of them an many of them don't even have websites. The majority of voters don't even have children, and I don't personally understand what the point of these positions is in the first place.

Everything makes a difference, but this would be insignificant. For the record, I'm pro-defunding the CBC as well, but when you make this one of your keynotes for discussing productivity increases, you're just another baboon screeching slogans. All that I remember is you telling us you had sources for claims that you never ended up providing, and that you pulled some arbitrary numbers out of your ass and did some hand-waving napkin math that made absolutely no sense. That's par for the course for you! ?

If you think that one billion to the CBC makes any meaningful dent in Canada's productivity, you have no sense for numbers, or scale. Math is a hand-waving exercise for you, it seems. The rest of your post? Paragraphs and paragraphs of you carrying on like an angry muppet.

Here you go: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/border-fear-then-relief-men-fleeing-russia-2022-10-05/ This genius posted a picture from an article showing Russian conscription-age men fleeing Russia last year across the Georgian border. ?

Ya I'm the one that doesn't care about Ukrainian lives: ? Yet I'm not the one whose viewpoint is aligned with Syria, Iran, North Korea etc, nor do I quote their news agencies: Take a look at that map, clown, and remember that you're doing the same rationalization that North Korea is. ??

Says the guy who brought up lesbian dance theory and defunding the CBC first when discussing Canada's productivity lag. ? Nothing that you write is concise. Whatever reasonable points you may occasionally bring up are drowned out in windbag responses, your boilerplate partisan rhetoric and general belligerence. As I've said many times before, nobody derails their own threads like you do. ?

I don't think so, in this case, because "recommended for readers 15 and over" is about as clear an invitation as you can get for someone 15 or under to read the book. It's not like it's going to be under lock and key. You and I both have the same feelings on those types, but what good does it do mocking a topic even like this? Porno comics in the K-12 school library? It's so cluelessly out of touch it makes me cringe...like come on... Giving an inch, once in awhile, is good for your sanity.

They really don't matter anymore. The forum doesn't have a moderator and the forum administrator is at best uninterested.

My friend works on teaching the AI. He doesn't show us anything, but he's explained how it learns to us (and a lot of it is just feeding it indescribable mountains of data). As for my use, other friends and I have run chat bots and image bots on telegram and discord etc for various channels/projects we've run in the crypto space. They are not nearly as sophisticated as you seem to think they are (yet). Have you ever tried actually having a debate with one of these chat bots? Do you understand how they learn?

But only for that specific case, and not for other unrelated but equally ridiculous situations. The lack of specific rules on dress and how to deal with teachers insisting on wearing size Z prosthetic breasts to class provided little/no insight on whether porno comics were appropriate in the school library, for example. School boards need to remember who their stakeholders are, and also to be empowered to deal with this sort of absurd nonsense quickly rather than get cowed by bureaucracy and litigation. Okay, sure, but then we're probably talking about the School Board trustees, right? Elected trustees should be abolished in Ontario like they have in other provinces IMO. As you said, we need to put DO NOT EAT labels on Silica packets, so why are we asking voters to educate themselves on school board trustees (most of whom don't even run election campaigns and many of whom don't even have websites). I guess what I was more interested in was a justification that made sense, rather than the out-of-touch naval-gazing of bureaucratic committee members.

No, because none of that had anything to do with my post, which concerned the dangers of AI being abused.

You quoted me and provided a three-paragraph response that didn't even remotely touch on anything I'd just said.

So there's a real problem here, but your suggestions are all over the place and many of them are ridiculous and unreasonable. I'm not sure what sort of discussion you're hoping to provoke with that sort of rhetoric.

Did you use AI to write that? ?

Understand the process? For complaining about what's going on in schools? It's not rocket science, and there are many different ways to do it. How so? You've made the same argument in both this, and in the Kayla Lemieux case, where somehow a lack of guidelines/procedure is the problem, rather than the ridiculous fringe-cases themselves. No kidding? How does a name change anything? Do you think the school boards are going to give out his/her name to the general population, so that the circus has a specific target to focus on? They can try to justify the decision if they want, and I'd love to hear how you'd try to justify cartoons showing dudes sucking each other off is reasonable school-library material.

I have used it, (and I suspect long before you ever did). One of my best friends is also a Microsoft AI engineer and easily the wealthiest person I know. I'm not arguing against the usefulness of AI, but rather how it's going to be abused by the ultra-powerful. AI learning is very much a matter of resources and processing power, and the folks who control the means are going to be the ones that are going to have an advantage in everything. Robust rules and guidelines couldn't be more important, and we're already at a point where AI's are solving problems that humans never had before, and teaching people to do things that they really shouldn't. See: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx On a lark, researchers asked the AI to come up with ideas for chemical weapons compounds, and in six hours they AI came up with 40,000 suggestions. ?

I think your viewpoint is a pot-meet-kettle sort of situation. Not everything the socially conservative say is wrong or unfair, and your dismissing the reasonable cases as over-the-top just showcases how unreasonable the other side often is. We don't care to, don't need to and shouldn't be expected to understand the decision making processes of our public sector bureaucracies. We can make our voices heard when we are unhappy with the results, and it's up to them to listen (or not listen) and deal with the consequences. This is a similar, though not nearly as absurd, situation as the Kayla Lemieux debacle. Your suggestion that we need written guidelines and rules to avoid every ridiculous case that might come up is (IMO) overly fussy and out of touch. Not stocking porno cartoons (gay or otherwise) in a school library is a pretty low bar for common sense, and when even these end up being contentious issues we are both fueling the counter-culture movement and lending it credibility.

I think you have an overly optimistic view of how AI is going to affect politics.

This sounds like equivocating. You can't have a written policy for everything, but you can only have clarity if it's written down? I would argue that keeping pornography (cartoon or otherwise) out of school libraries isn't very subjective at all. To be clear, I don't actually care that it's there or if my kids saw it. I do, however, understand why other parents (probably most?) wouldn't, and I don't really see how/why this needs to be part of the education system.

This is how I see it too - just an ideological provocation and a complete departure from common sense. Let’s be real for a moment too, and consider how many teenagers are going check this book out with serious intentions rather than just to giggle at the penises.

You can't have a written policy for everything, even in a highly polarized environment. A basic standard of common sense is required and "there's no written policy" is a poor excuse for not exercising judgement. The culture wars have two sides, after all.

Between the two of you, I’d say Perspektiv is probably dumber, but please don’t take that to mean that anyone thinks you’re intelligent.