28 July 2023

Not making the same mistake.  Beaverton School District will retain armed guards

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Eugene withdraws ban on natural gas stoves.  Sanity prevails yet again. 

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No ambulances in Portland.  So an injured federal officer had to be taken to the hospital by his colleagues.  Welcome to Portland, where infrastructure is broken. 😳

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Oregon is the 8th most expensive state in the nation.  Why is that?  We're just Oregon, not New York or Hawaii.  Why can Idaho keep costs down and we can't?  Oh yeah, Democrats are in charge, that's why.

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Yup, Worldcoin is worse than it looks.  Exploitation of the poor, on top of that.  The techies will do anything to get rich.   And they like it when most of the public are too ignorant to know the dangers.

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ChatGPT broke the Turing test.  It was time to develop a better test anyway.  Alan Turing probably didn't think a machine could get close to doing what it's doing today, without being really human.  Machines need to initial conversation and human interaction, it has to have a memory that lasts more than several days, and it needs to have a working world model, where it can convey understanding of how physics determines how objects in the world interact and behave.  And it has to react to external events with emotional context. 

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An example of insanity from Washington state:
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