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UofCT2009 said:
Might not be a hardo move but I will NEVER return my meal at a restaurant. Undercooked, overcooked, not what I ordered, hair in food, etc. I can't be that guy, I won't.
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I hate going out to eat with my wife's family. Her mother and sister are constantly sending food back. Like sometimes 2-3 times during a meal. I've literally faked a work emergency call one time found the waitress on my way out and gave her a $50 apologized and said imagine how difficult my life is

Meanwhile I never send anything back
 
Crank said:
Humans must be surpassed. In everything. It's not if, it's when.

The final wars will be fought with technology, not flesh. You'll be vanquised when their technology beats yours. There won't be any hiding under the ground, fighting it out. Dominant tech will just keep getting more dominant.
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What has started and will rapidly advance in the very near future is transhumanism, a seamless mix of human and machine. Elon Musk talks about it often, how his dream is for every human to put a little chip in their brain. Human evolution will continue until we are "perfectly" mixed with machine. Technology and reality is and will continue to be harder and harder to distinguish between.
 
I only drink Martinis in odd numbers. If I want more than 1, I have to have 3. On the rare occassikn that I want more than 3 ... it’s going to be a long night.
 
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QDOG5 said:
They have self check out at Costco now. I threw my back out trying to get my new sofa up on the scanner.
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Look around the self checkout area. Lots of times they have hand held scanners and you can just scan the larger items without having to lift and scan.
 
UCDaveD said:
Can’t stand when stores like Best Buy, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, and Walmart have “Security” checking everyone’s receipt on the way out of the store. Unless specifically suspected of shoplifting, they have absolutely no authority to stop me, or recourse when, with my head held high, I give them a “No thanks” and keep walking when they ask to see my receipt.

Also: post/avatar

Also: Principle*
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I was at Target about two weeks ago doing back to school shopping with the family. The store was crowded. As I was at the register I noticed about 8 police officers waiting at the front of the store. 4 of them were state troopers. The cashier explained to me that since the whole CT. State plastic bag ban, shoplifting has skyrocketed. She said that people just come in the store, fill up their reusable bags, act like they purchased the goods, and then walk out. The cashier said that target lost thousands of dollars at the beginning of the bag ban.

Shoplifters are crafty. Expect to have
Your receipts checked everywhere. Christmas shopping will be a nightmare.
 
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methodology said:
I hate going out to eat with my wife's family. Her mother and sister are constantly sending food back. Like sometimes 2-3 times during a meal. I've literally faked a work emergency call one time found the waitress on my way out and gave her a $50 apologized and said imagine how difficult my life is

Meanwhile I never send anything back
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That is my worst nightmare.
 
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Crank said:
There are NO jobs that are automation proof. As an attorney, I often wonder how long it will be before we see the first automated Public Defender. Many are good, and many are trash, but they are all overworked and underpaid. How long until an AI bot can get a better result because it can evaluate a thousand prior cases with similar facts, and also factor in the particular DA, the judge, and so on?
It sounds far fetched, but the fact is, it's only a matter of time.
Computers have been "smarter" than humans in the sense of number crunching for about half of a century.
Big Blue beat Kasparov in 1997.
Now, the supercomputer in your hand, which we call a phone, can beat any human at any game, any time, with few exceptions.
What has happened - virtually unnoticed - in the last decade or so is a tremendous advancement in AI. Most people think AI and they think Schwartzanegger Terminator, or C3PO, or something like that.
AI is really about teaching computers how to learn for themselves.

The most critical thing to always remember about AI is that it MUST get better, every single hour, every single day FOREVER. I mean, unless we revolt and stop it, which we won't.
AI is exploding, and the pace of improvement may well be geometric. What that means is that the AI bots in 10 years are going to be orders more intelligent and intuitive than the ones today?

In 50 years? It's hard to see any result other than AI bots running everything.

In terms of what jobs are safe? None.

Computers continue to get faster and smaller.
Robotics has come of age and BR now has bots that can run you down over an open field.
Miniaturization and nanotechnology has come of age.
The final, required component - if the goal is super machines - is AI, which has now come of age.

Google had a stick figure running down a corridor a year or so ago. Seemed simple. Maybe not worth noticing. But it was huge. It was, literally, the final advancement of AI taking its first steps.

We are not far from the day when an AI bot will walk up to you, tell you to stand still, scan your face, check you for violations, and then either choose to let you go or choose to detain you.

What's terrifying is that the human condition is stagnant, and changes over millennia. The AI Bot condition? It improves every day, forever.

Humans must be surpassed. In everything. It's not if, it's when.

The final wars will be fought with technology, not flesh. You'll be vanquised when their technology beats yours. There won't be any hiding under the ground, fighting it out. Dominant tech will just keep getting more dominant.

The only wild card I see is energy - without cheap energy, AI becomes less advantageous. Perhaps that's our only way of remaining dominant - go primative.

The future is absolutely terrifying.
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nah, not really. overall, we've been pretty good managing the machines. afterall, we're the ones that revealed the mathematics. sometimes they run a bit out in front, and some of us (oooh, 'us versus them,' spooky.) get burned pretty bad being too quick on the 'hopeful/trusting' uptake, but it then levels off. human ingenuity and all that. for example, take artificial intelligence, real artificial intelligence, facial recognition--machine sight, machine thought. separate from the basic logic that digital tech needs energy to even 'live' (some think the wheel, plough, and writing people of Sumer also invented the first battery), facerec fails miserably when sunglasses are used. cheap sunglasses. im glad someone made that better known in hong kong recently, as those good people have been totally screwing up china's tech assault (social media footprints and such).
will more and more 'intelligent' machines be deployed? of course. no doubt robomate or robopet will expand, but will they rule the day? not in the free societies (further encouraging the repressed ones to throw off their chains with 'facebook' type revolutions).
be a nice machine and maybe we won't hold a software hackfest at ur cpu, go all electromagnetic on ur hardware, or pour sand in ur gastank.
Now go out and get yourself some big black frames
With the glass so dark they won't even know your name
And the choice is up to you cause they come in two classes
Rhinestone shades or cheap sunglasses.
zz top rules, and rules.
 
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ClifSpliffy said:
nah, not really. overall, we've been pretty good managing the machines. afterall, we're the ones that revealed the mathematics. sometimes they run a bit out in front, and some of us (oooh, 'us versus them,' spooky.) get burned pretty bad being too quick on the 'hopeful/trusting' uptake, but it then levels off. human ingenuity and all that. for example, take artificial intelligence, real artificial intelligence, facial recognition--machine sight, machine thought. separate from the basic logic that digital tech needs energy to even 'live' (some think the wheel, plough, and writing people of Sumer also invented the first battery), facerec fails miserably when sunglasses are used. cheap sunglasses. im glad someone made that better known in hong kong recently, as those good people have been totally screwing up china's tech assault (social media footprints and such).
will more and more 'intelligent' machines be deployed? of course. no doubt robomate or robopet will expand, but will they rule the day? not in the free societies (further encouraging the repressed ones to throw off their chains with 'facebook' type revolutions).
be a nice machine and maybe we won't hold a software hackfest at ur cpu, go all electromagnetic on ur hardware, or pour sand in ur gastank.
Now go out and get yourself some big black frames
With the glass so dark they won't even know your name
And the choice is up to you cause they come in two classes
Rhinestone shades or cheap sunglasses.
zz top rules, and rules.
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I think this guy's a bot.
 
I don't like it when people say "no thanks" or "not today" to the cashier when asked to donate to the random charity.

Why are people thanking someone for asking them to donate money? And, not today? What you're going to donate tomorrow?

Simply put, no.
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
I don't like it when people say "no thanks" or "not today" to the cashier when asked to donate to the random charity.

Why are people thanking someone for asking them to donate money? And, not today? What you're going to donate tomorrow?

Simply put, no.
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Interesting. I find it much more annoying to be constantly bombarded by requests - especially by high overhead chartities that pass little money to those they claim to be helping. *united way* cough cough
 
I always get a receipt. Deal is, if I bring home receipts, the misses, who also pays all the bills, will keep the checking account details current. Yes, I'll take that receipt.
 
whaler11 said:
Interesting. I find it much more annoying to be constantly bombarded by requests - especially by high overhead chartities that pass little money to those they claim to be helping. *united way* cough cough
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After the wounded warrior stuff came out a few years back where essentially none of the money was going to the wounded vets, but rather to expensive retreats for execs (it has since been rectified to my understanding) I'm pretty skeptical about a lot of charities.

I don't have a ton of $ to throw around to charities but I like to make it count when I do.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
After the wounded warrior stuff came out a few years back where essentially none of the money was going to the wounded vets, but rather to expensive retreats for execs (it has since been rectified to my understanding) I'm pretty skeptical about a lot of charities.

I don't have a ton of $ to throw around to charities but I like to make it count when I do.
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most of the national charities are complete scams. even the dollars that dont go to ‘overhead’ are wasted. just look at what happens when you donate $50 - you get $200 of print marketing in your mailbox within 6 months
 
1) When you’re at a gas station or some other type of small store and some yokel decides that he will start the line to the register by standing about 10’ away from it so that everyone else is lined up in an aisle. Generally, this happens when there are two registers and the guy wants to hedge his bets instead of committing to one register.

2) When the Girl Scouts or some athletic team sets their donation booth right at the entrance of some store. I do not want your stupid cookies and my daughter is on two swim teams which I pay for without sitting in front BestBuy pestering other people for coins. Your football team’s trip to Susquehanna is not a cause I need to see through.

3) Overly familiar sales people. We were not frat brothers. I do not know you. You dialed my phone and I answered it - calling me ‘buddy’ or pretending we’re in some shared experience will do nothing but hasten the inevitable end of our discussion.

4) People breathing near me.
 
Crank said:
There are NO jobs that are automation proof. As an attorney, I often wonder how long it will be before we see the first automated Public Defender. Many are good, and many are trash, but they are all overworked and underpaid. How long until an AI bot can get a better result because it can evaluate a thousand prior cases with similar facts, and also factor in the particular DA, the judge, and so on?
It sounds far fetched, but the fact is, it's only a matter of time.
Computers have been "smarter" than humans in the sense of number crunching for about half of a century.
Big Blue beat Kasparov in 1997.
Now, the supercomputer in your hand, which we call a phone, can beat any human at any game, any time, with few exceptions.
What has happened - virtually unnoticed - in the last decade or so is a tremendous advancement in AI. Most people think AI and they think Schwartzanegger Terminator, or C3PO, or something like that.
AI is really about teaching computers how to learn for themselves.

The most critical thing to always remember about AI is that it MUST get better, every single hour, every single day FOREVER. I mean, unless we revolt and stop it, which we won't.
AI is exploding, and the pace of improvement may well be geometric. What that means is that the AI bots in 10 years are going to be orders more intelligent and intuitive than the ones today?

In 50 years? It's hard to see any result other than AI bots running everything.

In terms of what jobs are safe? None.

Computers continue to get faster and smaller.
Robotics has come of age and BR now has bots that can run you down over an open field.
Miniaturization and nanotechnology has come of age.
The final, required component - if the goal is super machines - is AI, which has now come of age.

Google had a stick figure running down a corridor a year or so ago. Seemed simple. Maybe not worth noticing. But it was huge. It was, literally, the final advancement of AI taking its first steps.

We are not far from the day when an AI bot will walk up to you, tell you to stand still, scan your face, check you for violations, and then either choose to let you go or choose to detain you.

What's terrifying is that the human condition is stagnant, and changes over millennia. The AI Bot condition? It improves every day, forever.

Humans must be surpassed. In everything. It's not if, it's when.

The final wars will be fought with technology, not flesh. You'll be vanquised when their technology beats yours. There won't be any hiding under the ground, fighting it out. Dominant tech will just keep getting more dominant.

The only wild card I see is energy - without cheap energy, AI becomes less advantageous. Perhaps that's our only way of remaining dominant - go primative.

The future is absolutely terrifying.
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This is what my grandfather said about Elvis and the Beetles
 
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whaler11 said:
most of the national charities are complete scams. even the dollars that dont go to ‘overhead’ are wasted. just look at what happens when you donate $50 - you get $200 of print marketing in your mailbox within 6 months
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The conversion of those materials must be negative in the sense people are less likely to donate after getting bombarded.
 
Fishy said:
2) When the Girl Scouts or some athletic team sets their donation booth right at the entrance of some store. I do not want your stupid cookies and my daughter is on two swim teams which I pay for without sitting in front BestBuy pestering other people for coins. Your football team’s trip to Susquehanna is not a cause I need to see through.
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This is the worst. When they run up and bombard you, very loudly, with requests to buy cookies or whatever. And the parents just stand there, ignoring how obnoxioud their kids are being. I'll buy a box of cookies, just be mindful of the strangers you're pestering.
 
Crank said:
I think this guy's a bot.
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why? cause im not miserable 24/7? have sum!
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oh, and it might be time to up that prescription.
'In 50 years? It's hard to see any result other than AI bots running everything.'
maybe toss in one of those 'smart' hurrycanes, too. I hear that they now come in 'blue.'
party on, wayne.
 
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whaler11 said:
Interesting. I find it much more annoying to be constantly bombarded by requests - especially by high overhead chartities that pass little money to those they claim to be helping. *united way* cough cough
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To be honest I have no idea what the United Way does. All I know is I’m bombarded with work emails every year for their annual giving campaign.
 
Huskyforlife said:
This is the worst. When they run up and bombard you, very loudly, with requests to buy cookies or whatever. And the parents just stand there, ignoring how obnoxioud their kids are being. I'll buy a box of cookies, just be mindful of the strangers you're pestering.
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I laugh internally when young kids say their schpiel so fast it is totally undecipherable. So I ask them to repeat it. They stammer. I walk away.
 
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