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[–] salacious_coaster 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

For reference, the "Hopeless Dipshit Percentage" in any population is about 25-33%.

About a quarter to a third of the population believes in witches, ghosts and ESP; that the earth revolves around the sun; that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; that Obama was born in Kenya; and that evolution and climate change are hoaxes. A third of the US population can't name a single right guaranteed by the constitution or even one branch of government. And a quarter of the population self-professes that they wouldn't stop supporting Trump no matter what he did.

In that context, only 3% willing to pay any money for AI is an utter failure. The LLM bubble needs to burst yesterday, and the whole Internet needs to roll back to 2022.

[–] dragonsidedd@mstdn.science 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@salacious_coaster @dgerard Wait till you learn the percentage of ostensibly fully functional adults that have an Invisible Friend in the Sky

[–] salacious_coaster 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah but that particular lunacy is grandfathered in to society, so I avoid it in my rants

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

I don't know how true this still holds but two years after 9/11 70% of the US thought Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. My guess is that number continues to be higher than 30%.

[–] dragonsidedd@mstdn.science 1 points 1 month ago

@salacious_coaster I believe that the root cause of the critically important problem that you are highlighting, is the widespread idea that "faith" -- that is, belief without evidence -- is a virtue.

It is not.

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