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Ohio.

Ohio is now even Gen Z/A slang for roughly 'cringeworthy, awkward, weird, bad'.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/ohio

It is literally a meme how shitty Ohio is.

My favorite, older example of this:

Back in the 90s, early 00s... Ohio was far and away the state that the most US Astronauts came from, of those who made it to space.

Why?

Because Ohio sucks so much, it makes you want to literally leave Earth.

Yep, the only remaining thread the uh, MAGA doubters have left to cling onto, yeah, that's their QAnon derived idea that, sure, there's some bad Republicans...

...but far and away all the real bad guys are Dems, and they are all hiding everything, because they are the Deep State, even after they're not in power and have been largely purged from any mid or lower level gov positions.

They have to keep believing in a gigantic conspiracy, that everything is 5D chess, that all thr bad guys are keeping secret from them.

Otherwise, the cognitive dissonance collapses along with their personality and mental stability.

We are years past the point where these people all just believe any actual news that isn't MAGA affirming is fake.

These people will not watch or listen to any Dem, Dem influencer, Dem voter, any leftist, anything that platforms a non Republican saying 'Fuck Bill Clinton, yep he's probably in the files, yep he should probably go to jail, as should anyone seriously implicated in all this.'

They cannot hear this because their minds would collapse, so they avoid it, and if they do accidentally hear it, time for more conspiracy logic to 'explain' how somehow there is a secret evil motive behind saying that.

Over and over, no matter the specific focus of a study, the authors would reiterate that no matter the quality of the information produced by the decision support system, decision makers were more likely to go with solutions supported by people the decision makers considered to be peers, even when the hard data showed that the opposite course was more justified.

In short, CEOs and similar almost always care more about the opinions of other CEOs than being true to the scientific ideal.

Extremely ironically, what this means is that the actual prime candidate for a job to replace with AI...

Is CEOs, C Suite.

They are the most expensive employees, after all.

Maybe not replace them with LLMs as we currently have them, beyond possibly being used to generate a narrative, human readable explanation of their decision making process and policies...

Where the actual decision making and policy determinations would themselves be decided by basically a much more specialized algorithm, that is made out of code a human can actually read.

Like, we've already got Zoom entirely seriously trying to get AI-LLMs that train themselves on your work emails and chats, then make an avatar emulation of 'you', then send that to digital meetings, then output the chat log 'results' of this 'meeting'.

So, there you go.

C Suite doesn't really do anything beyond networking and corpo politics, this can simulate that, minus the off the record corruption, which shouldn't be a problem, right?

... Its always been about power and social status.

If otherwise, they'd all be developing something along the lines of what I just described, putting themselves out of a job, and retiring on their already massive wealth.

No, they don't do that.

They are addicted to being superior, to being able to ruin people.

They're dangerous petty narcissistic sociopaths.

... Unless its mass proliferation of shitty broken code and mis/disinformation and hyperparasocial relationships and waste of energy and water are actually such a net negative that it fundamentally undermines infrastructure and society, thus raising the necessary profit margin too high for such legit use cases to be workable in a now broken economic system.

I mean, I also agree with that, lol.

There absolutely are valid use cases for this kind of 'AI'.

But it is very, very far from the universal panacea that the capital class seems to think it is.

Yep yep, others have already chimed in with relevant info, but yeah, got this in a damn cereal box as a kid, found this to be an actually pretty damn good game, at least for the early/mid 90s.

Its not got as many different enemy or weapons as DOOM, but it does have a good number of levels, especially for... being completely free.

Yep, exactly.

They knew the housing/real estate bubble would pop, as it currently is...

... So, they made one final last gambit on AI as the final bubble that would magically become super intelligent and solve literally all problems.

This would never, and is not working, because the underlying tech of LLM has no real actual mechanism by which it would or could develop complex, critical, logical analysis / theoretization / metacognition that isn't just a schizophrenic mania episode.

LLMs are fancy, inefficient autocomplete algos.

Thats it.

They achieve a simulation of knowledge via consensus, not analytic review.

They can never be more intelligent than an average human with access to all the data they've ... mostly illegally stolen.

The entire bet was 'maybe superintelligence will somehow be an emergent property, just give 8t more data and compute power'.

And then they did that, and it didn't work.

In that same vein, frearms are now the leading, primary cause of death for children and teens, in the US.

Boomers largely do not believe this, I've argued with several even here on lemmy about this, provided data, studies, they never admit they're wrong.

Absolute explosion of mass shooting events, victims are far more likely to be Gen Z or Gen A.

Again, firearms have killed more children in the US than car crashes, cancer, etc, for several years in a row now.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens

No its not just you.

Climate coverage drastically diminished roughly during Covid, never came back, despite us blowing through the 1.5C limit 2 years ago now, insurance companies in the US more or less abandoning roughly the southern third of the US due to their own climate models, despite the AMOC destabilizing, despite us recently realizing the SMOC has actually been destabalized for a decade and is actively deteriorating.

You have to use parables to teach moral concepts to most people.

This one weird fact drives nerds crazy, but for newer, better ideas to take hold in society they have to be translated into simple stories.

As a person with a career in data analytics...

You are completely correct.

When talking to non nerds, non autists, non data wonks...

Yep, 100% you absolutely must be able to present your data as a narrative of some kind if you want to have any hope of most people having any reaction other than confusion or their eyes glossing over.

I have learned this the hard way in my own life, and its why people like Sagan and Nye and Tyson were/are science communicators, which is a different skillset from being an actual scientist in whatever field.

Concerned about your privacy?

Suffering from 'paranoia', the idea that people are watching you, tracking you all the time?

Depressed about that?

Good! Fuck you, kill yourself.

American Mental Healthcare

Counterpoint:

Humans in a civilized (meaning urbanized) society... are domesticated, are basically in captivity, from the comparative framework of wild animals.

CounterCounterpoint:

Using studies on captive wolves as a fundamental basis for how human societies do or should work...

... Is maybe really stupid compared to, I don't know, using Sociology as a basis to understand human societies.

Sociology being the field that focuses on the social dynamics of uh, humans, which are markedly different from wolves, and other distinct, largely non sapient animals.

Its uh, kinda in our name, homo sapiens sapiens.