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  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,738 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I disagree.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 21,171 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hey AI, tell us what you really think....

    Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework

  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,909 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:

    Hey AI, tell us what you really think....

    Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework

    Can this claim be verified? Sounds too funny.

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 21,171 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2024

    CBS news and Fox news both covered the story, don't know if that fits with your definition of verified.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-message-human-please-die/

    "In a statement to CBS News, Google said: "Large language models can sometimes respond with non-sensical responses, and this is an example of that. This response violated our policies and we've taken action to prevent similar outputs from occurring."

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/google-ai-chatbot-tells-user-please-die

  • dirtdudedirtdude Posts: 5,870 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It doesn't seem that long ago you were a fairly young guy @CharlieHeis

    A little dirt never hurt
  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2024

    @CalvinAndHobo said:

    @CalvinAndHobo said:

    @silvermouse said:
    Why do people buy high and sell low? Greed and fear?

    Going to move this conversation over here out of respect for the meme people. But I've always been fascinated by bitcoin, and the concept of inflation proof money. I've never actually put my money where my mouth is though, so I couldn't tell you why people do that. It is funny though how Jim Cramer is just wrong about everything all the time. He has his own reverse ETF that someone made, where you can invest in it, and it picks the opposite of whatever he says. It's very profitable so far from what I understand.

    I don't know that Bitcoin is in inflation proof currency because I don't know that Bitcoin is inflation proof and I don't think that it's a currency. To me, Bitcoin is like collecting pokémon cards.

    I think that if the US dollar ever falters to the point where it's not a reliable currency, then we're all going to be in the **** bread line man. It's going to be 1929 all over again. I'm not saying we won't get there, I'm just saying that having Bitcoin is probably not going to make your life appreciably better.

    I think that that if you want to inflation proof yourself and protect against some destabilization event, your best bet is probably gold if you can afford it or silver if you can't.

    Pro tip: buy gold and silver that you hold yourself. Don't buy from some broker who's going to keep it in a vault for you because chances are he has sold that same **** piece of gold 26 times over. The piece of paper will be worthless. The easiest way to do this is to go to your local coin shop and buy old quarters and half dollars (silver) for six times the currency price, or gold coins at market price.

    Edit....

    I forgot to add the Bitcoin going from a hundred grand to 97 Grand in a day is not a big deal (Cramer notwithstanding, lol). A chart with a y-axis of 3% makes a 3% loss look devastating. Start that axis at zero and see what the chart looks like. Straight line.

    It's probably still a great investment if you're looking to prospect. I'm guessing that that freaking thing will just keep going up a lot more before the bottom falls out, if it ever does.

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  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Disclaimer:  All trolling is provided for the sole entertainment purposes of the author only. Readers may find entertainment and hard core truths, but none are intended. Any resulting damaged feelings or arse chapping of the reader are the sole responsibility of the reader, to include, but not limited to: crying, anger, revenge pørn, and abandonment or deletion of ccom accounts. Offer void in Utah because Utah is terrible.
  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    🤣🤣 I don’t blame him a bit. He can make more in year eight of college than he will with a rookie contract.

  • CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:

    @CalvinAndHobo said:

    @CalvinAndHobo said:

    @silvermouse said:
    Why do people buy high and sell low? Greed and fear?

    Going to move this conversation over here out of respect for the meme people. But I've always been fascinated by bitcoin, and the concept of inflation proof money. I've never actually put my money where my mouth is though, so I couldn't tell you why people do that. It is funny though how Jim Cramer is just wrong about everything all the time. He has his own reverse ETF that someone made, where you can invest in it, and it picks the opposite of whatever he says. It's very profitable so far from what I understand.

    I don't know that Bitcoin is in inflation proof currency because I don't know that Bitcoin is inflation proof and I don't think that it's a currency. To me, Bitcoin is like collecting pokémon cards.

    I think that if the US dollar ever falters to the point where it's not a reliable currency, then we're all going to be in the **** bread line man. It's going to be 1929 all over again. I'm not saying we won't get there, I'm just saying that having Bitcoin is probably not going to make your life appreciably better.

    I think that that if you want to inflation proof yourself and protect against some destabilization event, your best bet is probably gold if you can afford it or silver if you can't.

    Pro tip: buy gold and silver that you hold yourself. Don't buy from some broker who's going to keep it in a vault for you because chances are he has sold that same **** piece of gold 26 times over. The piece of paper will be worthless. The easiest way to do this is to go to your local coin shop and buy old quarters and half dollars (silver) for six times the currency price, or gold coins at market price.

    Edit....

    I forgot to add the Bitcoin going from a hundred grand to 97 Grand in a day is not a big deal (Cramer notwithstanding, lol). A chart with a y-axis of 3% makes a 3% loss look devastating. Start that axis at zero and see what the chart looks like. Straight line.

    It's probably still a great investment if you're looking to prospect. I'm guessing that that freaking thing will just keep going up a lot more before the bottom falls out, if it ever does.

    Yup we're on the same page. I already have my emergency rainy day money in physical gold that I unfortunately lost in a boating accident. That's the nice thing about being a landlord also though. Whatever we're using for currency in 30 years, I'm still going to get approximately 33% of it from each tenant. There's an incredible peace of mind in that, and not having to worry about recessions or inflation in the same way that everyone else has to. If society drastically changes, then my rent just changes, because people always need a place to live. It's definitely been worth the extra work just for the fact that I don't have to stress about my future like I used to. I have always been fascinated by the concept of inflation though, and how people have to invest their money into things to avoid having it become worthless over time. That's why I bought my place in the first place, instead of just buying a normal house. If there was a risk free way to store value and beat an index fund without putting in any time and energy, then the billionaires would already be doing it.

  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2024

    In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, I am hijacking this thread for college football and as my personal IM to Rusty.. Deal with it.

    @Rdp77 holy crap finishes the championship games. My predictions.

    1. Oregon
    2. Georgia
    3. Boise
    4. AZ State - last bye team
    5. Texas
    6. ND
    7. Ohio State
    8. Tennessee last home game
    9. Penn St
    10. Clemson
    11. SMU - stupid kicker
    12. Indiana

    Out - Alabama

    Texas crushes Indiana
    ND 20 pt win over SMU
    Ohio State 10 point win over Clemson
    Tennessee smokes fake Penn State

    Texas 10 point win over AZ State
    Boise last second win against ND
    Georgia blows out Ryan Day
    Oregon slips by Tennessee

    Georgia smokes Boise
    Oregon kills Texas

    Georgia over Oregon in OT

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  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:
    In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, I am hijacking this thread for college football and as my personal IM to Rusty.. Deal with it.

    @Rdp77 holy crap finishes the championship games. My predictions.

    1. Oregon
    2. Georgia
    3. Boise
    4. AZ State - last bye team
    5. Texas
    6. ND
    7. Ohio State
    8. Tennessee last home game
    9. Penn St
    10. Clemson
    11. SMU - stupid kicker
    12. Indiana

    Out - Alabama

    Texas crushes Indiana
    ND 20 pt win over SMU
    Ohio State 10 point win over Clemson
    Tennessee smokes fake Penn State

    Texas 10 point win over AZ State
    Boise last second win against ND
    Georgia blows out Ryan Day
    Oregon slips by Tennessee

    Georgia smokes Boise
    Oregon kills Texas

    Georgia over Oregon in OT

    After Penn States showing tonight against Oregon, do you still think they are fake? I think not. Out-coached, yes, fake and overrated, no.

  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank I can see the rankings playing out like that. Only thing is that I wonder if they’ll let SMU and Indiana both in.

    Don’t forget Georgia lost their QB. He could be healed up by then I guess.

    It’s gonna be fun either way.

  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TRayB said:

    @VegasFrank said:
    In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, I am hijacking this thread for college football and as my personal IM to Rusty.. Deal with it.

    @Rdp77 holy crap finishes the championship games. My predictions.

    1. Oregon
    2. Georgia
    3. Boise
    4. AZ State - last bye team
    5. Texas
    6. ND
    7. Ohio State
    8. Tennessee last home game
    9. Penn St
    10. Clemson
    11. SMU - stupid kicker
    12. Indiana

    Out - Alabama

    Texas crushes Indiana
    ND 20 pt win over SMU
    Ohio State 10 point win over Clemson
    Tennessee smokes fake Penn State

    Texas 10 point win over AZ State
    Boise last second win against ND
    Georgia blows out Ryan Day
    Oregon slips by Tennessee

    Georgia smokes Boise
    Oregon kills Texas

    Georgia over Oregon in OT

    After Penn States showing tonight against Oregon, do you still think they are fake? I think not. Out-coached, yes, fake and overrated, no.

    Overrated? Yes. What quality wins do they have this season to garner a #3 ranking?

  • TRayBTRayB Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:

    @TRayB said:

    @VegasFrank said:
    In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, I am hijacking this thread for college football and as my personal IM to Rusty.. Deal with it.

    @Rdp77 holy crap finishes the championship games. My predictions.

    1. Oregon
    2. Georgia
    3. Boise
    4. AZ State - last bye team
    5. Texas
    6. ND
    7. Ohio State
    8. Tennessee last home game
    9. Penn St
    10. Clemson
    11. SMU - stupid kicker
    12. Indiana

    Out - Alabama

    Texas crushes Indiana
    ND 20 pt win over SMU
    Ohio State 10 point win over Clemson
    Tennessee smokes fake Penn State

    Texas 10 point win over AZ State
    Boise last second win against ND
    Georgia blows out Ryan Day
    Oregon slips by Tennessee

    Georgia smokes Boise
    Oregon kills Texas

    Georgia over Oregon in OT

    After Penn States showing tonight against Oregon, do you still think they are fake? I think not. Out-coached, yes, fake and overrated, no.

    Overrated? Yes. What quality wins do they have this season to garner a #3 ranking?

    8-1 Big 10 record, only loss by one score to then #4 in the country, and loss in the Big 10 championship by one score to #1 team in the country. Name another team with such credentials.

  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Still didn’t answer my question.

  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Indiana. Only loss to then #2 team

  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,429 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TRayB said:

    @Rdp77 said:

    @TRayB said:

    @VegasFrank said:
    In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, I am hijacking this thread for college football and as my personal IM to Rusty.. Deal with it.

    @Rdp77 holy crap finishes the championship games. My predictions.

    1. Oregon
    2. Georgia
    3. Boise
    4. AZ State - last bye team
    5. Texas
    6. ND
    7. Ohio State
    8. Tennessee last home game
    9. Penn St
    10. Clemson
    11. SMU - stupid kicker
    12. Indiana

    Out - Alabama

    Texas crushes Indiana
    ND 20 pt win over SMU
    Ohio State 10 point win over Clemson
    Tennessee smokes fake Penn State

    Texas 10 point win over AZ State
    Boise last second win against ND
    Georgia blows out Ryan Day
    Oregon slips by Tennessee

    Georgia smokes Boise
    Oregon kills Texas

    Georgia over Oregon in OT

    After Penn States showing tonight against Oregon, do you still think they are fake? I think not. Out-coached, yes, fake and overrated, no.

    Overrated? Yes. What quality wins do they have this season to garner a #3 ranking?

    8-1 Big 10 record, only loss by one score to then #4 in the country, and loss in the Big 10 championship by one score to #1 team in the country. Name another team with such credentials.

    Lol no quality wins. Aller is smalltime in big-time situations. Never beat OSU or Michigan in his career. "One score loss" against both teams was bigger than the score indicated in both. If I were the committee I wouldn't give them a home game. Not over OSU. ND, Texas or Tennessee, all with top 15 wins on resume. 9 is their ceiling for the seeding IMO.

    Disclaimer:  All trolling is provided for the sole entertainment purposes of the author only. Readers may find entertainment and hard core truths, but none are intended. Any resulting damaged feelings or arse chapping of the reader are the sole responsibility of the reader, to include, but not limited to: crying, anger, revenge pørn, and abandonment or deletion of ccom accounts. Offer void in Utah because Utah is terrible.
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