Vasily Ingogly

Career coach for mid/late-career pros navigating AI disruption | 35 yrs software eng + clinical/coaching credentials | The Agile Roadmap | DM or site for info

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@shellenberger It's called hype, and the hard AI types have become experts at dishing it out over the past sixty years. Don't fall for it.

"Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do."

-- Herbert Simon, 1965

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@nicksortor As a retired clinical counselor, I ask you please to stop using the term "retards". It's a juvenile insult, and hurtful to parents of mentally challenged children.

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@GreenvilleNews Good for them -- but all seven cities are a long way from Greenville.

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@AlchemyAmerican @michaelshermer Thanks much for the summary. No offense, but I have no interest in watching the video and watching Shermer bloviate. My blood pressure's under control, and I need to keep it that way. ;)

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Levi, if you know something and see someone who is asking a sincere question, you have two choices: insult them to demonstrate your own "superiority", or respond by sharing your knowledge to help them out. There's way too much of the former in the UAP community, way too many people who think insult and attack are the way to build a reputation online. It does, but not the kind you think.

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That’s not how AIs work. They doesn’t monitor your PC/Mac through cookies or watch what’s happening on your device. They only have access to what you type, upload, connect through approved integrations, or explicitly allow through tool/app permissions. Privacy risks are real (and are controlled by the way you set up the AI), but “it’s watching your computer via cookies” is not accurate.

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I'm using AI for a number of large projects (up to several hours a day), so I find it essential to have it know a lot about me. And I've been using the internet since the early '80s, so there's information on me going back that far. As others point out, it knows about the info you've revealed in chats. That includes files you've uploaded in chats, and added to projects online under your account. But it does not have access to files on your computer unless you grant it access with a tool like Google NotebookLM or AnythingLLM. And it's not monitoring your every move on your computer.

To provide access to files on your computer (i.e., have your own AI searchable database for your own files), a great solution is AnythingLLM which a local AI workspace tool. Instead of giving an AI access to your whole computer, you create a workspace, add selected research files, and let the AI search those files using retrieval-augmented generation. For maximum privacy, pair it with a local model such as Ollama or LM Studio.

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@dorawhite47 Only 0.5% of the earth's water is available fresh water. The rest is inaccessible or undrinkable.

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@t_martin4754 @hokkori_buzz A ridiculous and groundless claim. What's your proof other than your personal dislike of conservatives?

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Thank you for your kind words, and for the love the Japanese have shown to us. I'm 79 years old, and recall with fondness every Japanese person I've met in my life: the Peruvian Japanese coworker whose family (Japanese-American citizens) was deported to Peru when he was a baby, and who returned to the U.S. as an adult; the Japanese country western banjo player who loved our country music and lived in the apartment complex where I rented in college; the Japanese classmate in grad school who became a good friend and shared the box of treats her parents sent her from Japan with the members of the class we shared; and others. The war was a long time ago, and today, the Americans and Japanese should be friends and partners.

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I finished my undergraduate degree in 1973 at the University of Iowa. There was a Japanese student in my apartment building who would play his banjo in the common area, and he was a dedicated fan of American blue grass music. He had a big collection of blue grass and country music albums.

There was a blue grass band that played at my favorite local restaurant. My friend would go down there with his banjo and sit in with the band; they used to call out to him "I see Bluegrass Mike from Tokyo's here; come on up and join us."

Thanks so much for remembering us on our 250th birthday.

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@Debriefmedia It's a product of erosion, called honeycomb rock. We have it here on Earth. https://t.co/QrPJDYYsWJ

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Anyone (including Rep. Boebert) who thinks humans and aliens from another star or "dimension" (whatever that means) can interbreed needs to take a few courses on genetics and evolutionary theory. The mechanisms for genetic information transmission are contingent, and it's impossible that a thing from another evolutionary process could interbreed with anything from our evolutionary process. It's the same here on Earth: the older the last common ancestor for two species are, the less likely interbreeding is. That's why human DNA can't combine with slime mold DNA. Combining alien and human genetic material would be like wiring a radio from the 1930s into your smart television's electronics and wondering why it doesn't do anything.

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I suspect there are at least three major things going on: unknown natural phenomena (red sprites and blue jets weren't discovered and described until 1989), so-called interdimensional intelligences (however you choose to interpret that), and nuts-and-bolts NHI tech that is so far beyond our current abilities or understanding it looks like magic to us (good luck reverse engineering that stuff -- send an iPhone back in time to Leonardo da Vinci and see how far he gets with it).

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@TheProjectUnity And I had a dream two nights ago that I was a famous scientist and one of Trump's advisors.

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@Sardoche_Lol @Fury_Remy You can tell it's a parallax effect by watching the two figures: they're also moving but at a much slower rate.

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@I_D_Official Happy birthday, Richard! Many years!

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Every creator of a newage cult and the predecessors of the new age like the Unity Church and Theosophical Society has been preaching the same feelgood stuff since the days when Gnosticism raised its ugly head in the intertestamental period. Salvation without pain. Christ said: Pick up your cross and follow me. I'll guess Bledsoe's "Lady" never told him that. We have a name for this spiritual delusion in the Orthodox Church: prelest. Bledsoe is just another would-be prophet with a feel-good message. I'll find my salvation the hard way.

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@Neil__Goodman @TheUfoJoe In the business world, it's called delegating something that you believe is not worth your time to one of your reports. Even if he is interested, there's other stuff on his plate that takes priority.

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@The_Astral_ One commits "suicide". The second disappears and can't be found. The third has a "heart attack" and dies.