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There's an easy sentence to learn: "AI doesn't help."

It's only three words (or four if you want to be pedantic) long. And it is true so often that the very few times it isn't true are a trivial statistical quirk.

I'm hammering out a set of solo RP oracles for actual publication. The first two (of four) are completed as of today.

Yeah, you have to be really careful who you choose as a travel partner. Bad partners destroy any trip.

The dealership in our case was fine. They even apologized profusely for that Albertan service centre's behaviour. But if the core company is vile, I don't buy their products. Neither my parents nor I bought a Chrysler ever since. My father bought two Toyotas and a Nissan. I bought a Pontiac and an Acura. My stepfather buys Nissan only. To his dying day my father refused to even look at a Chrysler as an option. They made literal life-long enemies with that.

If u break your leg - is hospital going to turn u away?

They will do the minimum amount of care to stabilize you and if you can't pay, send you away.

If u don’t have insurance - are u going to owe 200k for broken leg?

Not 200K. Not even in RMB. A broken leg will be a few hundred. But yes, if you do not have insurance you're paying.

If you cant pay for treatment - do they take your house?

If you can't pay for treatment you may just die. A student of mine got hit by a bus and took tremendous head trauma. The surgery for this was 30,000RMB. He was from the countryside so he and his family didn't have 30,000 RMB. He got no treatment beyond basic stabilization until his classmates and teachers gathered up a substantial portion of that 30,000. Then they saved his life.

In. That. Order.

I think u maybe confused about what universal health care is.

I think you may have no clue what you're talking about vis a vis China.

Now all that being said, if you're employed at all, by anybody, anywhere, you automatically have health insurance, mandated by law. And, being state-run insurance firms, they're not the utter steaming shitpile that American "health insurance" is. But if you're not employed, or if you're self-employed, you either get insurance on your own, or you pay out of pocket. There is no universal health care.

P.S.

An AMERICAN telling a CANADIAN that she doesn't know what universal health care is is hilarious. Also, an American telling someone who's been living in China for almost a quarter of a century how China really works is even more hilarious.

What's next? Are you going to tell me what the city of Wuhan is really like?

Oh, we had emergency supplies. And plenty of warm clothing. But yeah, it was something that could easily have gone totally pear-shaped.

In the '80s my family piled into our brand new (maybe two months old) Plymouth Caravelle for the long trek from central Saskatchewan (Regina) to northern B.C. (Prince George) to get to a family Christmas gathering.

In the middle of nowhere, during a mild snowstorm, the transmission just stopped. The engine worked fine. Everything in the car worked fine. Except the transmission. So in the middle of nowhere, and in the middle of the Christmas season (this becomes important) we were stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Now thankfully the engine worked, so we could keep the car heated. And the gas tank was full so it would be a long time before we'd face actual cold. My mother and I, thus, were left in the car while my dad bundled up and started walking to the nearest town (according to the map) to get help. His idea was to hitch-hike, actually, but ... Christmas. There was no traffic. So for hours my mother and I sat in the car getting increasingly worried as the sky darkened before, finally, we saw headlights off in the distance in the direction my dad had disappeared in.

It was a tow truck. My father had reached the town, found out that no tow truck operators were even in town and had to get someone to drive him to the NEXT town to find a place that had a tow truck in operation. We got hooked up and pulled onto the flatbed and driven to where the nearest Chrysler service centre was.

Now it's indisputable that we were under warranty. The car was two months old. If we'd driven non-stop for the entire time we'd not be anywhere near out of warranty yet, but this didn't stop the Chrysler guys from trying to deny us warranty service. (There were complicated reasons for this caused by Chrysler's bizarre incentive structures for service.) It got to the point of my father calling a lawyer and just as that conversation started the service centre collapsed and decided to do the service as required. AND supply the loaner vehicle (which was a New Yorker because that's all they had on the lot at the time).

It took a while for it to sink in that had the engine failed we'd likely have been either dead or seriously hurt by the cold.

I've never even looked at a Chrysler product after that. Not just because a brand new car failed so utterly (shit happens) but because the company's shenanigans around service are simply unacceptable … and I do not forget, nor forgive, such behaviour.

China does not have universal health care (if that's what "uhc" means).

Source: I live here.

If your intent as a group of players is to TPK, then obviously that's not a failure. (If you don't TPK with Paranoia for example, you dun fucked up.)

But if you're playing just an ordinary game without explicitly stating in advance that TPKs are the goal, it's a failure of GMing, IMO.

I did something with Perplexity as a test. I asked it a complicated question (which it botched because despite being "search-driven" it searches like a grandma using Google for the first time, and I mean the current slop-based Google). After giving it more information to finally get the right topic, I started asking questions designed to elicit a conclusion. Which it gave. And it gives you the little box saying what steps it's supposedly following while it works.

Then I asked it to describe the processes it used to reach its conclusion.

Guess which of these occurred:

1. The box describing the steps it was following matched the description of the process at the end.
2. The two items were so badly mismatched it was like two different AIs were describing a process they'd heard about over a broken phone line.

Edited to add:

I was out of the number of "advanced searches" I'm allowed on the free tier, so I did this manually.

Here is a conversation illustrating what I'm talking about.

Note that I asked it twice directly, and once indirectly, to explain its thinking processes. Also note that:

• Each time it gave different explanations (radically different!).
• Each time it came up with similar, but not the same, conclusions.
• When I called it out at the end it once again described the "process" it used ... but as you can likely guess from the differences in previous descriptions it's making even that part up!

"Reasoning" AI is absolutely lying and absolutely hallucinating even its own processes. It can't be trusted any more than autocorrect. It cannot understand anything which means it cannot reason.

Seems like none of these refer to information lookup services but to generative ai

I use Google search, gemini, and local llms of various models.

THIS is why I'm so fucking pissed at people like you.

You can't even keep your stories straight from one post to another. You hallucinate more than all the LLMs of the world put together.

So, I put up my receipts for the claim that this shit is making you weaker. As far as I'm concerned, especially with your little instant-contradiction thing here, that pretty much establishes that you're full of shit.

...and assuming I am an ai bro...

Oh, my. Someone coming to "Fuck AI" and defending AI for absurd amounts of time, who ignores evidence provided to counter his claims about the benefits of AI ... why would anybody identify this as an aibrodude?

It's a mystery.

But it's not one that's going to be solved with any more of my fucking time.

I mean there is an art form where you just take cut up elements of art (photos of eyes, face portions, etc.) and carefully paste them together into a piece of art. And that's still art. Because an artist actually thought about these elements, took them, pasted them, all for specific effect. (And like all arts there's good exemplars and bad ones.) Someone doing the same thing with random pieces kinda/sorta thrown together isn't making art, however.

AI picture generators are like the latter one: just taking random pieces of shit, and sticking them together. It is not making them for specific effect because it doesn't know what specific effect even MEANS. It pairs certain collections of picture elements with certain words, randomly throws them together without any regard for the whole, and slops that onto the screen.

Which is why you get bizarre incoherences like belts not continuing when a strand of hair crosses over top, say, or buttons that button nothing in random locations, or the infamous cthonic fingers of doom. There's no comprehension.

The good news is that this round of AI hype and broken promises is speed-running the curve to irrelevance.

Weird.

I tend to view any TPK as the failure of GMing.

It's a pity you were banned. It prevents me from having the pleasure of blocking an obvious troll and idiot account.

If you've sold them your voice under the condition they can do whatever they like with it, I don't see it being unethical. You walked into it informed (presumably) and accepted the "pennies" (presumably). It may be stupid. What comes out may be shit. But it's not "unethical".

If they stole your voice, or if you had content limits that they breached, or if they're paying you less than you agreed for, then yes, it's unethical.

Oh for FUCK'S SAKE!

Stop playing fucking coy. FUCKING NAME your "information lookup services" that are AI powered but not LLMs.

(Hint: they're probably LLMs under the covers, and thus have all the problems that said papers are referencing. But you already know that and are just desperately clinging to the fictitious world you inhabit where "AI", as it is commonly understood to refer to today, is a good thing.)

Compassionate fucking BUDDHA are your kind fucking wearisome to deal with!

So name it. Or shut the fuck up.

Yeah, sorry. I've seen so many people say what you said unironically I reacted with my almost-boilerplate response immediately. My bad.

Someone doesn't know what a logo is for, I see.

Yes, actually, they do. It took me literally SECONDS to find this:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

And that wasn't even the one I was looking for. The one I was looking for I found about a minute later:

• https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-linked-eroding-critical-skills.html

I guess you should have asked ChatGPT to find that for you.