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#3103228 12-Jul-2023 14:45

neb: In technical terms the older memory-as-VCR model

When I was a kid, it was a VTR, not a VCR! It seems that VTR is still the name in Japan, and we probably had a Japanese machine (I want to say it was a "National" which I believe is Panasonic).

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#3103233 12-Jul-2023 14:59

gzt: The 4K effect for me. I watched a travel video walking in first person to a landmark I've never been to.

And as you get older you get the car key effect and the glasses effect: I absolutely remember putting my car keys/glasses right there, I can describe it in some detail, but now they're not there any more...

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#3103234 12-Jul-2023 15:00

neb: And that's not getting into the stuff experimental psychologists have done, like getting people to clearly remember and describe in some detail things that never happened..

Coincidentally this is exactly what you would get reliably from a silicon LLM lifeform on the witness stand today aka hallucination.

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#3103236 12-Jul-2023 15:02

gzt:
neb: And that's not getting into the stuff experimental psychologists have done, like getting people to clearly remember and describe in some detail things that never happened..

Coincidentally this is exactly what you would get reliably from a silicon LLM lifeform on the witness stand today aka hallucination.

My God, they're even closer to being human than I thought!

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#3103586 13-Jul-2023 10:53

neb:
gzt:
Coincidentally this is exactly what you would get reliably from a silicon LLM lifeform on the witness stand today aka hallucination.
My God, they're even closer to being human than I thought!

intelligence: ĭn-tĕl′ə-jəns noun

The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge make up credible shit.

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#3104820 16-Jul-2023 17:09

On a product: "A proud New Zealand manufacturer".

The next line: "Made in Indonesia".

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#3104822 16-Jul-2023 17:16

Behodar:

On a product: "A proud New Zealand manufacturer".

The next line: "Made in Indonesia".

Hehe - " we make something - money mostly ! "

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3104848 16-Jul-2023 19:48

To keep an "Amaz "ing order busy, I ordered a kilo of Italian coffee in the hope that it would all be delivered together in one parcel (I have this option as a default setting, as I prefer to wait for economic reasons). What happens? The whole delivery was split into 3 parts and the Italian coffee, which is also available here in Germany, is on its way from SPAIN via Prime (I am not a Prime member)!

You certainly don't have to follow an ideology to realise that this is complete madness. I don't need Italian coffee delivered from Spain just because it's 23 ct Euro a kilo cheaper. I will draw my consequences (for Amazon) and buy more locally - the coffee beans alone have travelled far enough.

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet. - He who knows nothing must believe everything.
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In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.

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#3104850 16-Jul-2023 19:57

Behodar:

On a product: "A proud New Zealand manufacturer".

The next line: "Made in Indonesia".

The term manufacturer is derived from the Latin word for hand = manus - i.e. manual labour. I'm just wondering what the manual labour is about that ... hehehe. 😉

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet. - He who knows nothing must believe everything.
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#3104859 16-Jul-2023 20:31

Behodar:

On a product: "A proud New Zealand manufacturer".

The next line: "Made in Indonesia".

Talk about gaming the system

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Produced in Romania

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#3104862 16-Jul-2023 20:49

Tinkerisk:

To keep an "Amaz "ing order busy, I ordered a kilo of Italian coffee in the hope that it would all be delivered together in one parcel (I have this option as a default setting, as I prefer to wait for economic reasons). What happens? The whole delivery was split into 3 parts and the Italian coffee, which is also available here in Germany, is on its way from SPAIN via Prime (I am not a Prime member)!

You certainly don't have to follow an ideology to realise that this is complete madness. I don't need Italian coffee delivered from Spain just because it's 23 ct Euro a kilo cheaper. I will draw my consequences (for Amazon) and buy more locally - the coffee beans alone have travelled far enough.

Electronics suppliers are the worse IME. I made an order from Arrow, about $200 of stuff to get free shipping. They shipped it in five different shipments. Three came from the same city in the US (not sure if same warehouse), shipped on the same day. One of those had a total value of US $1.32.

Shipped FedEx International Priority, of course.

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#3104863 16-Jul-2023 20:49

I pick random products on Supermarket shopping day, and play "guess where it is really made, and where the ingredients come from"!

Amazing the lengths NZ Companies go to to "pull the wool over your eyes"!!!

Especially when the only thing they did in NZ was give it a NZ barcode and distribute it!

Also amazing the number of NZ Companies who no longer manufacture in NZ, import the finished product but "trade on" being a NZ Company!

Diamond Pasta is a good example. (Visited their factory in Timaru when they actually made it here in NZ)

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#3104870 16-Jul-2023 21:44

ANglEAUT:
Macy & Taylor snack artisans

New Zealand owned & operated
PO Box in Queensland, Australia
Produced in Romania

The local random dairy/Four Square had some Slavica Bakery raisin biscuits. Made in Ukraine (!!).

I do actually support that one.

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#3104969 17-Jul-2023 10:59

Yesterday a car drove into me, and instead of getting out of their car to check for damage to either my car or me, they took off.

I was unable to follow due to heavy traffic at the time.

But not to worry, I have it all on my dashcam.

I've just returned from the local police station, they aren't interested.

As I wasn't injured, they don't want to know.

This is how you reduce crime stats, refuse to let people report them in the first place.

Delete cookies?! Are you insane?!

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#3104989 17-Jul-2023 11:39

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