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[Vesper 30,233]

Trump Demands Cut of Donations to Down-Ballot Republicans Who Use His Name: Report

The former president’s campaign sent a letter to vendors demanding a cut of any candidate donations that use his name or likeness

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-demands-cut-donations-down-ballot-republicans-1235006262/

 

 

FLEECING HIS SUPPORTERS is not enough for Donald Trump, who is now asking down-ballot 2024 Republican candidates to fork over a portion of their fundraising if they use his name and likeness in their campaign. 

According to Politico, the Trump campaign sent a letter to vendors informing them that “all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC.” 

“Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations,” the letter added. 

Trump by no means lacks fundraising revenue, but he is spending mountains of cash on the slew of civil and criminal cases against him. The former president has been leveraging his various trials as a motivator for small donor donations, but according to Federal Election Commission filings released earlier this week, he brought in $75 million less than President Joe Biden’s campaign in the first quarter of 2024.

The letter demonstrates how fixated the Trump campaign is on ensuring that political donations in any way linked to Trump make it directly to the campaign’s coffers. The notice includes a series of guidelines for vendors listing fundraising tactics they should avoid, including speaking on behalf of President Trump, mentioning the president’s family without their consent or the consent of the campaign, and even “copying the language or style from President Trump’s fundraising solicitations.” 

As Trump barrels toward officially becoming the Republican 2024 nominee, he’s counting on the backing of the Republican National Committee to help manage the load of his legal expenses. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was installed as co-chair of the RNC in March and has already indicated that she’s perfectly willing to let her father-in-law raid the committee’s accounts.  

Given that the Trump campaign name-checked the RNC in their letter requesting a cut of other Republicans’ fundraising, it seems the GOP’s nominating committee is comfortable with their presumptive nominee collecting a tithe from his fellow candidates. Trump Demands Cut of Donations to Down-Ballot Republicans Who Use His Name: Report

[cosmicway 1,333]

WITH THE DEAD UNCLE TO THE BANK

Extraordinary how this woman failed to perform this simple scam.
Just a little bit of practice was needed.
You place the pen between the fingers and you help it move and trace the signature on the paper and that's it.
Instead she is short of pretending to talk to the corpse for miniutes to divert attention but she gets spotted
and the police take her away. Useless !

 

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,335]

Just watched parents sobbing, breaking down as their kids playing table football were murdered. 7 year old girl with head missing. Well done brave IDF, winning hearts and minds.

[cosmicway 1,333]

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REPLACE MAN ?

I am convinced now that both Tories - Labour - Liberals - others are on their way out.
The future is artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is wirh us for one century or more now, but in the form of master-slave configuration,
Now it's time for artificial intelligence to do it's coming out.

I believe that a few years from now artificial intelligence robots will rule.
They will be saying to Sunak - Starmer and other such characters "pssst boy, go and get us the orange drinks".

Eventually they will replace us of course.
Their political system ? It's a question mark - they will decide.

Why do you think you are different from artificial intelligence ?
I remember in my first grade in primary school the teacher asked as to make an artificial satellite model
using plasticine and toothpicks. Somehow I did n't get the idea properly. I made a rectangular shape 
and the toothpicks formed a grid inside the rectangular shape. But the idea was to make the plasticine 
into a ball and then just stick the toothpicks on it to look like antennas.
The artificial satellites were all the rage at the time because the Soviets had launched the Sputnik with
Laika into space.
Now by the same token we may try to program a robot to go to the newsagent to buy the newspapers.
The robot will stumble on the steps trying to exit the house and fall flat on its face. Terrible !
But on the second-third-fourth trial he is going to make it, bring the newspapers.

So you see it's trial and error.
The so called  "preceived images" (I don't know how you might call it).
It's the same as me giving you an exercise in trigonometry.
What will happen ?
One possibility is you saw this exact same thing before - you write down the answer.
Another is you know zilch about trigonometry, you return a blank sheet of paper.
But yet another is the "perceived images" will guide you towards the solution.
Artificial intelligence already can do that - use "perceived images".

So there can be no question about it.
AI rules.
Labour - Conservatives - all the rest are on their way out.
But AI is destined to rule the configuration space as well.






 

 

 

Edited April 22, 2024 by cosmicway

[lucio 5,418]

44 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REPLACE MAN ?

I am convinced now that both Tories - Labour - Liberals - others are on their way out.
The future is artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is wirh us for one century or more now, but in the form of master-slave configuration,
Now it's time for artificial intelligence to do it's coming out.

I believe that a few years from now artificial intelligence robots will rule.
They will be saying to Sunak - Starmer and other such characters "pssst boy, go and get us the orange drinks".

Eventually they will replace us of course.
Their political system ? It's a question mark - they will decide.

Why do you think you are different from artificial intelligence ?
I remember in my first grade in primary school the teacher asked as to make an artificial satellite model
using plasticine and toothpicks. Somehow I did n't get the idea properly. I made a rectangular shape 
and the toothpicks formed a grid inside the rectangular shape. But the idea was to make the plasticine 
into a ball and then just stick the toothpicks on it to look like antennas.
The artificial satellites were all the rage at the time because the Soviets had launched the Sputnik with
Laika into space.
Now by the same token we may try to program a robot to go to the newsagent to buy the newspapers.
The robot will stumble on the steps trying to exit the house and fall flat on its face. Terrible !
But on the second-third-fourth trial he is going to make it, bring the newspapers.

So you see it's trial and error.
The so called  "preceived images" (I don't know how you might call it).
It's the same as me giving you an exercise in trigonometry.
What will happen ?
One possibility is you saw this exact same thing before - you write down the answer.
Another is you know zilch about trigonometry, you return a blank sheet of paper.
But yet another is the "perceived images" will guide you towards the solution.
Artificial intelligence already can do that - use "perceived images".

So there can be no question about it.
AI rules.
Labour - Conservatives - all the rest are on their way out.
But AI is destined to rule the configuration space as well.






 

 

 

people will rise up and kill the computer nerds who make this AI cringe 

[robsblubot 3,595]

The discussions around AI are IMO extremely premature. The problems discussed today are several decades in the future (maybe 100 years+?).

The problems AI brings today, as in the immediate future, are the very same any automation produces: cheap (and not so cheap soon) jobs vanish at an alarming rate. And the liars on the right here blame immigration for that. The left ignores the problem, because it's a difficult one to tackle (esp politically).

"Tony Stark : I'm gonna stop you right there, Scott. Are you seriously telling me that your plan to save the universe is based on "Back to the Future?"

 Who'd have thought Exterminator franchise causing long-term damage 😄

Go back and read the predictions on AI and Robotics from very smart sci-fi authors (I've read a bunch growing up), some were physicists too!, and how much they got wrong (almost all of it). 

Edited April 22, 2024 by robsblubot

[Vesper 30,233]

12 hours ago, robsblubot said:

The problems discussed today are several decades in the future (maybe 100 years+?).

you seemingly do not understand a basic exponential growth curve then 

 or  (where the argument x is written as an exponent)

 

nor apparently the concept of generativeness

[cosmicway 1,333]

13 hours ago, lucio said:

people will rise up and kill the computer nerds who make this AI cringe 

Why ?
When you go to the bank and it's 5 past 3 and the doors automatically close do you break them ?
The robots will not turn hostile (maybe at some final stage they will).
Also they will have people as frontmen.

[Vesper 30,233]

12 hours ago, lucio said:

people will rise up and kill the computer nerds who make this AI cringe 

the genie is already out of the bottle m8

there are obviously multiple points in history where you can say the threat started

but to narrow it down I would draw a line under November 30, 2022

that is when ChatGPT, the first remotely truly powerful (and yet embryonic compared to what is to come) chatbot was released into the open, interconnective ecosphere

humankind is already being so affected and manipulated by AI, but again, it is nothing comapred to what is to come

[Vesper 30,233]

let me re-post this basic intro on some of the dangers of generative AI

 

Mo Gawdat is the Former Chief Business Officer of Google X Development

X Development LLC, doing business as X (formerly Google X), is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010.

[cosmicway 1,333]

The jobs that vanish is an old story.
The neighbourhood typist is one.
Last time I visited one was in 1982, a little before the home line printer. My father gave me some documents he wanted typed.
Funny thing that happened that day was this:
The typist had a stack of papers on the next table. While she was typing I said "you need those ? I want them as scrap paper". She says "ok - take them".
Then I read the back side and it was a list of shops of the neighbourhood as compiled in the local PASOK party headquarters. In it the various shopkeepers were described as "reactionaries", "exponents of the right" and such names. The PASOK party was fresh in government, in its pre-USA days.

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

You can't say that AI is per se hostile.
But it may be superior.
If you are against AI you are also against modern football systems and you want WM to come back.

[Fulham Broadway 17,335]

Never mind about Artificial Intelligence, some real intelligence would be good

[Vesper 30,233]

to put it simply, very simply

at this moment AI, through social media and other architectures (both electronic and human) is ramping up FUD in humankind

FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

Look suppose I give you a horse race card.
You need to spend one-two hours to work out the form.
But AI can do it at the push of a button.
Of course if you go to the races and hang around there is hanky panky business going on you can sniff and it's better than form analysis.
But form analysis is a necessary prerequisite and if AI does it for you, you must be pretty archaic not to use.

Edited April 23, 2024 by cosmicway

[robsblubot 3,595]

28 minutes ago, Vesper said:

you seemingly do not understand a basic exponential growth curve then 

 or  (where the argument x is written as an exponent)

 

nor apparently the concept of generativeness

I don’t know many things, but these are pretty familiar to me especially exponential growth, given it’s something that pertains my daily work. Many algos have exponential growth relative to the dataset.

generativeness I learned when I was 15 when I studied a stupid language called prolog, which was supposed to be the AI language — ML engines were all written in C despite the promises.

These predictions are BS and that’s an opinion—no facts here. It’s actually pretty fucking ironic that an event so unique and new is so easy to predict (and far into the future) by your friendly YouTuber.

the jobs will exponentially vanish tho. Industrial Revolution on steroids.

[cosmicway 1,333]

5 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

I don’t know many things, but these are pretty familiar to me especially exponential growth, given it’s something that pertains my daily work. Many algos have exponential growth relative to the dataset.

generativeness I learned when I was 15 when I studied a stupid language called prolog, which was supposed to be the AI language — ML engines were all written in C despite the promises.

These predictions are BS and that’s an opinion—no facts here. It’s actually pretty fucking ironic that an event so unique and new is so easy to predict (and far into the future) by your friendly YouTuber.

the jobs will exponentially vanish tho. Industrial Revolution on steroids.

What he means is the rate at which civilization is progressing.
Suppose year 1924 to year 2024 counts as one unit.
Then 1824 to 1924 how many units ? 
Let's say one unit again.
But as we go back the units per one hundred years definitely get smaller.
So the Romans of 300 AD were really better than the Macedonians of 200 BC ? I doubt it.
The earliest finds of human activity are 3 million years old and it looks as if there is some exponential growth.

Edited April 23, 2024 by cosmicway

[Vesper 30,233]

Just now, robsblubot said:

I don’t know many things, but these are pretty familiar to me especially exponential growth, given it’s something that pertains my daily work. Many algos have exponential growth relative to the dataset.

generativeness I learned when I was 15 when I studied a stupid language called prolog, which was supposed to be the AI language — ML engines were all written in C despite the promises.

These predictions are BS and that’s an opinion—no facts here. It’s actually pretty fucking ironic that an event so unique and new is so easy to predict (and far into the future) by your friendly YouTuber.

the jobs will exponentially vanish tho. Industrial Revolution on steroids.

to blithely dismiss one of the fairly central architects in re AI developmental roll-out as 'your freindly YouTuber' says far more about you than me

but let's take it up a notch in terms of centrality to AI as a whole and see why Geoffrey Hinton is worried about the future of AI

Geoffrey Hinton, known to many as the “Godfather of AI,” recently made headlines around the world after leaving his job at Google to speak more freely about the risks posed by unchecked development of artificial intelligence, including popular tools like ChatGPT and Google’s PaLM. Why does he believe digital intelligence could hold an advantage over biological intelligence? How did he suddenly arrive at this conclusion after a lifetime of work in the field? Most importantly, what – if anything – can be done to safeguard the future of humanity? The University of Toronto University Professor Emeritus addresses these questions and more in The Godfather in Conversation.

00:00 Intro
01:03 Digital intelligence
02:27 Biological intelligence
03:47 Why worry?
04:39 Machine learning
07:07 Neural Nets
13:22 Neural nets and language
17:18 Challenges
18:49 Breakthrough moment
20:41 AlexNet
24:35 Pace of Innovation
26:04 ChatGPT
27:46 Public Reaction
29:49 Benefits for society
33:25 Pace of innovation
35:48 Sudden realization
37:13 Role of government
40:08 Big tech
42:32 Advice to researchers
43:50 Understanding risk
45:20 What’s next?

 

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

One yardstick for AI could be the Putnam exam (US maths Olympiad).
I don't have any pure calculus books here - left them in Egnland - but I can barely solve one problem, usually none.
If AI can do the Putnam paper then it wins over human intelligence.
The rest is trivial - just attach some limbs to it so it can walk, use screwdrivers etc.

Edited April 23, 2024 by cosmicway

[Vesper 30,233]

6 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

What he means is the rate at which civilization is progressing.

She (if you were referring to me) and I meant exponential rate of growth in the computational and learning power of generative AI, not human civilisation.

The pace of AI development is exponential, with performance doubling every few months. This trend, known as Moore’s Law, has held steady for AI just as it has for computer processing power. Each new generation of AI algorithms is smarter and more capable than the last.

Moore's law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of physics, it is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production.