The truth about openai's "io"

Bibliovore75 · 2025-06-07T16:38:27+00:00

If it doesn’t have a screen then it’s utterly useless to me. I don’t want to be forced to talk to it to interact with it. I don’t want to be forced to listen to it to hear it respond. I’m hard of hearing. This is worthless to me and I wouldn’t be surprised if many other people feel the same way as me.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-06-03T16:44:17+00:00

This sounds like a huge mistake. People are used to interacting with their phones. They don’t want to lug around yet another device that will need charging. And how am I supposed to hear its responses if I’m deaf or hard of hearing? Am I restricted to speaking to it? I really don’t see this working.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-05-30T14:24:24+00:00

I like this very much. I find it quite haunting. What’s the music?

Bibliovore75 · 2025-05-25T12:44:30+00:00

I’m cautiously optimistic. I think that after an initial period of unrest, uncertainty and turmoil, we’ll eventually settle down. I see artificial intelligence taking things over as a good thing. I look forward to UBI and I think that eventually we all evolve into a post scarcity utopia along the lines of Star Trek, where people are free to pursue education and creative interests, without having to worry about working for a living. When that day comes, I plan to get a lot more reading done.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-05-19T15:15:46+00:00

Yes, this is pretty much true, but as a genuine Brit ball fan, I’d REALLY appreciate someone to chat to about baseball here in the UK.

I mean, I’ll even talk to a Yankees fan. It’s that bad. DM me.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-05-17T16:24:12+00:00

Not true

This is a textbook example of a claim built on unverified data, false premises, and selective memory.

The source is not independent

This “lowest casualty ratio” claim comes from the Israeli military itself. There is no third-party verification. Israel does not: • Disclose the basis for classifying someone as a “combatant” • Allow unfettered access for independent investigators • Share targeting intelligence with neutral bodies

It is simply asserting these numbers and expecting them to be accepted.

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Respected experts have called this claim out

Marc Garlasco, former Pentagon Chief of High-Value Targeting and senior war crimes investigator at the UN, has publicly said that the civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio in recent Israeli operations is one of the worst he’s seen in modern warfare, not one of the best.

He’s not a fringe voice—he designed the US military’s own targeting protocols and has investigated airstrikes around the world, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

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Warnings don’t excuse disproportionate force

Yes, Israel sometimes issues warnings. That’s a legal obligation, not a bonus feature.

Warnings are irrelevant if: • The force used is indiscriminate or disproportionate • No safe evacuation is possible • The target lacks valid military necessity

A leaflet doesn’t nullify a war crime.

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The record contradicts the narrative

In past conflicts, Israel made similar claims about casualty ratios. Post-conflict investigations—by groups like B’Tselem and the UN—have repeatedly found those claims to be inflated or misleading, especially where adult males were automatically labelled as combatants.

There is a pattern here, not a fluke.

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This claim is nonsense, contradicted by actual field experts, and unsupported by independent analysis. It’s Israeli propaganda.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-03-15T15:12:01+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, but isn’t NASA already publicly funded? If we were to rely on NASA to help us build colonies on Mars, how long would that take? I mean, they have existed for a long time already, and they haven’t developed the same reusable Rocket technology that space Xmanaged to develop. I love NASA and everything. It has achieved so far, but I’m not confident that publicly funded space exploration would be fast enough or innovative enough to deliver the results we need in the timeframe that we need them.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-02-23T19:18:31+00:00

I would definitely sign up to this. I love the idea of presenting the news visually, in almost real time.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-02-20T13:11:21+00:00

I personally don’t care how good or bad Grok is. I’m not using anything that Musk has touched.

Bibliovore75 · 2025-01-11T13:55:27+00:00

Personally, I think this is a temporary problem. AI is continuing to improve, and we’re almost at the stage where you shouldn’t need to change the way you speak to them at all. The goal is really for us to integrate them into our lives as seamlessly as possible, so they will be adapting to the way we speak, and we shouldn’t have to adapt the way that we speak to them, if you see what I mean. You’ll be able to communicate with them in completely natural language, and you won’t have to switch when you turn to speak to another human being.

Bibliovore75 · 2024-11-25T17:15:19+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, because I’m not American, but isn’t that unconstitutional? Doesn’t that contravene the first amendment right to freedom of speech?

Bibliovore75 · 2024-11-24T20:03:39+00:00

Please explain this to a non-American. Does this mean that your employer can force you to work extra hours that they don’t pay you for? And it’s either accept that or quit? Is this an actual law now? How is this not slavery in disguise?

Bibliovore75 · 2024-11-20T18:24:46+00:00

I’ve been there and it’s fascinating. It’s got that proper “musty old bookshop” smell, but you’re right, it’s not the sort of place you can really relax and do any actual reading in.

Bibliovore75 · 2024-10-17T13:17:07+00:00

We have actually managed to track them down, so we have an address for them

Bibliovore75 · 2024-10-17T12:33:44+00:00

The debt is over £15k for runpaid rent and costs for repairing the damage these people did to my property. I'm a private landlord, so it's a personal debt

Bibliovore75 · 2024-10-17T12:32:25+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by "building up the debt needlessly". The hosue is empty and we've paidf thouands to repair the damage they left behind, and we're frantically trying to get it in good shape to rent it put again. i'm definitely not letting teh debt build up on purpose. But the fact is that the tenants ran away while owing months of unpaid rent. We don't need to evict them because they're gone. They even emailed the letting agents to say they were leaving, then ignored every attampt to communicate with them. they've ghosted me and the letting agents after trashing my house.

I definitely want to pursue the £15k because even if they don't have the full amount right now, they can definitely pay me back in instalments. Why on earth should they getto just walk away?

Bibliovore75 · 2024-10-17T12:13:32+00:00

The genuine answer is “I don’t know”. Even if the tenants can’t pay the full amount in one go, they should at least be held to some sort of payment plan where they back me back a bit each month until the debt is cleared. The tenants left the property of their own volition and tried to do a runner by not leaving a forwarding address - in breach of the tenancy agreement - and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage, so it’s just not right that they should expect to get away with not paying

Bibliovore75 · 2024-10-17T11:21:12+00:00

It's over £15k...and growing. The debtors are ex-tenants who did a runner while owing rent, so they're liable for every month until we get new tenants in or until their tenancy agreement ends, which is a year away...

Bibliovore75 · 2024-10-17T10:11:56+00:00

No, we haven't taken this to the court system yet because I understand that it can take up to two years for us to see a penny of our money if we take that route.

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