Most expensive groceries in the country...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

schools are lucky to have the benefit of their expertise and experience.

Schools that have teachers who show students how to properly research a topic, determine which facts and calculations are appropriate to the topic and are accurate, those schools and their students are extremely fortunate.  Their teachers are worth every penny.

Even if some of the residents in those school districts never learned about value, the benefits to themselves of long term value,  personal value and personal values, not to mention what is enough?  What is more than enough?

[Punatang]

Yak - Um, MyManao pointed out AI's limitations way back on page 2 - "ai doesn't have a lick of sense.. doesn't know right from wrong.. so maybe sprinkle a little salt on that."

Um, I was talking about YOU and all of the others who were all too happy to quote, extrapolate, and further confirm (6th grade math) AI results when it suited your national politics conversations - duh.  It's always so predictable.  You walked right into it.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

others who were all to happy to quote, extrapolate, and further confirm (6th grade math) AI results

Which posts are you referring to?  You don’t necessarily have to show quotes or links, the post # in the upper right hand corner of a comment would be helpful.

[Punatang]

others who were all to happy to quote, extrapolate, and further confirm (6th grade math) AI results

Which posts are you referring to?  You don’t necessarily have to show quotes or links, the post # in the upper right hand corner of a comment would be helpful.

11,13,17,19,20,49

[ironyak]

At post 11, DF shared that AI told him: "Yes, research and economic analysis suggest the SNAP program can drive up grocery prices by increasing demand, benefiting retailers and producers"

Post 12, MM says caveat emptor, AI is untrustworthy, or as JJ would say: I've read somewhere that you've got to beware, you can't believe anything you read. ;)

Post 13, HJ gives a full AI response that includes the line: "Studies show a direct correlation, with a 1% increase in SNAP benefits potentially raising prices by about 0.08%"

And you're asking why I in particular didn't object to that AI finding? Probably because it's just a restatement of this study, that I looked up at the time to cross check those numbers.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...2722001621
"We study the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on retail prices nationwide. State-level program adjustments motivate our identification strategy. A 1% increase in benefits per population raises grocery prices by a persistent 0.08%."

So, a journal published study seems to back up the main point people were talking about. Do you have reason to believe that the findings from that study are in error?

The rest of the posts you listed are basically back-and-forthing on this topic, none of which are mine, outside of #49 asking you to show how to do the math that you accused Edge of messing up in post #21.

As you said in post #18: "How easy it would be for people to check whether their preferred media is telling the truth or not. How people are unwilling to invest a few seconds in finding out what is true." You expect this of yourself as well as everyone else right, yet somehow keep posting AI slop that glaringly can't even reliably calculate the cost of a slice of bread...

For those that care about living in reality, vet the information you're being given, regardless of the source, but especially if it's from AI with all the inherent and well documented and demonstrated mistakes, context limitations, and hallucinations.

Required Hawaii-related content boost:

[Punatang]

You win by sheer force of voluminous nonsense. Congrats.  But (sorry MyMan!) I'm a believer again!  I typed Yaking into Google and the AI response is:

   


Nuff said.  I'll peek back in another 6 months to see if anything has improved around here.  Cheers.

[ironyak]

Your inability or unwillingness to read is really going to limit your opportunities to understand the world around you. I'd say you may want to work on that, but with what seems like a longstanding habit of blaming others for your lack of comprehension, I doubt that's likely to occur in the next six months, or six years really, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

As for definitions, the good ole dictionary notes that the origins of "tang", are: first recorded in 1325–75; Middle English tange “tongue of a snake, projection on a tool" so probably best to be careful throwing around that aptronym boomerang.

Cue the JJ outro: "There you go, once again, you missed the point, and then you point your fingers at me"

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

unwillingness to read

I don’t want to generalize, but when I have interactions with people who watch Anger Mismanagement News with multiple talking heads seated behind a counter, or boxes of shouting heads, often blah blah blahing all at once, there is a format of:
* repeatedly repeat the same phrases throughout the day
* don’t answer questions being raised
* if/when about to lose an argument, change the subject.  

People who watch this believe it’s how you reasonably “discuss” a topic.  It often replaces reading, researching and analyzing the subject matter.

[HiloJulie]

* repeatedly repeat the same phrases throughout the day
* don’t answer questions being raised
* if/when about to lose an argument, change the subject. 

I think we might need to add this as the last one:

*When all that fails, run off in a huff, hurling insults.

[kalakoa]

multiple talking heads seated behind a counter

Too much work. It's all about followers now, and who can amplify their message the loudest, repeat it the most times, because that's obviously the truth.