Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video]

Re:Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video] by toomuchtodo on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:30PM (#39586507)

I just purchased a book, “Rural White Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” [1] that talks about what keeps conservatives in power in America. Interestingly, it’s impossible for conservatives to win the popular vote (A Republican President candidate has won the popular vote once in the last 32 years) (page 71, excerpt from Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s press release [2]). It’s only possible with the Electoral College and Gerrymandering. Great book, highly factualized, footnotes and all.

Here’s Pew Research’s voter demographics breakdown, because it’s freely available where the book mentioned is not: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/demographic-...

> Seven-in-ten Republican voters were 50 and older in the most recent election, compared with 62% of Republican voters in 2020 and 68% in 2018. (My note: this is from the 2022 elections, and 1.8M voters over the age of 55 age out each year)

This is all to say, I’m unsure where these people and similar with conservative ideologies who aren’t a majority would post that would make its way into language models. Facebook perhaps? Therefore, liberal bias is simply a majority perspective.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734507/white-rural-...

[2] https://massie.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=Z5MPA3CVK5F... (7th paragraph)

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Re:Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video] by alecco on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:21AM (#39589146)

I wouldn't trust anything those authors write. Just check out what they say online. Extremely biased propaganda.

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Re:Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video] by toomuchtodo on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:57AM (#39590538)

So their data backed citations are fake news? Sure. The truth can be unpleasant.

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Re:Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video] by alecco on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:07AM (#39590658)

You can easily lie by cherry-picking data and stats.

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Re:Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video] by toomuchtodo on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:19AM (#39590793)

Well, one of two things will happen. Conservatives will win elections (assuming these are "lies by cherry-picking data and stats"), or their numbers will continue to dwindle (Pew Research's demographics data about 70% of Republicans being over age 50, folks 55+ aging out at a rate of 1.8M/year per CDC actuarial data) and rural America continues to wither away. Certainly, we can wait to see what happens to see if the data matches our observations if we believe the thesis put forth doesn't match ground truth, because time will tell us for sure.

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Re:Sergey Brin on Gemini 1.5 Pro (03/02/2024) [video] by ifyoubuildit on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:05AM (#39590629)

> Interestingly, it’s impossible for conservatives to win the popular vote

Is that interesting? It seems akin to saying "no super bowl winners have won a soccer championship". Well duh, that's not the game they're playing. And some of those football players could probably be pretty damn competitive in soccer if they trained for it as long as they trained for football.

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