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bsenftner

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About bsenftner

Denver, CO based MBA/Developer with a long history in professional 3D animation production; over 15 years as a lead game developer (Sony, EA), several years in feature film visual effects (Rhythm & Hues Studios), global patent author of what are now called DeepFakes, founder and CEO of www.3D-Avatar-Store.com (site is gone, who knows what is at that link now). Was working full time in facial recognition as a software scientist but left that industry min-Pandemic. Currently CTO of a CA Immigration Law firm, CEO/developer of https://midombot.com/b1/home and also developing propeller-head targeted courses. Contact me if interested in learning what an accomplished Software Scientist with an International Business & Economics double major MBA could do for you... To find me for communications, search my username on Google, and you're likely to see various places I can be contacted.

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    I'm in my 60's, and I crack my knuckles dozens if not hundreds of times a day. I started very young, and I do every joint on both hands, every finger joint all the way up to the wr…

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    Thank you for including these facts.

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    It used to be taught, every high school and many early junior high and elementary schools had debate clubs, and the ability to hold complex and nuanced debate used to be intellectu…

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    Comment #49210225

    ...and this inability to get people to work together is architected, designed, and reinforced constantly. Fact: no where in any general education within the United States are peopl…

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    Dumb is evil. Dumb chooses shortcuts every time, even if it harms others, dumb is selfish evil.

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    The USA is governed by evil people, and the people of the nation are too stupid and expecting someone else to stop them. Plain as day light.

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    Comment #49195541

    And this is why humanity is so filled with failure, the skill of effective communication is not recognized nor respected. It is literally providing the information for others to fo…

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    Well, let me just throw in it is our communication skills, or lack of them, that is our main bottleneck. That goes for pretty much everything humans do, and everything we fail tryi…

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    You're pretty propagandized. It's an international city that is the playground for the world's wealthy, no it is not the "Mexicans", it is the stupid dirty wealth. What I describe …

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    This nation is sitting ducks? The only reason we don't have Red Dawn is nobody wants this nation idiots.

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    > but their biases are still your biases so long as you are the one writing the prompts. That is if you only work with your LLMs / Agents in a "straight ahead" manner, versus using…

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    I'd say it is the size of the population, far far too many people try to make it in Los Angeles without any specialized educations, so the car washers have 40 people that dry your …

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    I think the economics of a global entertainment and wealthy persons' playground is what is "ruining" Los Angeles. Earlier in my time there, I spent time in an uber-wealthy circle a…

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    I worked in Los Angeles doing animation and VFX software for 33 years, and left 5 years ago as the cost of living there made no sense, and my prospects for work became nomadic glob…

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    The numbers reflect the vast majority jerking off, self entertaining. To find the 1% of the 1% that use anything for self improvement, one needs to look at the statistical tails. B…

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    The lack of creative understanding is astounding: all these generative media AI are fantastic for education applications. Sure, the vast majority want to use them to jerk off, but …

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    Stephen Baxter, I loved his "The Light of Other Days". I need to read more of him.

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    We do live in that world, but that world is also filled and conditioned by the predator and prey structure we all operate within. The higher purpose that Art serves today is aliase…

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    I understand where you are coming from, that brain hack is how we remember cause and effect. It's very much like the use of Jazz Hands to signal to the dullards "now is the moment …

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    You are describing the bifurcation of society that is the moral lesson of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. The Morlocks are the scientific and engineering "gender" (so to speak) of …

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    Finally, someone else understands that writing is not the goal, the entire point of all of this is our communications between one another and this market for narrative stories is a…

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    I believe a huge part of the failure is the lack of teaching anywhere, the general idea of how to manage discussions of disagreement. Because that is not discussed or taught, any t…

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    People want to learn at the last moment, when it is needed to know, and then they want to discard that knowledge until it is needed again. We need to implement both in our modern s…