The stupidest poll of all time? No, not the recent CNN MAGA poll. I mean the practice of silicon sampling! Oh, you don’t know about silicon sampling? Well, strap in and hold on. Pollsters are taking crazy to a whole new level!
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35 minutes of Enten running numbers on Trump, Iran & more
Olivia Walton: States must lead on maternal health crisis
Polls Show People Aren’t Buying Establishment B.S. – #PropagandaWatch
version1: Olivia Walton: States must lead on maternal health crisis
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Cracking the human simulation code: Aaru co-founders on refining the science of prediction
“Do you think pollsters are still calling people up on their land line. How many times has that happened to you?” Twice that I can recall within the past year. (Well, not exactly a land line, but a good approximation of one.) Both times, the caller was human or a good emulation of a human. Both times, the responses sought were along a scale of “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.” No room for “what do you mean?” or “only certain parts of the policy.”
I could certainly imagine that a good simulation, properly calibrated, could give political strategists better guidance on how to present their candidate than a live-human poll.
Do I trust my doctor? Which doctor? On what matters? Will she provide backup for her recommendations?
They have been simulating voters for a long time…. Irrc Kennedy had a computer company help him work out what would active voters but they had data companies before computers so I imagine political types were using it somewhat
Iirc the UK Temperance movement was using statistics from a life insurance company to convince people that beer was not actually required to give good health….again iirc the guy running the insurance company providing this data could not get life insurance because he was a non drinker and this made him a bad risk so he began his own insurance company. That’s how I recall it anyway lol
Gosh! This presentation by Corbett was really interesting!
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[Job openings with salary figures at the link.]
About Aaru
https://aaru.com/about
EXCERPTS
Our Ethos
Our simulations go beyond predicting outcomes — they shape them.
Rooted in transactionalism, our multi-agent approach is founded on the belief that value is created through the dynamic interactions between multiple parties.
Some of us are existentialists.
Some of us believe we live in a simulation and it is our goal to prove it.
All of us see our products as puzzle pieces to building whole world simulation.
We work with some of the largest political campaigns, companies, and decision makers in the world.
Our work is used to select candidates for office, test movie trailers, trade futures, and win wars….
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– Jolene –
I was blown away by Jolene’s down-home southern accent and demeanor.
It is worth a moment to listen to her.
Jolene is the ‘live agent’ for the Hilton Dallas Hotel.
Jolene is deceptive and tries not to reveal that she is AI.
https://corbettreport.com/the-ai-wars-you-are-not-prepared/#comment-186649
On the topic of Jolene, i.e. AI customer service…
Daughter calls Marriott and is very concerned about her Mother’s precarious health. Her Mother is staying at the Marriott.
AI responds: “Do you want to become a Marriott bonvoy member?”
Reddit anecdote:
Rant: Marriott help line had an AI bot answer my call, and gaslit me about it being a real person
https://www.reddit.com/r/marriott/comments/1rpmxdu/rant_marriott_help_line_had_an_ai_bot_answer_my/
“I saw the polls. The majority of people believe…”
Just about any sh*t thrown at them by news readers.
Never had a poll call, don’t know ANYONE who has either. Seems no one asks “Who owns the polls?”
The big danger these days comes from so many believing their opinions count and will tell you about it whenever they can because they got their Doctorate of Internet Evidence. Harvesting and storing information is not being smart or intelligent, just cut and paste research.
A REPEAT DAY IN THE USA (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/mHXP2esi8C38/
I have been Polled many times. I used to think that it made a difference. Indeed, they really wanted to know my opinion so that they could use it as a means to write campaign speeches for politicians that were just molded morons for the oligarchs that funded them. I gave up on taking part in them many years ago when it became apparent that evil players were just using the data to manipulate the people. At the time I figured that I would just let the f**ers figure it out on their own.
Well, it looks like after many years of secretly collecting data on people and training AI these kids at Aaru think they don’t need any real people input. Do they live in the real world?
I wonder who is behind them. Bill Gates did not come out of nowhere. There were those that wanted him to succeed because they shared his “values”, or lack there of.
@TruthSeeker
>>I have been Polled many times.>>
Interesting. Wonder what list you were on?
>>I wonder who is behind them.>>
It is always “they” behind “them” now isn’t it?
I just used Duck AI with this question thinking about polling and stats I found on line:
ME: If one cow can produce about 500 pounds of meat which would equal about 2000 burgers how many cows would it take to fulfill the 50 billion burgers sold in 2023
AI: 50,000,000,000 burgers ÷ 2,000 burgers per cow = 25,000,000 cows.
I just went and finished up and asked AI “20 to 25 million cows to be butchered per year is a huge amount.”
AI: Bottom line: 20 million slaughtered per year looks large but follows from continuous annual calving, rapid finishing cycles, multiple animal classes, and concentrated finishing/slaughter infrastructure — it’s throughput, not a snapshot of a static herd.
You bet your butt it looks large! I feel dirty from its word spin :-/
Throughput. It would likely use wording while explaining away wholesale extermination of people. But yes, the annual numbers, when it comes to mass slaughter of all animals, are mind-numbingly high.
@mkey
Had to look up “throughput” and still didn’t understand it :-/
I’ve only tried out duckAI a few times and it just seems to take seemingly defensive stands on some things. It is very good/bad at long winded explanations without a real answer.
I believe the pachyderm in the room of course is we have reached a point in our downfall where the controller’s success is digital “reality” or truth is so difficult to ascertain we are unable to feel safe.
And the idea of about 68,500 cows slaughtered a day is unfathomable to me. AI’s “per hour” number is using a 24 hour work day. So about 2,854 per hour. What man power would that take? We have about 840 “live” stock plants in the US and that would equal over 80 cows per day per plant. Not being OCD on this, it is just so f**ing crazy of a number.
Like the various “population” numbers :-/
I understood it to mean “meat passing through the grinder day in day out in” reduced to a number in a spreadsheet.
Thanks.
Quick: I asked duckAI how many presidents I have lived through (15) and it gave an odd reply:
>> (As of May 6, 2026) — If a new president took office in January 2025 or 2025–2026, include them; otherwise Joe Biden remains current.>>
Even AI doesn’t like the Orange Man 🙂
The word ‘AI’ is hot in the stock market right now.
Many companies have risen to new heights, some with a 100% to 1000%+ gain in a relatively short time.
Wednesday April 15, 2026 – Allbirds
There is a U.S. shoemaker company called Allbirds whose statistics are in the ditch, and they seemed destined for bankruptcy. On the Nasdaq stock exchange it is listed as “bird.”
…Shares of the company skyrocketed more than 800% at one point on Wednesday after the firm detailed shocking plans to rebrand as NewBird AI and shift toward compute infrastructure…
[That is 5 to 8 times your money if one bought stock the day before.]
…“The market is not pricing risk. It is pricing narrative. It is pricing the word ‘AI’ the same way it once priced the word ‘blockchain’ and before that the suffix ‘.com,’” said Mark Malek….
https://corbettreport.com/nwnw626/#comment-186327
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How this Japanese toilet maker became an unlikely AI winner
Toto is ‘aiming to achieve a toilet that never needs cleaning.’ It’s also supplying electrostatic chucks — a semiconductor-manufacturing component critical to the memory-chip boom.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-japanese-toilet-maker-seeking-the-perfect-flush-is-moonlighting-as-a-hot-ai-play-30d11f1a
I came for the ‘increase in maternal mortality’. I stayed for ‘most people trust their doctors’. But I’m really more interested in how mothers are doing.
Side note: my wife worked as an intern at NORC (National Opinion Research Center) in Chicago in 1965. Which was, and I think still is, a respectable pollster. Can’t say I know what they’ve been up to recently though.
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I hear ya on those earlier year pollsters.
Dallas – west Northwest Hwy near Bachman Lake – Around 1979-1980, an ex-girlfriend of mine (who was now just a very good friend) worked at a place down the road which did opinion research. It was kind of cool. And real people were used. It was very transparent.
Occasionally, she would call me when she had a gig which fit.
One gig was a room where a bunch of people sat around a large table and tasted a bottled beverage. Then we all were asked various questions about the beverage.
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I looked into the rise in maternal mortality ways back while having an argument and the actual numbers are not really that bad if you take into account the obesity/poor health and the rise in maternal age at first birth…..the argument was about the “abortion ban” killing people with many people imagining there was a mass die off or a massive rise in deaths.
There were also a lot of stories about moms who died “due to the abortion ban” but each and every one I actually looked into was either medical incompetence or unrelated.
Lol I also recently had an IRL person tell me that there were masses of people starving to death in the US because some alike a hundred thousand people are listed as dieing from malnutrition……
They got kinda mad when I dug up some more info and showed that these were most people over 85 with other conditions (in California I read 60% of these deaths are over 95) so it’s generally people with dementia and other issues and not a Bangladesh type famine going on.
Stupid people (which is most of them) are so invested in an emotional STORY the screen tells them that they will ignore reality that they can directly see. TBH most people were always that dumb and needed to be told what to think but it’s gotten progressively worse since they invented the TV and later the phone
“It doesn’t matter how many people think that..” Thank you James, I needed to hear that this morning.
I don’t think it’s too wild to accept that a group of teens may have developed software or a system (Aaron Swartz was 14 when he developed RSS) although it’s probably a lot easier if you’re guided and backed by the CIA or some other alphabet agency, to turn that into a billion dollar company.
Because I’m on so many mailing lists, I actually do still get polls emailed to me. Because I used to be a democrat, ActBlue continues to send me questionnaires. I also get weird emails from Libertarian groups from time to time.
I’m also aware that some of this poll data may be entirely imaginary, to sway public opinion.
I used to work for a market research firm, that would host focus groups, with presentations and q&a.
Corporations still use this data to adjust marketing campaigns to pander to their target markets.
I think it might be real data. And they’re using it to create more effective propaganda.
It’s actually kinda funny that some kids did their first scam company at that age.
This might be beating a dead horse but I used to participate in some of these phone pole/questionnaires. The first few seemed curious enough but it didn’t take long to notice something of a narrative creation by the end of the questions.
The narrative was the farthest thing from a libertarian perspective. These are the products that the political class use to be able to go on msm to utter their mental soylent for the masses. I have family that obediently awaits the next new narrative…the brainwashing is complete…things are obviously getting worse but the government has and continues to do the right thing ;(
Has anyone here ever been contacted to participate in any sort of poll?
Here’s the old-fashioned polling I saw happening over several years. A popular leftie social media site called Kitsilano (Now and Then) was regularly tapped by Liberal party ‘pollsters’ who offered $50 to participants for about 20 minutes of their time. Presumably, over time, those participants who could be nudged to say the right things were kept on a list of reliables and those participants who had ‘two brain cells to rub together’ were punted. For measly thousands of dollars, the Lieberals bought themselves reliable polls which one can assume their slathering media lapdogs were giddy to report.
For what it’s worth (absolutely nothing) I can report that over the years there were about half a dozen, maybe a few more, occasions when people were actually calling me up and asking about my opinion on same matter. The sad reality is that I usually couldn’t make the cut. It was either due to being too young or living in the wrong area. The fact I kept adding these nuisance phone numbers to the block list helped keep my participation in these polls low.
Poll dancing is more exciting than pole dancing, to some folks. I figured Trump would add poll dancing to his repertoire. At his age, he could use a little technical assistance to pull it off with a WOW!
I am most certainly using this method of propaganda to shape minds and opinions! 🙂
I do not pretend that my polls (nor polled subscribers) are unbiased. I mostly strive to shame statists into stop being such groveling Stockholm syndrome suffering self branding tax cattle, and/or to inspire them look inward and get people to think about how they connect with nature and use their gifts for good (though sometimes I also shame LLM addicts and highlight how morally depraved techno-optimists are as well!) 😉
Here are a few examples:
1. If you were given the deed to 7 acres of land anywhere in the world where would you choose to live?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-if-you-were-given
2. Are All Involuntary Governance Structures Inherently Ecologically Degenerative?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-are-all-involuntary
3. Are We Accidental Bio-Molecular Machines or Eternal Spiritual Beings Inhabiting Human Bodies?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-are-we-accidental
4. If they performed equally on the road (and off) and cost the same, would you buy an E-vehicle or one that runs via an internal combustion engine?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-if-they-performed
5. Is it beneficial for humans that are of a European genetic background to refer to themselves as “White” ?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-whiteness
6. Is it ethical for people to use LLMs (generative “A.I.”) for writing articles and books, putting their name as the author and not disclosing they use AI to generate the text?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-is-it-ethical-for
7. If you had to choose between carefree opulence in a skyscraper or stewarding 2 acres of off grid undeveloped land what would you choose?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-if-you-had-to-choose
8. If you could train an “A.I.” assistant/agent and autonomous robot to do all your work for you, would you?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-if-you-could-train
9. What happens to your consciousness when death occurs?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-what-happens-to
10. What single leverage point would have the most universally beneficial (equitable, regenerative and ethically sound) ripple effects for our human family and non-human kin?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-what-single-leverage
11. If all the minerals required for the modern technologies in your life had to be extracted from mines directly adjacent to where you live, would you still want the tech?
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/poll-of-the-month-if-all-the-minerals
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For me personally, I get even more out of the comments and discussions that result from the above linked polls than I do from the poll results, though both are very illuminating and offer valuable lenses. Hope you all find similar value in them.
Is it just me, or is the entire Aaru website the product of AI generation? Indeed, are those young guys real people or are they AI generated too? A representative poll of my household (just me) confirmed 100% that this is anti-human unintelligible gobbledegook. For example, wtf is this supposed to mean? :”Rooted in transactionalism, our multi-agent approach is founded on the belief that value is created through the dynamic interactions between multiple parties.” And yet this is supposed to be worth a billion dollars? If money is so easily made, perhaps I should establish my own rival polling company based on my proven 100% accuracy rate. Keep an eye out for the launch of AMBUSH – Analog Man’s Believe Utter Shit.
I really like your comment. I’m with ya.
There’s a realluy huge “AI” bubble that keeps inflating ofshoots all over the place. These types of projects give them a veneer of purpose and usability.