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The Love Boat
1977 · TV series · 48 min episodes · 10 seasons
Created by Aaron Spelling, Wilford Lloyd Baumes
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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Growing up in the 70s and 80s in Germany, I've been brainwashed by US movies and sitcoms, 90% of the things I've watched was from the US - Magnum P.I, Simon & Simon, The Fall Guy, Kojak, A-Team, Golden Girls, Mary Taylor Moore, Lou Grant, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Night Court, Family Ties, Miami Vice, The Wonder Years, Facts of Life, Love Boat, and on and on and on.
I know the US better than many parts of Germany.
Some things don't seem practical.
Like, "Expropriate all property used in healthcare delivery." wouldn't work for my old dentist who had an office in a retail mall. Or, what of a rural nurse who uses her personal vehicle (reimbursed) to make house calls. A car is property. Or the on-site medical office for a large factory? (True story: I feel off the bike on the way to work on day, doing some contract programming work for a large company. Not only did the medical office check me over, but I got a tetanus shot, both free since I was working there.)
Are acupuncturists part of healthcare delivery?
> Make medical licensing contingent on public employment.
The TV series "The Love Boat" taught me that a large oceangoing cruise ship has a doctor on board, and that seems to be true still. Will this doctor be a public employee? State or federal? Or perhaps a joint employee?
> compulsory public housing accommodations
That sounds like you want to force all health care people to live at their workplace. Plus, what does "involved in healthcare delivery" supposed to include: the janitorial staff? The IT support staff? The food services staff?
> Establish healthcare unions
I've learned that's entirely too underspecified. A company union isn't an effective at negotiating for workers, for example. Plus, repeal Taft-Hartley.
> to justify any treatment allowed on a first come first served basis
That too needs some examination. How does one measure 'quality of life years'? Do rich people have a higher quality of life than poor? Do blind people have a different quality of life than sighted? What about someone bedridden? In a coma?
How are error estimates incorporated? How do we justify a novel experimental treatment which has no use evidence?
Is cosmetic treatment included? How do we measure quality of life for a nose job? For Lasik surgery?
The goals are great, don't get me wrong, but the taskforce is going to need work out the details better than an HN comment, and you might use my feedback to tweak your wording.
There's a bunch of loosely connected points here, but the author seems to take umbrage with the inability of GPT4 to break its alignment training of referring to itself as an AI language model.
If anything, the author is demonstrating that alignment is going better than the doomsdayers are admitting. The LLM is prevented from offering an opinion on the best episode of Love Boat, despite (presumably) losing the author as a future customer.
Alignment training does come at the cost of performance- the author was not able to achieve their goals of talking to an AI pretending to be a human- but as an AI language model, it also won't teach that person how to build a bomb.
Like another Expendables movie? Hopefully not a remake of The Love Boat (if you never saw the show almost every episode had guest stars that were well known celebrities, but usually retired or semi-retired from acting)
I loved that show! And MASH. We're about the same generation.
No I actually agree with you that the suit doesn't convey anything substantive, and if a programmer wore that today to an interview I'd find it suspicious because, at the very least, it means he/she is out of touch and maybe desperate. But that said, if the person has the technical skills to do the job, and is not a jerk, and is available and interested, that should count 99.9999% and whether they wears a suit or not shouldn't counteract those other factors.
If I was holding an interview for the role of bankster, that would be different.
Tangent Note: I can "play" the SWAT theme song in my mind, note for note. And MASH, Love Boat, Cheers, etc. I remember when TV show theme songs went into a dark ages roughly around the the 90's where they stopped having cool theme music anymore, especially long instrumental ones. There were a few cool exceptions, but for the most part the art seemed to be lost. I don't watch TV anymore, so perhaps it came back.
ps. I'm in Colorado too. We should hold a HN meetup sometime, I know of at least a few others in the Front Range area.