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A Little Piece of Heaven
March 14, 2026
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Well, I learned something today. I now know that the word “Grock” isn’t a misspelling of a certain line of Austrian semi-automatic pistols. It’s apparently an artificial intelligence system. For some 25 years, I made my living getting immersed into federal regulations as applied to the pharmaceutical, medical device industries, and to OSHA (environmental, health, and safety in the workplace). I would imagine that the plethora of regulations that come out of any such AI effort will reveal this: The regulation in question implies or hints at the regulations that stem from statutory requirements. I can see this in almost… Read more »
“Grok” (no “c”) as an AI system gets its name from a Robert H. Heinlein novel “Stranger in a Strange Land”. The novel is about a guy named Valentine Michael Smith who was born on Mars and raised by Martians so he sees the universe differently than we do and the way Martians see it. “Grok” is part of the underlying concept. The word means … “To understand something in its totality. To fully grasp a thing and all its implications and permutations. To have understood all that can be understood on a thing or subject. To understand something so… Read more »
I’ve seen lots of reports of LLM-based AI hallucinating things. I wonder if that would be a problem here.
I would suspect not. Most of the hallucinating I’ve read about were for “find me a thing on the internet that answers this” kind of questions. The made up papers, law filings, and such were it trying to cheat on homework research. I’ve read less about asking the various AI to summarize books, articles and such. I also wonder if they would not create a somewhat custom system that is only able to look up the source of a regulation, whether it was created by an act of Congress or not, and then flag that reg for further followup. As… Read more »
I asked ChatGPT to make me a comparison man.
It was pathetic.
I asked it to do better – more proportionality…
Still pathetic.
recently, didn’t the Supreme Court rule that a regulation that was not initiated in Congress was not enforceable?
If so, doesn’t that make many regulations irrelevant?
Scott, if you’ve never been excited about a powerpoint presentation, then you’ve never seen the comedy routines of Don McMillan. That guy makes powerpoint very funny.
Any mention of a huge number of regulations always makes me remember a holiday in Transylvania that I went on with a friend, back in the ’90s only about five years after the fall of Ceaușescu. On a trip to see Vlad Dracula’s birth place the conversation turned to the darker aspects of Romania’s history. Our guide, Radu, had spent most of his life under the Communist regime, and was strongly anti-Communist. As we were driving through the countryside he explained it was not the dramatic knock on the door in the night because you’re an enemy of he state,… Read more »
‘He said, “There was ALWAYS something they could get you on.”’ Which is actually the point, huh? If you cooperate and you’re a good little thrall then no one is looking to ding you over a regulation. If you speak ill of or even just throw a frown at the local apparatchik or political officer then you become a target. Unless of course that person in power needs to make an example of someone, in which case finding someone to be made an example of is ridiculously easy. This is the siren song of all governmental power. To make laws,… Read more »
At my age it just sounds too good to be true. As a disappointed Tea Party Patriot and having been there when Dr. Tom Price of Docs4PatientCare (A group that came up with a way to get everybody insured for less through the private sector) got put in charge of Heath and Human Services, I’ve seen my share of worthy, too good to be true things crash and burn. This first 7 months of Trump is so full of winning that my inner curmudgeon is waiting for the ax to fall. I pray Trump stays healthy and the men in… Read more »
You have nothing to be disappointed about in the Tea Party. I was never a “Tea Party” member, I’m not much of a joiner-of-groups. I did sympathize with the bulk of their values and goals however. They did much to make America and those in power aware of serious problems. Even the mockery of the Left only served to expand that awareness. They put many people with their viewpoints in office across a broad range of government. Those they didn’t actually put in power did not fail to notice the impact the Tea Party had even so. That every single… Read more »
You’re right about the “Tea Party” jump-starting the Republicans to be more aware of the issues that matter. So little seemed to change until Trump, even though it obviously did.
I was really upset about Docs4Patient Care. We had real answers that would get everyone covered using common sense and free market forces. “Talking” to Congressmen and Senators was a joke. They’d pretend to listen and then put their hands out. It was disgusting. They all wanted more power. Obamacare gave them power.
I know everyone probably gets sick and tired of me quoting old adages but they are the accumulated wisdom of our society. So here are some that apply to your concerns about Docs4Patient Care, in no particular order — He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. (Defeat is not a permanent condition unless you’re dead.) Necessity is the mother of invention. (When something is needed badly enough a solution will be found. If you’ve found the solution but it’s not accepted it may be badly needed but simply isn’t needed badly enough yet. What cannot exist… Read more »
I occasionally get a bit tired at your adages but in general appreciate them. Hey, I say some myself occasionally. And you may be better salesman than you think. What you said to Keith could not only be encouragement, or advice, but is almost a sales pitch in itself. A pitch to try again in a different time. And really good advice in my opinion. If you are like me (a scary thought 😉 😏 ), you occasionally do something really well in an area that’s outside your wheelhouse and wonder where that came from. In my case, in some… Read more »
But Harry, God uses everyone all the time. We are His creation to apply as he sees fit for his purposes. Even evil people unknowingly are used by God, He is the original “never miss an opportunity” Guy. I don’t see that makes anyone any sort of “special” but I see it as being loved whether we want that love or not. I do but I also am not so foolish as to think there is no one in the world that is unlike me. Thank you very much for the blessing too. I’ll take all of those I can… Read more »
I agree God uses people all the time, even evil people. God uses who He will. I was talking about times I spoke up that the results of what I did was unusual. In two cases when I did not want to speak up, contrary to what some people wanted and said would happen, what I said came to pass. In one case, some people said it was prophetic. I’m not so sure.The near miracle is that I said it knowing I’d catch a lot of grief from many, including the leadership. The leader and many others never seemed to… Read more »
When I saw the picture and title of this Right Angle, I immediately thought of the Bible parting of the Red Sea….and the fact that pharaohs army is right behind them to kill them.
In this case, its Left, the Deep State and the bureaucracy wanting to stop it.
What happens in the end?
Hint: it’s hard to swim when waves are crashing on you and you are wearing armor.
I hope the results are the same in this case.