The more I read about Trump govt shenanigans the more I ask those questions. It's not that there isn't evidence of corruption and violation of people rights. The evidence is abundant. To the point there's plenty of judicial decisions against the government and when they weirdly favor the government they are done without justification or any respect towards plenty of precedents (see SCOTUS). And this has been happening over and over for decades in some places like law enforcement abuses. I've been following TD for more than a decade now and the only difference from 10, 15 years ago is that it's getting worse.
The current system has shown to be deeply flawed to contain repeated abuses. I think we'll keep asking those questions from my post for a long, long time.
So what exactly is preventing the DOJ and the people they represent from doing this again trying different paths? Any meaningful punishment? Threat of disbarring if it continues? Fines to the DOJ itself and those repeatedly doing this kind of persecution against trans people? Perhaps jail time? No?
It will keep happening.
A train wreck in slow motion.
It's amusing how incompetent these people are. The only thing they have is money to pay people who actually understand stuff to do their work. When they pivot from hiring the best to hiring their preferred (and thus as incompetent as they are) then things go bad very fast.
The capture of the SCOTUS had me thinking how this can possibly be fixed even if Ds win by a wide margin in the midterms. Because corrupt and partisan biased judges like Alito will stay there for life.
I don't think judges should be elected no, that would be very bad. But maybe impose terms, longer than any other (say, 12 years)? And maybe the appointment of new judges to the court should have SOME input from current magistrates?
I'm not entirely sure how to improve things but I think the current status reached limits all over the world. Venezuela saw their supreme court be captured by Hugo Chávez, Erdogan did the same in Turkey and Órban in Hungary to name a few examples. How can we prevent Donald and the likes from using their corporate sponsored powers along with a corporate sponsored legislative to capture the supreme court? Hard one.
While somewhat rare considering the entirety of GOP voters, there are those Republicans that don't like the shit that's happening, the shit that the party has become. If he had spine and stood by his principles he could have a chance. But he angered the idiots and then gave up on his spine. That's when he lost everything.
Democrats could have beaten Trump. And after he got elected they could have already put a lot of pressure to stop him, possibly succeeding considering public opinion of the orange baboon has been falling for ages now. But they too lack spine. With very few exceptions.
It's all about having a spine.
Note: I do hope Ds win by a landslide and a big one. I don't lump them together with the Rs at all. Except regarding a complete lack of spine. Good thing there are people like Wyden or Sanders (and others with spine).
Chatbots should be held liable much like humans are at the bare minimum. So until the chatbot operator can make a chatbot give medical care and prescriptions online with the same accuracy a human needs to have to maintain their license to practice medicine the chatbot must not provide medical advice. Same with any area including psychological care. Part of the problem, in my point of view, is that chatbots are being treated with a lot of lenience and borderline reverence.
But I'd go a bit further. Humans practicing whatever they are have limited reach in how many people they can affect with their malpractices while chatbots can reach hundreds of millions and a huge portion of those simultaneously. So in that regard they should be held to higher standards because the destruction they can produce is much bigger than individuals. At the very least this has to be considered when regulating those pseudo AIs. If the creators of the thing cannot guarantee the bare minimum that is what is demanded from humans by law then they should not offer the service in the first place because it is broken.
At this point the orange baboon and his lackeys are just pilfering the US treasury without any consequence that can effectively stop them. Might as well as just give him a debt card with direct access so he can use as he pleases. And change the name of the country to United States of Donald.
The fact that there are people with so much money they can buy themselves into owning the media outlets and, effectively, the government itself will never work in a beneficial way. Unregulated capitalism doesn't work. Loosely regulated capitalism is not working. Can we reign in capitalism before it destroys everything?
Socialists have a thing or two to say about that. If we put bigotry and propaganda aside there are successful experiences all over the world (some called social-democracies). And some that are starting to go wrong precisely because they are ditching the social part.
This type of AI, language models, is not AI, it's just statistics on steroids or something. And it does get things wrong - or hallucinate as some say. A lot. A whole freaking lot. And from experience (since it's shoved down our throats). I wouldn't touch anything "AI" with a very long stick if I want to deal with information I'm not very familiar with.
And yet here we are using it indiscriminately for all sorts of things, some mundane and non-critical like searching if baboons arses are red but also for very critical stuff like goddamn medical diagnosis, public policies, laws, critical systems coding and even engineering accepting varied but incredibly high error - or hallucination - rates. I mean, when we are dealing with critical, complex systems even a 1% error may be fatal.
And for what purpose? To fill the pockets of a few billionaires and stock holders. And we the little people can do shit about it. Just watch as the impending catastrophes, environmental or not, loom in the horizon while most people ignore the warnings like this one.
I'm no Luddite. I'm one that hopes technology advances greatly and frees humans from stupid labor and lets people enjoy more of life. But instead we are taking the path towards the abyss and concentrating money in the hands of very, very few while sucking the blood dry of the vast majority of humanity.
Zuckeberg has been an unethical asshole since he started Facebook. Most of us know it started as a chauvinistic project to evaluate his female peers in the university nowadays.
From there as he gained tons of money and the power that comes with it his social restraints snapped and here we are. Just like Musk shamelessly did the nazi salute twice in a live event, Zuckeberg has grown used to the shielding that being a billionaire brings from law and everything else that could hold him accountable.
I do hope this is starting to change.
I know there are some timid efforts in this direction and it's comforting to see they are ramping up even if there's already plenty of damage done. I'm really hoping the No Kings protests this weekend and the deaths of US citizens by the hands of ICE terrorists spark even more resistance and action. I'm very pessimistic in my posts but I do believe there are a ton of good people in the US who don't deserve this and I do believe they will turn the tables eventually.
If nobody is willing to push for the removal of RFK "Disease-Joe" Jr from his position for all his blatant and well documented crimes against public health, endangering not only USians but the rest of the world then he could just nominate Morbillivirus hominis to the position of CDC director for added debauchery ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not, Dems are way, way better. It's just that they are spineless. It's not that they will destroy anything or do anything remotely as bad as this administration. It's just that they lack the spine to do what it takes to fix the damage and close the institutional holes. It's obvious that both sides are not even remotely similar, R's are a cancer.
I know a bunch of people with a crazy visceral hate of the US (for all the good reasons mind you) and they are loving this Trump administration because it's not only ruining the US now, it's destroying their future for decades. I'd argue beyond any chance of reversing or fixing it.
Craziness put aside, if I were China I'd be helping the orange baboon and his friends to consolidate power and destroy more and faster. Sooner or later they won't be able to keep up with their wars as well.
So yeah, make america great again I guess?
(mind you as much as I understand a lot of the hatred - and believe there's plenty of wrongdoing from the US towards the world historically - I don't think all USians should suffer for what their economic elite built and I'd rather those lunatics in US executive right now didn't have a ton of nuclear power at their fingertips)
My thoughts. It's a well written comment with very interesting counter arguments. And these design choices got more glaring when I switched to Bluesky. It's much less demanding psychologically speaking.
I'm not sure I agree here. I mean, there are measures that Meta and other companies can adopt to make their products more or less addicting (ie: infinite scroll). They can demonetize content involving children exploitation, they can even use automation successfully here while providing objective and useful ways for those who are wrongfully filtered out. There are plenty of ways platforms can make things better and they actively choose to go the other way.
So I don't think it's that much of a catastrophe. Sure we need to be very careful with regulations and legal tools but the platforms have shown many, many times they cannot be trusted to generally abide by good practices. So we have to start somewhere. I'm willing to see where this will lead. Because inaction has already produced very bad results.
The more I read about Trump govt shenanigans the more I ask those questions. It's not that there isn't evidence of corruption and violation of people rights. The evidence is abundant. To the point there's plenty of judicial decisions against the government and when they weirdly favor the government they are done without justification or any respect towards plenty of precedents (see SCOTUS). And this has been happening over and over for decades in some places like law enforcement abuses. I've been following TD for more than a decade now and the only difference from 10, 15 years ago is that it's getting worse. The current system has shown to be deeply flawed to contain repeated abuses. I think we'll keep asking those questions from my post for a long, long time.
So what exactly is preventing the DOJ and the people they represent from doing this again trying different paths? Any meaningful punishment? Threat of disbarring if it continues? Fines to the DOJ itself and those repeatedly doing this kind of persecution against trans people? Perhaps jail time? No? It will keep happening.
A train wreck in slow motion. It's amusing how incompetent these people are. The only thing they have is money to pay people who actually understand stuff to do their work. When they pivot from hiring the best to hiring their preferred (and thus as incompetent as they are) then things go bad very fast.
The capture of the SCOTUS had me thinking how this can possibly be fixed even if Ds win by a wide margin in the midterms. Because corrupt and partisan biased judges like Alito will stay there for life. I don't think judges should be elected no, that would be very bad. But maybe impose terms, longer than any other (say, 12 years)? And maybe the appointment of new judges to the court should have SOME input from current magistrates? I'm not entirely sure how to improve things but I think the current status reached limits all over the world. Venezuela saw their supreme court be captured by Hugo Chávez, Erdogan did the same in Turkey and Órban in Hungary to name a few examples. How can we prevent Donald and the likes from using their corporate sponsored powers along with a corporate sponsored legislative to capture the supreme court? Hard one.
While somewhat rare considering the entirety of GOP voters, there are those Republicans that don't like the shit that's happening, the shit that the party has become. If he had spine and stood by his principles he could have a chance. But he angered the idiots and then gave up on his spine. That's when he lost everything. Democrats could have beaten Trump. And after he got elected they could have already put a lot of pressure to stop him, possibly succeeding considering public opinion of the orange baboon has been falling for ages now. But they too lack spine. With very few exceptions. It's all about having a spine. Note: I do hope Ds win by a landslide and a big one. I don't lump them together with the Rs at all. Except regarding a complete lack of spine. Good thing there are people like Wyden or Sanders (and others with spine).
Chatbots should be held liable much like humans are at the bare minimum. So until the chatbot operator can make a chatbot give medical care and prescriptions online with the same accuracy a human needs to have to maintain their license to practice medicine the chatbot must not provide medical advice. Same with any area including psychological care. Part of the problem, in my point of view, is that chatbots are being treated with a lot of lenience and borderline reverence. But I'd go a bit further. Humans practicing whatever they are have limited reach in how many people they can affect with their malpractices while chatbots can reach hundreds of millions and a huge portion of those simultaneously. So in that regard they should be held to higher standards because the destruction they can produce is much bigger than individuals. At the very least this has to be considered when regulating those pseudo AIs. If the creators of the thing cannot guarantee the bare minimum that is what is demanded from humans by law then they should not offer the service in the first place because it is broken.
At this point the orange baboon and his lackeys are just pilfering the US treasury without any consequence that can effectively stop them. Might as well as just give him a debt card with direct access so he can use as he pleases. And change the name of the country to United States of Donald.
Increase the deportations and the accidental deaths in the ICE concentration camps until they can put the gas chambers online.
The fact that there are people with so much money they can buy themselves into owning the media outlets and, effectively, the government itself will never work in a beneficial way. Unregulated capitalism doesn't work. Loosely regulated capitalism is not working. Can we reign in capitalism before it destroys everything? Socialists have a thing or two to say about that. If we put bigotry and propaganda aside there are successful experiences all over the world (some called social-democracies). And some that are starting to go wrong precisely because they are ditching the social part.
This type of AI, language models, is not AI, it's just statistics on steroids or something. And it does get things wrong - or hallucinate as some say. A lot. A whole freaking lot. And from experience (since it's shoved down our throats). I wouldn't touch anything "AI" with a very long stick if I want to deal with information I'm not very familiar with. And yet here we are using it indiscriminately for all sorts of things, some mundane and non-critical like searching if baboons arses are red but also for very critical stuff like goddamn medical diagnosis, public policies, laws, critical systems coding and even engineering accepting varied but incredibly high error - or hallucination - rates. I mean, when we are dealing with critical, complex systems even a 1% error may be fatal. And for what purpose? To fill the pockets of a few billionaires and stock holders. And we the little people can do shit about it. Just watch as the impending catastrophes, environmental or not, loom in the horizon while most people ignore the warnings like this one. I'm no Luddite. I'm one that hopes technology advances greatly and frees humans from stupid labor and lets people enjoy more of life. But instead we are taking the path towards the abyss and concentrating money in the hands of very, very few while sucking the blood dry of the vast majority of humanity.
Zuckeberg has been an unethical asshole since he started Facebook. Most of us know it started as a chauvinistic project to evaluate his female peers in the university nowadays. From there as he gained tons of money and the power that comes with it his social restraints snapped and here we are. Just like Musk shamelessly did the nazi salute twice in a live event, Zuckeberg has grown used to the shielding that being a billionaire brings from law and everything else that could hold him accountable. I do hope this is starting to change.
I know there are some timid efforts in this direction and it's comforting to see they are ramping up even if there's already plenty of damage done. I'm really hoping the No Kings protests this weekend and the deaths of US citizens by the hands of ICE terrorists spark even more resistance and action. I'm very pessimistic in my posts but I do believe there are a ton of good people in the US who don't deserve this and I do believe they will turn the tables eventually.
If nobody is willing to push for the removal of RFK "Disease-Joe" Jr from his position for all his blatant and well documented crimes against public health, endangering not only USians but the rest of the world then he could just nominate Morbillivirus hominis to the position of CDC director for added debauchery ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not, Dems are way, way better. It's just that they are spineless. It's not that they will destroy anything or do anything remotely as bad as this administration. It's just that they lack the spine to do what it takes to fix the damage and close the institutional holes. It's obvious that both sides are not even remotely similar, R's are a cancer.
oh damn it, I thought the link was some article... owned by AI spam lol
Also, Democrats are mostly a bunch of sold, spineless cowards. Another reason this won't be fixed any time i the next decades.
I know a bunch of people with a crazy visceral hate of the US (for all the good reasons mind you) and they are loving this Trump administration because it's not only ruining the US now, it's destroying their future for decades. I'd argue beyond any chance of reversing or fixing it. Craziness put aside, if I were China I'd be helping the orange baboon and his friends to consolidate power and destroy more and faster. Sooner or later they won't be able to keep up with their wars as well. So yeah, make america great again I guess? (mind you as much as I understand a lot of the hatred - and believe there's plenty of wrongdoing from the US towards the world historically - I don't think all USians should suffer for what their economic elite built and I'd rather those lunatics in US executive right now didn't have a ton of nuclear power at their fingertips)
Then you sue them. In this specific case the design choices affect what the users see already so it is already a speech problem.
My thoughts. It's a well written comment with very interesting counter arguments. And these design choices got more glaring when I switched to Bluesky. It's much less demanding psychologically speaking.
I'm not sure I agree here. I mean, there are measures that Meta and other companies can adopt to make their products more or less addicting (ie: infinite scroll). They can demonetize content involving children exploitation, they can even use automation successfully here while providing objective and useful ways for those who are wrongfully filtered out. There are plenty of ways platforms can make things better and they actively choose to go the other way. So I don't think it's that much of a catastrophe. Sure we need to be very careful with regulations and legal tools but the platforms have shown many, many times they cannot be trusted to generally abide by good practices. So we have to start somewhere. I'm willing to see where this will lead. Because inaction has already produced very bad results.