You can open the door for a Democratic official, install a conveyer belt so they don't even have to put effort into walking across the threshold, and they will balk at the first step and discuss bullet points about the affordability of groceries while conservatives try try again to destroy every last democratic institution left in the US government.
Watching responses to Chuck Schumer's Bluesky account is like watching a gambler indebted to a knee-cracking loanshark beg a horse to just please win one race where no one else is even competing...and the horse refuses.
Even if Trump's goons ended up murdering a senator or congressperson, there'd still be a contingent of GOP legislators on Sunday morning news shows decrying the supposed terrorism and lawlessness of the victim and an impeachment vote might at best get through the House and then "rational" and "very concerned" senators would still acquit in order to "heal the nation."
This is a selfish capitalist society at heart. So many systems in isolation can be argued as "not the way it should be," but they exist because better solutions are rejected outright. Crime goes down when jobs and wages and education go up. Crime and drug use go down when mental health services are more available. But NIMBYs complain about their taxes helping poor people. People complain about can and bottle recycling bringing homeless people to redemption centers in neighborhoods, but that's because there aren't better systems to help them survive without collecting cans and bottles.
People shouldn't be getting health care, mental or otherwise, from an LLM, but many don't have a viable alternative. And sadly, even the official and expensive services are gradually introducing more "AI" features, whether patients like it or not. My health care provider has been using algorithms and decision tree software as policy for diagnosis to determine what testing they'll do or not do, such that if you're a statistical outlier, they just won't do a particular test because enough if the sample population didn't present with the same vaguely observed symptoms.
Yeah, unfortunately it's really hard to break the habit of trying to write coherently. Parody can be hard when anything you think is too absurd to be real is immediately surpassed and no longer visible in the rear view mirror.
Well, I mean, he was in fact elected in the biggliest landslide victory of 600% of the electoral vote and over 1000% of the popular vote because he's the...look, nobody understands nuclear like he does, and the Chinese are just ripping us off, so you just have to raise tariffs on the Swiss Prime Minister because she's just nasty and prices are down everywhere like you've never seen and all the experts are saying he should have won the Olympic Gold medal in everything but they cheated him out of it because they're just awful people like you've never seen and everybody knows and windmills cause cancer and have you seen his ratings because they're the best ever, everyone loves him except fake people. Thank you for your attention to this.
The scenario the OP posted analogized an amoral non-conscious predictive text generator with a living, breathing, conscious human being, which is to say, not analogous at all. You can't really answer a false premise with a legitimate response because the basis must be coherent in the first place.
I took a tour of a jail once where they had a display of all the clever carved toothbrush shivs and makeshift "firearms" inmates had made out of papier-mâché made in a toilet and pen springs. If you're aiming to misbehave in a free society with a hardware store around the corner, you can make deadlier things than 3D printed cheap plastic chotchkes and articulated dragons that you're kids are going to break in a few days.
This is "do something" and "nerd harder" performative bullshit. A lathe is an unregulated piece of equipment more useful to making a firearm component than a 3D printer and they're not proposing anything on that front. Sure, you could 3D print gun parts. But they aren't all that reliable, for the same reason you can't 3D print a 3D printer entirely. You can print parts of course (and people do), but the need to have heat tolerant parts like the hotend and extruder typically requires metal. The filament is meant to melt at certain temperatures (and PLA is common specifically because it has a low melting temperature).
The is series-of-tubes/not-a-bug-truck stupidity about a topic the legislators clearly don't understand.
This is the current administration writ large. Previous norms, intentions, understandings, legal precedents, etc do not matter to them. They will argue that they can do what they want by whatever flimsy argument they can make in the moment.
See also Noem changing site inspection rules for Congresspersons based on weasel wording about funding bills and fungible spending.
See also the administration arbitrarily canceling asylum cases to just immediately deport people who were following legal procedures.
Et cetera, et cetera, et alia, ad infinitum
And then our local Lord Haw-Haw will come in and confirm for us that everything Trump does is legal because democracy is actually just mob rule, the Constitution is optional, and Trump has a mandate through his historical landslide victory of less than half of the popular vote.
"I just made up my own version of this scenario via wishful thinking and confirmation bias and now I'll accuse you of doing what I'm currently doing! I know the truth because I just made it up!"
Which billionaire capitalist corporation is advocating for socialism, collectivism, anarchism, syndicalism, or any such systems?
Oh wait, you don't know what those mean and think "far left" is when the government isn't overtly corrupt and run by billionaires because you were defenestrated through the Overton window like a former Putin ally.
I have used the Wayback Machine to recover lost versions of my own websites, track how far back a policy has been in place for an employer after the institutional knowledge has retired, verify publication dates on news topics to combat disinformation about what what known when, among hundreds of other beneficial uses.
It's exceptionally shortsighted to block archiving, unless of you have something to hide. It's like throwing out masters of famous recordings or putting a Picasso on the curb in the rain. You're destroying history. We've seen companies change owners and whole publications and archives just disappear on a whim or spite or ignorance.
Once again, every accusation is a confession. Conservatives performatively pearl clutched and bitched about supposed left wing bias in media (while actually leftist media is functionally non-existent in the mainstream) and pretending that the government alerting media platforms to user agreement violations and actually illegal voter fraud was somehow an authoritarian takeover of media. And now the Trump administration is just blatantly doing far worse than it has ever accused anyone else of, picking winners of mergers that it should be blocking, directly threatening networks and influencing coverage, demanding edits where it once decried them.
WAR IS THE MOST PEACEFUL WE'VE EVER BEEN.
FREEDOM HAS NEVER BEEN MORE SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS THE BEST STRENGTH.
BIG FCC IS WATCHING YOU.
The Cambridge dictionary says “completely correct”, Brittanica says nearly the same, and Collins says “no different from what you are stating.”
Let me stop you there. Citing a dictionary only tells you how the dictionary denotation writers have observed how a word has been used. It is not prescriptive of how you must use a word nor is it a perfect guide to how someone used a word in a particular instance.
One doesn’t normally call someone exactly right when agreeing with only a single point of several expressed.
Note that you said "someone" was right, when Mike had said "that," clearly not referring to the person but to the point her perceived was being made. And you can definitely say "that" is right when referring only to a portion of a longer sentence or thought.
the word “and” suggests it to be separate from the “considered to be” point,
No...? Some writers try to be concise so they don't always reuse a phrase in the same sentence. "And" here suggests "considered to be" is distributed in front of each group. That's how I would have written it.
and it’s not clear whether the quotation marks were meant as scare quotes, actual quotes of some unidentifed third party, or just a marker of colloquial usage.
It doesn't really matter which and those aren't mutually exclusive scenarios. It's clear the quotes means the speaker is dissociating themselves from the judgment with the quotes by disavowing them as his own words.
It seems most likely both the quoted person and Mike were using language imprecisely.
Welcome to human communication.
On the other hand, another anonymous comment already replied to explain why they believe Mike considers OpenAI a villain
I didn't read that as them speaking for Mike. They didn't say, "Mike believes..." I'd attribute that position entirely to the anonymous commenter. Mike might agree, but I wouldn't assume so until he says so or you dig into past articles where he has spoken of it. Also, I'd expect Mike to be more nuanced on the topic than is being represented. I've been reading his writing for 15+ years.
You seem unwilling to accept Mike's own words while accepting an anonymous person's even more imprecise words. Two people out of a sample of hundreds or thousands of possible readers isn't a consensus.
I don’t accept that as “misquoting”; it seems reasonable to interpret the word “that” as referring to the entire block-quoted segment directly preceding it, especially given that it says “exactly” rather than something like “partially”.
Bullshit. Exactly doesn't mean "entirely" as opposed to "partially." And you're ignoring that "bad guys" is in singular quotes in the quote. It's not an assertion that OpenAI is the bad guys (nor is it that they're not). It's an acknowledgement by the speaker that some people perceive it to be that way.
And the succeeding sentence after "that's exactly right" clearly indicates what Mike intended. He would have said something about OpenAI being a bad guy if that was what "that's exactly right" was referring to.
While you might be right about the intended meaning, we can’t really determine that from the text, and I don’t agree with the “indicated by”. That indicates Mike is agreeing, again, with the “collateral damage” part, and says nothing about agreeing or disagreeing with the “bad guy” part. But it could just be sloppy writing.
It seems pretty clear cut to me. If Mike wanted to express his opinion of OpenAI, he would. You're being obtuse.
You can open the door for a Democratic official, install a conveyer belt so they don't even have to put effort into walking across the threshold, and they will balk at the first step and discuss bullet points about the affordability of groceries while conservatives try try again to destroy every last democratic institution left in the US government. Watching responses to Chuck Schumer's Bluesky account is like watching a gambler indebted to a knee-cracking loanshark beg a horse to just please win one race where no one else is even competing...and the horse refuses.
Even if Trump's goons ended up murdering a senator or congressperson, there'd still be a contingent of GOP legislators on Sunday morning news shows decrying the supposed terrorism and lawlessness of the victim and an impeachment vote might at best get through the House and then "rational" and "very concerned" senators would still acquit in order to "heal the nation."
This is a selfish capitalist society at heart. So many systems in isolation can be argued as "not the way it should be," but they exist because better solutions are rejected outright. Crime goes down when jobs and wages and education go up. Crime and drug use go down when mental health services are more available. But NIMBYs complain about their taxes helping poor people. People complain about can and bottle recycling bringing homeless people to redemption centers in neighborhoods, but that's because there aren't better systems to help them survive without collecting cans and bottles. People shouldn't be getting health care, mental or otherwise, from an LLM, but many don't have a viable alternative. And sadly, even the official and expensive services are gradually introducing more "AI" features, whether patients like it or not. My health care provider has been using algorithms and decision tree software as policy for diagnosis to determine what testing they'll do or not do, such that if you're a statistical outlier, they just won't do a particular test because enough if the sample population didn't present with the same vaguely observed symptoms.
Yeah, unfortunately it's really hard to break the habit of trying to write coherently. Parody can be hard when anything you think is too absurd to be real is immediately surpassed and no longer visible in the rear view mirror.
Apply Dunning-Kruger directly to forehead.
Well, I mean, he was in fact elected in the biggliest landslide victory of 600% of the electoral vote and over 1000% of the popular vote because he's the...look, nobody understands nuclear like he does, and the Chinese are just ripping us off, so you just have to raise tariffs on the Swiss Prime Minister because she's just nasty and prices are down everywhere like you've never seen and all the experts are saying he should have won the Olympic Gold medal in everything but they cheated him out of it because they're just awful people like you've never seen and everybody knows and windmills cause cancer and have you seen his ratings because they're the best ever, everyone loves him except fake people. Thank you for your attention to this.
The scenario the OP posted analogized an amoral non-conscious predictive text generator with a living, breathing, conscious human being, which is to say, not analogous at all. You can't really answer a false premise with a legitimate response because the basis must be coherent in the first place.
I took a tour of a jail once where they had a display of all the clever carved toothbrush shivs and makeshift "firearms" inmates had made out of papier-mâché made in a toilet and pen springs. If you're aiming to misbehave in a free society with a hardware store around the corner, you can make deadlier things than 3D printed cheap plastic chotchkes and articulated dragons that you're kids are going to break in a few days.
FWIW, the internet isn't a bug truck either...
This is "do something" and "nerd harder" performative bullshit. A lathe is an unregulated piece of equipment more useful to making a firearm component than a 3D printer and they're not proposing anything on that front. Sure, you could 3D print gun parts. But they aren't all that reliable, for the same reason you can't 3D print a 3D printer entirely. You can print parts of course (and people do), but the need to have heat tolerant parts like the hotend and extruder typically requires metal. The filament is meant to melt at certain temperatures (and PLA is common specifically because it has a low melting temperature). The is series-of-tubes/not-a-bug-truck stupidity about a topic the legislators clearly don't understand.
If there are dozens, you could certainly cite at least one if not six. Go for it, dude.
This is the current administration writ large. Previous norms, intentions, understandings, legal precedents, etc do not matter to them. They will argue that they can do what they want by whatever flimsy argument they can make in the moment. See also Noem changing site inspection rules for Congresspersons based on weasel wording about funding bills and fungible spending. See also the administration arbitrarily canceling asylum cases to just immediately deport people who were following legal procedures. Et cetera, et cetera, et alia, ad infinitum And then our local Lord Haw-Haw will come in and confirm for us that everything Trump does is legal because democracy is actually just mob rule, the Constitution is optional, and Trump has a mandate through his historical landslide victory of less than half of the popular vote.
"Free speech absolutists": "You're absolutely free to shut up and listen to my speech. Also, your speech is a violent assault on me."
"I just made up my own version of this scenario via wishful thinking and confirmation bias and now I'll accuse you of doing what I'm currently doing! I know the truth because I just made it up!"
[citation needed] but will never materialize.
Which billionaire capitalist corporation is advocating for socialism, collectivism, anarchism, syndicalism, or any such systems? Oh wait, you don't know what those mean and think "far left" is when the government isn't overtly corrupt and run by billionaires because you were defenestrated through the Overton window like a former Putin ally.I have used the Wayback Machine to recover lost versions of my own websites, track how far back a policy has been in place for an employer after the institutional knowledge has retired, verify publication dates on news topics to combat disinformation about what what known when, among hundreds of other beneficial uses. It's exceptionally shortsighted to block archiving, unless of you have something to hide. It's like throwing out masters of famous recordings or putting a Picasso on the curb in the rain. You're destroying history. We've seen companies change owners and whole publications and archives just disappear on a whim or spite or ignorance.
Once again, every accusation is a confession. Conservatives performatively pearl clutched and bitched about supposed left wing bias in media (while actually leftist media is functionally non-existent in the mainstream) and pretending that the government alerting media platforms to user agreement violations and actually illegal voter fraud was somehow an authoritarian takeover of media. And now the Trump administration is just blatantly doing far worse than it has ever accused anyone else of, picking winners of mergers that it should be blocking, directly threatening networks and influencing coverage, demanding edits where it once decried them. WAR IS THE MOST PEACEFUL WE'VE EVER BEEN. FREEDOM HAS NEVER BEEN MORE SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS THE BEST STRENGTH. BIG FCC IS WATCHING YOU.