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Comment Quora is a disaster (Score 1) 86

It's just the anti-social version of 4chan with worse moderation. Your typical spam has better entertainment value and quality. The only reason not to ban it is that teen is nothing blatantly illegal. I can't imagine anything on Quora that doesn't have a better Urban Dictionary entry.

Comment Re: even as labeled parody (Score 1) 145

I remember in second grade when people started saying, "no, you!", and it seems like there has been a resurgence. I blame the complete lack of journalism in corporate media. They model the most idiotic, low effort flaming and don't even attempt at journalistic effort. My favorite thing is when they say something smart sounding, but it is a complete lie, such as when the government will lie about things like citizen surveillance, they won't take any responsibility because they just said what they were told to say by the government. Like, exactly! You don't do journalism!!

Comment Re:Other kinds of signatures (Score 1) 89

Thankfully the law is very clear about the elements of a contract: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Mutual Assent, Legal Capacity, Legality I say it is important to look at this in the context of those other elements, because it all comes down to whether they didn't realize this was an agreement, or if they later regretted the agreement. Mutual assent reveals a lot; what did the respondent do in relationship to this offer before and after the thumbs up.

Comment Re:Other kinds of signatures (Score 1) 89

Imho, it is a signature, but the question becomes what they are signing; receipt of documents or agreement. I am with you that there is a degree of ambiguity, but that ambiguity should be determined by context, specifically all other contract elements: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Mutual Assent, Legal Capacity, Legality I expect mutual assent is going to be the decider here. If they took any steps what so ever towards trying to make this deal work, but then either failed to follow through or changed their mind, it is clearly breach. It goes from "I didn't sign that" to "I regret signing that", and it is an enforceable contract.

Comment A misleading overstatement (Score 1) 68

I can appreciate that it makes little sense to hire a person whose sole job / title is "prompt engineer", but there is a tremendous amount of knowledge embedded within the many valuable prompt frameworks that guide GPSs to not make their own assumptions. Underlying hidden assumptions, context and purpose are not something that can be magically extracted from a users head, and in person to person communications are deep and unspoken. Further, it would violate Grice's Maxims for a chat bot to hound a user about context and purpose with every new prompt or otherwise train the user to ask good questions. It makes sense for GPTs to make a best guess and often guess wrong when the user lacks self awareness of, again, underlying assumptions, context, and purpose of their own communication (and subsequently blame the bot of participating in some kind of conspiracy or otherwise being unintelligent, or generic). All to say that while the job title of "prompt engineer" may be short lived, gathering and communicating the information to either give a bot in training or teach users, is and will continue to be a highly valuable skill. Makes me think of philosophy degrees. Virtually useless on their own, but an absolute powerhouse of a tool when paired with something else such as law, business, or other industry involving people and thinking.

Comment Re:"Demons and monsters"? (Score 1) 75

Related, this could also be a lesson in the importance of prompt engineering / prompt framework. Very short / terrible prompts, such as no context, goal, audience, purpose, background, iteration, or assumptions; the guesses made by an AI will have unpredictable and undesirable results. All this proves is that looking descriptively as what is associated with "pro-choice" isn't positive, or even advocacy for the pro-choice position. Agree or disagree, that's just reality.

Comment Re:Probably (Score 1) 311

Open Minded went to tin foil hat really quick. It does not make sense for "covid" to be either an immediate cause or underlying cause of death given the definition of those terms and what covid did to people. It would be a contributory cause, no matter how much the contribution, that may or may not be listed for any numer of reasons. The same way "alcohol + stupid" or "f***ed around and found out" wouldn't be an immediate or underlying cause for a Darwin Award winner. Is it really such a controversial take to recognize that a spike in general stress and anxiety levels is going to result in higher mortality rate, and that 2020 - 2022 was a particularly stressful couple years for a statistically significant portion of the population? Further, I thought the popular conspiracy theory right now was blaming vaccine injury.

Comment Why isn't our propaganda working?!? (Score 1) 106

It speaks volumes that the attempts to lead the law in perverse ways has 1) been this really aggressive attempt to lie and defraud people into thinking the law is something other than what it is, 2) pervert historical academic views on property rights, all to favor distributors at the expense of artists and consumers. And now they whine when it hasn't been fully successful and the only question they have is how to make the propaganda better.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 25

Gemini is profoundly awful both in what it has delivered in my experience, and virtually every example I see online. It already reads like a Reddit troll and this will only be a continuation of that pattern. It might as well train on Quora and YouTube comments. Google is failing faster at AI than Kodak did to see the value in digital photography.

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