Comment Um ... what? (Score 1) 14
I kept looking for something that made sense there, but not finding it.
The token, obviously, is not intelligent. One can debate whether the chatbot is, but the token linked to it has nothing to do with that.
I kept looking for something that made sense there, but not finding it.
The token, obviously, is not intelligent. One can debate whether the chatbot is, but the token linked to it has nothing to do with that.
"Monkeys do it" is not a great defense
We should be smarter than monkeys
Language, accents, expressions have always been borrowed, merged, etc. Apparently even by monkeys, lol.
How the heck do you think languages grow and change?
The "woke" effort to declare that process anathema is doomed to failure. (Not that it won't irritate and cause pain along the way, of course.)
and as software owners seek to exploit their control over us to profit at the expense of those freedoms.
Yes, if only somebody unnameable had occasionally warned us that centralizing software on servers owned by somebody else might pose a problem like that
Nah, editors are fishing for clicks and hoping this will milk some Stallman debate.
"Mentor, inspire, coordinate, and manage all ____ staff, building a culture that upholds ____'s ideological principles and includes accountability, empathy, efficiency, and excellence" is totally standard boilerplate for any high-management job posting, but for those who see patterns in clouds I'm sure they think it's totally all about the Stallman comments from a year ago or whenever.
Yes, cultural revolutions merit nothing but yawns. Silly stuff to take note of or discuss.
Different groups will have different risks. If you assess risk fairly, you will inevitably do some group sorting.
Depends on what you mean by fairly. If treating low-risk members of a group as if they posed the same risk as the average of the group is fair in your mind, then you'd be right, in your mind. But most people wouldn't think that'd be treating the individual fairly, at least not if they're the individual in question.
Until we invent crystal balls, groupings and average risks are the only things that insurance companies can use. You have to use statistics.
Actuary: "a person who compiles and analyzes statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums."
The last guy talked a good game when it came to China, but then completely failed to follow through. This guy doesn't even talk a good game, and will also do nothing. But the results will be identical.
So
Everyone knows what the Left has been doing
Lots of you like it, because it's been working for you, but you do know it.
Well, I know what leftist activists in the 60s would have said about some town claiming that "hey, our sidewalks are owned by Sidewalk Corp, so sure, they can ban you from demonstrating here."
Finally, they defended themselves against claims of AI-driven discrimination by almost perfectly describing a case of AI-driven discrimination. Basically, if your ethnicity correlates with higher risk their AI will reverse engineer your ethnicity, decide you're higher risk, and they think it's not discrimination. This is actually a fairly tricky technical problem to solve.
It's an impossible problem to solve.
Different groups will have different risks. If you assess risk fairly, you will inevitably do some group sorting.
This is true everywhere, e.g. higher education, the composition of basketball teams
Hence obfuscation and double talk is inevitable. Well, or realism, I suppose - in theory. But you know which one we actually get in real life.
just wondering why people who are trying to conserve the environment in a state that is fit for human life are activists, but people who are actively destroying the environment are conservatives.
Congrats! Turns out that if you get to frame the whole argument and just assume your axioms, then you get to win every argument! (Inside your own head, anyway.)
The whole point of browser extensions is to modify how the browser operates.
If that's just too terrifying, then don't build a browser that allows extensions.
However, I know many introverts who felt their deep desires validated by COVID. I know MIT PhDs who plan on never working in an office ever again or rarely setting foot in a restaurant...getting everything delivered, presumably rarely changing their underwear. We were already seeing trends of introverted behavior in young adults since smart phones became mainstream. The difference between now and the 40s and 50s are that there are a million great things to do indoors. You can see new movies streaming...I think that trend will continue...even if it doesn't, you can stream a 6 month old movie without leaving the house, get every grocery delivered, etc. You can even get laid on various apps without leaving the house. About 95% of what you and I do can be done by someone without leaving the house with ease. I love going outside, but half my cohort really really thrived with the pandemic. I think many of them are not going back to the old normal.
This is how you get Caves of Steel.
"You shouldn't make my toaster angry." -- Household security explained in "Johnny Quest"
