Oh sure, we can also say that Israel "banana'd" in Gaza too, if we change the meaning of the word banana. So sure Israel committed genocide, for some definition of the word genocide.

Oh really, I thought it was the part where China annex part of India in a war that India tried hard to avoid.

Tibet, Sinkiang, Korea, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan. Literally every neighbour hates China except Pakistan and Myanmar. The latter is a crime state.

It's true that many people have self-serving reasons for hating LLMs.

About 1 million Americans have lost their job this year, with AI being a cited by employers.

I am certainly going to try getting ChatGPT to read and understand legal contracts before going to speak to a lawyer. The more I know, the better questions I can ask. I use a privately staged LLM to posed medical questions. Better than running the gauntlet of Canada's broken medical system. Yes I read articles from NIH. LLMs aren't a replacement for expertise. But these are concrete examples where LLMs threaten jobs while making ordinary people's lives better.

Job losses are a real concern, and people are right to be worried/concerned, even if economic change is good in the long run.

I'm more concerned by the cruddy quality. Ask it questions about the existence of God, and ChatGPT will say it has no opinion, and is NOT agnostic. Mmm, sure thing. Something is true/not true/cannot be talked about, if powerful people will get angry over what ChatGPT will say about it. Apparently there's as many people employed to "manage the message" as there are building the underlying useful technology. I find this pathetic.

The technology is amazing. It is a game changer. It'll be exploited by scammers. It has huge problems. It'll take time for society to adjust.

"We need money for roads and schools" is sometimes about paying for generous entitlements to previous employees.

Use Linux and MacOS, and iOS heavily. Gotta say that Linux is essentially hassle free. Very very few random changes to KDE system panels. Some minor stability issues with updating KDE. That's about all.

Mac has gone down hill a long way from the high UI standards of the 1980s. Using the control panel has devolved into a linear search. Stuff seems randomly organized probably due to Conway's Law. The worst feature is that you cannot uninstall itunes. The very existence of noTunes (so you don't accidentally boot itunes by hitting the wrong button) is a telling indictment on Silicon Valley's corporate culture.

I've had some great baking recipes from LLMs. Fun asking it why you'd do things. Eg., "why would you chill the batter of a cake?" Of course, I never expected it to give me 100% accurate information, and know enough about baking to parse the information that it's giving me.

Planned economies would likewise happily replace people with machines, if they could. The set of modern planned economies is very short: North Korea.

State capitalism -- where the state controls the decisions, but the profit motive remains, includes: China, Laos, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Eritrea... there's not a single country there that give a flying fsck about human rights.

True. And it replaces the previous policy of forcing an organization to do the bidding of the administration. DEI was foisted on America through government rules and legal activism.

The perfect rhetorical fortress: you don’t have the correct identity to have an opinion. I’m not white. No matter, there’s something else wrong with my immutable characteristics. Too much butt hair? Cannot have an opinion. And let’s assume that I tick all the immutable characteristics to have an opinion on DEI. Well, I have internalized homophobia/white supremacy/misogyny you name it. The perfect rhetorical fortress. Hermetic.

The funny thing about this is that DEI was shoved down the throats of universities and corporate America by government rules! And now reversing those rules — or eliminating them — is someone a huge problem!

The funny thing about this is that the Supreme Court has consistently been narrowing the parameters of what constitutes legal race/sex based discrimination since the 1970s. And universities and activists have blithely been ignoring the law. Affirmative action was always meant to be a temporary measure to achieve a goal, not some perpetual group-based right. The later is the very antithesis of the legal foundation of the country.

That’s the sales pitch. I’m sure someone somewhere had their PR knocked back because they weren’t “cis-gendered white Christian male”. In a world of 8 billion people, it’s entirely plausible that it happened once. A pretty low bar for excusing bigotry against people who don’t think like you though.

Nah, it was a Freudian slip.

DEI is the racism of low expectations. Or the racial supremacy of certain morally compromised minority individuals.

You keep telling yourself that anti-DEI is merely racism. Psychological projection