that's quite dishonest because LLMs have had all manner of facts pre-trained on it with datacenters all over the world catering to it. If you think it can learn in the real world without many many iterations and it still needs pushing and proding on simple tasks that humans perform then I am not convinced.
It's like saying a chess playing computer program like stockfish is a good indicator of intelligence because it knows to play chess but you forgot that the human chess players' expertise was used to train it and understand what makes a good chess program.
corporate speak that doesn't mean anything. Also If you are talking to the creator of a programming language they already know that. That was the goal of the language.
"Plan 9 from bell labs, another landmark achievement"
the sentence is framed as if its a school essay where the teacher asked the question "describe the evolution of unix and linux in 300 words"
"The sam and Acme editors which showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design"
Again explaining how good software is to the author. Also note how this sentence could have been a question in a school essay: "What are the design philosopies behind the sam and acme editors?"
You should know that the former NYC mayor banned criticism/divestment of/from Israel thus creating a domestic law about a foreign nation. Mamdani is simply removing that domestic law and thus erasing a foreign nation from New York's governance dictionary.
You seem smug about your own "well learnedness" but fail to think about the claim
there is nothing insidious about me saying that the enemies of the US empire are not the evil empires the US alleges them to be.
But I am not the US am I. And I am not arguing this. I am saying atrocities are conveniently dusted off saying "there is no evidence" while also asking people to waste their time to provide said evidence only for you to dismiss it as hearsay.
My goal is to understand the world so as to change it
you're unwilling to admit the skeletons in your own closet for which evidence exists.
Conjuring up ideas of dead bodies where they do not exist where they do not exist or exist in far smaller quantities than portrayed
which is it? as a neutral observer you're just playing the same goalshifting and fingerpointing as western imperialist apologists. Don't pretend you're any different.
but there is no "assumption" I am operating under. My default position for any institution is distrust. People as individuals I empathise. People as groups I don't trust.
I have no illusions that others are doing alright. On the contrary. I think "doing alright" is an insidious way of sweeping your dead bodies under the proverbial rug for the sake of "the greater good". Easiest way to lose your humanity.
No amount of greater good can justify doing evil.
Factual analysis is a myth. People draw their own conclusions as they see fit, let alone assuming there is no bias or error in the data. Introspection, admitting to failure, looking out for one another are the missing gems to find nowadays.
Hey I can understand your frustration at their supposedly misplaced reasoning. But you have to let them have that view for some time so their own experience can align it closer to what you believe is happening. It shouldn't be disheartening that people might have incorrect explanations of how the world works for some time.
Hey can you explain to a person who thinks CIA is evil but also think CCP committed atrocities how I am brainwashed? It feels like extremism to believe one atrocity but not the other.. in either direction.
Billionaires don't have billions in their bank accounts. That's not how wealth works.
This is a strawman argument used by dishonest business types who think everybody else is dumb about how wealth works. Nobody is saying billionaires have billions in their bank accounts.
The vast majority of it is tied to property and businesses
Right you are on the same page as the rest of the people arguing against the existence of billionaires.
The number of properties held by a person should be limited to one. Ideally having a clause saying that it has to be on rent for a regulated price. And individuals cannot own a majority of business unless it's a one man job. I would like the world to head towards worker owned cooperatives instead of 0.01% hoarding 90% of the wealth.
Thinking that just because one could comfortably retire that they should is kind of like telling a runner to stop running after having completed their first marathon. They're a runner - runners run.
So the entire neo-liberal thesis is that we should reward psychopaths. That's kind of a non-starter for sustainable living.
A person who became a billionaire views making money the same way. It's what they do. It's what they're good at and derive meaning from.
I can't begin to tell you the enormous amount of problems with this statement with regards to somebody's mental health. You can't be a billionaire without causing suffering to other people. Without leaving somebody else with the short end of the stick. Kindness is alien to people who think this is okay and should be encouraged. This level of worship of money is quite deviant because civilization evolved and thrives on cooperation, not on some misconstrued notion that a single person can derive so much "value" such that they can demand 99% or more of wealth.>
thats because their project is not sensitive as you put it.. it's sensetive.