I've heard that people think he tried a variety of quack treatments alongside doctor prescribed treatments. Basically generally desperate and ready to try everything all at once. Which is a common theme among terminal patients.
But he did say antivax stuff, after having been vaccinated. So at least when his own personal stakes are low, he was willing to roll with the MAGA rhetoric, but he wasn't about to let his own life be at additional risk for it.
Because he and Biden had the same cancer. He actually explicitly said Trump was wrong for being mean to Biden over it. If Adams didn't have the same disease, he probably would have piled on.
Think it depends. Like a lot of other cancer stuff, there's variability. Most of the common prostate cancer is that easy and in fact they don't even treat it. My wife's grandfather was told they would basically do nothing until it started getting bad., and he died of unrelated heart failure years later without his cancer progressing.
Sounds like his was not so livable. Also unclear if he tried ivermectin instead of traditional treatment, or as an additional hail Mary. I've known people who had cancer and they tried anything and everything alongside their treatment, in case anything would help. I also knew one guy that thought just vitamin c would cure his cancer and declined any other treatment, and got killed by what may have been a supremely treatable cancer.
I suppose it depends on if you think faith is inherently important or it's just the behavior.
I mean his paragraph is pretty much outright silly, but broadly you can decide that acting "right" might happen to help you in an afterlife scenario. Some specifics prescribed by religion are kind of arbitrary, but there's some common things about trying to be good to others.v Going MAGA like he did would seem to be a perilous move in that context.
Seems to be particularly prevalent among celebrities when they fall out of popularity.
In the 90s, he was top of the world, the biggest comic strip, a TV show, and just so much merchandise.
Then in the 2000s, people just kind of got over it. It's not like it became any worse or anything, just everyone had seen it by now, and it just became another strip among many.
So he joined the ranks of other celebrities that everyone just got bored with, like Kevin Sorbo, Kid Rock, etc. When fame leaves them they get all pissy and blame the world.
Yes, he did try that stuff, but I've read some claims that he did it alongside the treatments the doctors gave him.
Like it was kind of pointless, but also kind of harmless because he didn't let it get in the way of real medicine.
At least when it came to cancer, I don't think anyone cited him being a denier about more effective treatments, just he was in the "I'll try anything" mode of having a terminal illness.
Of course he had a lot of other problematic things as a die hard maga, including antivax and whining how white men have it so bad and saying Trump and friends lying was actually good because the lies were "directionally true", but maybe just not overly bad stuff about the cancer.
The cancer prodded him to actually break with trump on the specific matter of being mean to Biden over the same cancer Adams had.
To be fair, AI was still underwhelming compared to what people imagined AI to be, it's just that LLM essentially swore up and down that this is the AI they had been waiting for, and that moved the goalposts to have to classifiy 'AGI' specifically.
Yeah, the comics professor is to grade the visuals, and the text is filler, could be lorem ipsum for all they care. Simlarly a screenwriter using AI to storyboard seems fine as it's not the core product.
The ideal would be cross-discipline projects bringing students together similar to how they would be expected to deal in the real world, but when individual assignments call for 'filler' content to stand in for one of those other disciplines, I think I could accept LLM as a reasonable compromise. I would expect some assignments to ask the students to go beyond their core discipline for some perspective and LLM be bad for that, but I could see a place for skipping the irrelevant complementary pieces of a good chunk of assignments.
Not just a high opinion of themselves, they think everyone is as self-centered as they are, and any claims about needing human workers for the task by human workers is just self-serving and not caring about the work.
Every executive I've met that has declared they will be able to reduce headcount thanks to AI is an idiot. They are frequently factually incorrect but blather on confidentially regardless.
That's one area where LLM absolutely can do the same thing.
Competent executives? No it can't but corporate world doesn't reward competence, they only care about confidence.
And managers think it's good for everything except being executives and management. Except that's probably the one thing AI can do just as well as a manager who thinks AI is good for a bunch of stuff.
Yes, major setback for the world, but China's interests aren't aligned with the world.
If they can't have TSMC, second best thing (for them) would be to get rid of it to improve China's standing in participating in that market.
Yes, it means that everything is set back, massive shortages, all sorts of bad stuff. Stuff that China wants to be sourced more from China, so if the most competitive alternative is out of the picture, then they can do better.
I've heard that people think he tried a variety of quack treatments alongside doctor prescribed treatments. Basically generally desperate and ready to try everything all at once. Which is a common theme among terminal patients.
But he did say antivax stuff, after having been vaccinated. So at least when his own personal stakes are low, he was willing to roll with the MAGA rhetoric, but he wasn't about to let his own life be at additional risk for it.
Because he and Biden had the same cancer. He actually explicitly said Trump was wrong for being mean to Biden over it. If Adams didn't have the same disease, he probably would have piled on.