Up in Canada, I’ve only ever heard weed whacker

I’ve decided that gaming is my top solo hobby, so I dedicate the appropriate time to it. On most days, I can get a solid hour in, sometimes 2 if I’m caught up or ahead on errands and making food.

Thanks for sharing! Never would’ve known about this otherwise.

Definitely! Journalists would have to be reasonably certain of the intent to be able to publish it that way, though.

at the federal level I only vote for the candidates in my writing

I’m guessing you’re a Canadian that was using voice-to-text with your device’s language set to “US English”.

In American English, “writing” and “riding” sound the same. But not in Canadian English. Or British English, but for a different reason.

Last I heard, “learning styles” are a myth

“Lies” and even “fabricates” imply intent. “Makes shit up” is probably most accurate, but it also implies intent, which we can’t really apply to an LLM.

Hallucination is probably the most accurate thing. There’s no intent – it’s something made up, that it expresses as true not because it is trying to mislead, but because it’s just as “true” to the LLM as anything else it says.

There’s a difference between a small penis and a micropenis.

Yeah. I mean, I am a feminist. I know that a lot of problems are caused by the patriarchy, and yes, men in general sometimes.

But car-dependency is not one of them. And conflating them for no reason just hurts both causes.

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If I wanted an AI summary, I’d put the article into my favourite LLM and ask for one.

I’m sure LLMs can take links sometimes.

And if Wikipedia wanted to include it directly into the site…make it a button, not an insertion.

I dunno, I some of the same junk and oft-repeated lines decades ago. We literally have a phrase for it: “Old wives’ tales”.

Having taught “kids these days”, I have still seen independent and creative thought in the majority of them.

These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.

There isn’t really a single sliding scale of “complexity” when it comes to certain tasks.

Given the appropriate input, a calculator can divide two numbers. But it can’t count the number of R’s in the word “strawberry”.

Meanwhile, a script that could count the number of instances of a letter in a word could count those R’s, but it couldn’t divide any two numbers.

Similarly, we didn’t complain that a typewriter couldn’t put pepperoni slices onto a pizza.

Alienation can result from actions of individuals, yes.

This isn’t much different from what teachers said about the internet, search engines, and Wikipedia…

This community is “FuckCars”, not “FuckMen”. There are plenty of men here who are here because “Fuck Cars”. I don’t think that alienating the men of this community will do any good.

There are plenty of geniuses out there who aren’t great at board games. Using a tool not fit for task is more of an issue with the person using the wrong tool than an issue with the tool itself.

I do get where you’re coming from though. There are definitely people who don’t understand why a ChatBot wouldn’t be good at chess.

I’d be interested in seeing marketing of ChatGPT as a competitive boardgame player. Is there any?

That is more a failure of the person who made that decision than a failing of ChatBots, lol

Because people want to feel superior because they don’t know how to use a ChatBot can count the number of "r"s in the word “strawberry”, lol