Yeah what really struck me about the whole thing is it's not that he wants more investment in US manufacturing, it's that he seems to want them to literally take their equipment (but presumably not the people because eww immigrants) and transport the whole lot to the US.
Also if you look at the technology of his time, there was no reason to think there'd be this huge explosion of information enough that you'd be able to just stitch a hundred million books and petabytes of online forums' worth of text together into a statistical next token predictor.
In his time there were maybe at most 4 million publications in all of existence (extrapolating from https://www.clrn.org/how-many-books-have-been-published-in-history/ ) which finger-in-the-air estimate would be ~2Tb; a tiny fraction of what's on the internet now. Even if he'd anticipated the invention of the transistor and microchip technology, the brain he was imagining still would have had to be able to reason in the traditional way; an LLM trained entirely on Project Gutenberg would not come close to passing the Turing Test no matter how many parameters you built it with. To Turing, passing as human would have meant possessing a capacity of reason beyond assigning probability values to a list of potential autocompletes based on what's in all the other texts.
...that's not what happened when I clicked it. I guess you have to have your anti-tracking disabled?
(side note: I hate the phrase "gift link". It's not a gift, it's a promo, as evidenced by the number of blatant marketing agency accounts posting them on social media.)
I’ve concluded that with personal boycotts, perfect is the enemy of good. Time was I’d decide to boycott someone like Nestle but then fall off the wagon when I had a Smarties craving and then just sort of stop doing the rest of it.
So now I take the approach of trying to look for an alternative, but if I can’t find it then I won’t beat myself up about it, I’ll keep trying tomorrow. It’s not great but it’s better than what I was doing before.
That said, it wasn’t at all difficult to cut all the US grocery brands out of my shopping when Trump started his tariff bullshit, cause it’s all hyper-processed artificially coloured crap to begin with.
It's not so much that it's ChatGPT in of itself, as it's ChatGPT and therefore, as per usual, sounds superficially clever until you actually read it and realize it's meaningless nonsense.
I read it as criticising reductionist views of the many diverse nations that existed in North America before Europeans showed up and decided that the whole continent was Terra Nullius.
To this day a significant number of US high school American History textbooks only discuss the tribes in terms of their interactions with European invaders, and shy away from anything that might make them look like they were ever legitimate nations. Referring to them as 'Native Americans' instead of by name also has this effect.
Copyright is a compromise, not an absolute. It has all kinds of provisions for things like commentary, public interest etc which generally speaking does allow short clips of a greater work.
I went to an evangelical type church many years ago and all their charity spending was “missions” to spread the Word. One of the missions while I was there was to Six fucking Flags.
I’m not sure anyone actually does fall for it per se; it’s one of those lies that literally everyone knows is a lie, but CEOs and corrupt politicians need it to be true in order to justify what they want to do next so they have to go through the process of saying it first.
“It’s bad for consumers” is one of those phrases that’s been misused so often I’m amazed these cunts still try to use it with a straight face. It’s like “I’m not racist, but” in terms of phrases that are widely understood to mean their direct opposite.
Shame. I never bought it but I did enjoy what it brought to the colours and shapes on the supermarket freezer shelf. RIP sideways orange black and white cylinder.
I can't tell if you're missing the point deliberately for humorous effect...