@Oldfartrant

Racists. Bigots. Misogynists assholes, Republicans may be the same people who use hate to feel superior towards any people of difference, so am being being redundant?

@augieray Possibly one of these groups rarely leaves their house 👼

@Riedl The story is a fantastic parable. The dates, OTOH, don't quite make any sense. I think this story wasn't supposed to be released until AFTER June 1st.

@nuintari Perception vs reality. And man biting dog.

@nuintari I have never heard of IT devices shutting down because they are too cold. Brilliant.

@Annalee Healthcare Access is good but the Standard American Diet is very, very bad. France, Italy, and Japan (IDK about Sweden) have deep culinary traditions which involve vegetables as well as fewer additives. Americans have at least 70 years of highly processed crap laden with sugar.

@shauna Which came first, technology, the attention economy or ADD?

@JamesGleick I am very tired of those that pretend that the "hallucination problem" is some sort of minor tweak that has to happen when in fact the inability to separate truth from fiction is fundamental to the way LLMs are designed.

@davidtoddmccarty 1, sure, but how many 11 yo can you beat in a fight?@oatmeal@mastodon.social

The counterargument in the ChatGPT lawyer debacle is that the AI's summarization of the precedent, being based on a statistical summary of the relevant legal debates, is a better Hayekian distillation of the common law tradition than any ordinary exercise in legal pedantry carried out by humans combing Westlaw. The hallucinated citations are a purer form of the caselaw than any merely existing cases in our sordid sublunar realm could possibly aspire to being.

@jerry @mawhrin @pieselpriemel Or got distracted before they followed anyone and now can't remember their password.

@ajkohn @vorticoncmdr So we all go around feeling a bit of deja vu and yet we can find that quote we were looking for.

@davidtoddmccarty @jonahstein It is about the narrative. I know both sides are pretty deeply embedded in their bubble but IMO, a forceful, direct confrontation will be more effect than ridicule.

@davidtoddmccarty @jonahstein The both sides ism when one side responds to a lie with facts is useless. Respond by calling someone a liar changes the conversation to what is actually true and puts them on the defensive.

Remember the famous "You Lie" during the state of the Union? How about Alito's "Lie" as Obama lambasted citizens united for opening the door to foreign dark money contributions?

@davidtoddmccarty @jonahstein Because the GOP lies continually and keeps repeating these lies until people believe them. Democrats rarely call these LIES. Every time they go an TV; "You keep lying to the American people. You lied about X. You lied about Y. Why should anyone believe you are not lying about Z?

At least they the reporters can ask pointed questions and demand they respond to these claims.

@davidtoddmccarty @jonahstein Err. Maybe fixed. Updated in IceCube but doesn't show in the browser.

@davidtoddmccarty @jonahstein Fixed!

@davidtoddmccarty @jonahstein LOL. SIRI voice to text and me not paying attention.

@funnymonkey This is like when cops say they cannot do their jobs if they can’t do unfettered racism/brutality/violations of people’s rights. It’s very telling about what they think their purpose is.

@alchemistsstudio Yes, Berkeley is among the safest places the world for a pride flag. In fairness, as a cis gendered straight white man who is 6'6" and well over 300 lbs, I am pretty much ALWAYS an outlier when it comes to assessing a risk profile.