ArbitraryValue

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you aware that there is a significant population of white people in South Africa and a long history of racial conflict there between them and the black majority? The white minority ruled over and oppressed the black majority until the end of apartheid in the early nineties and the idea that the majority could now be persecuting the minority is not ridiculous per se the way that you imply it is, although the general consensus outside of the circles Trump listens to is that such persecution isn’t happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, an “unauthorized modification”. It must have been the janitor pressing buttons accidentally while mopping the mainframe room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncultured⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their true purpose is sinister.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When We Are No Longer Needed: Emerging Elites, Tech Trillionaires and the Decline of Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a very good reason for the super rich to support the rule of law: it protects their own wealth and power. Even if they may want to be aristocrats in a highly stratified society like, for example, 19th century Britain rather than a modern democratic welfare state, they don’t stand to benefit from the transition to a modern autocracy. 19th century Britain was very much a nation of laws where the government would protect the rights and property of the super rich whereas modern autocrats quickly co-opt them into personal lenders whose well-being is entirely at the mercy of the autocrat.

  Thus, while some super rich individuals may support populist autocracy either due to idiosyncratic personal beliefs or short-term political expediency, transitioning to it is not in the best interest of the super rich as a class. Rule of law isn’t the same thing as democracy but I don’t see a global movement towards rule of law without democracy - the two are in the present day apparently inextricable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever a beast is shown on screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they stomped loudly (except maybe when they ran) but I don’t see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever a beast is shown on screen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He’s going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was definitely inappropriate, but it would still have been inappropriate if it was made up by a human rather than by an AI. I think it’s useful to distribute between bad things that happen to be done by an AI and things that are bad specifically because they are done by an AI. How would you feel about an AI that didn’t lie or deceive but also didn’t announce itself as an AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ChangeMyView seems like the sort of topic where AI posts can actually be appropriate. If the goal is to hear arguments for an opposing point of view, the AI is contributing more than a human would if in fact the AI can generate more convincing arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I’m not into gorillas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the matter Aquaman?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No kid wants a toy Aquaman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The interesting thing is that anatomically modern Homo sapiens appeared about 300,000 years ago and lived exclusively as hunter-gatherers for about 280,000 of those years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I edited my post to add more specific information before I saw your reply.

  The bill had enough support from both Democrats and Republicans in the legislature that the governor couldn’t have vetoed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A single car with ISA can also prevent multiple drivers behind it from recklessly accelerating, so even a small number of ISA-equipped vehicles could have a dramatic impact on regional or even national road safety.

  In my experience, a slow driver will be passed (often rather aggressively) by drivers wanting to go faster if that is at all possible. That feels a lot more dangerous than simply having everyone drive at the rate of traffic. Or is the author envisioning a scenario where there are enough of these slow cars to cause a traffic jam?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Republicans? The Virginia state legislature is controlled by Democrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Uyghurs in Guantanamo didn’t want to go back to China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you remember how prisoners were kept in Guantanamo Bay, even after they were no longer suspected of any wrongdoing, simply because there wasn’t a country that would both accept them and treat them in accordance with US law? Many of those prisoners ended up nowhere near where they came from.

  Some countries refuse to accept deportees. Some countries are so likely to mistreat deportees that sending them to those countries is illegal. Some countries simply don’t exist anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What can “never” mean here?

  For coal, however, if you invest 1kWh you typically get below 0.4 kWh in return.

  So people run coal plants to destroy energy? Like, you have too much electricity and so you build a coal plant to get rid of it?

  I’m not sure that whatever metric this sources matches what most people think when they hear “energy amortization”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bezos looks pretty good for a man his age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also a very active user of traditional forums but, in my experience, small subreddits (when I was on Reddit) were a decent substitute, since posts could stay on their front page for several days. The thing I missed most wasn’t actually the format but the community. I knew the people on the forum I posted on the most.

  There was the guy with a kind, insightful take on controversial issues and a fetish for women with more than two arms. The active duty marine who reliably posted harsh truths. The feminist I didn’t get along with at all despite agreeing with her about most things. The dedicated father who bought real razor wire for his daughter when she wanted a UN-peacekeeper-base themed birthday party. The very determined conservative who defended his position no matter how outnumbered he was and once bragged that he had given his wife several dozen orgasms in a row…

  I suppose I was the young man with strange views about what was or wasn’t fair and a great deal of anger over any perceived unfairness. (I don’t think I was particularly well-liked.) It’s hard to find that sort of thing on the internet these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-Israel Group Asks Pam Bondi to Investigate YouTube Star Ms. Rachel - The far right thinks Ms. Rachel should be under investigation for caring about kids in Gaza.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Her posts are extremely mild. Is singling her out a publicity stunt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Dark take) Ghibli filter trend is just people hiding how ugly they are⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t we all want to hide how ugly we are?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh darn.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re still capable of feeling joy on the inside?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Trump tariffs will boost inflation, slow an already weakening U.S. economy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a hard time believing this. It’s more of the 4D chess that his supporters believed he was playing, but I think the evidence has shown that he isn’t pretending to be foolish. If a different sort of President instituted tariffs then this could have been the plan, but if it happens how it will be happening by coincidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been told that enjoying cocaine with your coworkers is ok, if you’re in finance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I got my dog at the shelter, they told me two things about him:

  • He liked to eat garbage.

  • He liked being held like a baby.

  He was a good size for it too, about 30 lbs. Big enough for a real hug, but not too heavy to lift comfortably. He would press his neck against mine when I held him - I think that was the way he reciprocated. The funny thing is that he was jealous about my hugs. If I hugged another person, he would whine, stand on his hind legs, and try to push that person away from me with his front legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a bee, you’re not a bee, so it sounds like a them problem.

  (On the internet, no one knows you’re a bee.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that is the most based I have ever seen a machine be. Truly technology is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calm your tits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re making the exact mistake he is asking you not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have been spiteful enough to return my new laptop (despite needing it for a trip I had in a couple of days) if I wasn’t able to bypass the account requirement by disabling the wifi.