GreenBeard
@GreenBeard@lemmy.ca
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 1 day ago:
Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding.
Given enough time and enough resources, anyone is corruptible. The most corrupt are usually those who believe they can’t be corrupted. You just have to get them to honestly believe something that isn’t true. Once you figure out what cognitive fallacies they’re vulnerable to, you’ll have just turned a bulwark against you into your most loyal zealot. That’s why the wealthy usually win. With enough money, one person can command more time, and resources than 50% of the country combined.
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 1 day ago:
Of course the rulers enable this behaviour. Who do you think made them the “rulers” to begin with? You think our broke asses pay to get these people elected?
- Comment on Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon 1 day ago:
Remember kids, the term “Business Ethics” is an oxymoron. Corporations don’t have ethics, they have financial interests and PR.
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 2 days ago:
I mean, again, most if not all of them. Almost every language there’s slight variations in pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary and pacing between men and women that would otherwise qualify as a “different accent.” It’s more pronounced in some regions and dialects, but most of them have “male” and “female” variations.
- Comment on 20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI. 2 days ago:
Hard pass. There absolutely should be no AI in any classroom under any circumstances. The whole point of a classroom is to build a foundation on which to understand the fundamentals before they slap a set of training wheels on and vibe-code their way into disaster. Most of these LLMs ignore whatever guardrails you slap on them far too frequently.
The most important lesson these kids need to learn is if you can’t do it yourself, you shouldn’t be letting an LLM do it for you. If the best you can say about the effects is “This version doesn’t seem to be actively harming them” then the bar is in hell, and we shouldn’t be playing with these tools at all at this point.
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 2 days ago:
It’s just the natural progression of a disease that spreads outwards from Management. The bosses want yes-men, not people capable of independent thought.
- Comment on Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora? 4 days ago:
Canadian, here. I think they’re great. Most seem like really nice people. Except the ones that astroturf for the CCP. Those can go back to China if they prefer it so much. Spare me the incessant propaganda. I’ve spent my whole life putting up with American lies, I don’t feel the need to replace them with Chinese ones.
But most of the ones I know are honest, good people, interesting perspectives, competent, if not particularly exceptional.
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 1 week ago:
A little bit of a tempest in a teapot. It doesn’t sound like they’re actually going to stop distributing existing drivers, they’re just not accepting any new drivers or updates (unless they’re critical security updates) for those packages.
- Comment on Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, we’re not all the ones that decide if we’re on board or not. Our employers are. We live in a world where profits are privatized and losses are socialized, so when this goes, it’s going to hurt the general public a lot more than it will every hurt the Epstein Class.
- Comment on Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne 1 week ago:
“You know who doesn’t buy my drugs? Maidenless losers.” Said every drug dealer in history. It’s not even good marketing hype, it’s just sad at this point.
- Comment on Reddit's human content wins amid the AI flood 1 week ago:
Their capture by US feds and banning people who speak out against US foreign influence operations would lead me to believe otherwise.
- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 1 week ago:
Why would Americans care? This happens every other week down there. Here, one is a national tragedy, there it’s just a Wednesday. This is the what happens when people soak their brains in the American social media BS too much.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, they do. Depending on the context, there’s a whole host of ways to imply sarcasm without depending on intonation. Body language, context, double entendre, formality shifts, etc.
- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 2 weeks ago:
The question may not be inherently stupid, although it does contain a false premise. You really should follow the news before you start claiming the news channels aren’t reporting a story. It’s been front page news on literally every publication for 3 days now. I have to assume then that this question is actually rhetorical. If there’s a statement you’re looking to make you should probably just make it.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 2 weeks ago:
medical terms are now no longer medical terms and just purely an insult
Language drifts over time, that’s normal, always has been. Stay on target soldier. FORMAL language however needs very strict definitions or it just stops working. Words mean things is true. That still doesn’t mean you get to say the “R” word.
- Comment on Ruling by bullying: Threats of regulation as an internet governance device 2 weeks ago:
What I’m hearing is laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation?
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
There’s nothing intrinsically bad or “archaic” about forums. It’s the forum platforms that sucked for some people. It took some thought and work to manage a forum. The only advantage a Discord server had was that it’s simple enough, a brain damaged squirrel could run one. It saved you from having to do your homework and just created a simple plug-and-play space that required no skill on the owner/mods part.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if Stoat does audio rooms, but I know you can use SonoBus for that
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 3 weeks ago:
The only people abducting people and holding them for ransom in Chicago and Seattle are ICE agents.
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 3 weeks ago:
Umm… in what country is it people get kidnapped and ransomed every day? I mean, I’m not saying it’s not a thing, it does happen, but it’s actually pretty rare in most of North America. I mean, it’s pretty common in Mexico, but in most of the continent the most common kidnapping is a biological relative abducting a child.
