The rest of my comment addresses that. The “good king” father figure does a lot of heavy lifting for autocracy in people’s subconscious (even Plato’s haha), but it is inevitable for a “benevolent monarch” with the mandate to “fix everything” to turn sour and abuse power, the variance of one single individual’s performance and world iew is too high. Aristotle writes about some of this too.
Sure, a good autocracy will always be more effective and fairer than a good democracy. The greek already knew that.
They also knew that a bad autocracy will always be worse than a bad democracy.
And you have no idea what you will get with an autocrat, they change over time, they make new enemies out of you, what is good for some is bad for others…
So democracy is not just about giving people what they want or representing their views, it is about damage limitation between all the established “mafias” vying for power and a ruleset for peaceful evolution.
To make it worse, some modern societies hide de facto autocracy or oligarchy under democracy, which may sour you towards democracy.
Jumping spiders are the tigers of the mm scale. They jump and pounce, they stare at you and stalk their prey, they carefully plan their attack from a strategic vantage point, they are cute, furry and pettable…so long as you are at least twice as large.
Best. Buds. Having a parade together in Brest, 1939. Getting betrayed is what you get for making deals with nazis. #leopardsatemyface
If I understand you correctly, read more history. the nazis invaded Poland together with the USSR on two fronts (as, you know, best buds), hard to botch that.
When the nazis invaded France…it was the French who fucked up…the nazis didn’t.
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Yes, starting stupid wars and botching them in front of the whole world makes you vulnerable.
I realized like you that it is not the content or the actions, it is a brand that appeals to their emotions (and the grown-ups too who got conditioned to react to a type of branding over the years). It’s just like selling an Adidas.
And it’s tragic, because he stands against everything they could ever gain…like an opioid…which reminds me of the Shady Vance quote:
In 2016 and 2017, Vance, then best-known for penning the best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” said Trump was “cultural heroin” and “just another opioid” for Middle America.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/kfile-jd-vance-comments-trump/index.html
and this olympic gold for spinelessness (a posteriori):
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/opioid-of-the-masses/489911/
lol
This is not like reading a book from a library…unless you want to force the LLM to only train one book per day and keep no copies after that day.
“Buy high, sell low” is a great way to launder money, along with real estate (and the art market). Things Donny is an expert in. You don’t bankrupt a casino without wanting to.
Some may see him as a “counterculture”…thumbing the nose at establised rules youngsters naturally want to rebel against through causing outrage and stupid jokes. It’s like any other stupid manufactured fad in that respect.
This 20-year-old documentary about marketing to teens sort of reminds me of it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYRoiJvhJ4&list=PL_pPc6-qR9ZwlDyyk6o-X_gib47lpqlGP&index=15&pp=iAQB but now applied to ideas in the internet instead of products.
The matter is not LLMs reproducing what they have learned, it is that they didn’t pay for the books they read, like people are supposed to do legally.
This is not about free use, this is about free access, which at the scale of an individual reading books is marketed as “piracy”…at the scale of reading all books known to man…it’s onmipiracy?
We need some kind of deal where commercial LLMs have to pay a rent to a fund that distributes that among creators or remain nonprofit, which is never gonnna happen, because it’ll be a bummer for all the grifters rushing into that industry.
What about moonofalabama, sounds similar.
Sometimes it leads me wildly astray when I do that, like a really bad tutor…but it is good if you want a refresher and can spot the bullshit on the side. It is good for spotting things that you didnt know before and can factcheck afterwards.
…but maybe other review papers and textbooks are still better…
they don’t need to, they just need to seize the ground PoPs and block ips to make it unusably slow.
username checks out :D
Harris says she would appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected
this is the title of the article
Anyone who watched the interview understands that the title you wrote (or maybe they updated it?) is bullshit. Not ruling something out is not a pledge, geez.
Twitter’s format feels a bit like yelling into the void and waiting for replies…you may luck out and get some engagement from a hub or a small subgraph of the network. Mastodon makes that stronger by removing the algorithm (I’d like there to be a user-customizable feed sort algo by an array of parameters, not sure what the technical limitations to that are: processing, security?)
Comment trees feel better (to me at least), because there is a hierarchical origin, a native indexing by topic>post>comment>countercomment…it sort of resembles how we relate with the world or navigate maps.
dude…your bike is farting so loud you gave grandma a heart attack…that’s not as cool as you imagine it to be :/