I really don’t, but thanks for asking I guess.

What a surprise. Let me guess: Those Bulgarian “nationalists” happens to be super-pro-Russian.

I’ve never had a horse in this race, and I never will - but I’m sure this will work out well for those who do. /s

Yeah. Let’s not get started on fucking Oracle. We’ll be here all day. Or year, possibly.

Kudos! I wish you the best of luck and hope for your success.

That seems unlikely to persuade those people to continue using VMware, but good luck with that business strat Broadcom.

If you have to supply your users with AI support to figure out how to configure your OS, you might be doing something wrong.

Like a… Pogrom?

Thank you. I appreciate you saying so.

The thing about LLMs in particular is that - when used like this - they constitute one such grave positive feedback loop. I have no principal problem with machine learning. It can be a great tool to illuminate otherwise completely opaque relationships in large scientific datasets for example, but a polynomial binary space partitioning of a hyper-dimensional phase space is just a statistical knowledge model. It does not have opinions. All it can do is to codify what appears to be the consensus of the input it’s given. Even assuming - which may well be far too generous - that the input is truly unbiased, at best all it’ll tell you is what a bunch of morons think is the truth. At worst, it’ll just tell you what you expect to hear. It’s what everybody else is already saying, after all.

And when what people think is the truth and what they want to hear are both nuts, this kind of LLM-echo chamber suddenly becomes unfathomably dangerous.

Of course, that has always been true. What concerns me now is the proportion of useful to useless people. Most societies are - while cybernetically complex - rather resilient. Network effects and self-organization can route around and compensate for a lot of damage, but there comes a point where having a few brilliant minds in the midst of a bunch of atavistic confused panicking knuckle-draggers just isn’t going to be enough to avoid cascading failure. I’m seeing a lot of positive feedback loops emerging, and I don’t like it.

As they say about collapsing systems: First slowly, then suddenly very, very quickly.

Our species really isn’t smart enough to live, is it?

And, as with all the people Trump admires, the sentiment wouldn’t be reciprocated.

“Well, I suppose your squeals are mildly amusing, but the blubber is revolting and a grown man wearing diapers is just sad. Still, I’m not one to waste a test-subject when there’s Sith Alchemy to be done.”

Trump wouldn’t have made it more than 30 seconds on Korriban. Say what you will about the Sith, but at least they don’t tolerate incompetence.

Edit: Not that he would ever have hired fools in the first place, but can you imagine what Palps would have done to a PR team that couldn’t even get the very basics of propaganda right? Their prolonged suffering would have passed legendary without even slowing down and headed straight for outright mythological.

Ironically, that might be the most useful contribution to eventual peace in Ukraine the US has made for some time now.

Thanks, I guess.

Yeah, that’s a fair point. Substitute with ‘citizens of Israel’ then.

Unconscionable. What Hamas did was inexcusable, but Hamas doesn’t treat Palestinians any better than they do Jews as a matter of public record. I get that Hamas have exploited just about any effort to help the average Palestinian ever attempted, but that should not be an argument against helping what amounts to more victims of Hamas.

Jesus Christ, I’d rather be sterilized with a blunt wooden spoon. Fuck off back to the US where you belong!

That seems in line with the general level of mental health of the country.

Oh, piss off - we’re not the ones doing it; call your buddy Trump and tell him how you feel.

Also: Italy, could you please clean your fucking shit up?

While I don’t mind laissez-faire in principle, that not my favorite anarcho-flavor and I don’t wanna :)