It’s only racism if it comes from the USA region of North America. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling discrimination.

Yeah, I was talking about the Gemini blurb at the top of Google search results.

How many of those 900 million are being forced to use it?

Understand that the “AI” framing is pure marketing. It’s meant to get you to accept using LLMs to replace humans for every cognitive task. You have to decouple LLMs as a technology from the AI tech-bro hype train.

Oof. I think you need to find a better example than nuclear power.

LLMs existed before the AI craze. Sure, they’re useful in certain specific use cases. They aren’t a good substitute for a search engine or an artist or a therapist or any of the other myriad misuses now prevalent.

LLMs can make stuff resembling art. I’m not interested in it, though, because a human didn’t make it. What makes art art, what makes it interesting, is artists.

The room is filling with sewage. I’m not sure that this is a good thing.

It sucks as a search engine. When I’m searching for something, I want factual, correct results, not a hallucinated answer which is backed up by none of its sources.

When I click through search results, I’m reading, evaluating the sources, and synthesizing the information into something which I am reasonably satisfied is true enough. I don’t feel comfortable handing that cognitive task off to a machine. The machine’s job is to help me find the sources, not tell me what the truth is.

Having a machine that tells you what is true is the most dystopian shit ever, and it would’ve sounded completely insane only 5 years ago.

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There certainly have been attempts to reclaim it, but it’s very difficult for obvious reasons.

LG is a South Korean company, so that might have something to do with it.

Prior to WWII, it was sometimes used in the US as a symbol of good luck. That’s why, for example, there are those antique metal fobs in the shape of a swastika with the Coca-Cola logo embossed on them.

It sounds like a containment unit, like in Ghostbusters.

Their idea of curry is as spicy as a snickerdoodle and about as sweet.

You can still buy the spicier varieties, though, right? So what’s the problem?

Yeah, what do they think this is? Palestine?

Your entire body continues developing throughout your life, but there’s a point where you quit getting taller.

I know at least some of them work, because sometimes I’ll be waiting there for the walk signal and it never appears, and I go “Oh, I forgot to push the button.”

You aren’t kidding.

In April 2021, Kauffman was given access to Libertarian Party of New Hampshire (LPNH)'s official Twitter account soon after the state party was taken over by the Mises Caucus. Kauffman later made tweets on the LPNH account that received controversy, such as by calling for child labor to be legalized, for the Civil Rights Act to be repealed, and for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to be reopened “so that Anthony Fauci and every governor that locked their state down can be sent there, never again to be allowed inside of the United States”. The pro-child labor tweet specifically received pushback from 2012 and 2016 Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson, saying “This isn’t what libertarianism means to millions of Americans”. The tweets later partly resulted in the resignation of the national Libertarian Party leader Joe-Bishop Henchman. Kauffman defended his actions by saying the tweets were good for libertarians, and accused national party leadership of being “woke neoliberal globalists”.

Wow. You know you’re wild when even the Libertarian Party is like “Whoa, chief. Pump your breaks.”