I’m never going to have any sort of emotional reaction to text output from a large language model, sorry.
It is difficult to overstate how discordant it feels to hear left thinkers talk about the benefits of woke movements accruing only to elites when trans soldiers are being purged from the military, immigrants are being detained in Guantanamo, and pregnant women are bleeding out in parking lots.
The only two things I know about Wicked are that I like the soundtrack, and what I’ve been able to piece together of the plot by listening to the soundtrack.
Burnham then needs to resolve the contradiction between “This system has provided me with an objectively comfortable life” and “I’m miserable.” Belief in the End Times lets him turn this bug into a feature: Considering the dire state of the world, it would actually be selfish to enjoy what I have!
It seems quaint now but there really was a time that people fretted about AI somehow destroying the world and imagined Elon Musk somehow saving it.
Like 70% of the time Punxsutawney Phil completely beefs the winter prediction and every year they double down upholding the system instead of just flipping what the shadow outcome means. You can’t reform this!
Liberals are uncool now, but I don’t think we’ll be uncool forever, mostly because the white middle-aged mom who everyone is trying to piss off will no longer be a liberal at some point.
Sometimes you show the model a picture of a 7 and it says it’s a picture of a 9. This has been true forever. When that inevitably happens, why don’t we say that the digit recognizer is “hallucinating”? Why is inaccurate information only a hallucination when it comes from a chat bot?
Will never not be funny to me that “yuppie” was coined as an insult, like “Get a load of these people they’re um, young, live in a city and uh did I mention they have a job?”
The real Ezra Klein Show Weeds reunion episode controversy we should be talking about is how Ezra with his accent can’t pronounce Dara’s name with a short A the way she does with hers (and Matt does with his), so he just calls her a different name (“Dahra”) which to me is way worse.
If you talk about “bums,” you sound like an asshole. If you talk about “people experiencing homelessness” or “the unhoused,” you sound like a leftist academic or nonprofit worker. If you talk about “homeless people” or “the homeless,” you sound normal.
People think the value of the in-person workplace is spontaneous collaboration. Those people are wrong. The value of the in-person workplace is not having to do this.
When people say, “I’m right, you’re wrong,” they rarely hold themselves to those same standards that made the other person wrong in the first place. People are happy to hold others to a high standard when it comes to pronouncing names, but they usually only hold one or two groups to that standard.