Technically speaking I didn't vote for the South Africa stuff, because I didn't even consider it possible, so really I'm getting *more* than I voted for.

I wonder why paying for something caused it to proliferate.

This feels nasty. We should, of course, axe Joe the plumber's taxes ASAP. Nothing but agreement that we need to even the scales here. But I will not complain that Alice has been delivered from a plunderer just because Bob is still in the hands of thieves. If we must have our

"You shouldn't be mad at me for trying to abuse you because my lies were sloppy" is certainly a take.

Government treating religion as a special category of belief created an attack vector: Neo-religions can be propagated via the state, while traditional religions cannot

ChatGPT does not lie. Nor is it honest. It does not say things it knows to be false because it does not know things to be true or false in the first place. At best, it knows certain words and phrases are correlated. That doesn't make it useless, because we can learn many useful

Should've said "mimicking" rather than "parroting" because what LLMs do is more subtle and deep than parrotry, but no less mindless. Arguably more mindless.

I was saying "we're fecund," but people weren't having any of that either.

roflmao

This is why we have so many young people questioning things that are true. They've been lied to so much they can't tell what's true and what's not. The boys called Wolf too many times.

The only cure is a decade or more of an expert class being scrupulously honest. And I, personally, do not know how to get to there from here.

*taps the sign*

List of things that are easier than shrinking the American federal government by $1: - Self-driving cars - Artificial General Intelligence - Launching the world's largest satellite network - Catching a rocket with chopsticks - Going to Mars

1. I take February, June, and October off from Twitter. Just my custom. 2. I feel this place sucking in more time and energy than I want to give it. Which is par for the course, approaching my triannual fast, but.. 3. It's bad enough that I'm contemplating starting June early.

One of my great grievances against President Biden is his attempt to clamp down on Adderall prescription and production. He and his get to use cocaine. It's friggan hypocrisy is what it is. Performance Enhancing Drugs for me but not for thee.

Yeah. We doing it. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

This is your reminder, self.