they’re […] going to lose everything they care about

they’ll be mostly fine

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now imagine that scenario with MAGA going in to a liberal gated community…what do you think would happen?

My guess? The couple wouldn’t bring any guns out to begin with, mostly because MAGA protesters would be white.

Liberal communities have plenty of racism. It just happens through ignorance & a lack of thinking instead of direct malice.

China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

Reflexively associating people & things you dislike with an ethnicity is a form of hate, and you are doing it. After all, America has plenty of – hell, I’d argue more – easily bought trolls available, and yet I don’t seem to see a whole lot of people bringing up their nationality so much, assuming they mention them at all.

And I’m not going to ignore racist statements just because pointing it out causes tension.

Chinese internet trolls

You know you can hate somebody without associating them with Chinese people, right?

If you’re suggesting we change the system from within, I’ve got bad news: We’ve been trying that. It hasn’t been working. The purpose of the system is what it does, and what this system does is rob us of representation.

Reckless hate and murder won’t fix a damn thing, you’re correct there. But neither will reliance on voting in a rigged system.

These ones:

Yeah, I understand that you personally choose to disagree with reality, maybe you don’t like what reality has become, but unfortunately that doesn’t make it less real.

None of that is because they’re “magic beans” from which no value sprouts.

It objectively, undeniably has value. You can staunchly say pretend it doesn’t, but only if you are willingly blind to the voluntary usage patterns of hundreds of millions (possibly billions) of people every hour of every day.

And of course, the entirety of your first comment here.

Nothing of what you’ve stated has proven any of the above. Not that you care; you’ve decided you’re right, and therefore any opinion you hold must automatically be fact. Far as I can tell, you’re here to stroke your ego. Keep at it if you want, I guess — I’m not going to debate someone who only wants to hear themselves talk.

Can’t say I’ve seen B anywhere. All I’ve seen is “tech billionaire CEOs want LLMs to take all our jobs and turn us into slaves,” not so much belief that they can. Perhaps you’re misinterpreting?

After all I’ve seen LLMs fail to do – including on the occasion that I’ve tried it – I’ve absolutely no interest in even bothering to click on those links.

Yeah, I understand that you personally choose to disagree with reality

You saying your opinion is objective reality does not make it so. I agree that LLMs have their (few, niche) uses, but you’re just being arrogant here.

For those interested, Skip Intro’s done a couple of video essays on Jon Stewart that cover very well why he isn’t a particularly good person to listen to.

If you’re interested in someone similar in category but better in substance, I (and Skip Intro, for that matter) recommend John Oliver. He isn’t perfect, but he’s generally on the mark.

If there’s one thing LLMs are very good at, it’s talking about things their creators don’t want them to with barely any effort from the end user.

This is what we call “good news.”

Doesn’t really counter anything I said in my comment, so I stand with what I said. I won’t complain if war profiteers want to self-sabotage.

Personally, I’d rather more countries stop fucking around with LLMs generally, thanks!

This is honestly such a stupid goddamn thing to compete over. Maybe I should be thankful in that regard, then, since it keeps the U.S. and China’s ridiculous dick-swinging contest more focused on areas that don’t actually matter, rather than weapons development programs that are eager to ruin our rights and our lives all the more.

Why are you singling out one small part of their comment to the exclusion of the rest?

The Cybertruck is very much an actual shitty thing that Tesla does. Sure, maybe they don’t literally “have a habit of exploding all on their own,” but I don’t think Gork was exactly trying to play off as an authority on the topic. Just mocking Cybertrucks being shit.

Nobody’s attacking EVs writ large, here. Just Elon and his awful ideas.

This has two issues with it that are sourced from the fact that most people here are likely from the States or similar. Namely:

1. How are we supposed to do anything about China or Russia? It’s anger for its own sake.
2. Criticism of the U.S. is unlikely to make Americans racist towards themselves. Sinophobia, meanwhile, is a real risk.

This aside, I personally am irritated by the quantity moreso than anything else. As I said elsewhere, it’s the same few users, and I find it obsessive. It stops sounding to me like “I want people to be aware of particular issues from China” and starts sounding to me like “I want to bombard people with all possible negativity about China until they hate everything related to the place as much as I do.”

Thanks to these folks, Beehaw virtually always has at least one post about China or Russia on its front page. Often several. Credit where it’s due; I’ve seen a pro-Palestine post here and there, which I appreciate. But Christ, I’m sick of the rest. Blocks are fair, but I feel like that just hides the issue rather than solving it. I feel like I’m seeing a propaganda mill in action, and I don’t like the idea of just ignoring it.

In what way is it meaningfully different? Does the intent of the creators of an LLM – a kind of system notorious for being a black box – fundamentally change the outcomes of what it says? It’s spouting propaganda either way.

Please don’t be deliberately obtuse. You can do better than that.

Condescending attitude aside, don’t bring up an irrelevant scenario if you don’t want me to point out its irrelevance.

Are we in a court?

Reading philosophy texts that were written a hundred years ago and haphazardly translated 75 years ago can be a challenge.

For a human, at that. I get that you feel it works for you, but personally, I would trust an LLM to understand it (insofar as that’s a thing they can do at all) even less.

There’s 2-3 users who post about China/Russia to an extraordinary degree. I could mention them here, but for the sake of avoiding potential harassment (however unlikely) I’d rather not publicly single them out. Suffice to say if you spend a decent amount of time here you probably know who they are.

I find it obsessive and obnoxious at best. At worst, I start to wonder if there are more accounts doing it than there are people behind them.