Yeah, I get it!

did this result from some elaborate cutting and pasting from past years' final essays? I do stuff like this not infrequently, and that is always why.

Love how Mamdani then basically affirms it without saying any words that can be pinned on him later. Amazing talent.

that'll be 10 seconds before the Epstein files are released.

And by "that", i mean providin’ delinquent individuals the help they need to become productive members of society

Try that in a small town...

I hear you. But I also think it is actually stupid to think me getting mine and others can go die in a hole is going to work out for "me" in the end.

To be fair to the yokels of the world, a lot of wealthy people and professionals also thought "he should lead us." A rich student at the college for rich white kids I teach at told me her dad, a cardiologist, voted for Trump because of how much he'd do for the economy. Morons come in many varieties.

Ugh

You may be interested in this piece I wrote about liability and the disingenuous indemnity offered by AI companies, including but not limited to OpenAI.

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I am interested! Thank you.

The stuff companies will argue in court because they know most of their users will never hear that they said it. I still try to tell old Fox-news loving ppl about how they went to court and argued that they do entertainment, not news, and therefore neednt be right about anything...

I think that is right. I also think it's right that we have to train our characters in order to distinguish silly-sounding but good topics from silly-sounding because actually silly topics. I think about this a lot.

It is extremely silly. The philosopher Jo Wolff posted on here a week or so ago some quotation where Hans Jonas says we have to train our characters to discern what technologies are good to use.

I am not sure my position is sustainable, but for now I simply decline at every turn to engage the question because I simply do not want to talk to people who sound like those people in that comment section.

So OpenAI is saying that its users are criminally liable based on doing the thing with its product that OpenAI made & marketed the product as being able to do for users?

I went to Lilith Fair as a 16 year old teenage girl and it was awesome. Really want to watch this. Thanks for posting.

I was kidding, just to be clear. Of course I agree with you.

Well we can't know what's in his heart, so though he walks like a crook, talks like a crook, and does things that conform to crook-ish behavior, we will never really know if he is a crook.