The honest truth is that our entire political spectrum (bar the Greens, the SNP, and the Lib Dems) are wholesale bought into racism. Lies about foreigners, conflating refugees and immigrants, just stuff that twenty years ago was a deal breaker

One does wonder what passes for intelligent human activity when its only parsing what's being said and extrapolating . As per the advert where the chap has an internal voice that says "Say something businessy"

There's a paper that suggests that methods that leverage huge computational power are going to win out. Which is true if the leverage acts on the problem in hand. LLM s don't . Everything is a hallucination but they have managed to persuade us that its only hallucinating when it's wrong

Ages back when language translation was being developed there was a debate over statistical brute force vs actually understanding the world. As it turns out, the statistical methods worked surprisingly well, possibly because there's an underlying common reality which you don't have to construct.