Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Loads of them believe (or pretend to) that AI development will inevitably lead to a superhuman Artificial General Intelligence that’ll fix all our problems. So we’re dooming ourselves by being too cheap to pay them to invent god.

…those protests weren’t organised by the Democratic party though? I am not criticising *Americans who vote Dem* - I am criticising the party leadership, who in your example are all still talking about “reform” and “training”, not “ICE is a fascist paramilitary force that must be abolished”.

I’m 3h15 drive from the nearest US nuclear weapons, probably closer than you are. But by all means, tell me I’m playing the victim by expecting a slightly more strident anti-war campaign in the US.

If Nigel Farage took over the UK and planned to invade Hawaii, would you be content with our opposition voting against tariffs and saying it was foolish? Rather than, say, organising protests against the insanity of it? You are acting as if the rest of the world is a prop for your internal politics.

Lord give me the loud confidence of an American telling the rest of the world what they are *supposed* to think.

…do you not think that wording is too weak a response to your leader proposing war with nuclear-armed powers, who you yourselves have nuclear weapons stationed in? You are treating all this as if it’s Bernie Bros looking for an excuse to bitch and not the fall of the postwar international order.

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You have 11,000 troops in the UK, which we’d have to, what, arrest if you invaded Greenland? What the fuck happens to your nuclear weapons here? Statements about tariffs to Congress are absolutely nowhere near enough of a response to this. You are treating this like it’s domestic politics.

And in the first page of results there’s nothing stronger than these quotes, only one of which is from the Democratic leadership. Do you genuinely think these are enough to persuade us they are taking this seriously?

Ah, the good ol’ US Special Relationship.

Yeah, it’s just an extra problem that LLMs make it easy to give a false veneer of understanding and best practise.

Could you perhaps link to an example then? Because as a non-US person, I haven’t seen a strong statement on Greenland from the Democratic leadership. Everything seems to be reactive stuff about opposing tariffs.

Volume and source. Why aren’t the leaders of the Democratic party loudly rallying public opinion against a US betrayal of its allies? Is there *any* good reason not to?

Oh absolutely. I’ve seen researchers lose weeks of time trying to figure out why their results are wrong, when it was because they’d trusted a collaborator’s LLM-generated code. Why trust it? It ‘passed’ all the tests… that the collaborator had generated too.

That doesn’t mean they can’t shout loudly about how terrible the idea is? What would that possibly cost them, especially when “Invade Greenland” is not domestically popular?

I actually worked on a research project like this: Molegazer! www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/01...
Built a prototype, then didn’t get the follow-up grant to actually test it with clinicians ;_;