Honestly there are aspects about this that I like. In the vein of bomb defusal robots being obviously good. But with, you know, current politics and our chronic issues, it just feels sinister.
I know right? A culture that engaged in eugenics and genocide backed by statistics and data yesterday just happens to have statistics and data to back their regrettably cruel but totally pragmatic policy today.
Like damn I'm sure dictators have legitimate data that shows dissidents threaten their power. Good evidence is like a thought jammer.
This is slop. Not necessarily AI generated, but definitely dumbass-generated.
Literally not one ounce of effort. No digging into vague studies Republicans are talking about. No overview of Wikipedia's current policy. No questions posed to someone who knows about Wikipedia and/or government attempts to control the narrative.
It's not even a good thing that the article only tells you the core facts. Too much goes unsaid. No context might as well be a hallucination from an AI for how much it bridges the gap between what you think and what reality contains.
Try watching F1 and hearing "natural talent" in the context of men who had done 30,000 hours of karting before they could walk. Max Verstappen was built from the ground up to be a racer. I don't think these people are bad, but they definitely have it easy going up against one of the smallest playing fields in all of sports.
Newsom is a terrible person and isn't a leftist and he's been a piece of shit for years. But he's positioned himself to run for president in 3 years. Automatic protection from criticism. Are we against what people like him represent? Or are we Russian bots working with the Heritage Foundation to divide the left? Spooky!
I grew up with old people who drank from whites-only fountains as teenagers. DOMA was repealed in my lifetime. If !!they!! control everything I don't get why they only throw us bones via Democrats.
Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs, before all this AI crap? It's a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish. NLP interfaces are a useful thing for people.
Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser. And I know that because I'm literally watching the resources get used.
But even before recent tariffs, modern console prices weren't dropping nearly as fast as history suggested they should. In fact, Sony first raised the nominal starting price of the PS5 Digital Edition back in 2023, way before Trump's current trade war was even on the horizon.
I'm not saying Trump is to blame but this is misleading. Trump hurt our economy with tariffs during his first term nearly 10 years ago. During 2023 he was releasing "Agenda 47" policies, in which he specifically mentioned more tariffs. Here's Trump threatening tariffs 8 months before Sony raised the price
For regular people, Trump tariffs came out of nowhere in 2024. Corporations and people holding stock have different perspectives.
There shouldn't be a legal battle to restore democracy. It should be baked into our culture to the point that the previous town leadership is punished by being completely disregarded / disrespected.
It's like not recognizing a state. Non democratic institutions should be walked over like they don't exist.
People might as well be talking about the right to bear Pokemon cards for all the difference guns seem to make.
Americans had one of the largest protests in history and police drove down suburban streets firing paintballs at people standing in their doorways.
People stop and upload content to Tiktok when citizens are abducted by masked men while a child cries for her mom.
We zombie walked into fascism and have camps being built and military being deployed to cities and do nothing after elections are rigged or a demagogue incites a coup.
Crazy how you can just drop weapons into the mix like fucking Zardoz and observe the same trends play out just with a lot more random violence. It's like putting Tapatio on everything. "Ah yes, multiculturalism is a fine topic. But what if everyone had guns?"
Wow, I'm glad they tested people who form opinions on obscure ideas on a whim. The way these subjects changed their minds when given their first dose of logic really makes me think... that they've discovered something about their research methods.
So like... You ask the model about styles and it says 'diagrammatic' and you ask for an artistic but diagrammatic tree or whatever and that affects your worldview?
If people just ask for a tree and the issue is they didn't get what they expected, I don't care. They can learn to articulate their ideas and maybe, just maybe, appreciate that others exist who might describe their ideas differently.
But if the problem is the way your brain subtly restructures ideas to better fit queries then I'd agree it's going to have 'downstream' effects.
Honestly there are aspects about this that I like. In the vein of bomb defusal robots being obviously good. But with, you know, current politics and our chronic issues, it just feels sinister.