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They are shitting out what you feed them. If you feed them garbage, you get garbage in return.
This is the missing conceptual understanding that probably 90% of LLM users lack. They really don't know how LLMs work, and treat them like AGI. Sadly this includes adult policy makers in our society too. Efforts like those of these these researchers act to educate the public. I'm hopeful this will spark some critical thinking on the part of regular, otherwise ignorant, LLM users.
That’s a serious breach of ethics and morals. Feeding false information to an LLM is no different that a magazine.
Hang on. Are you suggesting its unethical/immoral to lie to a machine?
Additionally, the authors didn't submit the article to a magazine as factual. They posted the articles on a preprint server which can be very questionable anyway as there is no peer review. The machine chose to ignore rigor and treat them as fact.
I give you... "The Grant Money Printing machine!"
Need a grant? Create a disease and submit a paper. Then write a grant asking for money to solve your invented disease.
Also, don’t pretend that the Democrats oppose this war on moral grounds.
They generally oppose it on economic grounds at least. I'll take the outcome of "no war" even if I disagree with the reason we get there.
I'm assuming Kennedy's brain worm wants to delay/suppress this report because it is factual evidence against the brain worm narrative that vaccines are bad.
Shuttle was always a Low Earth Orbit craft. It was never designed or capable of even a flight to the moon, much less another planet.
infinite resources for capitalism to exploit.
That is potentially still alive with robotic missions for orbital asteroid capture and mining.
I walked outside last night looking up at the sky and knew for the first time in my life there were people circling the Moon right then. It was a profound feeling.
The narrative of space colonization just doesn’t sell to me.
For me one of the most important parts of human spaceflight is working as a constant reminder of how hard it is to keep humans alive outside of Earth. It should work to underscore that we only have one Earth and there is no realistic "plan B". Without human spaceflight we could get complacent and just think we can find another home for humanity. When we see live on video feeds how much it takes for just 4 humans for a week or so to live off Earth and close to the moon the illusion of an alternative to Earth shatters.
but I’d argue this is only because alternatives have been too effectively suppressed by the sociopaths benefiting from the status quo.
Can you talk about what are those effective alternatives that have been suppressed you are referring to as a replacement for the current IP scheme?
Do you want kids watching it too? How about Bluey throwing Nazi salutes or Paw Patrol using racial slurs? Even worse if you were looking to buy a legitimate cartoon for your kid, there would be nothing to tell you which you were buying. Anyone could claim full ownership of these characters and sell them doing horrible stuff and nothing you do as a parent could protect your kids unless you first bought each, then watched it yourself, before your kid watched it.
The entire notion of ‘Intellectual Property’ is a cancer on society.
Intellectual property is a term that wraps a whole bunch of things (copyright, trademarks, patents). Are you fully aware of the impact how abolishing all IP would negative affect society?
Copyright prevents the KKK from producing and selling Pokemon cartoons with Pikachu supporting stupid shit like white supremecy propaganda. Are you sure you want that protection gone?
Information and ideas intrinsically accrue value the more they’re known and used, and the incentives provided around their collation and attribution should embody that, not punish them with imaginary locks that provide ownership.
Lets just take the patents portion of IP for a moment. The first part of what you're asking for here is exactly what patents do. To have something patented, the patent holder has to fully document the machine/process/method to create the patented item. This is that mechnism that enables the "more known and used". Society gains this knowledge because the owner fully shares it. A design patent can last for only 14 or 15 years (depending on filing date). The longest type of patent (Utility) lasts only 20 years. After as few as 14 years everyone can use this knowledge without any fees/restrictions/payments.
This is a be-careful-what-you-wish for situation with what you're asking for here. There are companies choosing NOT to file patents anymore and simply keep their methods secret. Since they methods aren't patented they are under no obligation to ever share them publicly. There is a very real chance that many of these technologies/methods may be unknown to society at large for long after the term of normal patent protection would have expired and society would have been able to use the knowledge.
EDIT: I was trying to think of a good example of a company that agrees with your stance about not patenting and I remembered one. Elon Musk is choosing not to patent SpaceX rocket engines because it would force him to document how they work. Instead they are just keeping the designs secret. So your desire to not have patents used are advocating for what Elon Musk does.
Carbon-free energy.
We had a small wedding with just the bride and groom. We spend $1700 CAD ($1,275 USD) for ours and that included the photographer and his assistant. The agreed time was only 60 minutes. However our wonderful photographer spent probably 2 hours with us. He kept taking us other places at the venue for more pictures on his own. He took amazing pictures!
If you have a larger wedding party, or are planning on having travel time necessary between pictures, your $3000 sounds reasonable to me. There is likely a large regional pricing variation though.
This is what we did and we really liked the outcome.
What I hadn't considered was that photographer that normally works that venue knows all the best places for photos, and for any time of day that your event happens. You have a limited amount of time with the photographer on the day of the event so you can't spend time on a new photographer learning whats available or where the best light is. A photographer that normally works the venue also usually has a good relationship with the staff there. We got access to places for pictures in the venue normally off limits to the public because of the photographer and who he knew.
Our venue had 3 different photographers they recommended and we asked those photographers for examples from their portfolios at the venue. It was great to see the different styles of each one and be able to pick what style matched our preference for photos.
We knew we picked right when the photographer show up not only with his assistant, but brought his own sled for pulling all his camera and lighting gear through the snow at the venue. If your photographer can get some shots of the married couple at dusk while it is gently snowing with a backdrop of frost capped mountains and a river in the valley below, I recommend doing so.
This is “open” source and it was the main reason it got forked (lots of proprietary bits included as binary, impossible to send a PR, obfuscated code)
Wasn't this methodology the whole reason GPL 2 evolved to GPL 3 because Tivo was doing this exact thing? They used the underlying open source free work of others, but then wrap their own contributions in priopriatry binaries not distributed with source code. This method wasn't in violation of the letter of GPL rules even though it was clearly a violation of the spirit of the GPL rules.
How are they able to skirt the GPL 3 rules this time?
I certainly understand why folks don't what that in their backyard. However, that sounds like a really great source of free heat to tap for commercial scale greenhouses in the winter time. I see theres a small deployment of this in Paris.
Huh. So you weren't answering my posted question, but picking out the first sentence in my post. Thank you for clarifying your statement.
Okay, we have nothing further to talk about then.
First, thank you for posting sources to support your claim. I looked at most of them.
Democrats are on the hunt for their own Joe Rogan from May 2025
The tagline on the article says: "Party leaders and mega-donors want to counter MAGA's online momentum by recreating a digital right-wing ecosystem for the left"
Okay so Party Leaders and megadonors want this right? But the article continues...
"As Democrats plot a return from the electoral wilderness, a growing chorus of party figures has begun to push for a liberal-leaning alternative to the right's digital dominance."
So gone are the megadonors now, and we're down to "party figures". What happened to the megadonors? The article actually tells us...
"That belief has led to party mega-donors being 'inundated with overtures' to open their wallets for the development of an 'army of left-leaning online influencers.'"
Okay, so the megadonors aren't asking a Demo-Rogan, someone is asking megadonors to pay for a Demo-Rogan. But so far we still have no names of any of the cited "party leaders". However we do have a named Democrat figure that is against a Demo-Rogan:
"The notion that victory is possible if they 'spend enough billionaire money' to create a Rogan equivalent 'speaking in Democratic talking points' is 'laughable,' said Emily Jashinsky at UnHerd."
This supports my statement.
If you do run across the unnamed party leaders, I'd be interested in knowing who they are.
Democrats seeking to buy the ‘next Joe Rogan’ of the left after 2024 election defeat also May 2025
Sorry, I don't consider Fox News as a news source. I skipped this one.
Could This 20-Year-Old Be One of the Democrats’ Bro Whisperers? from December 2024
I don't have a NYT subscription so I couldn't read the whole article, but the part I could read was talking about a young man with a politics driving youtube channel. I don't consider that a Democratic Joe Rogan.
Can Democrats win back podcasting? We asked 6 popular show hosts to weigh in from November 2024
The article author openly says he's not asking for a Demo-Rogan.
"Also, the idea of a 'liberal Joe Rogan' has been floated a lot since the election and I don’t want to just parrot that since it’s not really what I mean".
Note: The "the idea of a liberal Joe Rogan" is a hyperlink to yet another article. I read that one too. There's no claim of a Demo-Rogan there either. The closest the author gets to is this:
"If liberals ever hope to compete with such a successful messaging apparatus, they’re going to have to do more than create clones of Crooked Media. They will have to elevate, or build from the ground up, captivating public figures who connect with vast audiences including, but not limited to, disaffected young men—and entertain the hell out of them. "
Lowry: The Left can’t create a new Joe Rogan
That last article actually supports my position, not yours. It says this:
"Progressives are correct about the power of Rogan and his cohort of bro podcasters, but they don’t understand how thoroughly anathema their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming. If Left did manage to create a progressive Joe Rogan in a lab, as soon as he said something controversial out in the wild, he’d be subject to cancelation."
It’s definitely been a topic for a couple of years now.
At least from the articles you posted that is more of a incorrect statement than correct. Yes, I see how you came to that conclusion and in some very narrow readings there are pieces of truth but, I think your premise is disingenuous to claim to be generally true. Keep in mind, I'm not attacking you as a person. I'm not calling you a bad person. I just disagree with your conclusions.
The idea of Demo-Rogan messaging is a repeat of the 1990s where Al Frankin and others created "Air America" to counter the Republican mouthpiece of the day Rush Limbaugh. Air America failed there too for the same reason a Demo-Rogan would today. Democrats don't tune into radio for half truths and empty open ridicule of the GOP even though the GOP richly deserves ridicule, especially with trump in office.
I stand by my original statement.
For ARM Linux comparison, I ran the Speedometer 3.0 benchmark the author uses on my daily driver Macbook Air M2 (24GB RAM) running Asahi Linux Fedora Remix 42 (KDE). I used FF 149 which is just what I had installed. It scored 22.0 which apparently was better than this Zenbook and even beat out several Ryzen 7 and Core i7 offerings:
A used M2 Air with my spec mine (24GB RAM 2TB SSD) is $800-$900, which is a fraction of the $1600 Asus wants for their slower unit new, but the Asus does have more RAM.