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  • Trump threatens to send American citizens to El Salvador prison

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  • You can't deport me I'm a citizen! Look at my genuine passport!

    Read the fine print, that's property of the US Government and they can revoke it whenever they want.

    But wait here's my birth certificate! Surely you can't...

    Mmmmmm, looks like a forgery. We'll put in a request with your birth state to confirm. In the mean time please take your seat, we're wheels up to Venezuela in 15 minutes.

    https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/

  • Mom of child dead from measles: “Don’t do the shots,” my other 4 kids were fine

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  • Crazy that anti-vax has even a fig leaf of personal liberty as a defense. Yes, you do have the right to make your own choices and you can be a negligent parent in 1000 different ways.

    But this isn't even close to a personal freedom issue. You being a dumb piece of shit is a direct threat to the rest of society. YOU don't get to make the personal choice to kill MY child.

    It should be simple for these serious diseases: unless you have a certified medical issue preventing it, you have to get the shot. Fuck any objection (personal, religious, whatever...). If there's some negative side effect or a bad vaccine batch, you get generously compensated for our collective societal fault in harming you.

    Strap them down and jab them, let them bitch and moan about everyone's children being alive and healthy later.

  • 'Dictator s**t': Trump's middle-of-the-night meltdown nulling Biden pardons is slammed

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  • 'Dictator s**t': Trump's middle-of-the-night meltdown nulling Biden pardons is slammed

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  • 'Dictator s**t': Trump's middle-of-the-night meltdown nulling Biden pardons is slammed

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  • 'Dictator s**t': Trump's middle-of-the-night meltdown nulling Biden pardons is slammed

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  • Don't disrespect swamps like that, they're a vital ecosystem. This is more like excising the cancer.

  • What are your thoughts on paternity leave?

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  • Nah, it's the lead and microplastics

  • Meet the Trump Voters Downplaying Hits to Their 401(k)s

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  • No, delusional is the right word. You can be mind numbingly stupid but still see cause and effect; food prices going up after his inauguration is a very basic and tactile thing.

    Delusion is taking that lived experience and warping reality to fit your mental narrative.

  • Meet the Trump Voters Downplaying Hits to Their 401(k)s

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  • They're in so deep that they'll take any life buoy that their feed/infowars/fox news throws. Its like an automatic reaction they're conditioned for.

    The least shocking thing in this article is retirees in denial. Mental gymnastics is their full-time job; not like they've got anything else to do.

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

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  • We haven't hit the heat death of the universe so I'm holding out hope that nobody in history has ever been disappeared.

    Don't you have boots to be licking?

  • Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump

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  • That's... literally what it is? Is there a magical threshold of time or number of protesters illegally whisked away where it suddenly becomes a problem?

    Get your head out of your ass

  • 'Ominous signs': Legal expert says John Roberts showed he'll 'reverse precedent' for Trump

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  • This is the shit I don't get. So many people paving the way for fascism are selling out a world power that sloshes trillions of dollars around every year for like... a few hundred million + perks? Maybe a few billion if you're important? Its so un-ambitious.

    These people also (presumably) have to live in this country after its fucked. When the trillionaires start throwing their weight around and issuing laws your pocket change won't mean shit.

  • Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

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  • One bad thing doesn't make a different but also bad thing ok. And in my opinion it is worse, imagine if their world view could only come from 5 second videos. Throw those history books away.

    And I don't know that it's overstated and it's not at all perpetual. Look at... everything these days. People "disagree" with fundamental facts and are blindly allowing our planet to be burnt to the ground.

    It takes concentrated effort to build and maintain an educated populace. The wide availability of books and increased literacy directly caused the Renaissance, pulling down the status quo and giving us access to modern medicine and literally every right + luxury you enjoy today.

  • Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

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  • I mean it's the same use; it's all literacy. It's about how much you depend on it and don't use your own brain. It might be for a mindless email today, but in 20 years the next generation can't read the news without running it through an LLM. They have no choice but to accept whatever it says because they never develop the skills to challenge it, kind of like simplifying things for a toddler.

    The models can never be totally fixed, the underlying technology isn't built for that. It doesn't have "knowledge" or "reasoning" at all. It approximates it by weighing your input against a model of how those words connect together and choosing a slightly random extension of them. Depending on the initial conditions, it might even give you a different answer for each run.

  • Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

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  • It can't ever accurately convey any more information than you give it, it just guesses details to fill in. If you're doing something formulaic, then it guesses fairly accurately. But if you tell it "write a book report on Romeo and Juliet", it can only fill in generic details on what people generally say about the play; it sounds genuine but can't extract your thoughts.

    Not to get too deep into the politics of it but there's no reason most people couldn't get there if we invested in their core education. People just work with what they're given, it's not a personal failure if they weren't taught these skills or don't have access to ways to improve them.

    And not everyone has to be hyper-literate, if daily life can be navigated at a 6th grade level that's perfectly fine. Getting there isn't an insurmountable task, especially if you flex those cognitive muscles more. The main issue is that current AI doesn't improve these skills, it atrophies them.

    It doesn't push back or use logical reasoning or seek context. Its specifically made to be quick and easy, the same as fast food. We'll be having intellectual equivalent of the diabetes epidemic if it gets widespread use.

  • Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

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  • LLMs work by extrapolation, they can't output any better than the context you give them. They're used in completely inappropriate situations because they're dead easy and give very digestible content.

    Your brain is the only thing in the universe that knows the context of what you're writing and why. At a sixth grade level, you could technically describe almost anything but it would be clunky and hard to read. But you don't need an LLM to fix that.

    We've had tools for years that help with the technical details of writing (basic grammar, punctuation, and spelling). There are also already tools to help with phrasing and specifying a concept ("hey Google, define [X]" or "what's the word for when...").

    This is more time consuming than an LLM, but guarantees that what you write is exactly what you intend to communicate. As a bonus, your reading comprehension gets better. You might remember that definition of [X] when you read it.

    If you have access to those tools but can't/won't use them then you'll never be able to effectively write. There's no magic substitute for literacy.

  • Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

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  • The reason it feels like that is because it's addressed to someone who you don't know personally, even if you know them professionally. You never really know if a specific reference would offend them, if their dog just died, how "this email finds" them, etc...

    And in the context of both of you doing your jobs, you shouldn't care. Its easier to get day-to-day stuff done with niceties even if it's hollow.

    That's just the tone tho. People trying to insist they give a shit when everyone knows they don't is what bothers me. If you're firing someone don't sugar coat it.

  • Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster

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  • In all of those examples, the user knows exactly what they want and the tool is a way to expedite or enable getting there. This isn't quite the same thing.

    If we were talking a tool like augmented audio to text I'd agree. I'd probably even agree if it was an AI-proofreader style model where you feed it what you have to make sure it's generally comprehensible.

    Writing as a skill is about solidifying and conveying thoughts so they can be understood. The fact that it turns into text is kind of irrelevant. Hand waving that process is just rubber stamping something you kinda-sorta started the process of maybe thinking about.

  • Democrats finally sue Trump for trying to control elections

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  • I don't doubt that it wouldn't end well, but the plan is to use the threat as far as he can take it. Do you want to be the judge to pull that trigger? Have you seen how many "stern warnings" and "last chances" he gets, how they struggle to issue a gag order? Any delay allows him to further solidify his power and insulate the executive from other branches.

    An important note is that they don't care if the government doesn't get things done. If people sit on their hands, they get fired. As he nosedives the USA into economic depression it will be a harder and harder decision to give up your paycheck just to stick it to the orange guy. Being within the orbit of the dictator gives way more stability than any part of the country he tears down.