If only they didn’t pay Yandex, a company affiliated with Russian govt

I get that, it’s just that they didn’t do it because they were the good guys, just because they got fucked over by the other group of bad guys, and slaughtered lots of their own people doing it.

After starting the whole WWII thing by allying with them, and only turned on the nazis after the nazis backstabbed them. And afterwards, occupied half of Europe.

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How do you like FSB spyware on your phone?

The underlying problem is that like half of Americans only pay lip service to the First Amendment.

Because making sense is so 2010, grandpa

He is a member of the in-group for many. He is using the arguments that will actually make some in said in-group listen.

Bro is a cognitive dissonance junkie

Mercosur-EFTA-CA-SEA global free trade regime let’s go

You can’t have a rainforest in Brazil without cutting it down either, but that doesn’t seem to stop people

Hehe .ml user being defensive

Sure, but I’d wager it goes beyond the singular manifestation of power as money. Plenty of other manifestations, and all lead to similar places.

At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.

This kind of stuff never happens overnight. It happens slowly, incrementally, and the people are never mad enough at too much sudden change to be motivated enough to do anything. People should feel good about the imposition of boundaries, and it helps that for the average user, the boundaries often result in a better user experience.

Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.

Love the assumption that the elections aren’t already fixed.

It’s trivial to get LLMs to act against the instructions

There is a lot more that goes into it than just being correct. 18000 waters may have been the actual order, because somebody decided to screw with the machine. A human who isn’t terminally autistic would reliably interpret that as a joke and would simply refuse to punch that in. The LLM will likely do what a human tells it to do, since it has no contextual awareness, it only has the system prompt and whatever interaction with the user it had so far.