Today’s lucky 10,000 would still benefit from learning about the media like this.

You haven’t, but the LLM has.

[edit] Sorry, I’ve got to be more careful about that royal ‘you’, haha.

I’m just asking out of curiosity: why do you think you care so much about the negative comments?

I am one of those people that shrug it off, and if I were to try to rationalize my emotional armor, I’d say that the places these matters of taste and disagreement come from, like psychologically, are often not you’re own fault and wouldn’t really be fixable even if you tried.

But, I wonder if that might be missing the mark. The futility of trying to appease people who are unappeasable might actually have nothing to do with it.

This doesn’t even make sense. Inventing a hydrogen fuel cell independently is creative work. Inventing one only because you’ve seen it’s patent before is recycling.

Palantir is trying to abuse a Swiss law to intimidate any negative coverage of themselves. This is a SLAPP suit. The headline is just fine, actually.

Switzerland’s right of reply law exists so people can correct factual errors, not so corporations can force publications to run PR copy because they didn’t like the tone of accurate, document-based reporting.

What Women Want
$33.6 million opening weekend

X-Men
$57.5 million opening weekend

Nice. So, I think we can conclude that X-Men is more romantic than What Women Want. That’s cool, I guess.

Can we find the most romantic movies using this ‘highest grossing’ trick?

How do you know those movies are highest grossing because they’re cool?

Maybe.

Taxes rarely get any good propaganda, though. I don’t mind news stories like this being plastered everwhere if it means people will start believing their government can do something for them again.

Steelmanning is what wins arguments.

Actually, no, it’s not. Steelmanning is a tactic.

I mean, as long as people believe in the truth, it’s a tactic I’d hope they use.

The main reason that I’m not engaging with the paragraph-by-paragraph is that I just don’t feel like taking 6 months to explain a systemic view of society. It is obvious to me that you view an AI education as no different than opening a textbook.

I don’t know how you live, so let me tell you something. If you wanted to, you could: work from home (to be fair, I love doing that), get all your trinkets and toilet paper from Amazon, spend your off-time watching vtubers pretend they’re uncomfortable with the word ‘penis’, order all of your food through UberEats, talk to people, if you do, exclusively through Discord and Reddit, ignore all phonecalls and have AI write your texts back instead, skip bathing entirely because what purpose does that even serve at this point, and spend the rest of your time being intellectually stimulated by gacha-game roulettes and call of duty lootboxes.

For a lot of people, school is the one time when they can’t do this. They are forcibly dragged by their heels over gravel and concrete into a community with other people. This is a place they can look up and see other faces. They can stand in places where their obscene body odour is shameful enough that they may be bullied into bathing again. They could, perhaps, see another person struggling and offer to tutor them.

Yes, technically, you could educate from an AI, and separately, socialize with people elsewhere. Technically, and I’m not saying these are strictly equivalent, you could segregate your schools by color, but still offer your jobs equally to any applicant, whoever they may be.

The question I ask is, “but would they?”

The social ramifications of teaching people to be dependent on this technology, and this includes their social skills, their sense of community membership, where they feel like they get their friends from (the sycophantic chatgpt is much, much better at affirming your bad habits than any person will be), are so dangerous that I don’t really want this technology anywhere. Certainly not in a classroom before anyone has even learned to be self-actualized.

I would rather imagine a world where teachers are paid well. Where more faculty can be hired. Where classroom sizes are systemically allowed to be smaller than they are. Where no-child-left-behind laws, which are destructive, are broken and shattered to pieces. Where students form study groups and support each other, something they should be doing their entire lives, instead of asking a T-1000 that pretends it can giggle.

This is a really basic one, probably not viable for the modern age: every time you need to ask a person a question is an opportunity to make a friend. If you are asking your questions of an AI, where are you making your friends? I’m not implying an answer, this is an open-ended question.

PS: No, but this summary is really fucking funny:

a man grieving his wife’s suicide by huffing gasoline fumes and avoiding her suicide note

You’re asking how an AI that tutors you might displace the need for people who tutor you? Hm.

You know that people used to know their tailor? You could bring your son in, get him a suit for his birthday. “Hey, this is my boy, William. William, this is Richard, I’ve been coming to him for years. He does great work. How’s the wife, Richard?” I have never spoken to the Amazon website like this. I don’t think it can hear me.

You learn social skills from people.

But lets not kid ourselves that kids weren’t cheating their way out of homework since the start of time 😄

I don’t mean to come off as too aggressive because I don’t think we’re really arguing with each other. But, I tend to see statements like this as a kind of handwaving apologia for something that, to be clear, real people are doing to us on purpose. The same way that people might lament the coming of a hurricane season; nothing really to be done about it.

1. AI is much better at creating internet spam.
2. AI is a vector for even reputable places to “set and forget” any article they’re in charge of. Any mistruths are simply ‘glitches’.
3. The pressure on people to think critically only matters if people actually start thinking critically. Kids use this technology to skip their homework.

it lies to you about what film they were in, and you believe it. Is your life any worse off for it?

I think a better question is: why, then, am I asking it questions?

If I had a friend I knew was a notorious liar, I would—big chess move—simply stop asking him who actors are. Unless it was really funny.

Everyone’s a god damn tool philosopher.

Personally, I’m fine with banning cigarettes regardless of how responsibly my dead grandpa may have used them.

Republicans.

Imagine a future where we could disseminate custom AIs to teach kids

I want kids to have social skills, so I will not imagine this.

Ha! I have never had a disease nor one sip of the alghoul’s poison.

Well to be fair, we’re putting those resources into AI and not schools.