I have two questions for you.

Do you believe that everybody is a blank slate without variation?

Mozart learned to play at 4, began composing at 5, and wrote his first symphony at 8. Do you think that every child is capable of this?

Free speech doesn’t let you say whatever you want to anyone, it’s intention is to protect you while speaking out against government officials and offices.

It sounds like you’re getting freedom of speech mixed up with the First Amendment. They aren’t the same thing. The First Amendment’s intention is to protect your freedom of speech from the government. If you want your freedom of speech protected from other things (such as your employer), the First Amendment won’t protect you.

No, the First Amendment only protects you from the government. “Free speech” is a philosophical principle which has nothing to do with governments directly.

However, an “advertising standards board” that decides what can and cannot be posted publicly sounds pretty governmental to me.

But even when free speech wasn’t forced it wouldn’t force channels to carry your advertisement.

Of course, but that still isn’t any kind of universal standards board, that’s individual channels deciding independently.

That sounds like it would go against the First Amendment.

The farm is only part of it. Whether they were raised on a factory farm or your neighbor’s farm, they all go to the same slaughterhouse. Unless you know farmers who do their own slaughtering, which I highly doubt.

do americans even realise how garbage their meat is?

No, they don’t. Part of it is the media doesn’t report on it, but part of it is it’s illegal to take photos or get video from inside of slaughterhouses. Also, a lot of people don’t want to know, because it would be inconvenient. They like the taste of meat, and they don’t want to quit eating it.

Thanks for catching this! I fixed it. What’s remarkable is that apparently a lot of people don’t want to believe that this isn’t Vonnegut, which is why it slipped past me when I did a web search on it earlier.

I’ve tried contacting multiple places that have published this quote to have them retract it with no results. I’ve also contacted Snopes twice with no reply.

I was once contacted by someone who wanted to know my source for the quote because they were tracking Vonnegut’s archeology experience in his biography and wouldn’t believe me when I said it was about my own life.

I think that almost anybody can become proficient, but talent is something innate. We aren’t just blank slates. We are naturally better at some things than others. There have been numerous examples of prodigies who showed amazing skill at a very young age, despite having relatively little practice. For example, Mozart was taught how to play piano from the age of four and was able to compose pieces at the age of five. Many parents have tried to get their small children to play musical instruments from a very young age, but most of them have not been able to produce new Mozarts. Of course, Mozart and other prodigies practiced a lot, too, but others who practiced just as much, if not more, got nowhere close to their skill level.

Now, the reason I said almost anybody is because it makes sense to me that if there are people who are talented, then there must be the opposite, people who have anti-talent. There are people who are so tone-deaf that they’ll never make good music, not even if they practice every chance they get. However, talent and anti-talent are at the ends of the bell curve: most people are somewhere in the middle, and if they practice enough, they can make something which is adequate, if not good…and, occasionally, even something great.

That moment when your brain goes “This…but unironically”.

Yeah, I was talking about the Gemini blurb at the top of Google search results.

LLMs can make stuff resembling art. I’m not interested in it, though, because a human didn’t make it. What makes art art, what makes it interesting, is artists.

The room is filling with sewage. I’m not sure that this is a good thing.

It sucks as a search engine. When I’m searching for something, I want factual, correct results, not a hallucinated answer which is backed up by none of its sources.

When I click through search results, I’m reading, evaluating the sources, and synthesizing the information into something which I am reasonably satisfied is true enough. I don’t feel comfortable handing that cognitive task off to a machine. The machine’s job is to help me find the sources, not tell me what the truth is.

Having a machine that tells you what is true is the most dystopian shit ever, and it would’ve sounded completely insane only 5 years ago.

LG is a South Korean company, so that might have something to do with it.

Prior to WWII, it was sometimes used in the US as a symbol of good luck. That’s why, for example, there are those antique metal fobs in the shape of a swastika with the Coca-Cola logo embossed on them.

It sounds like a containment unit, like in Ghostbusters.

Their idea of curry is as spicy as a snickerdoodle and about as sweet.

You can still buy the spicier varieties, though, right? So what’s the problem?

Sure, dump away. I’m always interested in checking out new music.