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Did he say that he invented that word?

Technically, they are predicting the next token. To do that properly they may need to predict the next idea, but thats just a means to an end (the end being the next token).

and anyone who even so much as questions the reports is called a Russian bot or a Russian troll or a MAGA fascist.

That doesn’t really match my experience

So I’m fucking sick of people saying that Trump is a Russian asset and that he’s doing the Iran thing so that America becomes weak so that Russia can finally take over the world

I agree that this seems implausible

Why does it have to be one of these two extremes? The reality is likely somewhere in the middle

They play high frequency tones over the speakers (usually with music going) that act like barcodes so your mic picks it up and sends data while we’re none the wiser.

Can you please elaborate

What’s wrong with Nvidia? Genuine question

Deflect is also a good alternative. It’s based in Montreal, Quebec. It’s what a lot of Canadian instances in the fediverse are moving too (see here).

I don’t know anything about accounting, but at first blush it seems like tax evasion and so forth would be easier to detect because the government can look at their bank activity and perform random audits, and so on. In contrast I don’t really know what tools we’d use to catch people lying about their training data

Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to publicly share information about their training data.

How do you actually enforce this? What’s stopping these companies from just lying about what training data they use?

It wasn’t a particularly funny joke

Well I, for one, thought it was funny

And a lot of it is clearly AI generated

Which I characterize as a determinist who really doesn’t want to admit to being one.

This is not very charitable of you. Its also simply inaccurate. If they didn’t already openly admit to being determinists then they would, by definition, not be compatibilists

Dennett openly admits he’s a determinist, you’d know that if you actually read his books. He’s literally the world’s leading proponent of compatibilism (determinism being compatible with free will). Determinists can believe in free will.

Edit for clarification

Like I said in my previous comment, I can’t prove anything to you. And if it wasn’t obvious, I’m not trying to prove anything to you. I’m certainly not saying that free will is real because people believe in it. I’m not saying you have the burden of proof. I’m not trying to persuade you and I’m not looking for a debate.

All I was saying that, in casual conversation, it’s probably fine to speak as if it’s real because very few people will actually take objection to that.

And that has nothing to do with Christianity either. You’ll notice from that survey that the majority of professional philosophers are actually atheists too. In fact, one of the philosophers who is responsible for popularizing atheism in revent decades, Daniel Dennett, someone who is literally one of the founders of the new atheism movement, is a big proponent of free will and has written entire books on it.

I can’t prove that to you. And you can’t prove it’s not real, either. This debate has been at a standstill since the Ancient Greeks started discussing it. I just took it for granted in my previous comment because the vast majority of people, including professional philosophers, see here) believe it to be real.

How else can you judge someone’s character if not by their actions?

A lot of this comes down to people’s free will. If you could perfectly analyze the reasons for every decision a person makes then those decisions would hardly be free.

This makes sense once you consider that the top models all have basically the same training data (i.e. everything ever posted on the internet).

Except in practice the Snowden leaks show us that democratic governments don’t always have our best interests at heart when it comes to this domain

Depends where you. In some places (I think it was Japan?) Apples practice of not allowing alternative browser engines was deemed anticompetitive and outlawed