I had it draft a response to the person asking questions; I tuned it a little to my liking and sent it.

Gemini, remind me not to ask blargh any questions.

Also, Gemini, my daughter is asking for someone to play with her. Can you run around with the feather wand and have her chase it or something?

Okay, real question, if prohibition on drugs doesn’t matter, why all the hubbub about states legalizing weed years back? “Prohibition doesn’t work, anyway,” so who cares?

Understand what? That you have a robot girlfriend you don’t want to give up? That you would burn the world down for Her.

You know, human love is just a biochemical response to external stimuli, I’m sure there’s a drug that can replace it.

Yes, of course. Monte Carlo killed my father.

You know what the problem is? You think that you’re too smart to be caught with a meth addiction. See, your neighbor got fucked up, lost a bunch of his teeth, but you, you know about microdosing.

Your other neighbor fell off a construction site that was missing its guard rails, but that wouldn’t happen to you; you have excellent balance.

The movie Jurassic Park is literally about people like you.

Do you have a reason to restrict Gaussian mixture models you’d like to give me, or are we just pissing in the same bush?

I know. I am perfectly capable of reading more than one comment.

zd9, you are aware that AI is making things worse, you say so yourself, and yet you feel the unsatable need to stand here bitching that no one understands your unique, special use case. For what?

I. Do. Not. Give. A. Fuck. that academics are using machine learning to solve problems. That is their business. <- Is that what you wanted? There you go.

AI is just an accelerant for a sick hypercapitalist society that is doomed to collapse.

I had, like, a bunch of paragraphs lined up because I thought you didn’t understand this. But as it turns out, you seem to be perfectly okay with the world being raped to death.

I hope your academic field is entertaining, at least.

Please, BBC!
AI can summarize emails!
Don’t take this away from me!
I can’t summarize as fast as it can!

Aww, haha.
I guess I can’t really help, but I appreciate you. :p

Also, I was looking at your comment history because I was curious what kind of person you were. That guy activating his yugioh trap card and calling you a pedophile because you flippantly said 12-years and not 19 or whatever he wanted is so fucking funny. It didn’t even make sense. That was like watching a bird glide into a glass window.

Why did you post this twice? It was just that good?

I’m sorry that your favourite comedian is unlikeable. Better luck next time.

He said that he was on team terf, like JK Rowling, because trans people were too annoying not to be.

Look, I get it, Dave Chappelle was cool circa 2000, but he’s fucking lame now. I’m not going to pretend that this cowardly, always pissing and moaning about cancel culture, has-been comedian is worth spending any of my time on. If he wanted to come back and be as well liked as he used to be, he should have been funny.

I feel like this punching model is like Newtonian physics. We do have relativity now, but you gotta take a higher-level class for that one.

No, I think they disagree. Or at least, I don’t mind treating them as such.

From sudoer:

Basically what they are saying is just praying > praying + smoking > just smoking.

This is the basis of the entire argument. What I see them doing is hyperfixating on an alleged flaw as a rhetorical tactic to defeat you.

I want to be clear: the point being made by the A and B versions of the smoker’s question is… obvious. It’s framing. Framing is a very well understood concept.

When I challenge people on grounds like these, I appear friendly, I make it explicitly known that I agree with the broader point, I offer alternatives that would make the point better, I refrain from damaging the rhetorical momentum (that is, we shouldn’t be bickering with each other because, to an audience, we should be a united front), and, I dunno, a fifth thing I’m sure I’ll come up with later.

If sudoer doesn’t disagree with you, they are still acting in opposition to you, which is 1) inconsiderate, and 2) demonstrates very poor social skills.

This was really funny to read.

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard it said, but really argumentative people are sometimes so “smart” and ready to go to bat that they end up suplexing their own IQ into a pit, and actually end up stupider than the average person on some issues.

I don’t think sudoer realizes it, but they’re arguing against, like, the concept of a seedy car salesman. Or, the tactic of acting sweeter than usual to get your dad to do you a favor. Or I guess just being manipulative in general. It’s really bizarre.

Palantir is trying to abuse a Swiss law to intimidate any negative coverage of themselves. The 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.

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.

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.