It’s hard to say whether they are a bot or not because I don’t know how sophisticated bots have gotten these days. But I know that if there was a platform that would do nothing about AI powered harabara bots, it’s bluesky.

Trashfuture is one I like listening to. It’s funny without being obnoxious.

You know you are the good guy when you put a skull on your face, a symbol historically associated with only good guys.

I meant the TV has access to other sources of internet. Meaning there are other wifi networks it can connect to.

Yeah that one

I remember there being a weird video of Scholz where he acted suspiciously when asked about NordStream before it was destroyed. I can’t remember the content of the video since it was a while ago. But it seemed like he is in on it.

Yeah. I mean even if they do call themselves social democrats, they probably do not have tenets of social democracy, do not define their principles etc.

Every time I read anything from Xi Jinping’s speeches, I get a bit despondent because a national leader talking like a normal, modest and humble human being is unheard of in the western world and its satellites. Here for example we get empty platitudes or demagoguery,

I feel like consoles are gonna face problems when products like Steam Machine become more available and cheaper. Ignoring the crazy hardware prices right now, I would gladly pay $100 more for reasonably worse performance if it means the console, which has the potential to be a full fledged computer, is arbitrarily locked to essentially become a machine that milks me for Sony Entertainment Ltd.

I can’t listen to music on my PS5 because I don’t want to use spotify. It has no browser, cannot copy saved games etc. Something like Steam Machine on the other hand lets you mod your games, has access to multiple storefronts including DRM free ones.

If I was Mamdani I wouldn’t arrest him. I would do a secret second thing.

These terms are not concretely defined. Like Lenin called himself and his comrades “social democrats”. In that context the term makes sense, since he was a socialist and overthrowing the czars would lead to a more democratic future. Outside of this I don’t hear anyone calling themselves social democrats these days.

Democratic socialists similarly I haven’t seen being used outside of DSA, the subsect of the the American “Democratic” party. The whole point seems to be about leaning into electoralism without building dual power structures. So demsoc is a bit euphemistic in that regard.

It’s not that they lack empathy

I feel like they do. You know on account of all the indiscriminate mass murder of men, women and children alike.

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I had assumed they did this a while ago. Good news nonetheless.

My problem with esoteric ebb was that it shoehorned contemporary political ontology into a fantasy DnD setting. I don’t think it worked. Like the freestriders’ libertarianism feels really out of place. Libertarianism is borne out of capital ownership being concentrated in the hands of a few. But in a setting where there is magic and no modern industry people harping on about the free market feels really out of place.

US is a hegemon because it occupied the power vacuum that arose out of the devestation of WWII. Unless there is a similar occurance of even greater magnitude there isn’t going to be a new hegemon of the sort the US is today.

I always think of how a common person in those times would have serious trouble wrapping their head around such an extreme level of opulence. Like if you are a struggling peasant in this throne room, it’s hard to even want it for yourself because you won’t know at first what to do with such an excess. You want a better life for yourself obviously but don’t know if this is what you want.

But if that’s the case aren’t chatbots already configured to be supportive? If you talk to any major LLM right now, that’s how they behave. I have never felt Deepseek for example which I have used the most talks like a customer service agent. It can be supportive or “brutally honest” depending on how you prompt it.

I would rather have LLM chatbots be dispassionate during interactions seeing how they have no emotional capacity. As you mentioned, sycophantic LLMs have caused material harm and OpenAI ended up neutering 4o’s personality because of these problems. A lot of people in /r/myboyfriendisai were upset about this.

Feel it deep within the heart of your soul