Concerning

There are articles in mainstream news outlets like NYT where dumbass journalists share “prompt hacks” to make ChatGPT give you insights about yourself. Journalists are blown away by literal cold reading. The real danger of these chatbots comes from asking about topics you yourself don’t know much about. The response will look meaningful but you will never be able to tell if it has made a mistake since search engines are useless garbage these days.

Brb going to save a FORTUNE by not spending any money on anything ever

It could a good topic for clinical study to find out if commercial LLMs are any worse than other media for exacerbating mental illnesses but it takes science time to catch up with the cabal of techbros releasing a new iteration of torment nexus every week.

Something related that I forgot to mention. ChatGPT builds a profile of you as you talk to it. I feel Deepseek does not do this and I assume stuff like Claude do this too. So it ends up knowing more about you than you know and in the case of these breakdown probably fuels the user’s problematic behaviours.

What do you think I meant by preexisting? I can’t parse your understanding of it from your response.

Yeah the default way of speaking is a toned down version of this.

jesus christ this looks preposterous

The role of concrete and asphalt roads is really understated in making the ambient temperature hotter

Many happy returns of the day :)

I don’t know any readings about it. Sorry. I hope someone else can help. I only have a gist of what went on after the collapse of the USSR by hearing about it from here and there. The anecdotes about pensions being wiped out, massive inflation and evisceration of public services are well known and its effects are shown well by simple stats like avg life expectancy.

Half the site is like 70s style racism. By blocking blue checks you might be blocking more nazis than non-nazis.

Me: Trump needs to be taken to the Hague

Me: nooo not like that

We have kind of already seen a worse version of this already with USSR. Stalin was an Authoritarian Totalitarian™ and the west was not happy about that. Khrushchev was anti-Stalin but the west was not happy about that either. Gorbachev destroyed USSR to appease the west but they were not happy about that either. He opened up both the economy and political leadership according to western demands but they were still not happy. Following the mass murder of glasnost and perestroika Putin consolidated his position riding the wave of nationalist fervor and we know how that went with the west. God knows what it will take to make them happy. (Hint: It’s replacing the ruling class with one that is US’ stooge that will deindustrialise Russia, possibly Balkanise them and reduce them to a colony that is nothing but a source of raw materials and low value adding labour.)

What the hell is this?

Yeah that is the perfect name for them. I’m gonna use it from now on.

Every ash ketchum (us politician) needs their gary oak (third world country they want to bomb more so than other third world countries)

They also have their favourite option which they have historically resorted to countless times in the past which is the indisciminate brutalisation of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure because who is gonna stop them and how.

This means that the Islamic Republic is now locked in a war to death. There won’t be any ceasefires from here on. Wonder how Iran will respond. I hope they at least damage israel significantly regardless of the final outcome.

Two thoughts of mine about this:

1. This is the product of American christofascists believing that scientific progress is borne out of being white and having a lot of money
2. Scientists leaving to places like Canada, Germany, etc. feels like it won’t have as much of a brain drain effect as them leaving for China. Canada and European countries are barely sovereign. Their works will easily feed back into American corporations.