I picked the way in which an AI model (as the exist now) could most trivially produce a piece of novel (and deliberately trivial) information.

I wasn’t worried about whether the credit could fairly be attributed to it. We’re talking about whether they can produce information with which to grow their knowledge. Moral credit for the growth of their knowledge is outside the scope of the discussion.

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All that an AI has to do to disprove that claim is pay someone to weigh one orange through fivr. So either your claim is wrong, or LLMs as they exist now are no longer statistical models. Go ahead and move the goal post if you want, my complaint was about your overly broad claim.

I mean, he’s keeping cows prisoner and we’re posting passive aggressive shit online. I’d say cows are 2/2 so far.

No no, they use United States customary units.

They’re similar and some units are the same. But not all. Some only have the same name.

You’re allowed to censor other people if you want to, just as other people are allowed to mock you for doing so.

Ranting at people like a 12 year old on Xbox who just learned to swear does not sell the “I’m more mature” image all that well.

You’re bitching at people like a child because they don’t talk the way you want and acting like you’re the exception. You sound like a squeaker on COD.

I’m not sure why you should decide how other people are allowed to speak. Could you explain where your moral authority originated?

Only if they cared.

It’s not just the tariffs and other bullshit.

I can’t trust American products to be safe.

To a certain extent, yes.

Like it’s a good idea to drink from a ditch if that’s the only water. Better than dying of thirst anyway.

Murphy’s law says it will be used wrong, and as such it is a bad design and a bad idea.

There are alternatives that are better, this has only the advantage of being cheap.

Those of us that remember our grandparents getting away with it are a product of survival bias.

Well, Canada for one. If you don’t want me to record you saying stupid shit to me on the phone… don’t say it.

There are exceptions for specific things, but that’s how all rules work: the specific overrules the general.

I don’t. I think there isn’t enough popular support for a gun ban for success to happen and it would be a pricey boondoggle. Laws that don’t have public consensus behind them have a poor track record. Look at prohibition or the war on drugs.

But it would not fail because of the size of the country. That’s silly.

There are a lot of businesses that cost so little to start it may as well be nothing. But you need to eat until they get off the ground.

Because the bad products are claiming to be good. It’s a poisoned product category.

A bidet is a safer option, and cheaper in the long term.

You don’t have to have 1 dude do the whole job. You can just use an equal amount of people per capita as smaller countries have.

It’s not possible to live according to the morals of everyone else. They’re mutually contradictory with each other for one thing lol. I’m at peace with the idea that other people won’t always agree with me.