Nah, sadly (?) that's not how it works. People's desires come first, and then they find a way within their belief system to justify their actions.
The people I'm hurting aren't human.
They're bad people.
They would do the same to me.
I'm only doing it because I'm a bad person.
I was hurt, so now is my chance.
That's just how the world works.
Et cetera. Sometimes if the conflict between their beliefs and their actions gets too great they change their beliefs.
But for the most part, people don't want to kill, steal, rape, etc. So they make up a reason to not do it, like "God will punish me if I do that" or "It's morally wrong" or whatever, and then they don't do it and move on with their lives.
(And those who do that stuff come from literally all belief systems; the only real differences being social environment - acceptability, expectations, protection from consequences, etc)
They provide anyone with access to knowledge that only about half the time is misleading in some way, but is just as persuasive as an expert explanation of the truth.
By automating writing, coding, and data analysis, LLMs remove any need for humans to understand how to express nuanced thought, how to clearly and safely execute a technical process, or how to extract insights from large amounts of information.
By automating customer‑service tasks, LLMs remove the last vestige of a human who can understand why a corporate process is failing a customer and find a way for the system to meet their needs. And as a bonus the LLM can confidently declare 'facts' that aren't true.
LLM‑driven tools can assist clinicians with literature summarization (reinforcing training-data bias, eliminating the actual point of scientific papers, and making lots of errors), patient communication (eliminating any human contact and care towards vulnerable patients), and preliminary triage (with extra training data bias and distracting the doctor from reading the not-written-down actual human presenting symptoms in front of them)
Artists, writers, musicians, and game designers use LLMs as co‑creators, generating drafts, ideas, or entire works that rehash old works and remove any pesky 'artistic expression', as the LLM is much faster at making a polished-looking end product, and it's not like people ever come up with new insights during the revision process.
Advanced multilingual models translate and transcribe minority languages, ensuring that no one ever need learn the language of their cultural heritage, as they have an English approximation that's totally good enough.
And the best part is this can scale to billions of people, meaning that no one will ever need to be knowledgeable, or know how to write, code, analyze data, do customer service, read a scientific paper, talk to a patient, observe someone to understand their current state, or have to learn anything about other languages or cultures. Just trust in the often wrong but-who-cares-stop-complaining LLM!
It almost always will be a false start, unless you've been in contact with some other sourdough starter recently.
Just be patient, it takes time for the starters environment to get to the place where it's hostile to non-sourdough microorganisms, and friendly and full of happy sourdough critters.
The "undesirable" bacteria are actually fine at the start, their lifecycle just pushes the starter in the direction you want it to go (more acidic, probably other complex environmental changes)
Throughout trade talks Trump has regularly insisted that his business savvy is laid out in his book The Art Of The Deal, which he did not actually write because it was ghost written by journalist Tony Schwartz who has since denounced the president.
Thank you Beaverton, I knew I could trust your journalism past the headline
I don't usually buy into "both sides same", but this is actually how 'both sides' win or lose elections - if you put up a candidate that people are excited to vote for, people vote. If they're disappointed, they don't.
This is the majority of voters, not the vanishingly small minority that post online or pay attention to politics.
It's impossible for me to back Platner - he's out of the race. If I had a choice, I’d pick him over Collins, but I’d prefer a candidate with a more marginalized identity and substantially more experience in successful “leftist” political work.
The Democrats spent roughly a third as much promoting Platner as the GOP spent trying to take him down (I don’t have exact numbers), so I agree that propaganda is everywhere. Perhaps the GOP is more desperate, while (as you say) the Democrats have other avenues to power, so they're allowing this one to slip by.
Regarding the rape allegations, I sincerely hope the victims receive justice and healing, even though I don’t expect much from the system - that's a whole different conversation.
My only point here is that the massive amount of propaganda aimed at demonizing political candidates gives us a very distorted view of who they really are, mostly on the side of "wow they're so eeeevil", so we all need to be wary of that. (Unless they're a billionaire of course; at a certain level of power evil seems to be compulsory)
I guess "stamp collecting" means "finding rare things"? And "physics" is about learning about more complex rules of interaction?
I think that covers chemistry, as we already know the rules pretty well and are just looking for ways to get rare things. Particle physics too, we predict that things exist and many years later finally create ("collect") them.
Ecology and Economics, we don't know all the rules.
Maybe that's a simpler summary: figuring out the rules vs applying the rules.
References a Colbert appearance, quoting and linking:
Talarico often says he learned from his Baptist preacher grandfather that Christians “follow a barefoot rabbi who gave us two commandments: Love God and love neighbor—because there is no love of God without love of neighbor.” That’s a reference to Matthew 22:36-40, one of Talarico’s go-to, and definitely non-“fake,” scripture passages. And as Talarico told Stephen Colbert, it has radical implications: We are to love our neighbor “regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or immigration status or religious affiliation.”
Another of Talarico’s go-to Gospel passages, Matthew 25:35-40, directly links love for Jesus with care for the hungry, the stranger, and the imprisoned. For many evangelicals, this passage refers mainly to a future end-times Tribulation. For Talarico, by contrast, it is manifestly current and intensely political. Here’s how he deploys it in the Colbert appearance:
“For 50 years, the religious right … convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage … two issues that Jesus never talked about. Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I and every one of our fellow believers [are] going to be judged and how we’re going to be saved: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger.”
It's all but the worst phrase and we need to all but stop using it! All but most of the time the actual all but intended meaning can all but be found by just all but removing "all but". Switzerland is all but all all but but surrounded == Switzerland is all but surrounded
I don't like violence, may I salt the tester instead?
Nah, sadly (?) that's not how it works. People's desires come first, and then they find a way within their belief system to justify their actions.
The people I'm hurting aren't human.
They're bad people.
They would do the same to me.
I'm only doing it because I'm a bad person.
I was hurt, so now is my chance.
That's just how the world works.
Et cetera. Sometimes if the conflict between their beliefs and their actions gets too great they change their beliefs.
But for the most part, people don't want to kill, steal, rape, etc. So they make up a reason to not do it, like "God will punish me if I do that" or "It's morally wrong" or whatever, and then they don't do it and move on with their lives.
(And those who do that stuff come from literally all belief systems; the only real differences being social environment - acceptability, expectations, protection from consequences, etc)
Yup, LLMs are wonderful.
They provide anyone with access to knowledge that only about half the time is misleading in some way, but is just as persuasive as an expert explanation of the truth.
By automating writing, coding, and data analysis, LLMs remove any need for humans to understand how to express nuanced thought, how to clearly and safely execute a technical process, or how to extract insights from large amounts of information.
By automating customer‑service tasks, LLMs remove the last vestige of a human who can understand why a corporate process is failing a customer and find a way for the system to meet their needs. And as a bonus the LLM can confidently declare 'facts' that aren't true.
LLM‑driven tools can assist clinicians with literature summarization (reinforcing training-data bias, eliminating the actual point of scientific papers, and making lots of errors), patient communication (eliminating any human contact and care towards vulnerable patients), and preliminary triage (with extra training data bias and distracting the doctor from reading the not-written-down actual human presenting symptoms in front of them)
Artists, writers, musicians, and game designers use LLMs as co‑creators, generating drafts, ideas, or entire works that rehash old works and remove any pesky 'artistic expression', as the LLM is much faster at making a polished-looking end product, and it's not like people ever come up with new insights during the revision process.
Advanced multilingual models translate and transcribe minority languages, ensuring that no one ever need learn the language of their cultural heritage, as they have an English approximation that's totally good enough.
And the best part is this can scale to billions of people, meaning that no one will ever need to be knowledgeable, or know how to write, code, analyze data, do customer service, read a scientific paper, talk to a patient, observe someone to understand their current state, or have to learn anything about other languages or cultures. Just trust in the often wrong but-who-cares-stop-complaining LLM!
Or skip the search engine:
"Tell me about the ecology of Namibia. Use only sources from before 2022 because I do not trust LLM generated output. Make no mistakes."
The roof is on fire
Yes, this. @ 👆
It almost always will be a false start, unless you've been in contact with some other sourdough starter recently.
Just be patient, it takes time for the starters environment to get to the place where it's hostile to non-sourdough microorganisms, and friendly and full of happy sourdough critters.
The "undesirable" bacteria are actually fine at the start, their lifecycle just pushes the starter in the direction you want it to go (more acidic, probably other complex environmental changes)
Thank you Beaverton, I knew I could trust your journalism past the headline
I don't usually buy into "both sides same", but this is actually how 'both sides' win or lose elections - if you put up a candidate that people are excited to vote for, people vote. If they're disappointed, they don't.
This is the majority of voters, not the vanishingly small minority that post online or pay attention to politics.
Elon has clearly stated that he hates Wikipedia and wants to destroy it.
And here is one of the ways he's working on that.
The Author's comment when they posted this on Bluesky:
https://pixelfed.social/p/NickEastPhoto/988350626603935285
Looks like the photo series didn't survive federation to lemmy, but that link should work
I don't know the reference, but how about:
First rule if getting out of a hole: Dig faster than the walls can collapse on you.
Did I get it right?
assert(titles == DIFFICULT);
Thank you for the post
Oof, this is the saddest comic I've seen in months.
Very very good.
It's impossible for me to back Platner - he's out of the race. If I had a choice, I’d pick him over Collins, but I’d prefer a candidate with a more marginalized identity and substantially more experience in successful “leftist” political work.
The Democrats spent roughly a third as much promoting Platner as the GOP spent trying to take him down (I don’t have exact numbers), so I agree that propaganda is everywhere. Perhaps the GOP is more desperate, while (as you say) the Democrats have other avenues to power, so they're allowing this one to slip by.
Regarding the rape allegations, I sincerely hope the victims receive justice and healing, even though I don’t expect much from the system - that's a whole different conversation.
My only point here is that the massive amount of propaganda aimed at demonizing political candidates gives us a very distorted view of who they really are, mostly on the side of "wow they're so eeeevil", so we all need to be wary of that. (Unless they're a billionaire of course; at a certain level of power evil seems to be compulsory)
All I know is that Republican-aligned groups spent a ridiculous amount of money to get him out of the race.
If he was a bad candidate, they would have had to do that.
I guess "stamp collecting" means "finding rare things"? And "physics" is about learning about more complex rules of interaction?
I think that covers chemistry, as we already know the rules pretty well and are just looking for ways to get rare things. Particle physics too, we predict that things exist and many years later finally create ("collect") them.
Ecology and Economics, we don't know all the rules.
Maybe that's a simpler summary: figuring out the rules vs applying the rules.
Dirty ver
https://www.texasobserver.org/senate-james-talarico-presbyterian-christianity/
References a Colbert appearance, quoting and linking:
It's all but the worst phrase and we need to all but stop using it! All but most of the time the actual all but intended meaning can all but be found by just all but removing "all but". Switzerland is all but all all but but surrounded == Switzerland is all but surrounded