lol, sorry…the company selling a product made an outlandish claim and you believe it? I got a bridge to sell you!

I think the fundamental problem is that you haven’t actually used these tools enough to see that the companies peddling them are snake oil salesmen. Nothing they say is true, they’re completely full of shit, and they’re terrified they’re not going to make any of the money they promised their investors they would make.

And like…if you think about it for a moment it would make sense, given how these tools work, that they can’t do much in the way of reasoning. They just get better and better at replicating the language they’re supposed to mimic, which sometimes even carries the right content! Wow! But that’s only a secondary effect, right?

If you’re willing to do something about that wish, then you’re an authoritarian too.

And FWIW, casting it in personal terms makes that wish tautological. No one wishes for a system where they have to cater to the whims of someone else. I’m sure you meant to say “no one has to cater to anyone else’s whims,” and that’s all well and good. Still authoritarian if you’re willing to see anything at all done to overcome the desires of the powerful to maintain the status quo (and in case it’s not obvious, that’s a good thing to be authoritarian about).

On Authority is a pointed response to the thought-terminating pejorative of “authoritarian.” If you haven’t read it, you should! It’s short and important =)

You want a change in society? You don’t care that fascists don’t want that change? Then you’re an authoritarian. Everything after that is a matter of degree.

You know, you think that the first time, but if you go for it (and have the storage) you’ll be surprised at how glad you are to have them!

Or we can be part of making that a condition of the democrats doing well. Not supporting a genocide isn’t something we can or should “strip out” of our expectations of politicians. If you’re right, then burning the system down is the only feasible thing. Nothing else is feasible.

It’s infeasible to expect decent people to rally around genocidiers.

Don’t let the people with power tell you what is or isn’t feasible. Not supporting a genocide is easy for them. They may lie to themselves about it, but it’s obvious.

I just kinda gently jostle her a little until she stops. Its usually about the angle of the head in my experience (at least for my wife!)

Literally, my brain is flooded with Dr. Evil upon seeing lasers and sharks in the same sentence. I can’t think about anything else until i look away.

Put Linux on your existing computer and shift some stuff you don’t need as frequently to an external hard drive! You’re not gonna get the experience you want from a $150 computer

This is lovely :)

I love the patient fella at the end.

Incorrect, see above. The role of a king in a civilized society is to be guillotined! Anything less is barbarism.

Dead kings are themselves a good outcome! I’m interested to hear the results of your experiments though!

well here’s my theory: if the reason it didn’t work is because you have a new king…well…what’s the new king’s role in civilized society?

Kings have one appropriate role in civilized society and it is to be guillotined.

What RSS readers do people like? I used to love Google Reader!

It’s to stop all the SEESEEPEE spies from slacking off at work…that’s gotta be it!

Sweet, this makes me immediately want to go buy a kobo! I love ifixit.

Cute comic but…what’s it doing here?

He doesn’t let his PR hacks tell him what to do!

That sucks man, I’m sorry to hear about that. Sounds like everyone’s malpractice insurer should be paying out big time (missing a deadline like that is practically always negligence).

Another reason to prefer a lawyer though…nobody to sue when the LLM misses a deadline! That said, I don’t doubt an LLM can be helpful to a self-represented party if the court has really good documentation. The LLM could probably explain clearly how to get documents filed and the like. Of course…if the court has really good documentation, a human being could also just read it and get it done.

Yeah, I am not here to argue with “sometimes good enough is good enough.” Like…if you’ve got a raspberry pi making your garden spray water to the beat of “flight of the bumblebee” or some shit, and an LLM helped you do that without knowing anything about code…that’s cool I guess. But when people actually need stuff to work and are willing to pay for it, I just don’t see this tool ever getting to that level.