But don’t you see all the wealth we are creating by doing things this way?!

So, contrary to the claim of the title: yes you can make this up. In fact it’s quite easy to do so.

As an IT guy: I love and hate handwriting things. I get the point about intimacy but especially for longer texts expressing many connected thoughts I would never do it by hand. Being able to edit text, switch around blocks of text etc etc is so ingrained in me that doing this by hand frustrates me greatly.

This. I don’t believe it. Why wouldn’t he at least stash the gun and papers somewhere instead of keeping that shit on him?

Well yes and no. The point is to stop using Google. And that entails quite a few things you might expect a phone to do

It’s a great way for the rich to segregate themselves from the poor

Then you gotta scramble

I do think of them. In terms of cooking recipes. Yummy yummy shareholder steak

Didn’t say I do have that faith. Just saying what I think would be necessary for large scale positive change.

I mean, yeah but have you seen…

Gestures broadly

… The state of things? We need to stand up as a people

I’m all for changing the structures that enable scalpers in the first place but that too requires agreement and action of many many people. So if we can’t even do that for something relatively small like tickets to concerts I doubt we’ll be able to change the system in general

You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

Yes, that’s what “If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers” would achieve. I get that that isn’t going to happen but it is still our collective fault.

If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers the ticket sellers would have a real incentive to do something against the scalpers. Right now they don’t have to care.

I agree that “just don’t buy it” is not that easy for culture in general, it could be applied to hypermonetized events.

I’m not sure I get your second point. How is Ticketmaster enabled by people boycotting events that get scalped?

Are you replying to the correct comment? Because that’s basically what I meant

While this example is somewhat easy to corect for it shows a fundamental problem. LLMs generate output based on the data they trained on and by that regenerate all the biases that are in the data. If we start using LLMs for more and more tasks we are essentially freezing the status quo with all the existing biases making progress even harder.

It’s not gonna be “but we have always done it like that” anymore it’s going to become “but the AI said this is what we should do”.

Sounds pretty wasteful

Yeah but that involves collecting domestic intel, not foreign intel

Germany: We are having an early election for the federal government end of February so the media is filled with political intrigues

I’m saying that modern practitioners of Shinto don’t consider the emperor divine.

So they were able to continue to live their culture without being individually forced to do anything? Great, then thats not genocide.

What an interesting perspective. So what you’re saying is, if the Chinese government were to recognize Islam as one of its major, protected religions, but restrict certain radical teachings and versions of it, then it wouldn’t be genocide.

The better analogy would be to allow the chinese government to force one person to say “I am not divine”. Let’s say they were able to revive the prophet and make him say these words. Yes that would shatter the faith of a lot of people and how they deal with that is pretty much no-ones business. And it wouldn’t be genocide if they all turned away from their faith after that.