mellosouls

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Comment · 3 days ago
No. There's nothing post-hoc about my position.

Some of us have been thinking deeply about this subject for many years.

Long before the LLM era I (and I'm sure many others) considered AI a misnomer in the context of human-level intelligence, tho I did (apparently wrongly) consider sentience a prerequisite.

Trump may be coming at this from different motivations, but it's entirely consistent.

Comment · 3 days ago
Comment · 3 days ago
Trump's shenanigans may be funny/deranged depending on your POV, but his message seems to be that calling it Artificial implies limitations not representative of its capabilities - and he is absolutely correct.

ofc his corollary points about implications for American power are debatable; but we are now living for the first time in our history with an alien intelligence that in some cases exceeds our own, and its reasonable to consider how we deal with that on a cultural and political level.

Comment · 8 days ago
The only bad guys here are those who exploit issues like this for unethical reasons.

You clearly aren't that person.

Regarding your perceived mistake, we all make them.

Please forgive yourself and understand that the negative feelings and thoughts you are having are a mark of decency but do not represent reality, and if they persist please seek help to get you back on track.

As an aside, to you and those like you who take on the task of fighting and protecting against these attacks with often nothing to gain except hurt like this:

Thank you for your service.

Comment · 10 days ago
See my other response for why engagement is usually pointless in cases like this.
Comment · 10 days ago
I don't know it applies; but given the many times Wikipedias problems (esp politically biased gatekeepers) have been pointed out, followed by innocent-sounding requests for examples, followed by long back and forth time and energy sapping arguments with dismissals and refutations rather than thanks and acknowledgement of the problems, my instinctive reaction is suspicion towards people implying this is their first time hearing Wikipedia is extremely flawed wrt source material and editorial power.
Comment · 10 days ago
Comment · 10 days ago
Note this nonsense headline and article is just more puffery from the theatrical 4chan side and doesn't represent any official legal position.

Of course ofcom knows its power is limited, that shouldn't stop it attempting to do it's job, however much that job might irk foreign operators publishing to ofcoms jurisdiction.

The fact is the US has different standards to the UK. It doesn't mean one is right and one is wrong but it does mean that those differences will cause cultural and legal friction that responsible operators will attempt to diminish within reason, while others will attempt to capitalize for publicity.

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