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Comment · 10 months ago
Admittedly I'm not an expert on 19th century Victorianism nor US politics, but this anecdote doesn't make me think any less of LLM's in the least, and I don't see why I should expect different behaviour than what you describe, especially on complex topics
Comment · 1 year ago
Of course other than the double-decker at Bow Valley College, referred to as plus-30. (edit to add: and plus 45 in Bankers Hall)
Comment · 1 year ago
I've never heard anyone say the early church wrestled with polytheism. Maybe that's my bias nestled in Christian circles of not using that word, in favour of something more like "the nature of the triune Godhead", etc.
Comment · 2 years ago
My almost 2-year-old does, and its name is "bah"
Comment · 3 years ago
Architecture strikes me as some of the worst examples of pretentious academia wed to pretentious art snobbery.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ironically posted by a guy who walked away from big tech and bigger salaries after he got sick of it.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's likely invoking Norm MacDonald (who used this phrase humorously when Sara Silverman was explaining what a "comedy collective" was)
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
So, of course corporations will not be benevolent, but of course individuals should have been.

But corporations, even governments, are just the amplification and personification of every selfish element in human nature, which tends to trump benevolence in any sort of "prisoner's dilemma" interaction.

So all we actually need to do is eliminate selfishness from all humanity.

Comment · 3 years ago
And if you wiped them out, then wouldn't a functionally identical class take their place? There's no us vs. them, them is us.

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