> Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
> That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
SUVs are the most popular body type in America, not pickups.
Pickups always top the "best selling model" list, but there are only a couple models of pickup and dozens of models of SUV. If you total up all the SUVs, they sell much better than pickups.
This is Seattle, anything that involves people is expensive. Also You’ll see furniture left on the corner and it will just stay there forever, it’s not like Austin where all the junk is combed though ever morning.
In Seattle, it costs $30 per large furniture item to make it go away using official methods. How much do you have? (And how does that compare to the price of buying and keeping a pickup truck?)
Ya, thats actually quite reasonable. And no, I'm not thinking about buying and keeping a pickup, just because I have nowhere to park it :). But maybe one of those kei trucks that are so popular recently might be worth it, if I can just get used to the steering wheel being on the left.
There's a couple of Honda (I think?) Kei trucks around me. 4WD, low bed, fold-down rails. I don't know about taking them on the highway with a load of furniture, but they're the most versatile-looking 'round-town vehicle I've ever seen.
I really wish we could have something like that, that's less than 25 years old.
The difference is people wanted to listen to Eminem or whatever because it's enjoyable, trendy music that's played on the radio and all their friends were listening to.
Plato is not exactly burning up the airwaves right now. Most likely the only exposure most people will have to this work (or any of the libraries of work that's been banned in this manner) would be at college, assigned to them for a class.
Some countries such as Canada are aiming to increase the suicide rate. We can argue about whether that's a good or bad thing but the aim is obviously not zero.
No one wants suicides increasing as a result of AI chatbot usage. So what is the point of your question? You are trying to drain nuance from the conversation to turn it into a black and white statement.
If “aim for zero” means we should restrict access to chatbots with zero statical evidence, no. We should not engage in moral panic.
We should figure out what dangers these pose and then decide what appropriate actions, if any, should be taken. We should not give in to knee jerk reactions because we read a news story.
It’s dishonest firstly for intending to invoke moral outrage rather than actual discussion. This is like someone chiming into a conversation about swimming pool safety by saying “How many children drowning is acceptable?” This is not a real question. It’s a rhetorical device to mute discussion because the emotional answer is zero. No one wants any children drowning. But in reality we do accept some children drowning in exchange for general availability of swimming pools and we all know it.
This is secondly dishonest because the person you are replying to was specifically talking about murder-suicides associated with LLM chatbots and you reframed it as a question about all murder-suicides. Obviously there is no number of murder-suicides that anyone wants, but that has nothing to do with whether ChatGPT actually causes murder-suicides.
Pulled what off? Russia was trying to occupy Ukraine, not just kill Zelensky (though they’d obviously like to do that).
Trump announced that the plan is to “run Venezuela” but there are no troops on the ground, the US controls no territory. This isn’t The Wizard of Oz where you kill the wicked witch and the flying monkeys leave. This is only just starting.
High probability that trump gets distracted by something else and forgets, but if not welcome to the next three years of your life.
You don't remember the initial hours of the war where Russia attempted to take over Hostomel airport and land commandos there? And Ukrainian intelligence stating that Zelenskyy was the target?
No, Russia attempted it, failed, moved goalposts, failed again, and keeps moving goalposts to save face.
