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I've been perplexed by this too, but imagine a world where people who want to automate advertising via chatbots (on Facebook, Instagram, etc) can pick between paying OpenAI or Google. I guess Meta would rather people pay less on chatbots and more on Facebook advertising costs.

I think that's their point: That maybe, as long as a candidate is mentally fit, then voters ought to be able to continue voting for them if they feel like the candidate is still worth voting for.

Honestly, if there was some kind of magical bullet to simply ban candidates who are mentally unfit (i.e. losing their marbles) from holding office that couldn't be exploited, I think a lot of people would find that preferable to an age limit.

That doesn't address issues like politicians who are too technologically illiterate to do things like open PDF files, though.

Old-school AI systems from way back in the day called Expert Systems were just a crapload of IF statements. There's never been a concrete agreed-upon definition of AI because there's never been an agreed-upon definition of the word Intelligence.

They're saying that politicians like AOC, Katie Porter, Sanders, etc. are high quality public servants, and that high quality public servants should be able to be elected as long as they have cognitive function.

On one hand, in a hypothetical and ideal scenario, that would be nice to have for us voters.

On the other hand, even if an elected official does great work and has a great track record, should they be able to just serve indefinitely until their brain gives out? There'd be a lot of potential problems such as having entrenched and corruptible political operators, even if they started out good, who prevent "fresh blood" from entering politics. It'd be neat to see a study comparing different countries and political systems where there are age barriers and term limits vs those that don't have them.

I hope he has to pay more every time he opens his fat mouth.

This must be vindicating for her.

I wish I could upvote this twice

I know that experimental fashion can be dumb but this is cool as fuck.

The free version gets things wrong a bunch. It's impressive how good GPT-4 is. Human brains are still a million times better in almost every way (they cost a few dollars of energy to operate per day, for example) but it's really hard to believe how capable the state of the art of LLMs is until you've tried it.

You're right about one thing though. Humans are able to know things, and to know when we don't know things. Current LLMs (transformer-based architecture) simply can't do that yet.

if you've never posted anything useful to anyone

First of all, I've put painstaking effort into a lot of contributions. It hurts to delete them. Second of all, I don't need to be a contributor to be impacted by people deleting valuable comments, but I still support the deletion.

Reddit had become the "go-to" place for finding trustworthy user reviews, and it's been shoring up weaknesses in Google's search engine for a few years now. They don't deserve the reputation of being that platform because they regularly abuse and alienate good-faith contributors, and the CEO of the company has been caught multiple times in lies and completely unprofessional and untrustworthy behavior.

Fortunately, there are backups of Reddit and archive systems. It's time for users who care about contributing to bring their value elsewhere, where we can build new ecosystems of user-powered value and knowledge sharing.

It's not about spite. It's about not wanting your past work and creativity to continue to help an individual and a company who are bad for society, and who are destroying a platform many people loved.

I think jumping straight to calling Spez a Nazi is ridiculous.

On the other hand, Reddit has repeatedly aggressively looked the other way when it came to communities that blatantly violated the rules such as The Donald, jailbait, etc, while cracking down on and banning far milder users and communities.

DeSantis has made very careful, calculated moves his whole career until recently. If he lost he'd probably wait his turn and try to pivot strategies.

I hope his failure to be Trump 2.0 kills his chances.