UlyssesT [he/him] @ UlyssesT @hexbear.net

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I do see that there are some strong and confident predictions as to the outcomes.

I see what's already happened so far with LLMs and there is no sign of "uplifting" outside of marketing propaganda.

most people in this community care about their privacy, not about politics

Whether you want to see them or not, privacy concerns can and do have political implications, especially when what is supposed to be a privacy tool is itself violating privacy because of the whims and wishes of the person that owns the proprietary software.

For a lot of people, way too many people, using Brave is a political statement that is paradoxically supposedly against political statements. It's a spite choice that justifies the cryptogrifting, spyware, and the horrid political views of its owner.

I'm kinda of a Diogenes figure.

No. You're just being obnoxiously smug while expecting people to praise you as some sort of eccentric philosopher.

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” ― Carl Sagan

There's countless "Digoenes figures" like yourself already and they all believe they are the Main Character, too. And like you already did in the other comment chain here, they also get just as mad when their junk philosophy (such as, in your case, Ayn Rand) gets called out.

You believe you are the Main Character of the universe and that everything ceases to exist when you die. And you're accusing me of believing in woo bullshit.

And you're such a scratched liberal that you started foaming at the mouth with some weird personal attack you've been holding on to, apparently, for weeks.

Solipsism is a helluva drug.

I asked a question regarding a potential of one absolute outcome.

No, you wrote this:

It's not. We'd still be hitting rocks if we were anti intellectual.

Where is the question? You presumed an absolute outcome and now expect everyone else to go along with it, nodding sagely to your smug presumption.

@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net amazing emoji potential here.

"I'm sorry that you feel that way"

In my case, it was deliberate aggression because I had told him, in person and to his face, that those were protected native plants and I had a legal right to have them on my property.

But

What does being "quirky" have to do with being stupid? Is there some published conformist standard of normal that makes people smart for adhering to it?

As long as LLMs aren't tailored to bias certain views, it may just lift humanity.

The bias is already there (even if those that own it and command that bias may claim otherwise and you may believe them) and the "lift humanity" pitch is marketing bullshit.

"There are only two extreme outcomes and no other versions of events that could have possibly ever happened."

Are you seriously invoking Ayn Rand as a source of wisdom?

And that particularly solipsistic quote?

It's a lack of trust in academic or professional authorities and substituting that trust for either ones own experiences or complete hallucinations.

Often, it's trust in cult of personality figures that are saying what the alienated person already wants to believe.

Cheeto Mussolini

Wild wine cave liberal appeared!

It’s 20 miles of a 2000-mile border.

Wild wine cave liberal used diluted atrocity rationalization!

It's not very effective.

I’ll take “keep defeat of the impending fascist takeover on the table” over “concrete case for impeaching Sleepy Joe”

Wild wine cave liberal used West Wing appeasement logic!

It's not very effective.

It’s a good goddamn thing some of you aren’t in charge of literally anything.

Wild wine cave liberal used smug condescension!

It's not very effective.

Wild wine cave liberal fainted from huffing their own farts!

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

-John Rogers

Infinite Jest is just a prop for most college dudebros to present themselves as smart and cool in an effort to get laid.

Saving humanity by expecting a dead planet to be the refuge, under the leadership of the same monsters destroying the planet we're still on.

I barely caught the sarcasm; I've seen takes like yours non-sarcastically before so I had to squint hard.