That’s fair. I went with Covid because J6 did have any real ongoing impact. It happened and then everyone tried to move on like nothing had happened. That was itself surreal, of course. Covid had more of the “this changes everything forever” feeling (though at this point it seems like everyone has forgotten about it)
Look, I lived through both 9/11 and the pandemic and other events besides. If you didn’t feel any weird vibes in the first weeks of March 2020, I’m guessing this is more of a You problem.
My point is that many people felt destabilized by the attack. Maybe you’re too galaxy brained for that, but maybe you can try being galaxy brained enough to understand how others felt.
You remember how weird and scary and paranoid everything was in the early days of the pandemic? That’s a bit what it was like on/after 9/11. It was a shock to the entire nation, and the world suddenly felt uncertain in a way it hadn’t on 9/10.
You’re contextualizig the attack in terms of loss of life, numbers, but what you’re missing is the vibe of the thing.
Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.
I mean, mathematics are an invention. A useful one, sure, but the whole thing is just made up by people playing around with numbers and going “what if we had a new, different kind of numbers…”
LLMs are trained to do one thing: produce statistically likely sequences of tokens given a certain context. This won’t do much even to poison the well, because we already have models that would be able to clean this up.
Far more damaging is the proliferation and repetition of false facts that appear on the surface to be genuine.
Consider the kinds of mistakes AI makes: it hallucinates probable sounding nonsense. That’s the kind of mistake you can lure an LLM into doing more of.
lol, spoken like somebody who has never actually tried to speak English in Germany. As a shameful monoglot, I have had occasion to test the limits of English understanding in a variety of countries, and Germany has pretty low rates of English speakers in my personal experience. The Netherlands on the other hand…
I think you should read more carefully in the future, but this time I’ll explain it to you: The OP used the word relative. The reply went into a discussion about how the word subjective has a narrow meaning in philosophy that isn’t the same as the common usage. The OP was not discussing subjectivity in the sense of the reply, nor did it use the word subjective.
I hope so too, though the leadup to ww2 doesn’t give me a lot of hope, since domestic fascism remained popular in allied countries up until fighting the axis
Unfortunately it’s easier said than done. They clamped down on immigration a few years back (because they were letting in a bunch of people while also not doing anything about the housing market and got understandable blowback).
Also I’ll point out that Canada is only one (goose) step behind the USA, and may not stay safe. There are a lot of fascists and bigots here too.
Any major housing crash will probably affect your ability to purchase a home. The real solution is laws limiting property investment combined with building new, dense housing in areas that already have services.
You might like reading about decimal time…