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Would it be cowardly or prudent for Carroll to just leave the US?

I would probably just leave.

If you can't try a sitting president then you sure as shit can't defend a law suit from one. She will end up getting fallen out of a window.

If I'm brutally honest, I don't find these use cases very compelling.

Separate fields for addresses could be easily solved without an LLM. The only reason there isn't already a common solution is that it just isn't that much of a problem.

Data ingestion from email will never be as efficient and accurate as simply having a customer fill out a form directly.

These things might make someone mildly more efficient at their job, but given the resources required for LLMs is it really worth it?

I suspect that this is "grumpy old man" type thinking, but my concern is the loss of fundamental skills.

As an example, like many other people I've spent the last few decades developing written communication skills, emailing clients regarding complex topics. Communication requires not only an understanding of the subject, but an understanding of the recipient's circumstances, and the likelihood of the thoughts and actions that may arise as a result.

Over the last year or so I've noticed my assistants using LLMs to draft emails with deleterious results. This use in many cases reduces my thinking feeling experienced and trained assistant to an automaton regurgitating words from publicly available references. The usual response to this concern is that my assistants are using the tool incorrectly, which is certainly the case, but my argument is that the use of the tool precludes the expenditure of the requisite time and effort to really learn.

Perhaps this is a kind of circular argument, like why do kids need to learn handwriting when nothing needs to be handwritten.

It does seem as though we're on a trajectory towards stupider professional services though, where my bot emails your bot who replies and after n iterations maybe they've figured it out.

I think there's specific industrial problems for which AI is indeed transformative.

Just one example that I'm aware of is the AI-accelerated nazca lines survey that revealed many more geoglyphs that we were not previously aware of.

However, this type of use case just isn't relevant to most people who's reliance on LLMs is "write an email to a client saying xyz" or "summarise this email that someone sent to me".

In Australia there's a phrase "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

We have a two party system, one more progressive and one more conservative.

My parents are retired. They're not wealthy and are living a meager existence on a government pension. They will always vote conservative, despite their best bet at better public services and social security on offer from the progressive party.

The reason is, they feel like they ought to be wealthy or at least they want to act like they're wealthy. They feel as though they are more closely aligned with the views of wealthy people than they are with the views of poor people. They feel as though they belong to a class of wealthy people, it's just that through a cruel twist of fate they don't have any money.

There's also the moral / ethical perspective that is ultimately meaningless but resonates with a lot of voters. For example, banning naughty books from schools. Obviously kids will access much naughtier content in other ways, but "protecting the kids from gays" is very communicable to low information voters.

“Femcel” influencers urge their followers to give up on gender equality and use men for financial gain

I'm kinda struggling with the math here.

You might be able to date several men simultaneously and get some free dinners and maybe trinkets and baubles, but it would seem difficult to get much more "financial gain" than that given that most men don't have enough money to say, rent a posh apartment for their side dish.

The only way to really get "financial gain" is through marriage, which of course is a game that has been played since the dawn of time, but is not particularly engaging content in that you need to be married for several years to be able to separate and carry off a significant chunk of the marrital assets.

Surely, if you had the requisite appearance and guile for any of this the quickest and easiest pathway to financial gain would be taking money from incels on onlyfans.

Ah yes, hilarity. The classic resort of a child when confronted with a concept beyond their comprehension.

This obsession with "centrism" is so tiresome.

Left, right, and centre is subjective. Any country with a two party system is going to have a centre left and centre right.

If you're a major party in a two party system the only way possible way to attract enough votes to form government is to have policies as close as possible to your opponent whilst simultaneously differentiating yourself so as to be identified as "the best option" to any voters on your side of the political spectrum. This dynamic of political science is well established, and patently obvious to everyone but a handful of 16 year old idiots who think they're the first generation in the history of the world to want things to be better than they are.

Your big "I see that Australia has... " reveal sadly says more about your very limited understanding of politics in your own country than it does about my perspective.

I've taken a few weeks away from Lemmy since the election and now apparently the dems are centrist?

You have a 2 party system. Of which one is the most conservative and one is the most progressive. The more often you elect the more progressive party the more progressive both parties will become.

To suggest that both parties are too conservative is patently absurd and speaks of a complete lack of understanding of your political system.

Oh please. There's some real pot kettle black in this comment.

Besides which, I'm not from the US, and I think the entire developed world is in a position to talk down to anyone from the US, in particular those who acted against their own interests by protesting against their best candidate, and assisting to install a dictator.

Honestly, one of us really does need to engage in some self reflection.

It seems bizarre to me that the prevailing assumption is that Musk's interests align with those of the working class.

As in, why TF would anyone who is not a billionaire want a billionaire to restructure government?

I'd like to hear from one of those ass-hats that were protesting about Palestine outside Harris rallies.

Yeah there was a huge stink on him. It wasn't just the debate. His every appearance and utterance just made him look geriatric. The debate just made it so obvious he was indefensible.

I just sync a folder with syncthing and use native markdown editors.

On a desktop I like zettlr. On android I like zettel notes. Both have zettelkasten features which is pretty much just a way to link to other files.

I agree that Kamala was a "bad candidate" in that she wasn't very electable, despite being an intelligent, eloquent, respectable leader.

It seems like the main concepts that sank her are simply that she's not a white male, and sadly Trump seems to have this unshakable perception that he's good with money despite all evidence to the contrary.

That said, I think there's a lot of self reflection to be done amongst those on the left who sabotaged their own candidate. They were protesting about Palestine outside Harris' rallies for goodness sake. I don't think this specific demographic is responsible for losing the election, but they are idiots that need to consider their approach to societal change.

... so you might say, wealthy white males.

Show me a trump voter who is not a wealthy white male and I'll show you an idiot.

Honestly, these comments say more about you than they do about me.

I'm Australian. I don't have any connection to Germany, I've never even been to Europe. Yet you're making assumptions about me because I joined a German server? Pot kettle black mate.

It's quite simply not possible for me to care any less about whether or not you think I'm bigoted.

Just because I'm bigoted does not mean that China does not have an established culture of manufacturing cheap trash that poor people want to buy.

Sure, I'm bigoted because every cheap thing I've ever purchased was of a lower quality than every expensive thing. Do you really believe that everyone who buys a car manufactured in Japan for twice the price of a car manufactured in China is a victim of marketing, and you're the only one who really understands the reality? That's arrogance.