ThePhoneBook

ThePhoneBook t1_j94wfgb wrote

In general, the government should have access to no private data. Having access to private data is the exception, not the rule. 4A is the basis for this. The Amendment is not trying to say the government can have nothing except when a judge signs a piece of paper when the government can then have everything. That would render the Amendment meaningless.

What is more, when it comes to court, irrelevant or otherwise out of scope information is inadmissible. And the law is full of instructions and specific examples. What this bill would do is streamline the process for noting that menstrual history is out of scope of any investigation. It stops the system causing heartache, wasting time, and (which is the greatest concern) innovating case law to punish abortions

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ThePhoneBook t1_j94vbg2 wrote

That's because these machines tend to be programmed under executives who are fascist sympathisers: musk Thiel etc. We've all seen the insane demands musk makes of twitter engineers - imagine what type of parrot is demanded of the gpt models

Engineers think they're so clever and classless and free, but they're still fucking peasants following orders

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ThePhoneBook t1_j0uqven wrote

You realise that all that's happening is your clients are aware of the limits of the translation and are accommodating to it, yes? Machine translation has got a bit better over two decades, but humans have got much better over two decades at realising they're reading machine translations and either making sure the input is basic or correcting mentally for deficiencies in the output. I'm at the point where I expect shit translations but I ask myself, "Why did the computer say it like this?" and meanwhile am depressed that the average article has the reading age of a 12 year old to accommodate for all this automated processing. Compare a reputable newspaper's writing style in the 1980s to today, or even look at the enjoyable turn of phrase of publications like the New Yorker and contrast with modern clickbait style.

This is like the trope about French people preferring to speak in English than tolerating your terrible French. They've taken the opposite attitude to Silicon Valley America, which expects everyone to race down to the lowest common denominator of man and machine - they don't want to have to dumb themselves down to your level of French.

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ThePhoneBook t1_j0upk83 wrote

Hm, I think every geek made a chatting computer from Acornsoft's Speech or DECtalk or whatever the Amiga and Atari equivalents were in the '80s, but it wasn't so logorrheic or self-confidently wrong as ChatGPT. It's really hard to have a nice conversation with ChatGPT - like if you want to let it out then a much dumber interface that's closer to Eliza is more helpful, and if you need a question answered then a search engine + existing human responses are way more useful. I hope we get to the point with ChatGPT that we already seem to be at with DALL-E, where we say "oh that's fun" but understand that it's not thinking anything like a human and so is more fun and useful in very specific cases than as a general intelligence.

I feel like ChatGPT's basic vision is to simulate a mediocre software engineer who thinks they're a genius in every field, and we have millions of them already. In this sense maybe OpenAI is performative art of Genesis God making human life in His image.

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ThePhoneBook t1_ix46est wrote

Regular honest hard working people always ask, "Why do this shitty thing that gives you a lot of money, when you could do a less shitty thing that gives you less money?" And it's like asking a leech why they suck your blood.

The leech will bleed anyone as they are given the opportunity. It is in their nature, and they don't even have a conception of personal ethics to stop them. The question should be: why aren't you burning off the leech? Your government is yours. Do not use it to protect bad people, but do use it to support good people.

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ThePhoneBook t1_iqzlupw wrote

Reply to comment by curbstomp4jesus in Who Hates Iowa? by WildMikeGreen38

How long does that trust last? It's funny how governments immediately make certain taxes and make sure it's possible to avoid them, but only with a weird hoop jumping ritual. It's like it's a favour to lawyers and the people who can afford them

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