Depends on the context, but almost always a strawman imo.
Evil is simpler and easier to pull off than good (because you don’t have to value everyone in your equation), so “reasonable” compromises with evil compounded enough times leads to some pretty evil outcomes.
I demand satisfaction, good sir!
I agree let’s bring back dueling for politicians
Indian food is really good in Britain
my cousin’s cat catches lizards and iguanas, I can’t imagine he’d leave frogs off the list
Where you gunna sleep tonight?
I’m not nervous about LLMs in that regard. I think sentience will have to be a biological phenomenon. I think people who were hopeful that consciousness happens spontaneously with enough processing power were wrong. Currently we can clone biological things quite well but we haven’t managed to give something the spark of life without biological input.
I also think humans are more than happy to anthropomorphize everything. There’s the famous example of telling someone the name of a pencil then snapping it in half. This makes me worried that people will be more than willing to treat LLMs as conscious regardless of their lack of mind.
I think that might be it!
Idk what it was called but there was a movie where a group of people got trapped in a flooded underpass that I watched at 7 or so that gave me recurring nightmares for years.
Also I saw Munich in theaters when I was 13 because my mom thought it would be an informative historical film and we ended up having to sneak out (I’ve only left a movie once since then! Some terrible christmas comedy).
I’ve really enjoyed Busuu (created by Chegg, a US company) for learning eng—> spanish and eng —>german. Their free version has annoying ads but it does give you a chance to test the interface. The yearly subscription fee isn’t bad for the premium version that gets rid of ads. I’ve taken traditional classes and also used various apps like duolingo. Busuu strikes a happy medium between immersion and clear, digestible grammar explanation. I also like their review area (for vocab and grammar topics).
The platform doesn’t support Vietnamese yet but has chinese, japanese, and spanish of the ones you mentioned.
Those hunky water bottles. In general why are there so many water bottle trends?
Okay but the pocket looks comfy
they want the same services as a maid+sex worker+escort provide BUT they don’t want to pay for it like a service they want someone to do it out of respect and adoration BUT they don’t want to build or earn respect or adoration by doing anything respectable or admirable
I don’t forgive the nazis or the americans either
I haven’t forgiven them for sending up a dog and a monkey though
Besides gambling hype I think regular people are into it for a couple reasons:
-don’t have to trust the whims of your state government (who could devalue their currency at any time)
-deflationary by design so your earnings maintain value (no one could discover a btc meteor to mine)
-Requires broad miner consensus to change the rules
Despite all the and suffering it has caused and will cause, Trump admin has at least handed us the beginning of a breakdown in US hegemony as trust has eroded with other nations who are all busy pivoting away from it right now.
Unfortunately upon breaking the gridlock, other nations are scrambling to maintain the status quo rather than leaning into the future by redoubling commitments to address human and climate crises before it’s too late for the humans.
I only played it late, after they basically gave you free legendary stuff, so I can definitely see that being a dealbreaker
Being shitty is much easier and takes much less effort so it prevails wherever people don’t collectively resist it.