Stuff like this makes me wonder, at what point is it bad enough that the truisms about leaving medical advice to licensed healthcare professionals become wrong, and everyone would be better off turning to anything else instead of engaging with the system? Are we not there yet? How much further would there be to go?
Ramble about something for long enough that people should be able to tell is how I do it.
It’s possible, but I’ve followed some public comment processes for regulatory stuff before and large volumes of comments make it take way longer, because there is manual work involved. If a politician wants to still have actual people manually consider the contents of their inbox (which they absolutely should), using AI instead of a form letter will make that much harder for them to do. AI talking to AI to determine what the public thinks and wants is probably going to lose a lot in translation, and if it’s using service-based AI will give the companies running it another rather direct way to influence political outcomes.
Given all that, I’m not sure what the advantage is to balance against it either. As opposed to sending a copy of the form letter, where you can assume they will at least count how many people have done that, what’s even the benefit of having a LLM rewrite it first?
This is where I learned that there is in fact a word that kind of rhymes with orange
So I guess what this means is that anyone graduating Oklahoma University could be presumed to have coasted through by sprinkling bigotry into their assignments as a way to ward off bad grades
Well, the person you responded to above was talking about sending more than one, which is the worst part. But even if you are only using AI to rephrase the canned response for your singular comment, that creates a situation where it is more difficult for them to actually read and consider different points people might be bringing up, because now there’s lots of messages that are basically just the canned response in content and intent but more effort to group together. Also the people going through them will probably be able to tell AI is being used, which could call into question whether someone was sending more than one even if you were not.
One good thing about them is that if you have a cat, they are less likely to get destroyed than the other type of blinds.
I don’t hate AI and think it’s fine to use for a bunch of things, but using it to falsify the level of public engagement on a political issue is a clear misuse, it’s easy to see how that could make democracy not work as well, or backfire and be used as an argument that all the public sentiment about the issue is astroturfed.
I think an AI meme generator would have trouble coming up with this joke, since it works on a couple levels; the expression fits, and the character’s thing is being verbose and pretentious iirc.
A bundler, a transpiler, a runtime (designed to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js), test runner, and a package manager - all in one.
Bun’s single-file executables turned out to be perfect for distributing CLI tools. You can compile any JavaScript project into a self-contained binary—runs anywhere, even if the user doesn’t have Bun or Node installed. Works with native addons. Fast startup. Easy to distribute.
Sounds like an additional reason to be doing it in a way where participants can’t be debanked by payments middlemen
It will definitely affect incentives, which is worth considering imo. With property taxes, there is some controversy, since someone can be forced to sell if their home value balloons past their income level, although it also has arguably positive effects like disincentivizing holding on to hoards of vancant properties and doing nothing with them.
I don’t really know exactly how it would go, but my first thought is people would sell stocks more readily and often, both because they need to in order to cover taxes, and because selling triggering capital gains wouldn’t be a thing to worry about anymore.
Part of the headache here is that this situation inherently props up a few monopolistic platforms, rather than allowing people to use whatever payment system is available in their own countries. Some of this can be worked around using cryptocurrencies – famously, the Mitra project leverages Monero for this very purpose, although I’m told it now can accept other forms of payment as well.
Hell yeah, I didn’t know about Mitra. It sounds like it’s a Patreon esque kind of deal with what the payments part is for.
Not quite as bad as property tax on a home, since that taxes the total value rather than just the difference between what you used to have and have now.
Smart
Well, at least the advertising companies will lose money this way
That kind of painting seems more likely to come alive
eating grass will destroy your teeth
I thought that part was great, captured the vibe of that sort of dream and foreshadowed that character later developing a mental model of what was happening to the victims. Seemed like a realistic depiction of how dreams can be involved with how we process things where it seems like mysterious nonsense in the moment but comes together later.