FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I don't think those particular comments, in writing and devoid of tone, not meant for public distribution (and she's probably not running for political office or something justifying higher scrutiny), necessarily qualify as ableist per se, more skirting the line. I've said very dumb things in my youth and context is important, even in chat threads. But the rest of the picture you painted of that person is: asshole. So for my money it doesn't really matter if she ticked that particular box as well. Stay away.

Of course not. If we blamed the language for the bad actions of the people who spoke it during, there would be virtually no language left in a pristine enough condition to learn.

That being said, tempers can boil over. So maybe don't shout your Duolingo answers at a full Starbucks. I mean, that's good advice regardless of the language but you know what I mean.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is every scenario with so-called AI in it caused by humans? Sure. That's not really my point though. It was humans who caused the dumb situation around private gun ownership that then eventually caused school shootings to be a thing schools need to prepare for. I would tolerate the use of so-called AI here under these dumb circumstances and moreover would tolerate a false positive like this. I feel similarly positive about the use of models in medicine - if and when it helps. Or as a tool for people with disabilities. Et cetera.

Normally we lambast here very dumb applications of so-called AI. The ones that get lawyers in trouble, the ones that get forced into areas where it's unnecessary, the ones that boil away drinking water senselessly, or that ask children for nudes, or - sadly - the ones that drive teenagers to suicide. We lambast all the peddlers of so-called AI with their dumb predictions about how their faulty products will revolutionize everything. That's the spirit of "Fuck AI." My point was this story is less in keeping with the spirit of "Fuck AI." So-called AI might actually help to make a bad situation not get worse.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

6-7.

I don't know about the origins of this meme but I know basketball and the NBA are insanely popular in China.

Try to bear with me anyway.

"Would-be assassin shot in the head turns out be 8th grader holding clarinet"

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A mixture of urbanization and climate change pushes bears into human habitats. At the same time, it's a nation of retirees with 60-somethings hiking or farming plots in bear habitats, and thus becoming fodder themselves. And at the same time still they cannot come up with good legislation and a ranger service that can regulate the population of bears by shooting them if they have to without falling fowl of the strict gun laws. It's a clusterfuck.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Is this really a case of fuck AI? To anybody outside the US this paragraph reads like fucking satire. From within, where kids learn how to crouch under desks, hide behind bullet proof whiteboards or something, and lock down better than the CIA this doesn't really move the needle, does it? The trauma is already there with all the drills and is eternal, as is the 2nd amendment. And this is one area where you would prefer a false positive over a false negative. So for me this isn't so much fuck AI as fuck every lawmaker of the US since the civil war.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think this is exactly two people's fault. The "writer" and the last human in the newsroom because everybody else has been let go ages ago.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That depends on when it will break out. If it's tomorrow, China and Russia will be buddies or at the very least will be in a non-aggression pact situation. Most of Europe will side against Russia but might be more mealy mouthed towards China (even if they decide to start it by going after Taiwan and that escalates from there). The US will, as it is tradition in a world war, not enter until much later or unless attacked first. And on whose side? Depends on one person's bowel movement on that day an no longer on treaties and commitments. One of the many crucial areas to watch will be if the US honors the security alliance with Japan.

I say it depends on when because if we give it another 25-50 years, attitudes may shift. The US could try going for a more sane leadership and affirm its NATO membership. Sentiments towards Russia may shift in Europe, especially if the US is progressing further towards Idiocracy.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

From what I read, a lot of these character choices (with the exception of Japan/Korea, they might have chosen those themselves) were made with the dual considerations of being similar sounding to the country name and the hanzi's meaning being flattering to the people of the country. And there are plenty of country names that are entirely phonetic (e.g. 意大利 for Italy or 澳大利亚 for Australia, Mexico, etc.).

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