It is theft though: they are taking something that would otherwise belong to someone else (the wealth difference that would have been accumulated), and they’re keeping it for themselves. That fits the definition of theft. The method may be more indirect, but the end result is the same. Inventing euphemistic terms to describe something that can be described with a simple existing word, will only end up muddying the waters in my experience.
Would the outcome have been the same without people in the media repeatedly bringing this to everyone’s attention? Probably not, because there would have been no public pressure against it, while the shadow groups that want this would have still been lobbying the politicians.
Something bad is going to happen.
Some people advocate to stop that bad thing.
Even more people are holding their clutches that the bad thing might happen.
Because of public pressure, action is undertaken to prevent the bad thing from happening.
Thanks to those efforts, the bad thing is successfully averted.
Some random person: that bad thing was never going to happen, look at all those gullible people who were panicking over nothing, we could have just done nothing and the outcome would have been the same.
Also known as the “preparedness paradox”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
I agree with the rest of your point, but I do want to remark that communist states do entwine state and religion: they don’t leave people’s religious beliefs alone, they promote atheism and discriminate against religious people, as well as gradually hijack leadership positions of religious organizations.
I assume you mean DeepSeek? And it doesn’t look like it, according to what I could find, their biggest innovation was “reinforcement learning to teach a base language model how to reason without any human supervision”. https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1
Some others have replied that chatgpt and copilot are already modular: they use python for arithmetic questions. But that apparently isn’t enough to be useful.
I hadn’t heard of that protocol before, thanks. It holds a lot of promise for the future, but getting the input right for the tools is probably quite the challenge. And it also scares me because I now expect more companies to release irresponsible integrations.
I would rather not have it attempt something that it can’t do, no direct result is better than a wrong result imo. Here it’s correctly identifying that it’s a calculation question and instead of suggesting using a formula, it tries to hallucinate a numerical answer itself. The creators of the model seem to have a mindset that the model must try to answer no matter what, instead of training it to not answer questions that it can’t answer correctly.
A large language model shouldn’t even attempt to do math imo. They made an expensive hammer that is semi good at one thing (parroting humans) and now they’re treating every query like it’s a nail.
Why isn’t OpenAi working more modular whereby the LLM will call up specialized algorithms once it has identified the nature of the question? Or is it already modular and they just suck at anything that cannot be calibrated purely with brute force computing?
My last cat was the same, he expected every exit to lead to a different outside, and they all had to be checked before he would deign going on his litterbox.
That’s an older old theory I think: the big bang birthing time and space. Some newer old theories say that there was already something before the big bang.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-myth-of-the-beginning-of-time-2006-02/ “String theory suggests that the BIG BANG was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state”.
It’s the same old fallacy that people have been making since time immemorial: Our tribe is the chosen tribe and the world is as big as what we know of it.
Or much later, once smart people figured out that we were living on a planet, the assumption was made that our planet was the center of everything, with the sun rotating around the earth: Geocentrism.
And then when they figured out that that probably wasn’t the case, there came a theory that everything in space evolved the sun: Heliocentrism.
So now that we know that both geocentrism and heliocentrism were incorrect hypothesises, we’re just going to make the same mistake and assume that the milky way is the center of everything? Our horizon may have moved, but we’re no smarter than those Greek philosophers who thought that the earth was the center of everything.
The old theory was that all matter was concentrated into a single singularity, and then the big bang happened.
These newer measurements show that there is stuff outside of the area affected by the expanding big bang, indicating that there was already stuff floating around before the big bang happened, and that the big bang happened more gradual.
To make a stupid analogy: the old theory is a cracker exploding in vacuum, while the newer theory says it’s more likely that the cracker exploded when someone was holding it in their fist, with the fist surrounded by a room filled with air. And now our powers of observation have become so good, that we can observe the air where it hasn’t been disturbed yet by the expanding explosion.
Personally I believe that everything has a beginning and an end, except time and space, which are going to be infinite. For that reason, I think it’s more likely that our universe just goes on to infinity, and that we can only watch back X billions of years because of event horizon phenomena.
But even if our universe was born with a big bang and thus finite, that doesn’t mean that it was the only big bang ever. If big bangs are a thing, then there’s going to be a infinite amount of them happening in the infinity of time and space, each one filling their humongous little corner of space with uncountable galaxies. We might not be able to see/detect stuff further away than what we call the universe, but that doesn’t mean that there is nothing outside of our universe.
That’s good for office work, the constant ringing gets annoying and when sitting behind the desk, you’re going to see the display light up anyhow. But yes, those settings shouldn’t be used for a house phone, I wouldn’t be surprised if that telecom company uses the same standard install for small businesses and households.
I think no one mentioned these yet: My favorite tablet games are the ports of old BioWare classics like Baldur’s Gate 1+2, Icewind Dale, … Excellent ports imo, bur I did play them on a 10" tablet, I wouldn’t try to play them on a phone. https://www.beamdog.com/games/
Euler thought up or improved way too many things for them all to be named after him, it would get too confusing.
From his wiki: “Euler’s work averages 800 pages a year from 1725 to 1783. He also wrote over 4500 letters and hundreds of manuscripts. It has been estimated that Leonhard Euler was the author of a quarter of the combined output in mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation in the 18th century.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
And a relevant xkcd:
At the time when I became inactive on Reddit, Azerbaijan was building up to finish the Nagarno Karrabach conflict once and for all. There was a lot of blatant anti Armenian, pro Azerbaijani misinformation being posted in relevant discussions (that they were tolerant, only wanting peace, there was never any ethnic cleansing, …), and most of those comments went without anyone posting a simple fact check to debunk it.
I suspected that they had been sharing a blocklist and had blocked most of those who would call them out on their bullshit. I didn’t bother either since I just expected to be blocked as well and I had basically given up on the platform anyhow. I found swapping accounts to read threads annoying as hell, so it was easier to not comment and just be silently disappointed in humanity.
The fact checks that I did see at the time, were mostly posted as a reply to the top comment of the chain, hoping to go unnoticed by the one spreading misinformation, but that will only work for so long. Reddit is fucked when it comes to discussing political news or gauging public opinion (imo), it’s now designed for spreading misinformation (imo again).
For anyone wondering how the blocking feature has been weaponized to spread misinformation, in 2022 a redditor did an experiment: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/testing_reddits_new_block_feature_and_its_effects/
Afaik, the blocking feature is still in the same state as in 2022, which makes modern reddit a heaven for spreading misinformation.
This page references several works by French missionaries: https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/explorers/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1430-e.html
I could easily find the first mentioned book “Le Grand Voyage du pays des Hurons”. A scan of what I think is the original book: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k109515f/f2.item There also exists an English translation, but I couldn’t find a free version of that one.
A non exhaustive list of what makes them awful: https://expertbeacon.com/why-is-paypal-so-bad/
Afaik, the issue that was making the most victims, was that they were facilitating scammers that targeted sellers:
5. Good Luck Recouping Losses as a Seller in Disputes.
89% of sellers experienced dispute resolution problems with PayPal in 2021 surveys. Despite providing evidence the item shipped or service rendered, they lost cases and sums averaging $622.
This is driven by PayPal‘s buyer-favored review round taking 1-2 weeks. This favors scamming buyers at the expense of legitimate businesses.
Iirc, there was a time when Paypal always sided with the buyer, irregardless of evidence or past track record, the review process was useless. Once scammers picked up on this and began scamming sellers en masse, Paypal still kept their policy unchanged for years and sellers started to raise their prices on platforms that forced them to accept Paypal (ebay used to do this). Ebay has since tossed Paypal off their platform. I don’t know if Paypal ever improved.
One of the other replies said that: “1”+(2+3) is “15” in JavaScript.". So my last theory as to what was going on, was that the creator of the meme had as cell contents =“1”, 2 and 3. And then copilot used python code to sum those, not sum() which would have answered 5.
But since the answer is a black box, who really knows. This blind trust that open ai+ms expect, makes it unusable for anything that needs to be correct and verifiable. Indeed incomprehensible that they think this is a good idea. I’ll have to try finding something better on lm studio the next time that I have a math problem, thanks for that tip.