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> if LLMs can generate higher quality comments more consistently than humans Do you believe this?

When you encounter these comments/sentiment, pretend that LLM = Loweffort Long Mumbling. In other words, poor writing. Detection of "LLM" is a red herring. Quality is what matters.…

There's also this recent-ish piece regarding the USDA's response to bird flu in cows thus far. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bir...

Toyota is not blindly pursuing hydrogen fuel cells in anywhere near the way you suggest. https://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-battery-bev-hev-solid... They may have been dragging…

See my edits in the comment above. I will further note that understanding the royal society vs university distinction here is pretty important, but it seems that you've already mad…

> and use the issue because it fits his hobby horse. I was talking about the columnist from the Spectator, not the scientist. > I mean really, what did the guy that was so bad that…

And a response from one of the authors of the government working group material (see my other post ITT): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2021.1... edit: the u…

New Zealander here, not that it really matters.* It appears that "...a proposal by a government working group that schools should give the same weight to Maori mythology as they do…

>Coca-Cola produces valuable goods, if you choose to take an action that results in the bottle floating out to sea, it's your fault, you don't get to blame Coca-Cola. That is what …

The franchises follow policy set by Coca-Cola headquarters, right? You're splitting hairs here.

As you say in your OP, plastic trash should be a moral issue, but where we appear to disagree is in where the moral responsibility should lie. I think it should lie at least half w…

>I think each country should take responsibility for their own waste, Only one country is home to the Coca-Cola Company, the world's largest producer of plastic waste.

Two specious arguments. 1. A 30c-$1 increase in the price of Coke relative to its current baseline will not break the bank. 2. Tens/hundreds of millions of slowly degrading plastic…

If you read my link, it's not even about "trash handling facilities", but about the profitability of single-use bottles vs refillable ones for manufacturers. There are lots of thin…

Maybe you could have / should have mentioned in the OP that the book is a novel. It's in no way clear from your post alone that the book you're talking about is fiction.

>The U.S. isn't even in the top 10 producers of plastic waste in oceans (it's something like >30th on the list). Coca-Cola and Pepsi are consistently the biggest offenders in plast…

>littering Coca Cola and others are largely responsible for the notion that it is the individual's responsibility not to "litter" single-use products that are extremely profitable …

Yeah I literally can't think of a stronger "condemnation" than that, which is why I was asking. To your link, evidence, Adrian Zenz, etc, are things I would prefer not to discuss o…

What kind of sanctions do you have in mind?