Oh yeah, lawnmower man is the paragon of humanity.
Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
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Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is copied straight from an LLM. Do folks make no attempt at humanizing their LLM outputs? Is that even worth doing? I personally wish you guys would - the moment I realize I'm reading an LLM-generated comment, my interest immediately wanes and I stop reading.
Hate that I'm biting on this, but this isn't constructive, whereas AI generated or not, the comment above is. It is the top one, it is succinct, and it articulates the point clearly. You seem to lament AI and given the context of that comment, the author presumably does too. The world is moving faster and faster towards AI first so kicking an screaming "That's AI" will not help. AI generated noise sucks, nut this is…
Hacker News guidelines state
"Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. "
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#213And of course, the best behavior will be the behavior that poses zero threat to the people in power. What a great future we have ahead of us, my colleagues.
That is kinda what is going on in China.
How is it relevant?
"oh yeah we're developing something super fucked up but you know what the problem is? cHiNA", every single fucking time
And I bet all of you clowns wouldn't even be able to name three living Chinese people. The greatest threat to the west right now, and especially the US, is the American government, not China
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
"In the U.S., the number of civilians whom police have killed annually has only increased each year since the widespread adoption of body camera equipment," That is a near textbook case of abusing statistics. Those things are completely independent variables. Perhaps "civilians" (as opposed to what, military?) killed by police increased because crime increased. Or population increased. Or laws changed. Or bullets cha…
It's important to keep in mind which bodycam vids make it to YouTube and which don't. You are seeing videos selected for a purpose.
Anything that gets views; police being polite and brutal are both fair game from what I see.
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
> in recent years How about 25-35 years ago when the wave of globalization truly hit?
You could look it up yourself. The figures I gave are the total current value of equities (stocks) held by foreign investors (divided by population). Since the value was zero in Poland in 1989 and very very low in China in 1989, GPT thought this would be a good way to estimate cumulative investment from then to now, but GPT also said there are figures available for investment inflows per year going back to 1989 that…
>GPT thought
No it didn’t
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congrats to those among us building this dystopia. It's not Larry Ellison coding these systems.
Look, I have exactly two options: 1) Me and my entire family starves to death 2) I make 600k per year building surveillance systems for whoever wants them (as long as they're aligned with Peter Thiels and/or government interests)
> Me and my entire family starves to death
Patrick Star, in response to SpongeBob asking him to refrain from eating a candy bar, following a closeup pan of Patrick's extremely overweight body, "what do you want me to do, starve???"
Something children can understand the humor in. Being used to excuse marching us into totalitarian dystopia.
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#217"Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it." — Roger Scruton
None of these people are intellectuals.
They decry colleges for not being good enough compliant worker factories. They attack higher learning institutions. They make no attempts at pushing knowledge.
They are salesmen.
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congrats to those among us building this dystopia. It's not Larry Ellison coding these systems.
Look, I have exactly two options: 1) Me and my entire family starves to death 2) I make 600k per year building surveillance systems for whoever wants them (as long as they're aligned with Peter Thiels and/or government interests)
3) The surveillance masters then take you or your family members, because eventually you (or they) go against their interests.
Re: Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm 99% certain it's AI. Lots of short sentences. Very short paragraphs. It's not X, it's Y.
> I'm 99% certain it's AI. Lots of short sentences. Very short paragraphs. It's not X, it's Y. Your reply meets said criteria.
Yes. It's not just a reply - it's a joke.