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Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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Post by jaapz »

mothballed wrote: post #39
jonathanlydall wrote: post #30

As a South African, it is well known here (well, amongst the educated) that the vast majority of management level and up government positions are awarded based on who you know rather than what you know. These people who don't actually do their job properly very rarely get dismissed, at worst, and only after a public debacle, they tend to be shuffled off to some other position in a different department that they're eq…

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You are asking why people aren't flocking to a town literally founded for white separatists to live in segregated?

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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jaapz wrote: post #41
mothballed wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You are asking why people aren't flocking to a town literally founded for white separatists to live in segregated?

People flock to America even though it's extremely racist compared to many of the alternatives. Racism isn't the only factor a lot of people are using, they have to pick from a lot of suboptimal options in a country with high crime and rolling blackouts and play whatever cards they have. It does seem like they found a model that is working on other qualities better than many other parts of South Africa. I wouldn't write them off just because they're ethnically segregated.

I'd also point out I used "private towns like" so it could refer to some other perhaps less racist private town, just not sure what that is. If you are Afrikaners it looks like an underutilized option. It would be nice though if there were less segregated options as well.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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Post by solumunus »

mothballed wrote: post #42
jaapz wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are asking why people aren't flocking to a town literally founded for white separatists to live in segregated?

People flock to America even though it's extremely racist compared to many of the alternatives. Racism isn't the only factor a lot of people are using, they have to pick from a lot of suboptimal options in a country with high crime and rolling blackouts and play whatever cards they have. It does seem like they found a model that is working on other qualities better than many other parts of South Africa. I wouldn't wr…

> I wouldn't write them off just because they're ethnically segregated.

Amazing.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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Post by silver_silver »

mothballed wrote: post #39
jonathanlydall wrote: post #30

As a South African, it is well known here (well, amongst the educated) that the vast majority of management level and up government positions are awarded based on who you know rather than what you know. These people who don't actually do their job properly very rarely get dismissed, at worst, and only after a public debacle, they tend to be shuffled off to some other position in a different department that they're eq…

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My friend that is what the whites were doing on a national level before the election of 1994. You seem to still be catching up to what they realised 32 years ago.

Re: Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

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Post by mothballed »

solumunus wrote: post #43
mothballed wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People flock to America even though it's extremely racist compared to many of the alternatives. Racism isn't the only factor a lot of people are using, they have to pick from a lot of suboptimal options in a country with high crime and rolling blackouts and play whatever cards they have. It does seem like they found a model that is working on other qualities better than many other parts of South Africa. I wouldn't wr…

> I wouldn't write them off just because they're ethnically segregated. Amazing.

Are you against Indian Reservations or the Hawaiian Homelands? If you finding yourself stopping to say but muh false equivalence or but that's different then realize you're not writing them off just because they're ethnically segregated, you just don't believe the Afrikaner residing there have met the bar at which you'll accept that community.

That's OK, I view segregation as a bad thing as well and all else equal would reject a place with it, but it's important to note the difference.

Full disclosure: I'm not Afrikaner so I'm one of the ones that would be segregated out of their community. I don't have much dog in the race, but I'm surprised more Afrikaner haven't taken advantage of it.

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