Aren’t the Triads in HK operating with the help of CPC, or at least with them looking the other way? It’s not like the entire game praises China. Although I don’t remember the bartender interaction.

After some googling, I found this:

ć: A soft ty sound as in “Katya” or “feature”; occurs nearly exclusively in the combination ić at the end of family names. F Radić, Pavelić, Ranković, Milošević.

How do you expect people to know how to pronounce this without having studied the language before hand? It’s a pretty stupid thing to be angry about. People are raised with native language(s) and they can’t pronounce sounds or combinations of sounds not found in them without some training.

Japanese is easier to pronounce for English speakers, because it consists of simple syllables that map almost 1:1 with English ones. And people still mess up pronunciations, because of course they would, that’s how languages work, unfortunately.

It also helps that some Japanese words appear in English as their phonetic pronunciation and not their literal transliteration. E.g. tofu is actually written ‘toufu’ in hiragana, with ‘ou’ being a long ‘o’ sound.

No fun allowed

The one time i used the web search thing it copied and pasted stuff directly from the sources, so maybe I made some wrong assumptions about that. But limiting their replies to what exists in a given web page shouldnt be too hard

I haven’t watched Black Mirror so I can’t really compare.

we don’t need to accurately predict all the exact ways it will go wrong ahead of time to make a point about how capitalism interacts with technology

I agree with this, that’s what I said at the part where you quoted me. But I think there should be some thought behind the satire. You could complain about:

• The energy costs of running these models

• People getting displaced because of new data centers using up all the water/electricity in an area

• People treating LLMs as oracles

• People using LLMs instead of actually learning the thing they’re studying

And so on. These are more fundamental problems than a server slowdown, an LLM alarm clock or the canned “As an LLM I cannot…” response.

This is too over the top. I understand the anger towards LLMs and the market hysteria to shoehorn them anywhere … but alarm clocks? Maybe someone will try to grift silicon valley with an idea like that, but I’m sure it won’t have widespread (or any, really) success, similar to the IoT SaaS juicer.

There has been a lot of meaningful improvements in the points made in the text recently. I don’t use LLMs frequently, but I used ChatGPT for something the other day and was surprised to find that it started replying instantly, and the speed of the text generation was much faster.

You can also have them reply by searching the Web first. If you do so, they will reply with sources for every claim. I assume a similar feature where they search PDFs/documentation is already in the works or released, so if we ever get to the point where we have AI assistants in cars, they will provide information based on your model only.

Also, I think we’re past the point where self driving cars are so useless that they end up looping in the parking lot. I wouldn’t be surprised if in 5 or 10 years they’re super reliable. An older relative of mine drives an EV (not a tesla, thankfully), and he has no complaints from the assisted driving features (not fully self driving though). For example, he says that if you overstep your lane, the car gradually corrects its position.

I don’t believe you have to write a satirical piece that’s 100% accurate with the latest models/technology, but right now you’re attacking a strawman

It’s a 0.0002% vs 0.0001% type of question anyway.

Adding to this:

For many years Parenti taught political and social science at various institutions of higher learning. His most prominent academic position was at the University of Vermont where he taught from 1970 to 1972. During his time there he was one of the most published and well known scholars on campus, in part due to his active role in on and off campus activities against the Vietnam War. At the end of his two year contract the faculty voted to extend his position, but their decision was directly overturned by the University’s Board of Trustees. The trustees alleged that Parenti had violated the University’s professional conduct policy, citing as evidence his “anti-business” attitudes and not saying the pledge of allegiance when he was invited to speak at the Burlington Rotary Club.

This is taken from a previous version of Parenti’s wikipedia page. I was trying to find it just now, and realized that a lot of stuff has been removed for referencing primary sources (lol, lmao even)