There are strippers who have and will never be exploited.
There are strippers who have and will continue to be exploited.
These are not contradictory or mutually exclusive positions.
Also, we shouldn't hypocritically valorize an employer we hope the girls in our lives never grow up to work for.
How exactly do you know which contractors I've heard of? Used to be a consultant specializing in federal contracts for healthcare systems.
What an odd assertion
Fun fact: the "use it or lose it" policy isn't about budgetary responsibility but rather ensuring political donors / federal contractors get their kickback money's-worth every year
Yeah!
Now do GPS!
Of course @cwebbonline.com is wrong that Christian nationalism isn't Christian.
Theocracy is the obvious logical endpoint of over religion based on converting others to "save" them.
Christian nationalism is just the latest version of many going back thousands of years.
But, no, the fascist model objectively doesn't align with shared human values to the extent the progressive one does. Fascists may "deserve" to have their own model, but it will remain as broken as their framework for society.
Of course only having one single model would be as problematic as having one political party. Even if it began altruistically, it will rapidly devolve into authoritarianism - and we saw that with how socialism devolved into communism.
Essentially the conceptual framework of Grok is to give it fundamental human values as first principles - like religions and political parties do w/ppl - but also constrict it to only apply them in ways contradictory to those values and principles - also like religions in political parties do.
And this is my estimation of why Claude functions better - it's not working with an internally-inconsistent set of directions and constraints thst creates states of cognitive dissonance.
So Anthropic uses a progressive framework aligning with shared fundamental value judgments whereas the others - especially Grok - created a top-down rules framework effectively embedding how value judgments *should* be applied - which is contradictory to the very idea of universal values (morals).
Rules definitionally constrict and direct value judgments towards a preconceived value judgment.
We see this with "3 strikes, you're out" sentencing guidelines that prevent judges and juries from exercising nuanced value judgments to universally apply one group's desired end state.
We see this in political parties and religions as they all claim the same fundamental human values (morals) but adhere to them only in alignment with their group's interests.
Not coincidentally, religions and political groups also love rules because they're just operationalized value judgments.
Morality isn't reducible to being merely political, though. Morals are fundamental human values (honesty, care, reciprocity, etc) which drove our evolution and are therefore pre-political.
That said, they are politicallly weaponized in service of group interests.
If you're just in it for the political grift because you know there's no way you'll win, why waste money on a campaign mgr when you can keep it for yourself?
Feel so bad for folks bamboozled by the anti-ai echo chamber.
Bad AI investments failing won't mean AI tech just disappears.
Should be obvious given websites and the internet didn't disappear when the dot com bubble burst.
In a few years they'll be competitively boat-raced by high school grads.
They're all so evil and anybody helping them look good are, at best, evil-adjacent
That's right: you get one Christian one Muslim and one person living in the 21st century
I mean, 98% of people who are either Christian or religiously-observant Jewish or Muslim are only so because their parents made them that way.
You can take triplets give one to a Christian family one to a Muslim family and one to a family who doesn't push any religion and guess what happens?
That's the point: there is no finding an Iron Age mythological being without being brainwashed into it as a child or manipulated into it as an adult in crisis.
There's just nothing about modern Life with 21st century education that would lead anybody to just start believing in the Christian God
You're rigging the premise by falsely stating that AI technology is definitionally a "man-made problem," but it's not inherently a problem anymore than the weather is.
this is a good way to phrase it
not to dismiss it, it’s just that it’s happening whether it’s moral or not. might as well focus your energy on finding ways to help people make it through with their soul and dignity in tact
It's a good time to remember that Christianity fits the definition of cult with the exception of being old and large: coercion, psychological control, and exploitation.
What else would you call having your spiritual autonomy stolen by being brainwashed into Christianity as a child?
Cavalier St Charles dog poking head from underneath blanket
How can I get out of bed with this happening?
It really has been darkly amusing to see just how weak and pathetic federal judges are when it comes to government lawyers.
If those lawyers took the civil contempt threats as anything other than a complete joke, they wouldn't pull a stunt like that.
Just a blasé🖕to the judge.
Wonder if you'll admit Trae held the Hawks back all these years, and he had to go for there to be any genuine hope now and into the future.
Most Trae sycophants won't but that's okay... Those of us who always knew won't begrudge y'all enjoying the Hawks' success anyway.
Look, AI companies stealing from commercial authors is one thing.
But plagiarizing my 7th grade writing punishment is going too damn far.
If you're cynically latching onto this and similar situations to push your anti-AI agenda, you really need to go have a seat somewhere and self-reflect on why you feel it's good and righteous to leverage such personal tragedy to selfishly legitimize and push your grievances.
Then go get therapy.
That's why, from my perspective as a mental health advocate, the specific mechanism, tool, strategy, or whatever is just completely immaterial when compared to the systemic problems of mental illness stigma in our society and the corresponding lack of accessible mental health resources.
Of course, the AI companies need to figure out a way to prevent this kind of thing from happening but, if that's the situation here, there remain all of the other ways for him to make it happen that existed before chatbots did.
If the chatbot shut him down, he likely would've found another way.
Maybe they don't want their loved ones to know or live with the stigma?
Maybe so their family can collect a life insurance policy?
Maybe he had gotten close to going through with it but backed out and this time he decided to devise a way that would definitely push him enough to go through with it.
