Dremor

May take a little while because I got some deadlines coming up soon, but I’ll make sure to reply here whenever it is ready. It’ll also be a good way for me to improve my English 😆.

I reread the thread, my apologizes, you are right on that, I just forgot my first comment 😅.

The “alien being a person” argument is more an ironic one, you can ignore that. Any intelligent being, alien or not, is a person.

On the other hand, I could give you a corpus of 10 texts, part of them written by hand by your truly, only using a non-ai writing help to avoid obvious gramatical mistakes (English is not my native language), imitating corpo speech, and the anothers generated by my local AI (Mistral:7B). Would you accept to try ?

To be arguing in bad faith would require me to have made an argument, which I did not.
Other than pointing out the lack of proof of your (badly) hidden argument, I never pretended it to be either LLM speech or human corpo speech. Because there are no proof of either being objectively more likely than the other.

But you did, using a loaded question, which is written in such way to deny the possibility for it to be human corpo speech, which existed way earlier than LLMs.

You asked why you were getting downvoted, I anwered with the definition of why. With a link to the definition for you to read so you may improve your “question”.

Depending on the definition of “a person”, an alien could be one. What would be your definition of a person ?

I was just pointing out your earlier answer is a loaded question, by definition.

AI learned from the best worst of us.

Do you actually think it’s okay that they had a bot make a press release this hamfisted?

You are not “saying it sounds like it is written by AI”, you are affirming it is written by an AI. Big difference.
You affirmation being formated as a question doesn’t change anything, it is a Loaded Question, which tends to be frowned upon.

Bold claim, corroborated with no proof.

Sure it looks like AI speech patterns, but they are trained on corporate speech, so hard to differentiate an LLM from a corporate spokesperson.

Disposable vapes are already forbidden, at least in France, idk if it is union wide.

But yeah, those things make no sense. The only thing with a battery that should be disposable would be fire alarm. Not because of the battery, but because the main sensor has a 10 years lifespan due to its natural deterioration.

Ads and influencers pushing them.

Which comes back to my main argument: both have failed, so either both are bad, or we have a people problem instead of a system problem.

• 1921-1922 (Povolzhye, or Volga famine), 5-10 millions dreath
• 1932-1933 (Holodomor), 3.5 to 7 millions death in Ukraine alone
• 1930-1933 (Asharshylyk), 1.5 million deaths (seem small, but that was 40% of then Kazakhstan population)
• 1932-1933 (at the same time than the Holodomor, but in Russia) : 1 to 2 millions deaths
• 1946-1947: 1 to 1.5 millions deaths

And that’s only those who were big enough to be impossible to hide completely.

All of them have something in common: the central government minimised them, and tried to hide them. Some weren’t even acknowledged until after the USSR fall. All of them are a combination of bad luck (war, drought) combined with hasty decisions which made what could have been a hard year a generational disaster.

Both having a form of free market doesn’t make it suddenly good for one side and bad for the other.

Some sort of free market is good, so new idea can brew, some of them being one day attempted, other won’t because it ends up either not getting traction, or would very obviously fail after some research.

Problem is with too much planning is that it doesn’t give as much place for innovation, as well as put too much weight on a single point of failure. That played a good part in the USSR famines, like the holodomor, which was then further aggravated by their unwillingness to admit they fucked up, blaming it on other factors. But if they had learned from their mistakes, it would have improved, but unfortunately those very same error were repeated multiple time (see the multiple famines the USSR faced while strangely their western counterparts did not).

And I’ll pass on the other similar failures (Chernobyl, among other), that follow the very same pattern.

Of course, the USSR had some very clear wins, like the first part of the race to space, and others.

The USSR could have been a success if their leader weren’t selfish idiots, which os a shame since I’d rather live in a good cummunism regime than a good capitalism regime.

I always worked toward such ideals, I contributed to some open-source project (Gnome, KDE, mostly translation, bug report, but also some packaging for OpenSUSE and Fedora.

I’m a bit tired of those who blindly follow ideologies without having the intellectual honesty to recognize where said ideology fucked up and where it was great. Do I have to be called a social-traitor for every reflection on communism or socialism? I doubt Marx would be happy to see those he tried to enlighten sheepishly follow whoever yell the loudest… Even if they yell parta of what he tried to teach them.

That was part of my philosophy class, the book is probably still at my father house.

Already done, lot a good ideas, some ideas I don’t agree with, but an enlightening read nonetheless.

The part I disagree the most about are free competition.

Communism by itself isn’t bad, nor is capitalism, but both assume that their proponents are immune to greed, and that their opponent are full of it.

There are good things in both, bad things in both. The problem is to find people that are truly altruistic, and that have the moral fortitude to stay altruistic.

Edit: y’all can downvote all you want, I’ll stand by my opinion unless someone has the honesty to argue on that.

Good ol’ cache.

As a personal example of Samsung reliability, my 11 years old samsung SSD is still kicking, despite being used as a cache for my Truenas homelab for half of it. This thing will outlive me 😆

What do you dislike about the new one?

Only if you don’t check when you update your deps.

Considering how many times France told the US to go fuck themselves (Irak, Iran, its own nuclear weapons, among others), I think we can consider it pretty independent.