They understand exactly how people work. You are naive for thinking that they aren't aware of this. Their entire job is essentially a popularity contest in which they promise you things, that they almost never deliver on.
Honestly I think the majority aren't smart enough to do the cost benefit analysis of these system, so they just ignore the warning.
You'd be shocked how many people cannot process basic hypotheticals. I've been in countless dialogues like this one:
- How would you feel now if you had not eaten breakfast?
- But I did eat breakfast.
What are you going to ask them next? What is heavier, 1 tonne of bricks or feathers? It's old-school boy humour. It doesn't prove anything other than the maturity level of the person asking it.
Also I severely doubt you did this, as it was a meme that was floating around online last year for about two weeks because some influencers popularised it.
I didn't literally ask people "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast?", but rather questions that naturally followed the conversation that at the same time were either hypotheticals, or some adjacent ideas that require similar shift of perspective. The "How would you feel if you had not eaten breakfast?" stands as a symbol of a general idea.
Your comment is prime example of grown-ass adults having reading comprehension of GPT-1, especially that you missed the word "like", which explicitly points that the following example isn't to be taken literally, but rather metaphorically.
I can already imagine you in a conversation going like:
- It hit me like a bolt from the blue!
- But a bolt from the blue did not hit you, did it?
I cannot believe I need to explain this shit to you.
Sure, of course, and I still don't believe you.
I had also considered the possibility that you would further lie about it and pivot your explanation when directly challenged. If you don't want people to think you are fabricating things, I suggest you don't reference a worn-out trend that was tiresome mere days after it first spread.
Even if I accepted that what you said is true (which I find very hard to believe), many people generally just don't like being asked hypotheticals because they think they are being tricked in an effort to embarrass them, so they often don't bother engaging further.
> Your comment is prime example of grown-ass adults having reading comprehension of GPT-1, especially that you missed the word "like", which explicitly points that the following example isn't to be taken literally, but rather metaphorically.
I didn't miss the word "like" at all. Putting "like" in a sentence isn't a get out of jail free card, especially when I recognise what I believe to be an obvious lie.
People were asking this stupid hypothetical on Discord/Reddit, etc., for what felt like several months last year. People when off the internet typically don't bother engaging in this behaviour. So I just don't believe you, even if the hypothetical was technically a bit different, e.g., "How would you feel if you lost your bag on the bus this morning?"
As a computer programmer, I do not have english words to express how frustrating this can be at times.
They don't care either way. They do whatever they think is popular to garner support. If it was popular to bring slavery back, they would advocate for that.
> Honestly I think the majority aren't smart enough to do the cost benefit analysis of these system, so they just ignore the warning.
I honestly wonder why many of you keep on giving these people the benefit of the doubt. Please don't quote Hanlon's razor at me. There's another side of it that often isn't discussed.
Nefarious individuals know (if they can't verbalise it) that most people will assume a mistake is made rather than malice and they will routinely use this to their advantage. Anyone that is in the political space, I automatically assume malice.
These people have us arguing about nonsense while they line their pockets.
Stop assuming that these people have your best interests at heart. Cynicism is warranted because their class has earned the (poor) reputation.