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MindBeams··on Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design
It is a capitalism issue.

But it's also a free speech issue. You're conflating free speech and the First Amendment, but they are not the same thing, and matters of free speech do not begin and end with the First Amendment.

MindBeams··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
CEOs represent their companies. "The company didn't say it, the CEO did" is a nonsensical distinction.
MindBeams··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
You admitted earlier that they are:

Person you replied to: they intentionally use suggestive language that leads people to think AI is approaching human cognition. This helps with hype, investment, and PR.

Your response: As do all companies in the world. If you want to buy a hammer, the company will sell it as the best hammer in the world. It's the norm.

MindBeams··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
>they're doing sales and marketing and it's you that interprets this as possible/true.

You've moved the goalpost from "they're not saying it" to "they're saying, but you're not supposed to believe it."

MindBeams··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
Corporations are motivated by profit, not doing what's best for humanity. If you need an example of "large organizations conspiring against us," I can give you twenty.
MindBeams··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
You're being disingenuous. The tweet was talking about asserting the existence of fake articles, claiming that a paper was written in one year while summarizing a paper that explicitly says it was written in another, and severe hallucinations. Nowhere does she even imply that she's looking for superintelligence.
MindBeams··on The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock
The productivity benefits of remote work options have been resoundingly proven by now. This person doesn't truly care about maximizing productivity.
MindBeams··on The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock
Holding yourself to a different (lower) standard than your employees is not the mark of a fair person.
MindBeams··on The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock
Your workers are not less valuable than you. You should treat them better.
MindBeams··on The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock
That would be horrible for workers. Let's not establish that sort of precedent; if you do the job, remote or not, you get paid equally. Even assuming a slight productivity bump, John doesn't deserve more money than Dave just because he schleps himself to the office.
MindBeams··on The Last Stand of the Corporate Peacock
Because managers likely prefer it due to corporate peacocking. The article clearly says this.
MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
This thread is rampant with anti-intellectualism that deserves to be called out.
MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
Did you mix those up on purpose?
MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
>"285368737954-83645" is... well I have to assume somewhere in the 10-100K range?

83645 is five digits, so certainly in the ~10,000 range.

MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
It's definitely standard, but in what way is it clearer? An abbreviation is never more clear than the full thing it abbreviates.

EDIT: I saw your explanation below, and you make a very good point.

MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
This level of thinly veiled insecurity is just projection on your part.
MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
It sucks that people understanding their own language marks them as possibly AI.
MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
>Mr. White

As opposed to what, exactly?

MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
"Much" and "many" are not interchangeable:

"I have too many water in the cup."

"How much people are in attendance?"

These sound obviously incorrect.

MindBeams··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
This sort of anti-intellectualism is the perfect antidote for those who claim that improper grammar is nothing more than evidence of language "evolving."
MindBeams··on Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases
And it all comes full-circle.
MindBeams··on Reddit sparks outrage after it demands app developer pay $20M/yr
It's inevitable that I'll still have to filter search results by Reddit to find genuine information, but if the only option for Reddit is the official app/website, I'll just stop browsing and commenting altogether. I don't understand how their official app could remain so bad.