Could you more clearly define the cases you are including and excluding? It might have helped your original post if you had not left it to others to guess what you meant so freely.

It’s not a matter of a priveleged medium. It’s the fact an LLM is not a simulation of a brain. You can do the math for an LLM on paper, given enough time. The same cannot be said for a human brain. If human brains were as comprehensible as an LLM, we’d be too stupid to comprehend them.

Could you get a prion disease from your own body?

This is related to consent. You are suggesting they consented to the existence of the child, thus are responsible for the results of that consent. This ignores the MANY people who did not consent, and ignores the many more who did not give INFORMED consent. You are wading into deeper waters than you might realise if you are going to argue either side of the question of whether consent requires the consenter to be informed.

That’s theoretically true, but that’s not what LLMs do. LLMs truly are just n-th level autocomplete. They aren’t simulating brain function. They’re just repeatedly outputting what ‘should’ be the next set of letters in the sequence.

We’re all idiots.

Choice is an illusion. So is destiny.

Never trust a fart.

Those guys have real money. You will be paid very well… or end up with an axe in your taint.

The internet points are even more meaningless on Lemmy. The up/down votes are not totaled as ‘your karma.’ You do not need to try to obfuscate your posts. Just let it go and move on.

Is that the sequel to Gibson’s Neuromancer?

Simply put, reading.
Reading has a powerful effect on the brain. It trains it to maintain focus and coherency in thought. It trains the imagination to allow more complex visualization. It trains it to hold more information in working memory. It can be used to add cognitive tools that allow for more advanced/nuanced forms of thinking. It’s a superpower we forgot because someone found a way to take photographs. Go read something. I’m going to go read right now.

If you aren’t using it yet, get revanced YouTube. It won’t fix the skipping to next video issue, at least that I’ve found, but it has sponsorblock built in so if anyone has marked the in video ads, it will skip them for you, and blocks the regular ads entirely.

I’m a cheapskate so YouTube.
Playing music if I want pleasant sound and old video essays if I want noise.

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, is dead now, so don’t worry about supporting an asshole.

Also, with you on the show. Very fun.

Imagine a giant tower in Vatican city so every country that wants one could have an embassy.

How about Casablanca? It’s black and white.

This is a phenomenon I have observed and talked about so often but never heard a name for. Marketing is malign bullshit and they’re using it in a kind of ‘washing’ technique to try to cover up how obviously shitty the thing is so… ‘shitwashing?’ ‘Diarrhoeawashing?’

Coinage enables trade with people who you don’t trust to even be there a month later, much less to come back to repay a debt, regardless of an adherence to capitalism or no. If you like, take away any capitalist hierarchies and imagine everyone involved as artisans and subsistence workers who make their way in the world by the produce of their own hands, no wages or exploitative bourgeoise. It’s still useful to have a way to engage in exchange with someone who you don’t have reason to trust.

Trust has to exist somewhere. In state-regulated currency, it is trust in the willingness of the state’s enforcers to enact violence on those who try to mess about with the currency and trust in most people’s desire not to have state violence enacted upon them. In a stateless society, the trust has to be maintained or there will be no exchange. No exchange means lower quality of life. Most people are quite happy to live with a little state violence if it means they get to live an easier life, or even just live to see tomorrow. Moralizing doesn’t stop the would-be king from cutting off heads until the survivors shut up and pay their taxes, and sarcasm undermines your ability to make a point.

Mostly because you can discourage a certain amount of bastardry by making it illegal to do one of the steps, while making everyone carry around scales to do business kind of defeats the purpose of coinage, which is to enable people to make transactions quickly and with very clear ideas of what they are exchanging. Assuming you trust the coin system to certify the coin which is supposed to be one ounce of silver actually is one ounce of silver, it’s very fast and easy to say ‘give me one silver and I will give you two hens.’ The whole process is done almost as fast as you can say it. If you don’t trust the coinage, you have to get a set of weights, which both sides of the transaction have to trust are accurate, a scale, which both sides have to trust is accurate, and then carefully weigh the coins, doing math to find the correct total weight, possibly a way to measure volume so you can check density as a stand-in for metal content, and doing this whole process every time you transact. There’s a whole other element around taxes as motivation to use currency but that’s a whole layer unto itself. People will tolerate a certain amount of authoritarianism if it makes their day-to-day feel easier/safer.

I thought that came from much further back, when the metal was the value and the face stamped on it was to certify the metal content at the promise of the stamper. Taking a sliver of silver off of 50 coins could be melted down and made into a 51st coin so defacing was just part of the counterfeiting process that devalued the original coins if anyone bothered to weigh them, or something like that.