let’s keep workshopping that, but yes they are authoritarian assholes and they need to go down.

there’s more to biological taxonomies than just the concept of clades, fellow fish

that additional context is super interesting, but it doesn’t take away from the fundamental reality which is that when someone opens up to you about suicidal ideation, it’s not acceptable to merely do your best to dissuade them; it’s critical to get them to help they need, and there’s just no way for a LLM to do that.

this individual is an outlier in that his personal outcome was spectacularly bad, but his story seems familiar to me. I know a lot of people who seem to feel like they’re building real relationships with these bots.

yep, exact same thing. Apple is the name of the company, Macintosh is the brand of computer

if an American conservative said “My kids are bottom of the college acceptance lists due to affirmative action; it’s bullshit, they don’t even know what slavery is,” what age would you infer that their children are?

Yeah that’s what I mean; this is a bit edgier than I’d expect out of him these days. To be fair people often tend to become less piracy-enthusiastic once they publish their own books!

He’s gotten a bit less edgy over the years. Mostly in good ways.