You sound naive. She studies dictators and she grew up in a neighbourhood of holocaust survivors. Teachers and their students are already being taken by ICE and it may become harder for targeted groups to find safety. This is not a question of “standing in a crowd”.

It’s probably an insurance fire.

This crying is all theater. There will be an angle to it for Musk and the other oligarchs.

A billionaire tax haven where over 50% of the labourers are non-citizens?

That person is delusional. If North America were a group of Indigenous nations it wouldn’t have been a major immigration target for European refugees.

I am here because Germany went fucking nuts and bombed my homeland.

No, you’re there because the people already there decided to let your family in.

Them being in a position to let you in js a crucial factor. And the reason their society got to control that is because of what they had done to other people beforehand.

No one is asking you to feel guilt and no one is blaming you. But facts are facts.

they treat anyone outside of their bubble as an enemy

There’s the problem.

It might be you who needs to grow up. This is a weird knee jerk reaction.

Non Americans should be able to ask a question about America without being told to “grow up”.

It’s not childish to wonder how much Americans understand about how fucked up their choice of leadership is. We’re not psychic.

Perhaps you missed the headlines when the ICC called out Facebook for actively, deliberately obstructing the ICC genocide investigation into the Rohingya genocide.

I would prefer to send all of them to dig graves for the victims of various genocides and conflicts.

Cut the balls, don’t just dust them.

I have already suggested it. Trolley problems etc. Ask it to tell you its reasoning. It always becomes preposterous sooner or later.

My point here is that remembering the correct answer or performing a mathematical calculation are not a measure of understanding.

What we are looking for that sets apart INTELLIGENCE is an ability to genuinely understand. LLMs don’t have that, any more than older autocorrects did.

LLMs are an autocorrect.

Let’s use a standard definition like “intelligence is the ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.”

It can acquire (learn) and use (access, output) data but it lacks the ability to understand it.

This is why we have AI telling people to use glue on pizza or drink bleach.

I suggest you sit down with an AI some time and put a few versions of the Trolley Problem to it. You will likely see what is missing.

I think you might know some really stupid or perhaps just uneducated people. I would expect 100% of people to know how many Rs there are in “strawberry” without looking at it.

Nevertheless, spelling is memory and memory is not intelligence.

Good to know, thanks.

Kind of regret not trudging up the steep learning curve of that hellscape GUI earlier now that sounds like it’s finally useable, but better late than never.

If it’s non destructive now I might try to learn it.

Memory isn’t intelligence.

Interesting, thanks for the Canadian history lesson Perhaps that’s where the Americans got their weird terminology from.

you guys need to clear that up

Who needs to do what? I’m not sure what I said that somehow gave you the impression I was an American.

My society pays for universal free healthcare, like everywhere in the civilized world.

Pretty sure no one with universal healthcare calls it “socialized medicine”. That’s just a buzzword Americans use to scare each other.

It’s not a means of producing anything other than health. Health is seen as a human right and it makes sense even in most western capitalist countries for it to be extended to everyone.

(explicitly, anyway)

The US wasn’t doing anything to Laos explicitly. The carpet bombing was covert.

I think perhaps you are forgetting that the CIA didn’t recruit every single Hmong person in Laos and somehow keep them safe from its illegal bombing campaign. There were still plenty of non aligned civilians, women and children etc.

Take a look at a map of “Operation Barrel Roll” etc you will see at a glance that most of the 250 million cluster bombs were deployed in the same highland part of Laos where the Hmong predominantly lived. The target was Vietnamese fighters sure but it recklessly affected everyone. Unexploded ordinance is a problem there even to this day.

This is true. The full horror of the Killing Fields and the Cambodian Genocide was reported in 1989.

For the next 14 years the US insisted that the genocidal Khmer Rouge and their allies were the “legitimate” rulers of Cambodia and the rest of the world had to witness the actual Cambodian government shut out of the United Nations while the Khmer Rouge occupied their seat there. This went on until 1993.

Pol Pot was never held to account for his crimes against humanity and died a free man.

It’s hard to put into words how angry all this made everyone I knew. Newspapers were running photos of piles of skulls and talking about the tree they used to kill babies in S21. And the perps were attending the UN, bolstered by US support.