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If you want a reddit-like that runs w/o JavaScript I am working on BrutaLinks, a federated link aggregator and discussion platform. An example instance is at https://brutalinks and the code is on SourceHut: https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks


  Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
  Zuck: Just ask
  Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
  [Redacted]: What? How'd you manage that one?
  Zuck: People just submitted it.
  Zuck: I don't know why.
  Zuck: They "trust me"
  Zuck: Dumb fucks


Well, that pretty much sounds like communism, atleast in practice. Majority is suffering while the leaders and a small group are ultra rich and lives in luxury, at the expense of workers and ordinary people.


You just confirmed the point I made above about the lack of critical thinking on this subject.


> What you're missing is how dead this horse is.

Nah, it should be mentioned as often as possible, like Mark Zuckerberg stating They "trust me". Dumb fucks. Only appropriate drawing attention when an organization is deceiving.


How did they decieve you, exactly? If you're only sore about their name, I think that's as poor of an argument as saying Microsoft's software ought to be smaller to match their namesake. OpenAI, as ironic as their naming convention is, owes you nothing.

This is truly and honestly the deadest of horses. You may as well just stop referring to them as OpenAI and s/OpenAI/Microsoft AI Team. It's your choice to get mad about it, but making threads about it changes nothing. Even discussing it in these threads accomplishes nothing. Sam Altman just laughs and pours himself another Perrier, you'd think a site full of business enthusiasts would know how the game works by now.


Years ago I worked on a farm raising cattle. We would take great care of the animals every day, often hand feeding cows, but especially the calfs with apples and such. A very enjoyable event was at spring time, when letting the cattle out to grass, they would go completely crazy and jump around.

When an animal had the right age and weight, it would be shot and slaughtered. The process would then start over. Both then and now, I eat meat with the greatest pleasure and will continue to do so. Sorry, your anthropomorphism issues don't affect me and most others.

> I don’t want to control your life. I believe this is a logical conclusion thinking will eventually get anyone to, given the effort - and moral integrity.

How nice it must feel to be so superior :) I hope this will be enough copeism for you, to handle that 90% of the world population will continue to eat meat. As people are lifted out of poverty, they want to eat meat no matter how much you preach.


> Sorry, your anthropomorphism issues don't affect me and most others.

It's astonishing to me how the mere idea that beings other than humans do experience a subjective existence is so foreign, some people will instantly disregard it as antromorphism. Accepting that other species are not automatons doesn't automatically ascribe them human traits.

Even more astonishing to me is the observation that it seems to enrage people like you a lot to simply advocate (ie, "preach") for less cruelty towards animals; and how those people always drag the issue down to a meaningless personal level. This isn't about me, or you, or "winning" anything. I simply think less existences should have to end just so privileged people's taste buds can go nuts, so that's what I argue for.


The correct definition of murder is as such:

> Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse [...]

Animals are not humans, killing an animal is not a murder. Attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to animals is called anthropomorphism.


I mostly agree with you. But it seems clear that mammals do have a lot of the same emotions humans do, as those emotions evolved long before humans took the stage. We just inherited them from our earlier ancestors.


That's not the full definition of murder. Here's the rest:

- 1: to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice

- 2: to slaughter wantonly : SLAY

- 3a: to put an end to

- 3b: TEASE, TORMENT

- 3c: MUTILATE, MANGLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko

Watch Dominion and tell us these animals are not being mutilated, mangled, tormented, slaughtered and murdered.

Animals do not want to die. The will ALL naturally cry, scream, run, fight and generally do anything possible to avoid getting killed. Killing them is murder. Discrimination or unjustified treatment of animals based on an individual's species membership is called Speciesism. The belief that humans alone possess intrinsic value or are the central entity in the universe is called Anthropocentrism.


> I’ve read some comments that BingGPT isn’t that great, because they effectively neutered it too much.

In my opinion, it's the exact opposite. I'm also very impressed with Bing Chat, it's much more useful than ChatGPT even after the number of questions has been limited, but the quality of answers in general and especially code snippets are much much better.

ChatGPT was good in the beginning and I would gladly have paid money, but now it's neutered to the point were it's unusable for me. The lenght of answers have been limited much and half the answer is always a consending warning that you should probably contact a professional instead of trying to e.g. change the lightbulb or something other benign tasks.

However, the ChatGPT interface is great, both simple and lightweight. Bing Chat interface is so awful in a way that no other than Microsoft could do it, the worst is that it will only work on Edge browser. You can spoof the user agent, but then things scrolling don't work etc.


> Take any example of companies "going woke" and the answer is always the same: it was more profitable.

Gillette going woke in 2019 was definitely not profitable.


P&G CFO believes dropping profits had more to do with beards being more popular than anything else: https://qz.com/1680613/pgs-gillette-writes-off-8-billion-as-...

I vaguely remember a somewhat cringey commercial but, did you have evidence indicating this drove down sales further?


> What To Expect Going Forward

> [...] And yes, absolutely: the constant addition of new features [...]

Please don't.


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