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I am also helping to destroy the world

Stochastic Parrot

For what it's worth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot

The term was first used in the paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜" by Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell (using the pseudonym "Shmargaret Shmitchell"). The paper covered the risks of very large language models, regarding their environmental and financial costs, inscrutability leading to unknown dangerous biases, the inability of the models to understand the concepts underlying what they learn, and the potential for using them to deceive people. The paper and subsequent events resulted in Gebru and Mitchell losing their jobs at Google, and a subsequent protest by Google employees.

I heard they were all child murderers! 😱

Well I could have, but simply chose not to.

You keep posting this article but it explains clearly why it's not a big deal.

I think it's an alright compromise. I rarely move my expansion cards around. I use four USB-C cards and sometimes swap one out for a storage card that has Windows installed on it.

They don’t make real coffee

The coffee at Starbucks is real, I've seen it in person

Exactly what happened to Google Glass will happen to this thing so it doesn’t matter.

I'm not saying these will take off in any meaningful way, but I wouldn't be so sure the backlash will be as hard. Attitudes seem to have changed to be less concerned about privacy over time.

I've been pretty satisfied with Kagi. Not free though.

Flying is such a miserable experience from start to finish that I would opt for rail every time if it was viable, even if it took 3-4 times as long.

Nothing wrong with it, but why am I hearing about it?