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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

-- C.S. Lewis

No, from the looks of it the next presidential election is a year away and there’s plenty of time for stuff to change.

The polls right now are close to split anyway, so even if it was right now there’s no certainty.

At the end of the article:

Younger firms and CEOs also tend to be more enthusiastic about hybrid work arrangements, meaning they’ll get more popular over time as existing business heads retire, he added.

So don’t worry, those fragile ego managers will die out over time.

It’s not China’s place to make that choice for Taiwan. If they want to entice Taiwan to join them voluntarily, well, they’ve done a pretty bad job showing how “beneficial” that would be when you look at Hong Kong.

And that was wrong, wouldn’t you agree?

Chauvin was not sentenced to be stabbed 22 times. As awful a person as he likely is, I would rather not see extrajudicial killing be praised.

Performing extrajudicial killing is what got him behind bars in the first place, after all. Quite rightly so.

I pay for electricity. When I do an activity that requires electricity the cost of that factors into whether I do that. I don’t see the issue here.

Have I considered that China would like for the people it invades to just roll over and accept their new masters instead of fighting back?

Yeah, I considered that. It seems likely that they would want that. I have yet to think of any good reason why they should get that wish, though.

Huh. In no way am I saying that the outrage is appropriate (it’s monumentally silly and says far more about the delicate fee-fees of the nationalists than about anything else) but if this keeps happening perhaps the chef really is doing it deliberately.

Good on him, if so. I hope he’s able to continue treading whatever narrow line he’s on.

Measuring “success” in a Federated system is somewhat complicated. I’m logged in through a site that’s running kbin, and if this instance turned out to be the only kbin instance in existence it wouldn’t really affect me; the Lemmy stuff is just as accessible to me regardless.

Oh, interesting, I hadn’t heard of this. I hope this fork is amicable? Ernest has struck me as being a reasonable dev from what I’ve seen of his public interactions, I’d hate to hear that there’s drama afoot.

As I said, I want to see the actual text of the prompt and the resulting proposal. When I do work with ChatGPT it can take a small prompt and make a very wordy version of it without actually adding much meaning to it.

The article says it was written “entirely” by ChatGPT, but I don’t think that’s a fair description of the situation. The lawmaker prompted ChatGPT with a request to write a proposal that had very specific meaning and purpose, and ChatGPT turned that prompt into the requested verbiage. I would want to see exactly what the prompt was and compare it to the text that was produced.

I’ve used ChatGPT in the past to get “nicely written” versions of a list of facts and directives, and the resulting text has been just that - a reworded version of the information I provided it in the first place. I see nothing wrong with this sort of thing. Especially given that in this case the proposal got vetted by the other members of the council who read and voted on it. If there’s something wrong with it, doesn’t that say more about their lack of attentiveness than it does about ChatGPT?

Yeah, the only reason I’m still dabbling in Reddit is because they still have old.Reddit. As soon as Reddit goes to new.Reddit-only, I’m gone for good. I hate that UI.

Lots of people seem to like it, though, so I guess more power to them if they want to use it. One of the great advantages of the Fediverse is not having gatekeeping on the interface.

There’s already a PHP backend, kbin, though judging which is a better language for this sort of thing is outside of my wheelhouse.

If it’s open source, does that matter? Fork it.

I’m liking the “cosiness” of the discussion threads on most posts, personally. On Reddit a popular thread would have hundreds or thousands of comments already by the time I got there and it felt like my responses were just being lost in a sea.

The Fediverse has been around for a couple of years now and it’s an open protocol rather than just a single organization, so I’m liking its odds better than most.

No lawsuit has even been filed in the OpenAI example. But if one is we’ll just have to see.

Author’s Guild, Inc. v. Google was about something even more copy-like than this and Google won.