LukeZaz

I mean, it technically is. Eventually.

Yeah, I understand that you personally choose to disagree with reality

You saying your opinion is objective reality does not make it so. I agree that LLMs have their (few, niche) uses, but you're just being arrogant here.

For those interested, Skip Intro's done a couple of video essays on Jon Stewart that cover very well why he isn't a particularly good person to listen to.

If you're interested in someone similar in category but better in substance, I (and Skip Intro, for that matter) recommend John Oliver. He isn't perfect, but he's generally on the mark.

If there's one thing LLMs are very good at, it's talking about things their creators don't want them to with barely any effort from the end user.

This is what we call "good news."

Lol so what?

He's the President. Him giving the pardons directly contradicts the idea that the pardons are given "in recognition of the applicant’s acceptance of responsibility," rendering that portion of your source irrelevant.

Those who're refusing his pardon are the most respectable and sympathetic of them, because they are choosing to stand up for their principles and own up to their mistakes rather than accept a convenient get-out-of-jail-free card that nobody should've gotten to begin with. There is nothing whatsoever that is selfish about that, and suggesting they deserve to lose their rights as a result is outright cruel.

ordinarily is granted in recognition of the applicant’s acceptance of responsibility for the crime

Emphasis mine. Trump is not "recognizing acceptance of responsibility," he outright thinks what they did was good. Accepting his help is to all but say "I did nothing wrong." You should know that; the people who refused the pardons sure did.

Maybe they don’t deserve whatever rights they’ve given up on that basis alone.

That sure is one hell of a nasty statement.

Honestly, after the week we've had, these kinds of people are who I want to hear about. They learned, regretted, and became better. They give me hope.

There's a chance that some of this is not as genuine as it seems, sure—Riddle mentions his job prospects here, and one could make an argument for the publicity of doing this. But I've had enough negativity for a while, and I'd like to believe it's honest.

I’m not a monster. I’m just a stickler for semantic accuracy.

For what reason? What use does it have? Because as it stands, you're arguing in favor of a false dichotomy that, though you may be against them, is still used by bigots to justify their hate. Weighed against "semantic accuracy," I don't really think that's worthwhile.

Doesn't mean we should redefine scientific terms

If "male" and "female" are the terms you're referring to here, I'd disagree quite a bit. Language is a fluid and imprecise thing, and words are going to mean different things to different people, as well as change over time whether we want them to or not. Hell, just look at how messy things get whenever a transphobe tries and fails (yet again) to define these words in a way that doesn't result in Diogenes walking in holding a chicken.

The reality is that both terms are labels on boxes we try to sort people into, for better and for worse. There's no good reason to get overly attached to them; like any categorization, they will fail regularly, as the universe does not care for the shapes of our boxes.

I really don't feel like even that is as different as we think it is. Not because I don't think China is breathing down the necks of its citizenry – I absolutely do – but because I think America* is doing it just as much. We just don't realize it because of the immense lengths local media goes through to make it look like it's not happening. Exonerative tense, copaganda, et cetera. Shit, it hasn't been much more than a decade since the Snowden leaks happened, and yet as far as I know we have no good reason to believe any of that has stopped at all.

It's easy not to think so if you've not personally experienced it. But it's important to remember that if you're not privileged, there are a lot of reasons to feel very oppressed in this country.

^*^ ^Mentioning^ ^America^ ^here^ ^because^ ^it's^ ^what^ ^I^ ^have^ ^personal^ ^experience^ ^with,^ ^not^ ^because^ ^I'm^ ^assuming^ ^that's^ ^where^ ^you're^ ^from.^

Now this would be the dream.

Doesn't really counter anything I said in my comment, so I stand with what I said. I won't complain if war profiteers want to self-sabotage.