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If you go to the Google ngram viewer you won’t see a single occurrence of whataboutism before 2006. I’m not saying it was coined at the Liberals Coining Scare Words 2006 conference, but use of the word is a hallmark of a shitlib hypocrite. Whatabout and whataboutism are two different words.
Do you run?
Only when I’m being chased.
This is like saying “I don’t understand how airplanes fly, so I’ll happily board an airplane designed by an LLM. The reality is determined by how much I know about it.”
You can learn how compilers work and understand how they do what they do. Nobody understands what’s in those billions of parameters, and no one ever will.
Great game, enjoyed it a lot!
What if in your third analogy you replace millions of students by billions of processes running on machines, each of which can generate output ten thousand times faster than a college educated human?
If you found a way to have a million children who could grow up in one day your analogy would be more apt. In that case you and your children would rightly be considered a threat.
There’s way more ugly graffiti scribbles than street art there, sadly.
I grew up in a socialist country before the fall of communism. Us kids of my generation were envious of the flashy lights and billboards that we saw in the movies from the west.
The architecture of pre 20-th century was as flashy and kitschy as the people of the day could make it with the technology at their disposal. Look at the façade ornamentation and ostentatious spires of the old churches. Or the imposing architecture of 19th century government buildings, with the government often being the king or a bunch of wealthy landowners.
Anyway, I prefer the architecture reflecting the hustle of today’s commerce to the one made to glorify the past authorities.
I think you’re under the impression that google.com is some sort of a public good, while it’s actually a privately owned platform. I think your issue might be with capitalism. Or maybe it’s with people who don’t want to switch to another search platform, or with people who click on ads instead making sure they scroll down to the first link that’s not an ad. In any case, nobody’s forcing you or anyone else to be one of those people.
If G bought Bing or DuckDuckGo or any of the alternative search engines that appear as choices in people’s browsers, and not just that but did so under a threat of violence, you’d be right to call it a mafia. If it threatened to kneecap Apple executives to be the default search engine on their devices instead of paying Apple billions yearly for the privilege you’d be right to call it a mafia. Otherwise they don’t extort anyone any more than any property owner asking to be paid for use of their property.
There’s a lot of shady shit that Google does, but it’s childish and silly to expect a trillion plus company to be some embodiment of a non-capitalist utopia embedded in a capitalist society, and call them mafia if they fall short of that ideal.
I might be shilling for Google, but your great hope is the government? Haven’t those people been known to employ deadly force at home and overseas in all kinds of disgusting ways?
You replied to my comment, in which I’m explicitly talking about the green card process. Most people on H1-B are trying to get a green card.
I thought you were talking about transferring the green card process, because I was talking about the green card process. Transfer is possible, but you have to be past a certain point that takes probably a couple of years, which is pretty good compared to how long I had to wait way back when.
Only after labor and then I-140 have been approved, which together typically take more than a year. Also, many employers won’t start your green card application until you’ve been there for a year.
So… no evidence? Putting ads at the top of the page is nothing like your original claim that Google lets advertisers impersonate other businesses. I didn’t ask if you care about Google’s policy on impersonation, but whether you have an example where I type business name X and Google shows me an ad that says it will take me to X but it takes me somewhere else.
What can or can’t be done in yellow pages is irrelevant. I also can’t click on things in yellow pages, does that mean presenting links should be illegal?
When you’re on H1-B you’re applying for the green card through your employer, which is a multi-year process. So even if you find an employer who will sponsor it, you’ll be going back to the end of the line.
Government regulates some parts of telecom business, a lot of it it doesn’t. I couldn’t find any regulations pertaining to yellow pages, that’s why I was asking. I doubt there are any.
Please provide some evidence of Google systematically violating its policy here https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6020955?hl=en
How are yellow pages regulated?
Brave edgelords exposing Google mafia for what it is can’t take a little condescension. Heroes just aren’t what they used to be.
Despite my best efforts I can’t follow your overstretched analogy. How does Google redirect anything by putting ads on top of search results?
Did the phone company provide the service for free or did you have to pay the phone bill?
Congratulations on discovering how advertising works.
People used to buy consumer electronic magazines for product reviews, and those magazines had pages of flashy ads at the beginning. I guess that was mafia stuff too. Or just one of million examples of an advertising-based business model.
What is CSP?
Edit: looked it up, Constraint Satisfaction Problem.
This encourages the worst habits, and will make a horrible programmer, and thinker, out of a bad one.
I read that the British word posh comes from Port Out - Starboard Home, which is the type of UK to US return ticket you’d get, if you could afford it, to have a cabin facing the sun both ways.
I’m sure it outperforms the general population since most people can’t code a hello world, or regurgitate an answer to a problem they have been trained to answer but have no understanding of like ChatGPT can. But if a minimally competent human gave me a completely nonsensical answer to a question they haven’t seen before, the way ChatGPT does so confidently, I would think one of us had a stroke.
I would expect a journalist who never had do think through a theory of computation course to make breathless claims that ChatGPT can “solve programming problems“, but I’m pretty surprised to hear so many people who have jobs in tech repeating these claims, especially since all it would take them to trip up ChatGPT is a few seconds to type in a slightly unfamiliar or non-trivial question. It’s like a kind of second-order Turing test: if you think ChatGPT can program, you’re not a real programmer.
I'm complaining about the title writing a check that the blog post can't cash.
"Bard is much worse than ChatGPT at solving an obscure word game I invented" would have been a more honest title, but would probably generate less clicks for the author.
Bard may still be much worse than ChatGPT at solving all kinds of puzzles, but the article is click bait for promoting the author's word game, not an actual investigation that warrants that conclusion.
The world is much better than it used to be, you’re just more aware of all the present evil because the evidence is so much easy to gather, disseminate, and search for.
Nobody was aware of the extent of police criminality before everyone had a camera in their pocket, as just one example.
Meh, even without the mobile platform, which they didn’t have in 2005, there were no good alternatives to Google search then and switching the default to something else would have hurt Safari more than Google. My money is on the bidding war.
What war other than the bidding war for talent was Jobs threatening?
What a ridiculous article. Kudos to WIRED for digging deep to let us know what the people who did this have to say about this mystery of mysteries.