I wouldn’t bother, there is nothing to suggest this person is interested in seriously engaging on this topic. For example they seem to think the number of civilian owned firearms is a determining factor, when it hasn’t even helped the US to avoid fascism in their own country.

I don’t think you’ve thought very deeply or very seriously about this.

Americans and traitors, the latter of which may include MAGA Canadians. There are currently an uncomfortable number of them (including cops, I suspect) that haven’t figured out that announcing your treasonous intentions all over Facebook and Twitter just makes it easier for everyone to know who the enemy is when conflict breaks out. And as the state is usually predisposed during conflict, traitors are typically dealt with by the mob…and the mob has a far less nuanced and humane view of justice.

These MAGA Canadians think it’s an edgy joke.

For the elimination of doubt, let’s just forget everything I’ve said and give me a concise statement of what you believe to be true regarding AI, specifically large language models.

The discussion is irrelevant. The tech has released, it’s accessible, and as is the case with every technological disruption, you’re not putting the toothpaste back into the tube. We can’t undo the industrial revolution or any other technological revolution.

Which is why I recommend familiarizing yourself with it, recognizing strengths and weaknesses, and upskilling. Or swim on the back side of the wave, as many others have done in the past.

It will change the world in some way, you’re not obligated to change with it.

Edit if you feel the discussion is relevant, I’d like to understand your suggestion as to how to address the challenges or concerns you raise.

Edit 2 I do have quite a few suggestions about how the technology should be regulated, and how new systems need to be created, but I’m curious what your thoughts are.

I believe it’s both that Trump is distracting, and he’s handed over the government to Miller et al.

His brain is shrinking. He doesn’t really care as long as no one finds out about the horrible shit in those files. And it must be absolutely abhorrent given that he’s willing to destroy the world to prevent it from getting out.

And I think it will get out eventually, but most likely he will never face justice for it.

I believe the good Americans will overcome. I love seeing pissed off Americans showing up to the fight in increasing numbers. I think too many of them still believe that the midterms are going to save them, or that they can rely on legal or democratic systems that have been systematically undermined.

But I see that the Trump administration does not make any decisions to try and grow their support at all. They are moving too fast and too aggressively, probably because they need to destroy the democratic institutions in less than 2 years, so they are pulling out all the stops. They learned from the first term and they believe they have to move faster but that speed is also working against them, because it doesn’t allow breathing space during which the electorate can be propagandized and during which they can forget. If they move fast their opposition will learn to move fast as well.

In our company the benefits are very real. In my daily life the benefits are real

I said it has to be used properly. It’s not the fault of the technology if people don’t use it correctly.

And trying to pretend computers and communications like phones and emails weren’t available to everyone is ridiculous. Social media is available to everyone and forced on everyone, and most people don’t know how to use it. It’s not knowing how to use it that causes problems.

So it seems we agree it can augment research, which is a separate issue from whether everyone should use it for research. Baby steps.

It can be used very effectively as a research aid. For example it can be used as an augmented search engine and search aggregator. You have to validate it, like you do with any research.

You still need someone who has skills and/or knowledge. It’s like an enthusiastic junior intern with encyclopedic knowledge.

Let’s not pretend that it isn’t incredibly powerful technology. It is extremely overhyped, but that doesn’t detract from its very real value.

By the way the detractors would be well-advised to figure out how to use it properly and effectively, or they will find themselves being the dinosaurs using calculators, filing cabinets and fax machines when everyone else is using computers, databases and emails.

Laymen are not good at research, tools notwithstanding.

That’s an indictment on them, not the tools.

The critics would have been criticizing computers and probably the steam engine.

No I don’t but I’m tired of hearing Americans try to absolve themselves by pointing out the very obvious cause, as if identifying the problem of wealth inequality turns enemies into friends, or suddenly and magically means my country isn’t being threatened by half of the US population. Sorry, some of them are too far gone, and no amount of enlightenment is going to change the fact that I can’t trust the country that they control right now. I’m allowed to call that out and I’m allowed to be pissed.

And at the same time I’m allowed to cheer when I see angry Americans that are fighting back. I know there are good ones but I don’t think the ones that play the rhetorical absolution trick are owed anything for pointing out something that we all already knew, that we had been saying for decades, and that doesn’t do anything to help now.

You’re wrong, and anyway there are more than just military options.

For example there are devastating economic options. And generations-long wars of attrition and terror with neighboring countries that look like you and sound like you. The US sucks at occupation, even when they’re brown people on the other side of the world. Imagine they hide in plain sight.

You planning to kill everyone?

It’s not just about military spending. It doesn’t make you invincible.

The US has created a world tuned to give them all the economic advantages, and they are too stupid and arrogant to realize what happens when that all ends.

Trump claims Greenland needs to be occupied to protect against Russia and China.

Russia could be defeated in Ukraine if the US hadn’t stopped helping.

And so sorry to burst your bubble Trump, but you are accelerating the inevitable Chinese ascendency, and occupying Greenland will actually drive the rest of the world to them.

Well, they’re idiots. It’s a fantastic research tool, in combination with other tools and practices.

Their economy depends on the other countries around the world. What do you suppose happens when the countries dump TBonds and the US dollar? What happens when the agriculture industry is destroyed when the potash stops? There are so many trade dependencies that disappear.

The US has had a golden ticket and they would throw it away. No more printing money. Good luck maintaining all of that military, especially spread out all over the world.

It’s frankly astonishing that the citizens of the US don’t understand that they established these systems of trade and finances to benefit them and make their country rich and so they could get low priced goods and abundance, and they got spoiled by it and assumed it was all due to their greatness. But they’re heavily dependent on it and it’s a different world once it’s gone.

The very definition of born on third and thought they hit a triple.

Which country do you live in?

Not what I’m suggesting.

I am noting that the US has never had a war with a bordering country that looks and sounds like them.

And I’m also pointing out that the US has never had a war with a country that can cripple their agriculture industry, sell off Tbonds and USD and crash their economy, nationalize their strategic assets and patents, and cut off power to the northeast. Then fight a war of attrition for a generation if needed.

War has been something that most in the US only watch on Fox News.

Finally, if the US did abandon its traditional allies, I suspect those former allies would be looking a lot more friendly with China, who would then be the main beneficiary to capitalize off of the conflict.

You do realize that missiles can reach the US yes? And they don’t need to be nuclear? It does not need to be boots on the ground in an organized invasion to cause enormous pain.

Do the citizens of the US really think they would be able to watch the world burn around them on Fox News and not feel any impacts?

All this for a bloated demented conman who rapes kids. Unreal.

Yes, this was the right response, and you are correct.

I’m not claiming any ground here at all by the way. Canada has never suffered an invasion either.

It’s very easy to be flippant about the scale of suffering in WW2. The German invasion of Russia, translated to the US, would have been an invasion along the entire east coast that pushed from NYC as far in as Kansas City.

Yeah there is a right way to use it just like any other tool or technology.