There's also the fact that the media and a large cadre of activists in the targeted countries already provide the 'democrat' standpoint which makes an AI simulacrum less noticeable as well as less appealing. I'd say that is a far more likely explanation than 'democrats know it is AI slop' which sounds a lot like wishful thinking by 'democrats'.
Because it would be foolish to just trust them on their statements both given their history as well as given the fact that they're in it for the money and tend to follow the path which brings in more of it.
You can look up the history of this company's claims versus reality on their promises re. privacy yourself, there's enough to be found between Siri listening when it shouldn't, user data being accessible to the company in contrast to promises of privacy, the company collecting user data which is used for targeted advertising, several examples of push notification data being handed over to law enforcement agencies in several countries, leaky 'airdrop' allowing user identification which wasn't fixed by the company even after a fix was published by outsiders and more.
The real question is why you seem to be so credulous when it comes to this company. Do you extend this trust to other similar companies or is it only reserved for this specific company? I ask this because you're not the first person who seems to consider this company to be almost above criticism even though they've shown to be just like other companies in all respects. When Jobs was still around this stance was supposedly caused by his 'reality distortion field' but he has been gone for a long time and given that Cook has the charisma of an accountant this can no longer be the reason. What makes them so special to some even though their claims have been punctured many times over?
I think you're looking at the comparison from the wrong angle. The parent poster meant the USA does not take up the metric system because the imperial units are seen as part of their culture while metric is a 'foreign' thing. Typically American sports like baseball, American 'football' and basketball are seen as part of American culture as well while football (which for some unexplainable reason is called 'soccer' in the USA) is seen as the foreign thing, just like metric. It is not like any of these sports is better or worse in any way, in the end they're all forms of ritualised warfare without (too much) bloodshed and they all work in this regard: the winner gets the spoils, the loser gets to leave the field with their tails drooping.
The name Soccer comes from an abbreviation that was popular in English schools and Universities. America started to use it to differentiate from gridiron football that became popular here, and now it's apparently weird and wrong to use the nickname the inventors of the sport created :)
I have no idea whether this is true but it is an interesting question which the knee-jerk downvote brigade should have left alone. Is this information available somewhere? As far as I know the majority of college graduates in all but the STEM fields is female now, there's only a few disciplines which are still majority male. Given this fact it would be expected that unemployment among female college graduates should be higher, not lower than that of men if companies were to aim for a 'fair' distribution between men and women in their workforce given that there will be more women vying for the 'female share' of the pie.
Just block them everywhere you can and ignore them when you can't or - when they're too annoying - close whatever medium tried to push the bulshytt [1] on you. They're trying to influence you and the more you show you're annoyed, the more they notice they've succeeded in reaching you.
Block and cover [2], block and cover. For the rest, live on.
A lot of these "I'm leaving, everybody, see? I'm really going now, OK. Did you hear that? I'm really leaving" posts are just a form of virtue signalling or likes-farming, viz. the flood of such posts on what used to be Twitter when Musk took over. The majority of those who claimed to leave were back within a few weeks to months to get their fix. Most of these posts are characterised by the poster not having any positive plans for the future beyond whatever they claim to leave behind, just complaints about whatever caused them to write those posts.
This post here does not seem to be like that. I suspect he's really planning on taking a hiatus from the 'net, something like a sabbatical at least. I do think he'll eventually return to the 'net in some form and he might even become active in whatever the free software world has morphed into by then but he does seem to have positive plans for the future. He's starting a magazine centred around an Orthodox Christian community, something which can provide the same type of fulfilment as working on free software projects can.
On the point of the advent of artificial general intelligence it is worth considering the expected reduction in human intelligence which comes with the increased offloading of cognitive activities to thinking machines. My daughters both remarked on how many of their friends seem to use 'ChatGPT' for just about everything no matter how trivial. Just like unused muscles tend to waste away the same is true for unused cognitive circuits: use 'm or loose 'm. Those ChatGPT-ing girls are doing their part in advancing the advent of AGI by strengthening the botware while weakening the wetware.
That's because you're still in the loop to point out it is trying to solve a misguided problem. Once it is LLMs all the way up - or at least far enough up so that the layers above it don't have the required technical knowledge to deduce whether the machines are following the correct track - they'll be solving problems 'till the cows come home no matter whether they're worth solving.
FYI, those running a Proxmox system can import the two drive images from the lite distribution and run the thing as a vm without any of the other included 'baggage'. Here's how:
0: create an empty VM called osmuseum with 4 cores, 8192 MB of memory, no drives, OS type Linux 6.x - 2.6 kernel using whatever vmid fits your schedule
3: import these images to whatever Proxmox storage you want to use for this VM. The host_x86 image is 250 MB, guest_images is 5 TB. Both are sparse images so they won't take up more space than actually required. I'm using 700 as vmid and ext-lvm for storage, change these to what fits your installation:
4: attach these images to scsi0 (host_x86) and scsi1 (guest_images) in the vm Hardware settings page
5: set the scsi0 drive as bootable in the vm Options settings page and move it up in the boot order (e.g. ide2, scsi0, net0)
6: boot the vm and change the network configuration in /etc/network/interfaces to fit your needs. In my case I changes the address for br0 to a free address on a local network segment, corrected the broadcast, network mask, gateway and dns-nameservers parameters to fit my network and restarted the networking service (service networking restart)
7: Things should now work, you may want to reboot the vm but it should not be necessary.
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