If you don't, you will get failing grades by spiteful teachers and lose friends. This doesn't happen with people that support right-leaning views. This right here tells me everything I need to know about the people that support these views.
Modern America has plenty of "proclaim absolute loyalty to our group's canon or else" on both sides of the right/left divide. Maybe ask Congresswoman Liz Chaney for details?
Another part of the problem is the obsession with social media, and the "never forgets" nature of the internet. A half-ish century ago, on most campuses, your political/religious/philosophical beliefs could wander all over while you were at college, and it didn't much matter. Vs. now? My sense is that the kids all know a 24/7 lynch mob is waiting if they ever deviate from canon. And that studying the current canon, and stage-managing their professed views as that keeps changing, are their most critical tasks.
It's this kind of gate keeping in archaeology that has kept Graham Hancock out of the industry for years, and we are now just finding out his theories are true.
My theory is that the industry is so small, they are afraid it will put them out of a career.
In the 90s the same people who today refuse to admit the Mayans were, on the whole, less advanced than the Romans were 100%, absolutely, no-contest foaming at the mouth to lynch Samuel Huntington for being an unrepentant racist, I mean, for releasing "Clash of Civilizations"
Setting aside the fact that you're asking something naming itself MechaHitler HR questions - I'd be pretty careful asking it about illegal discrimination…
AI is very good at conforming to your own biases and pulling out the subtext of a prompt.
If your prompt goes along the lines of "I think x is healthy plan a meal for x", grok (and other AI) will happily affirm that you are correct and really smart for recognizing that "x" is the healthiest diet and then it'll give you that diet.
That's a biased answer. AI biases to your own biases.
Or maybe said another way. AI starts with the baseline assumption that you are an expert and correct in your prompt. It can be hard to get an AI to call you out for being wrong about something.
Clearly they’re referring to deepmind. I don’t have an opinion on how accurate this is, but feigning ignorance doesn’t help further discussion or reduce echo chambers.
I earnestly can't anticipate what specific information-diet someone could have where they would so strongly assume that Google Deepmind (of all the various AI companies) is a clear and sole foil to Grok that they would assume anyone who didn't share that perspective to be feigning ignorance in bad faith.
Where-ever you're having these discussions where it's entirely unfamiliar to me (and evidently others). (I don't say this with scorn or malice!)
On the greater topic of "bias", it's kind of meaningless. There's correct answers and there are incorrect answers, and "bias" refers to some tendency away from an assumed default distribution. Randomly-generated strings might be the only "unbiased" response. This is really more a difficult epistemic question, and I'd prefer something that is biased towards what's most likely to be true (e.g. Wikipedia > someones Livejournal).
Given Grok has been intentionally made to generate text praising Hitler, and I have very very high confidence that Hitler actually sucks, I have very very low confidence in the ability for the Grok program to reliably generate text that's worth reading.
Why are we seeing this now? During the Biden administration, the US government colluded with sites like Facebook and Twitter to silence American citizens.
It's about as authoritarian as you can get and not only did the tech community ignore it, they outright supported it.
Sites like Parlor were shutdown over night by companies like Amazon for simply having the wrong politics.
Because this isn't about silencing American citizens. It's about the US actively ceasing to be an at least neutral-to-good global neighbour in trade, tech, and foreign aid that many countries rely on, among other things.
This is something that for many is something they've not yet seen before in their lives (global allegiances shifting like this), and especially something that has not been a partisan issue at least from an outside view.
We don't trust the US any more and consider the US to be indifferent to us at best, and actively hostile and seeking to spread American-style fascism to our countries at worst.
Signed, a European and erstwhile committed Atlanticist.
If the tide lifts the boat, I guess it's ok? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Trump is the best president Canada and Mexico have had, for decades.
A really healthy dose of nationalism has arisen in both countries. Plenty of proposals for development, that wouldn't have been considered two years ago, are on the table today.
Did you know that Canada has inter-provincial trade barriers (such a dumb thing)? I just did, because of this recent tariff ordeal. Tearing them down is on the table now. Good!
Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.
> Did you know that Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos? For 40 years, maybe more, there wasn't even a mention of that in the Mexican Government.
This is plain wrong. There's literally a Wikipedia page created 18 years ago documenting the well-publicized Mexican Drug War between the Mexican government (supported by various governments) against all the cartels. Literally thousands of soldiers and police killed.
Your wikipedia article is irrelevant. Go live in one of those places and you might learn how reality is. None of those entities is a monolithic bloc acting as if they were a single person.
Hint: often police and drug dealers ostensibly fight here and there while politicians and bureaucrats at the top and some police departments have their own deals with them.
Don't trust those lying facts and fibbing eyewitnesses and fraudulent records! Trust me, telling you to form an opinion based on anecdotal evidence neither of us has and that I've entire made up!
This is truly unprecedented, these guys are the cream of the crop of narco in Mexico. This would have never happened if not for Trump's pressure. Thanks, President Trump!
"Hurr durr where's muh wokepedia reference ..." oh yeah, you got me there pal :'(.
Dude, like you, I'm also Mexican. My parents live in Guanajuato state. My entire family has been affected by what's been happening in Mexico. I never argued that the entities are monolithic block, which would be an absurd claim to make. I was correcting your claim that "Mexico is starting to actually fight against narcos", which is a factually wrong claim. You can claim they weren't doing enough, or doing it incorrectly, which I would agree with, but that's very different from implying that nothing was being done. Just see this article published yesterday on the U.S./Mexican collaboration between 2001 and 2016 that lead to El Chapo's captures:
Obsidian is the killer app for this. I spent a month converting around 3 years of security notes to markdown and now use obsidian to search/archive everything.
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