Hmm, that’s an interesting one. As a hypothetical, it feels possible to have a world that is crime free, but still has racism, so I see a possible hole. I guess another thing that will complicate it is that the definition of hate crime has evolved over the years.
Serious question: if someone claimed deaths by smoking are up or down, there’s stats we could rely on to tell if that’s the truth or not. How do we tell the amount of racism in 2025? What statistic or statistics are indicative of racism?
I don’t find it too hard to indicate some things that were actually better in the 1970s:
I can make all these points without saying “1970 was better in every way than 2025”. Why does it have to be all-or-nothing? Can’t some things have been better then and not worse?
Tho I think people from 70s would very much still choose 2025 living over 70s. People really underestimate how much better we have now.
Couldn’t I yearn for a time that has neither the bad points of 1970 and none of the bad points from 2025? Not everything was worse in the 1970s, and not everything was better, either.
Is this similar to violent crime? A lot of right wingers bemoan the increasing amount of violence in “blue states and cities”. Except, almost by any way you can measure it, violent crime has been on the decrease for years now. Is racism becoming worse, or are you just becoming more aware of it?
Err, did you read your own link? This wasn’t a deliberate “watermark”. It was a training error that resulted in some odd characters being inserted. This was a training defect that was fixed, not some sort of plagarism countermeasure. These marks were present for only a short time and only on a subset of OpenAI models.
He didn’t really “predict” any of it though just as Gordon Moore didn’t “predict” that computers are going to get faster.
You’re right: Gordon Moore did not “predict” that computers would “get faster”. He stated that the numbers of transistors on a chip would continue to double every two years. It’s only semi-recently that this has started to peter out.
I guess you’re not happy with usage of the word “predict”? There were plenty of people who weren’t Alvin Toffler that used the same data in the 1970s and drew the opposite conclusions. Do you disagree with what Alvin says or are you just trivializing what he wrote because it seems obvious to you?
I feel like we just aren’t equipped to handle the global information age yet, and we need specific ways of being to handle it. It really is a brand new thing for our species.
The root of so many of our problems is we have the firmware from a prehistoric primate up in our head but we have to live in an environment that on the geological scale is more or less brand new. With the rate of change STILL increasing, natural evolution will never enable us to “catch up”. It’s only going to get worse from here on in, at least until the Singularity, when we can just hope that the AI overlords let us live our our days in a little human “reservation” while it keeps on rolling…
Was the past not racist?
I used a tool online to validate it.
There is no reliable tool to detect AI content. A few months ago someone tried to do a “gotcha” on some of my content, citing AI generation by use of some “AI detector”. However, I ran some of their posts on LinkedIn through the same tool and it came up as 80% likely to be AI generated.
He vehemently denied using any AI at all — and was pretty annoyed to have the tool turned back against him.
Culturally, Ireland is of great importance to the US. From the humble shamrock shake, all the way up to Lucky Charms, we owe a lot of debt to Ireland.
Meanwhile, we’ll never forgive England for the Boston Tea Party. Look at how few Americans drink tea to this day and you’ll see the level of contempt.
“The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed”
I’ll never forgive OpenAI for making the unordered list a reason to complain about content.
Covid-like shortages for US consumers ‘within weeks’ Shipping data shows container traffic from China to the US is collapsing / A shopper looks at nearly empty egg shelves in a grocery store.
Are people consuming eggs that they get in containers from China?
This isn’t a facepalm. As any red-blooded American knows, the only country worth mentioning is America. Since all countries of note were founded after America, this OP is correct.
https://www.newsweek.com/tim-pool-critics-white-house-clothing-206306
Is this revenge for him mocking Obama for him wearing a brown suit? Glad to see them squabbling over dress code instead of further degrading our republic…
Despite the scale of the incident, Russian officials have offered limited information, with regional governor Aleksandr Avdeev confirming a “blast” but threatening penalties for spreading unofficial reports.
Man, the USA can be a shit show, but at least we can spread unofficial reports whenever we like.
It’s funny, I was on the phone today with my Uncle who works at Nintendo and he was telling me about some secret cheat codes. He said that his girlfriend that lives in Canada had the EXACT same thing happen to her, except everyone clapped.
Now China won’t be able to destroy the US with their uh… affordable consumer goods! That’ll show 'em!
When it comes to self-centered exceptionalism, USA is #1!