What you’re alluding to is the Turing test and it hasn’t been proven that any LLM would pass it. At this moment, there are people who have failed the inverse Turing test, being able to acerrtain whether what they’re speaking to is a machine or human. The latter can be done and has been done by things less complex than LLMs and isn’t proof of an LLMs capabilities over more rudimentary chatbots.

You’re also suggesting that it minimises the complexity of its outputs. My determination is that what we’re getting is the limit of what it can achieve. You’d have to prove that any allusion to higher intelligence can’t be attributed to coercion by the user or it’s just hallucinating based on imitating artificial intelligence from media.

There are elements of the model that are very fascinating like how it organises language into these contextual buckets but this is still a predictive model. Understanding that certain words appear near each other in certain contexts is hardly intelligence, it’s a sophisticated machine learning algorithm.

I mainly disagree with the final statement on the basis that the LLMs are more advanced predictive text algorithms. The way they’ve been set up with a chatbox where you’re interacting directly with something that attempts human-like responses, gives off the misconception that the thing you’re talking to is more intelligent than it actually is. It gives off a strong appearance of intelligence but at the end of the day, it predicts the next word in a sentence based on what was said previously but it doesn’t do that good job of comprehending what exactly it’s telling you. It’s very confident when it gives responses which also means when it’s wrong, it’s very confidently delivering the incorrect response.

You can see my post history if you want to content yourself that I don’t just copy-paste responses. I like to tailor my answer depending on how much of an asshole the person I’m replying to is.

Someone else commented what my point was but I’ll make it clear myself. While Netanyahu believes it’s favourable to classify all anything Jewish as being related to Israel, the inverse is what you’re seeing play out.

Attacking Israel means you’re attacking the Jewish faith therefore, attacking members of the Jewish faith means you’re attacking Israel. This isn’t a position I hold, this is the situation Israel has placed Jews around the world in as a result of muddying the waters. Israel is perfectly willing to manipulate the horror of the Holocaust to get allies to support their violence against Palestinians.

Israel are the ones who made being Jewish synonymous with being Israeli. So now if talk against Israel, you’re being antisemitic. If you disagree with their conduct, you’re being antisemitic. All they’ve done is muddy the waters so that criticism of their vile actions somehow means you’re denying the Holocaust. How many times has Netanyahu brought up 7th Oct as justification for the actions they’ve committed against Palestinians? "Why should we stop bombing Gaza? Do you not remember 7th Oct?’

The only people bringing Jews into the conversation has been Israel.

Shit will get real intense when Biden video calls him on Skype and starts wagging his finger!

My friend lives in Iran. She often shows pictures of Iran’s beauty such as dried-up lakes and rivers because of dams.

Dude, Pakistan had politicians openly saying they’d ethnic cleanse the country of Pathans and Pashto people.

I would say the acting is pretty good. Especially Alec Newman playing Paul. The weakest one I always thought was the actress playing Chani but she gets better in Children of Dune.

The cast is strong in Denis’s version for sure. I was uncertain about Chalomet for Part 2 but he did well. For me, the cast could’ve shone so much more if the character work was better.

Having seen the SyFy miniseries, I refuse to believe that Dune is unadaptable because it was possible in the early 2000s. It might not look visually stunning and the costumes look goofy but the character work is staggering and the writers go out of their way to give minor characters like Irulan something to do so that her character has a chance to shine. It does all this in less time than Dune 1 & 2 combined.

I came away from Dune 1 largely hollow towards the characters because it felt like they weren’t all the way there. Oscar Isaac is a good choice for Leto but we so little of him that his character isn’t there. Several of Dune’s key points were removed and the film suffers because information is lacking further backing.

The importance of water isn’t emphasised as much and as a consequence, Liet Kynes is non-existent. Kynes’s dream is important because Paul manipulates it to control the Fremen. There’s supposed to be a dinner scene where a lot of the power plays going on in the Empire are presented. It’s also where Paul begins to play the political game himself. It’s where Jessica’s character has a stage where you can see what she’s capable of. Not having this scene removed context for the politics in Dune’s world.

After seeing Dune 2, I enjoyed it a lot more but it confirmed for me that the movies are all spectacle and no substance. I didn’t care what was going on, it all just felt like it wasn’t Dune, I didn’t know these characters. I hated Stilgar, he was incredibly annoying throughout the movie. I have no idea what they’re planning to do with Chani. She has a part to play in Messiah which requires certain things and I don’t think we’re getting them.

They’ll send a strongly worded letter

Oh that’s easy, just move the red line back and say “if you cross this line, then we’ll consider not supporting you”.

I am sure the Muslims will remain very calm and let the government know that they disapprove of this action.

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The man in the fancy suit on television.

I’m talking less about the products and more about Linus’s reviewing practices. We saw this in the watercooler debacle. He half-asses reviews and blames the product when he’s the one messing up.

Not even that. It’s that his review isn’t an objective assessment of the product because he stands to financially benefit from Framework doing well. He’s worse than a hypocrite, he’s a shill.

The comment I replied to suggested the opposite, that whatever decisions Apple makes, Android follows behind which isn’t the case in reality.

I understand your point though. It’s weird that people who use iPhones have this mentality that iPhones are at the forefront of innovation. I know some people who are aware that Apple is behind but the phone does what they require of it so they have no need to ask more.

I don’t think that’s true. Android has had more features than Apple for over a decade. People forget that iPhones didn’t used to have a proper file manager and the only way to put songs on them was through iTunes. iOS has been trailing behind Android in that respect while maintaining their walled garden.

Netflix is full of reptiles who don’t care to offer a better service. All they want is enough market share to strongarm consumers into giving them more money.

He’s like Batman, he can be anyone.