I understand. I mean, I appreciate that you acknowledged the discrepancy and rescinded.

thanks for owning up to the error. appreciated.

I’m confused. You are now agreeing that you wanted to see how much. But then why did you say this:

I knew from the title that Grokipedia would be garbage.

Why do we need to know how much it stinks?

Well, the sidebar says this:

A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype

It seems to me like making a post exploring just how bad exactly grokipedia is should fit here? Am I mistaken? What is even the point of this community if this is not a good fit?

Sure. But my point is, If a human wrote this, I’d say it’s a poor editing choice to include this information on an article about an athlete. Perhaps if she had a publicly-documented stroke then this could be relevant (albeit still quite speculative). But it’s not even relevant.

If you already knew what your opinion was going to be, why did you bother to click?

in fairness, I would say Conservapedia is even worse than Grokipedia. I can barely read any random paragraph of Conservapedia without wanting to destroy my internet connection. Grokipedia at least has lucid sections, an opiate to mask the hideousness.

Still playing Silksong… why did they launch now…

There are a couple supervillains.

I dislike personifying landlords just like I dislike personifying greedy corporations. It’s the system which is broken, and entities which act in greedy self-interest are merely a symptom.

I’d say that’s what separates a good landlord from a bad landlord, is if they are intentionally adding knives and grenades.

yes, but everyone already knew they had such attitudes.

well no, obviously not. They’re privately mocking people.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. For these particular people, since they’re my political opponents, I am glad that we can pounce on this slip-up that they made and get them cancelled. I just don’t think there’s anything objectively wrong with making politically incorrect jokes, and it’d be a double standard for me to think it’d permissible only if they were politicians I liked.

Of course, in 2025, we don’t really have the luxury of trying to apply a consistent standard to our opponents. These days it seems like we have to take what we can get when it comes to political warfare. (/genuine, in case there was doubt.)

BTW, stop it with the all-caps or I’ll block you.

I don’t think it’s possible, within the context of a private chat, to take any particular string of words and declare them verboten. What matters is the context and meaning. If it’s ironic or sarcastic? I don’t really find it especially problematic personally.

My larger concern is more with the gradual erosion of irony which happens in some groups. I think this happens more on public forums and in large groups, say 4chan, than in private chats, but I don’t have access to large numbers of private chats, so I can’t know.

Even a joke about murdering people in a gas chamber can be funny in the right context. Arrested Development had jokes about this, and it aired on prime tv and got extremely high ratings. What’s not funny is, ado of nothing, “let’s just murder x demographic in a gas chamber.” That’s not really a joke at all.

tbh I don’t especially care if people want to make politically incorrect jokes in their private chats. Obviously, not wise for a politician to do so. But my friends and I have made politically incorrect jokes in private that obviously don’t reflect our actual beliefs. For instance, I am queer, and I make queer jokes all the fucking time for example, but never with strangers.

Everyone here is either on the side of hating big AI companies or hating IP law. I proudly hate both.

Personally, I have P(AGI within 10 years) around 15%. I think anyone who is saying definitely no or definitely yes to AGI within this time frame is vastly overconfident in their understanding of the technology, one way or the other. Or they vastly underestimate the utility of bullshit. Of course, I also have P(doom|AGI) probably around 40-70%.

What is the problem with techno-solutionism? Is it just that under capitalism techno-solutionism often results in corruption? Is the development of lemmy not techno-solutionism (to the enshittification of reddit)?