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MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
It is a capitalism issue.

But it's also a free speech issue. You're conflating free speech and the First Amendment, but they are not the same thing, and matters of free speech do not begin and end with the First Amendment.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
CEOs represent their companies. "The company didn't say it, the CEO did" is a nonsensical distinction.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
You admitted earlier that they are:

Person you replied to: they intentionally use suggestive language that leads people to think AI is approaching human cognition. This helps with hype, investment, and PR.

Your response: As do all companies in the world. If you want to buy a hammer, the company will sell it as the best hammer in the world. It's the norm.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
>they're doing sales and marketing and it's you that interprets this as possible/true.

You've moved the goalpost from "they're not saying it" to "they're saying, but you're not supposed to believe it."
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
Corporations are motivated by profit, not doing what's best for humanity. If you need an example of "large organizations conspiring against us," I can give you twenty.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
You're being disingenuous. The tweet was talking about asserting the existence of fake articles, claiming that a paper was written in one year while summarizing a paper that explicitly says it was written in another, and severe hallucinations. Nowhere does she even imply that she's looking for superintelligence.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
The productivity benefits of remote work options have been resoundingly proven by now. This person doesn't truly care about maximizing productivity.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
Holding yourself to a different (lower) standard than your employees is not the mark of a fair person.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
Your workers are not less valuable than you. You should treat them better.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
That would be horrible for workers. Let's not establish that sort of precedent; if you do the job, remote or not, you get paid equally. Even assuming a slight productivity bump, John doesn't deserve more money than Dave just because he schleps himself to the office.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
Because managers likely prefer it due to corporate peacocking. The article clearly says this.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
This thread is rampant with anti-intellectualism that deserves to be called out.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
Did you mix those up on purpose?
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
>"285368737954-83645" is... well I have to assume somewhere in the 10-100K range?

83645 is five digits, so certainly in the ~10,000 range.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
It's definitely standard, but in what way is it clearer? An abbreviation is never more clear than the full thing it abbreviates.

EDIT: I saw your explanation below, and you make a very good point.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
This level of thinly veiled insecurity is just projection on your part.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
It sucks that people understanding their own language marks them as possibly AI.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
>Mr. White

As opposed to what, exactly?
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
"Much" and "many" are not interchangeable:

"I have too many water in the cup."

"How much people are in attendance?"

These sound obviously incorrect.
MindBeams
·el año pasado·discuss
This sort of anti-intellectualism is the perfect antidote for those who claim that improper grammar is nothing more than evidence of language "evolving."