Whatever you decide, I wouldn’t stress about it too much.

Part of the advantage of the Fediverse is that it does not have or benefit from any one moderation policy, but has many different moderation policies that can appeal to many different types of people.

Regarding this individual case, I would make sure you look at the context and spirit of that users actions. On one extreme, they could be throwing abuse at fellow users and being intentionally destructive in an unsuitable place.

On the other extreme, they could be participating in a shitpost community and speaking more sarcastically, just going for shock value.

There’s a whole range between these two extremes. Where you end up drawing the line is entirely up to you and what sort of instance you want to run.

… how many quail eggs are needed to make a decent sized omelet anyway? A dozen?

Finer point, but it’s not measuring independent reasoning, afaik they’re still fully incapable of that. This test is measuring esoteric knowledge, like hummingbird anatomy and the ability to translate ancient Palmyran writing.

Current LLMs should eventually be able to ace this sort of test, as their databases grow. They could still be incapable of independent reasoning, though.

A test for independent reasoning could be something like giving it all the evidence for a never-before-discussed criminal case and asking if the accused is innocent or guilty based off the evidence. This would require a large amount of context and understanding of human societies, and the ability to infer from that what the evidence represents. Would it understand that a sound alibi means the accused is likely innocent, would it actually understand the simple concept that a physical person cannot be in two different places simultaneously, unlike how a quantum particle can seem to be? A person understands this very intuitively, but an LLM does not yet comprehend what “location” even is, even if it can provide a perfect definition of the term from a dictionary and talk about it by repeating others’ conversations.

Anyways, still an interesting project.

And this is presumably an early model, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they specifically want it to appear careful for the demo video.

I wanted to disagree with this, but I actually think you make a rather compelling argument.

Well, I am not that guy for the record. But if you read the article it said he automatically rejects any candidate that advocates for gun control. So, that means Biden is flat out for him, along with pretty much the whole dem party.

The amusing part to me personally was that such a person would normally just vote gop. But that specific guy cannot, for fairly obvious reasons.

If you look at the Trump candidacy and things like qanon, it’d be hard to argue that the internet isn’t making inroads. My generation let this go on for long enough, it’s not about the lulz anymore. Lots of people are getting hurt, and it can still get worse.

I occasionally go through my old comments to see how things got received, see if I could improve my wording, things like that. General communications skill polishing. It’s not consuming as much as critically reviewing, but whatever.

Since I’m adding engagement on lemmy, and I do put some effort in to be amusing or informative or whatever (usually anyway), yes I do feel like I am helping. If I was on reddit or something, not so much.

A hardcore second amendment voter will usually resist any and all measures that restrict firearm possession, often on the basis of slippery slope arguments. Since the basis is rooted in a classic logical fallacy, they can be very difficult to persuade.

You’re right though, Biden has been fairly moderate on gun control. So was Obama though, and you remember how they reacted to him?

Profound believer in the second amendment and profound supporter of racial justice. Yikes, I really feel for the guy, that’s a tough one.

But … but … I’m so interesting…

That actually sounds like a very interesting question. Regular tennis has far greater cardio load and a slower mental pace. Chess is purely cerebral and memory-heavy while being sedentary, while D&D is an exercise in creativity that is also sedentary.

I agree, that does sound plausible, if they had a listening station nearby.

While I agree with the broad strokes of what you’re saying, we do have enough intelligence penetration into the Russian military to predict an invasion even their own soldiers did not know about. We could potentially find out where their listening stations are. One would have to be very nearby.

Also, we have multiple subs. Revealing one temporarily does not compromise our deterrence. Nor is this move without any value, I think it’s important that we occasionally sabre-rattle back at them. It seems to be a language they understand.

All that said, I doubt nuclear WW3 is around the corner with MAD still being the case. I doubt non-nuclear WW3 is around the corner unless China joins Russia in a military alliance. What I do think is within the next few years is chipping away at the Russian economy and morale of the populace until they sue for peace in Ukraine.

After WW2 everyone felt really bad. And it was a west-leaning country in a region full of oil and big trade routes.

Most of the calculus has slowly changed over the years. The Congressionally-passed treaties all still remain though.

Certainly, a journalist could be an asset or informant or whatever you’d want to call it, for an intelligence service. He’s putting himself and his professional reputation at risk though. If the intelligence service wanted x piece of information about whatever, there are simply easier ways to get it. Bribe a Russian.

You don’t need to ask the American guy that everyone already knows about and is probably being watched to go look at it for you.

I also haven’t heard of any journalists being arrested for espionage in the west.

I see, I wasn’t aware the last outbreak had actually spread beyond the region. Thank you for the correction.

That said, I do not think reporting on every possible future pandemic actually helps more than it harms, in the grand scale of global mental health.

To me it looks like N Korea wanting to acquire some direct combat experience to continue to develop their skills and capabilities.

But yes, personally I was not expecting this.

makes community about video game arguments.

then makes community about not arguing with me.

We have vaccines, the last outbreak was contained. New ones can be contained as well. There is nothing mobilized support is needed for.

Unless they don’t have enough vaccines or something?