Quit trying to divide the left. At this point, I’m going to have to assume you’re a Republican if you’re still doing this shit a year after the election.

I can’t build a guitar. I can build a guitar-shaped object. But I cannot build a guitar.

No.

The word “police” is not synonymous with “law enforcement.” Police have only existed for the most recent 2% of civilization. All the grand historical empires you’ve heard of through history? They didn’t have police. There weren’t any cops in ancient Rome. There are ways of enforcing laws that do not involve having a clique of people that make it their entire career and develop an in-group culture hostile to everyone else.

For example, a common method of enforcing laws was through universal service. In many Medieval towns and cities, every male of a certain age and wealth had to spend a certain number of nights per year on town guard duty. It wasn’t your profession; it was a duty you took on like jury duty.

Maybe you’ll always need some career professionals for certain specialized tasks. I don’t think we can assign crime scene investigation duties to a random person. But in terms of the people that actually show up when a crime is being committed? I would trust a randomly selected person from the population rather than your typical police officer. If drafted individuals can handle fighting literal wars, they can handle the duties of a beat cop.

The problem is that policing, as an institution, attracts really bad people. It’s a relatively accessible path for people to gain a great deal of power over others; thus it attracts the worst our society has to offer. The police profession attracts people who want to hurt and violate others. Grade school bullies grow up to be cops. If instead of policing being a full time job, it’s a gig that anyone can be assigned at random for a period of time, then you don’t end up with law enforcement that selects for sociopathy.

Remember, police beat their spouses at twice the rate of the population as a whole. The police profession attracts society’s worst people.

Have you not seen the literature showing the effects regular LLM use has on people? You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide? That’s like literal Satan, Prince of Darkness, Father of All Lies shit

Is it actually the spawn of a literal personal devil? Of course not. But the damn things act a hell of a lot like the devils of myth and legend. They tempt you in with the promise of easy effortless success and riches. And in the end they take everything from you.

We are selling. That is a process that takes a few months.

Tactical urbanism ftw!

I mean, it will literally steal your soul. Using LLMs changes you. It degrades your skills. Its sycophancy harms your ability to interact with actual human beings with opinions of their own. It makes you feel like you are never wrong. And use it enough, and it can literally drive you mad.

LLMs are the closest real thing to a malevolent demon that will steal your soul.

The real issue is that the writers and editors who have spent decades creating Wikipedia didn’t do so with the thought that their work would be used to create machines that would hurt human beings.

Could we maybe wait a couple of months? We’re in that awkward and awful period where you buy a new house, fix up, and sell the old one. If you move this way, for a few months you own two houses. Can we just hold off on the whole economy collapsing for a bit longer?

Because she didn’t want to win.

Are you a hallucinating llm?

Why can’t the school shooters just switch to ICE? Smite someone who deserves it for once!

Hitler declared formal war upon the US.

Exactly. The US has a history of making inconvenient Latin American leaders disappear. The means vary, but the impact is the same.

When was the last time we violently deposed a Western European head of state?

TBF, attacking Venezuela like we did has a lot of historical precedent. The US has a long history of deposing inconvenient Latin American leaders.

But engaging in an unprovoked war of conquest against one of our oldest allies? Collapsing our most important defensive alliance? This is an entirely different animal. There’s no precedent for an invasion of Greenland.

In contrast to Transylvania, of course.

We should start calling them “submissive genes.”

I say we invert it. To prevent aristicracy and nepotism, the wealthy will be prohibited from reproducting. No one in the top 10% of income or wealth gets a baby license.

Who says it has to be evil or cruel? I make a mean dish. It’s about average.