They can’t be that stupid though. You know South Park is gonna South Park. Matt and Trey don’t let up. They’ve been ready to be cancelled for over 25 years now.
This is such a highly disingenuous bad faith argument, Obama won it in 2009, are you suggesting the Nobel committee should have used some time travel technology to peer into the future?
No, the point is that Obama won it in 2009 when he had literally done nothing, except having won an election. The point about what happened after is just to show that the committee was not prescient and full of foresight, that it did turn out that the man who had simply won an election based on promises did not live up to those promises.
As a website owner I definitely want the capability allow and block certain crawlers. If I say I don’t want crawlers from Perplexity they should respect that. This sneaky evasion just highlights that company is not to be trusted, and I would definitely pay any hosting provider that helps me enforce blocking parasitic companies like perplexity.
It's mostly because learning happens kinda all over the brain. Concepts don't get stored into a specific region. I suspect that by engaging more areas of the brain the concepts have more surface area available to be integrated into.
Conventional cable news media isn’t tailor made to an individual, doesn’t have live back and forth positive feedback loops. This is significantly way worse then conventional cable news media
I am not sure it’s worse. Cable news media and then social networks have contributed to a massive manipulation of public opinions. And it’s mostly negative and fearful. Maybe individual experiences will be more positive. ChatGPT doesn’t push me into this eternal rage cycle as news and social media do.
If i'm not wrong, Chatgpt states clearly that they don't use user data anymore by default.
Also, maybe some services are doing "machine learning" training with user data, but it is the first time I see recent LLM service saying that you can feed your data to human reviewers at their will.
I believe this is out of date. There’s a very explicit opt in/out slider for permitting training on conversations that doesn’t seem to affect conversation history retention.
It's worth noting that Congress has been trying to force the USPS to run itself like a self-sustaining business for decades at this point. It started in 1970 with the Postal Reorganization Act, which transformed it from a government department to an independent government entity that was expected to fund its operations entirely through its own revenue. Then in 2006, a Republican-controlled Congress passed the PAEA which required the USPS to pre-fund retiree health benefits seventy-five years into the future¹. Congress even restricted the USPS's ability to set its own rates, expand its services or close unprofitable locations without political interference.
¹ The retiree funding requirement was only changed recently when Biden signed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 into law.
USPS does more or less teeter on the edge of solvent and sustainable depending on how you measure and when you measure. All things considered, I think that's pretty damn good. Pretty much no other government service can claim that. I think the retiree funding requirement is/was dumb and an unnecessary handicap but the way USPS runs itself should be a model for other government services. The only reason we don't look at USPS as a massive success is because the idiot left brains want it to be run like a charity and the idiot right brains want it gone entirely.
> Pretty much no other government service can claim that.
Sure there are, they just don't get the air time and political attention. Examples I'm familiar with: The minerals, oil, and gas regulatory agencies bring in billions of dollars. A single lease sale in the gulf would make BOEM as an agency incredibly profitable but instead the money just goes up to the federal government and is redistributed. National Parks already collect entry fees and the NPS could easily raise those prices to meet or exceed agency expenses, public demand would almost certainly pay it, and they could also teeter like the USPS. Social Security, if it were never fucked with, would have more money from just interest than most country's GDPs but we've robbed that piggy bank numerous times already.
