The warning I get from ESUS (my internet security screener) on David’s link above:

Threat found
This web page may contain dangerous content that can provide remote access to an infected device, leak sensitive data from the device or harm the targeted device.

Which is absurd.
I’ve never had a problem with his links before.
Has anyone else gotten a message like this from a different security app?

My computer threat blocker won’t let me access that link.
It is also blocking some old posts that I had bookmarked, including the eulogy for Mike K that I just read a couple of days ago.
Is something going on at ChicagoBoyz?

It doesn’t know what “the given topic” is or what’s “related” to it, it has no conception of “correctness” or “validity” or “making sense”. It is simply trying to predict a string of text that a human would accept as following from a previous string of text. It’s like “autocomplete” but for paragraphs.

And this is why it will tell you that UC Berkeley geologists recommend consuming small rocks daily, or that you should use glue to secure the toppings on your pizza, and it will get basic arithmetic wrong. The answers are all perfectly good, if sometimes surreal, English, but the LLM have no conception of what is true or relevant or nonsensical.

And I just realized that that is somewhat similar to how I put together my first high school term paper (I think on The Merchant of Venice). I collected a large number of relevant quotes from various authors and reviewers onto note cards. Then I basically arranged (almost) all of those quotes into a sequence that provided my discussion of the play, with only limited transitional language from me. The tearcher said I had done something unusual in achieving that, so I got an A- on the paper. 🙂

But in the final analysis, as a 15 year old, I still lacked enough life experience or learning to understand the more subtle aspects of the Jewish-Christian relationship in Shapespeare’s time, or the elements of general human nature involved. Only a few years ago I came across a more in-depth analysis exploring that (probably some show on TV?).

• A Southern California school district paid far-left transgender activists $12,000 for a six-hour training on transgender inclusion

• In just six hours, #TeamTFSS trained 1,100 staff members across the entire San Dieguito Union High School District!

• With the help of grants, we assist transgender youth in need to feel more at home in their bodies and alleviate gender dysphoria

• The group offers to provide the items to children who don’t have “affirming families” that will purchase them the items.

• The far-left organization has also endorsed the use of irreversible surgeries and medical interventions for children who identify as transgender.

• “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them” – Olson-Kennedy is now being sued for medical negligence over the removal of a 14-year-old girl’s breasts.

The life of a repo man is always intense. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.

–Harry Dean Stanton, “Repo Man” (1984)
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Then a few responses later, I jibed, “I do keep an eye out for other repo men!” I was partly curious if Chat would catch my reference on the hop.

Which Chat did:
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Keeping an Eye Out for Fellow Repo Men

Spotting them is like recognizing a note from the same song you’re singing.
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I’m not as spooked as I was a year ago, I can sense a machine underneath an AI, but damn, it still works pretty well.

I think I recognize some repo men here.

JohnTyler:

I wouldn’t be too sure.
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The times, they are a-changin’.

–Bob Dylan

Caught the assassin, evidently.

For folks who think like Bragg, black on black crime is OK – it’s not really a crime and there are no real victims – whereas white on black crime is punishable to the fullest extent of the law, and black on white crime is also OK and is not really a crime.

Given the political ideology of NYC residents, rest assured that come re-election time, Bragg and Letitia James will retain their positions.