antonim

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

leftism is defined by opposition to the status quo

You've just introduced a whole other definition of leftism. Also it seems to mean that no leftist society could exist in practice.

the french monarchy was capitalist

From what I can figure out, it was still in principle feudal but moving towards capitalism due to the growth of the bourgeois class. Is that correct?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (10 children)

The political terms “right” and “left” have meant the same thing since the French Revolution.

the weakening or abolishment of capitalism - the traditional dividing line of left and right

Wasn't the French revolution just abolishing feudalism and the monarchy?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 1 month ago

Day 259 of Trump's 24-hour peace deal: nuclear tests are resuming.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Lemmy itself is a good example of this. Most of the userbase heavily disagrees with the main developers' political opinions, yet the software works well for everyone.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 month ago

He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.

Well this won't be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I'm pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).

Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”

Amen, it's nice to see the level-headedness.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're proving the point, though. People's ability to write by hand has indeed deteriorated. Literacy has indeed reduced the need for and intensity of memorisation - and having stuff memorised is useful. What skill will AI cause to atrophy? Is that skill merely like handwriting, or something more?

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I'll try making a bot to do it automatically so I'll have more time for holocaust denial.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

You can check old versions of any article by clicking 'history'. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's certainly one of the takes of all time.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

Ukraine can help him solving that problem.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem might be that Google will argue this isn't a downgrade at all, but an upgrade (for "security" reasons). I don't want to be a pessimist, but the tech illiterate judges could eat that up.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's way too many languages and dialects with way too many sounds out there for this to be practically doable. For foreign names some basic degree of approximation is desirable, but nothing more than that. In principle you shouldn't expect or demand people to produce sounds not found in their native dialect (unless they're actually learning the foreign language, but even then they will usually stick to the same language within the same sentence).

Besides, it's not even odd for people not to be able to pronounce stuff according to the standard norm of their own native language, due to the dialectal variety within the same language.

As for names from within the same language, it could sound artificial and even condescending if you tried to go for a pronunciation not native to you. Bob is just Bob, no need to stress that he's "American/British Bob".

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