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It's one of the friendliest programming languages around. If you have written something in VBA then you'll do fine with Python, except for all the bad/outdated nonsense you'll have picked up from that language. And there's interactive interpreters you can just mess around in.

If this doesn't scare you then give it a look:

things = [4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42]
for number in things:
    print(number * 16)

64
128
240
256
368
672

There's flowers blooming on the grave in the last panel.

I guess the idea is that yes, machine learning algorithms could be used to solve these, but that's essentially brute forcing. You can make a simple algorithm learn how to complete Super Mario Bros or how to make a virtual robot walk, it just takes millions of iterations. The promised actual artificial intelligence wouldn't need that.

Majority bias. It isn't unique to majority-white places and everybody will be familiar with in-group/out-group bias. It also frames it as a property of the society in question, not something the individual person possesses.

Neelix is a subdued, cerebral character compared to what I've seen from the Starfleet Academy show's trailer.

Besides, it's called a mess hall for a reason.

I'm trying to get at the difference between regular websites/search engines and LLMs.

Websites and search engines are about storing and retrieving information. Nothing wrong with that inherently, but yeah, people can write nonsense. Same with books and libraries, except that it's much easier to store and retrieve data. It's just a medium used by people and people can be untrustworthy.

LLMs don't store/retrieve, they aren't just another medium. In a way it's the whole Internet except with lossy compression. Sometimes you get good output, sometimes you get nonsense that sounds convincing enough. I'd trust that about as far as 4chan.

Superficially. But Google (or "the Internet") and Wikipedia were criticized because they are very easily accessible and not curated/high quality enough, not because the technology is inherently untrustworthy. LLMs on the other hand are marketed as thinking machines and they just aren't.

They did make the pie higher though.

We have already thrown just about all the Internet and then some at them. It shows that LLMs can not think or reason. Which isn't surprising, they weren't meant to.

Morons flocking to it and becoming even better, faster morons in the process. It makes them feel empowered.

They call the honest ones female names and the blatantly lying ones male names!

it’s not that deep

Says the one who has to put layers upon layers of justifications over the simple statement "domestic violence is bad" to make it sound good if one gender does it.