and it's not even Friday

Bibi (to Trump): *clucks sympathetically* want a back rub?

Because the tool can be used in other ways by other people who aren't trying to screw everybody else.

Treating the situation as static inhibits plans to change it.

And who doesn't?

ABQ represent!

Still need street safety from-to bus/train stops. I'm 100% for more public transit and use it myself, but neighborhood street security is a related issue, esp. for vulnerable passengers traveling alone.

Yes. They already do, like with helpdesk bots:
www.zendesk.com/service/ai/c...

And legacy socmed sites like Fb make their money off of advertising. You posts? Who cares? You're a consumer.

An ad doesn't have to look like an ad if there's a clause buried in in the ToS.

The market isn't the participants/subscribers, it's those that will pay to have their messages projected and amplified through this medium.

too real

would like to disambiguate governments form oligarchs with position in or influence over government.

otherwise agreeing, vehemently.

Gingerbread cottages, that's what they are.

also btw, thanks going in there and bring back your sampling.

i have a low tolerance and also too oddball to be a usable baseline.

not saying you're not quirky i didn't mean it that way.

hey somebody's gotta foam that runway.

but that's just one avenue of attack on your/our reasoning faculties.

wanna read a weak study? sure ya do:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
and here's the puff piece:
www.niemanlab.org/2024/09/an-a...

a big yes that, but also an echo chamber using synthetic SocialPressure® to to weave self-contradictory reasoning into conversational norms.

Imo your Hansel and Gretel analogy is particularly apt for this other function-dimension, too. Lure 'em in and turn em into tasty consumable consumer cookies!

this is the way

yes, it's like that.

no clear boundaries between careful reasoning and word association. and word association is just so much easier! so it makes government more efficient.

or at least, was very energetic.

GödelBot said it wasn't done and I'd never finish it
DescartesBot said it lacked dimension
PoincaréBot said there were too many characters (there's only three)
TuringBot won't even talk to me any more!!

he sure is.