Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@augieray @RonJeffries Well, ok, maybe not "fear", but "concerned enough to answer a poll that way".

Even before covid, hundreds of thousands of people die from the flu every year. Plus many more from other random respiratory illnesses. We have to find a way to be at peace with living in a world like that, you know? So I'd answer the poll "not concerned", because I'm not much more concerned than normal about this category of illness.

I take precautions I feel are reasonable, like wash my hands, try not to touch my face, avoid sick people, stay home when I'm sick, etc. I don't wear masks unless someone asks me to, because I don't think they help all that much (if any), and do have some cost. Risk levels feel more or less back to ~normal, at-risk folks I'm close to have been vaccinated, etc.

@dcjohnson It seems like before you say this is "telling right-wing fascists to start shooting" we need to consider the point about this being self-defense.

If an angry mob surrounds a car and points guns at the driver, you gotta expect a reaction. Or: was the driver doing something threatening? or... ?

@adamjcook I hope you didn't move to New York or Pennsylvania, they do the same thing. 😂

(It's actually a great policy – huge users that can shut off in a pinch really help make the grid more robust.)

@sethcotlar And communist statues/etc. So is he a Nazi as well as a communist?

(Or... maybe he collects artifacts from dictatorial regimes that he hates, like he says?)

@dsilverman The flexibility of these operations is huge benefit for power grid operators.

I mean, it's hard to imagine this huge energy usage being a net win for society, but the fact that they can smooth out peaks like this is really nice at least. That's why they pay less for watt-hours. As it should be.

@neilhimself Is "New Kid" actually banned or removed from school libraries/curriculum anywhere? Katy, TX decided not to ban it, ultimately, if I'm not mistaken?

@Kirk It's satire.

@timpatterson I think that's more a "what's wrong with you why are you obsessing about a typo" look. (Sort of the look I had watching the full interview, probably?)

@AlexVoss @dougschuler @dgolumbia @ruchowdh @pluralistic

Yeah, not sure generative AI presents the sort of risk implied by invoking parallels to the IAEA. 😂

@JustAnotherJay @mmasnick Maybe, but Taibbi wrote quite a bit about it on his Twitter account just now.

@dexiheart Some companies are far better than others about this sort of thing.

@gricka Great idea to send email/mail/phone instead of traffic stops in case of fix-its like that.

I wonder, though, if one of the reasons his wife was so afraid is because of hysterical essays like this one.

@pwinn I think these are questions it can't answer because that just isn't how it works. It probably trained on a few samples of text that spell out the answer to this problem, so it is parroting those in a sense, maybe, but not in a coherent way, because that just isn't what it does. I'm not entirely sure.

@datamaps @breadandcircuses Yeah I don't get the point of OP. Everyone knew in the 80s. Hansen's testimony in 1988.

@rmounce When the next generation of ChatGPT trains on these papers, is there going to be some sort of weird feedback loop?

@lispi314 Yeah, OP was misleading there, that did not happen, it seems.

The "follower" (in the sense that James Hodgkinson is a Bernie Sanders follower, or David DePape is a Mike Lindell follower) was arrested and as far as I can tell possibly faces years in prison.

@lispi314 You're talking about Catherine Leavy, right? Sure, she faces all kinds of jail time if convicted. A very serious offense. (OP sort of maybe gave you the impression that Chaya Raichik made the threat? I don't think there's any evidence she made a threat or asked anyone else to.)

@neutrino78x Do I condemn Canada? What? No? But I recognize that like US, they have a significant dark part of their history. And they, like the US, have a *much* better human rights record recently than they did 200 years ago.