“a deep and fundamental misunderstanding of how Perplexity and the Internet work,”

If intelligent life is common, why haven’t we found any evidence of it?

I feel like this has an incredibly narrow definition of “life” and “civilization.”

Meeting new lifeforms and civilizations isn’t going to be like Star Trek where everyone just looks like they have a lot of prosthetic make up on. We might encounter an advanced civilization and not even realize it because it doesn’t…

To add to this there are pilot plants in operation right now that use only the corn husks and trash left on the field after harvest to make ethanol. 

When all your statements (and images) are the result of a desperate scraping of the internet (stressing both reddit and error-prone voice-recognition transcriptions of youtube (really!)) then you’d be insane (or at least a testosterone poisoned billionaire) to assume your “A.I.” Markov chains would reflect any…

Other commenters have done a nice job correcting some of the misimpressions the article gives. I’ll offer a few more general points, in response to

Logan’s nearly 200 years old. Plenty of time to experiment outside his go-to tragic redhead type.

Remind me when a straight person was killed by a queer for being straight that you think “respecting heterosexuality” is even remotely an issue in our society that needs to be addressed.

I don’t know if that’s the actual case, considering the massive voter suppression within Texas and other “red” states.

It’s actually sadly not even clear that’s beneficial. Since so much of plastic “recyclable” waste is being driven sometimes hundreds of miles to the coast, to be loaded onto cargo ships to be sent thousands of miles to developing countries. The carbon emissions costs of transporting tens of thousands of tons of plastic…

Frontier: Get your next 15 minutes of oxygen for the low price of $49.99.

The reason to turn on Airplane Mode is because your phone will continuously search for a signal while in the air and drain your battery. 

There’s broad scientific agreement that large language models are not currently alive.

Brains have much more storage and connections between neurons.

It’s a glorified Eliza, for fuck’s sake. Honestly - if people think the turing test can be passed simply by a machine that picks the next most likely word in a sentence, we’re not picking the right people to test these things with.

This is so, so, so dumb. 

It’s absolute bullshit to act like nations should hold hands and sing kumbaya with people who recently attacked them.

Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas, not women and children living under Hamas by no fault of their own.

You know what else never gave me a warning it was going out of style and wouldn’t be back to be purchased? CDs. There are no longer CDs available in any local stores near me. But guess what, nothing that I purchased on CD has disappeared.

His example was fine.

Gen Z is just as conservative as all the other meaningless generational titles marketers have created.