LLMs are trained to do one thing: produce statistically likely sequences of tokens given a certain context. This won’t do much even to poison the well, because we already have models that would be able to clean this up.
Far more damaging is the proliferation and repetition of false facts that appear on the surface to be genuine.
Consider the kinds of mistakes AI makes: it hallucinates probable sounding nonsense. That’s the kind of mistake you can lure an LLM into doing more of.
Hear me out: A cool shop or company should donate some pittance of every purchase to a good trans focused non profit and then have the signage “Make every transaction a trans action”
I hope so too, though the leadup to ww2 doesn’t give me a lot of hope, since domestic fascism remained popular in allied countries up until fighting the axis
Unfortunately it’s easier said than done. They clamped down on immigration a few years back (because they were letting in a bunch of people while also not doing anything about the housing market and got understandable blowback).
Also I’ll point out that Canada is only one (goose) step behind the USA, and may not stay safe. There are a lot of fascists and bigots here too.
Any major housing crash will probably affect your ability to purchase a home. The real solution is laws limiting property investment combined with building new, dense housing in areas that already have services.
EVtopia just sounds like an electric car website to me
There is an EXCELLENT physics text book freely available that focuses on the physics of energy sources: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m
It’s by Tom Murphy of “Do the Math” fame. Basically, unlimited perpetual growth runs afoul of basic physical limitations in shockingly short timeframes.
Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.