I agree with you. Not everything should be allowed at scale. Unsafe LLMs are just one of those. And if they can’t be made to be safe, then they shouldn’t be allowed.

Have you considered you might just be cursed? Think back…how many witches with a flair for irony did you piss off in the 1990s? Great content for the rest of us though. 🍿

John Williams is the greatest anyone has ever been at their job.

Feels a bit like the classic "Political campaigns need to try new things, make a positive splash, and get attention! No, wait, not like that! I don't approve of _that_!"

I grew up watching the Simpsons when it originally aired, and lots of that show during it's "golden age" actually fits this. It's generally good, but watching it today you'll hit some bigoted segment that smacks you in the face. As you phrased it, you can tell it was written three decades ago.

I personally really enjoy your commentaries, whether they’re gleeful at some cool detail you snuck in or pointing out your own mistakes. Thank you for writing them!

My theory is that his mental state and memory are so far gone that he doesn't realize this didn't happen. Probably the same reason he wrote a post ordering the military to Portland based on nothing, and no actual orders to the military to do it.

Veep and In the Thick of It are often mentioned for being too close to reality for people in politics. West Wing (or anything Sorkin) is usually unrealistic.

A toothless Senate, like the House of Lords, would create a real retirement option for aging politicians. No more 90 year olds dictating policy for the country; let them fade away in a body that doesn’t actually matter.

My "favorite" example of this is from tax policy. Teachers are allowed to deduct a small amount for money they spend on supplies for their classroom. They know teachers spend money on their under-funded schools, and this was what they did about it. www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc...

...and then they'll say it's the "real" figure and demand that it be used for redistricting, reapportionment, allocation of funding, etc. Just like with birthright citizenship, they'll ignore the law and constitution and just say that this is the law now.

Dude posts all of the time about everything - lots is fine, some is weird. It's usually "weird" because there might be a sensible interpretation, but it's worded badly or uses a horrible example. Most folks would maybe re-state or clarify what they mean, he just 1000% sticks with the weirdness.

Most modern entertainment is just escapism, but they both wrote with an eye towards the moral of the story; trying to impart wisdom or morality to the reader. I suspect that both would be aghast at the intentional vacuousness of most wide-audience media they have inspired.

I think that Zach's source is a biography of a physicist, and may have been too credulous of a simple economics story to make a point. It's rarely just "one thing" that explains or solves a complex phenomenon like entrenched hyperinflation.

...except that's not what happened. The new currency wasn't just with a different number of zeros after it; it was also backed by physical goods (not gold), which mirrored the shift into barter economy that had happened during hyperinflation. That aspect is generally credited for why it worked.

The corollary is that furries tend to be the best customers for these art folks.

Not quite what you're asking for, but some folks did write the fanfiction "We Have Engaged the Borg" - a fictional oral history of the strategic failures before and during the Battle of Wolf 359, and it's impact going into the Dominion War.