LillyPip

but you can't blame a machine for doing something that it doesn't even understand.

But you can blame the creators and sellers of that machine for operating unethically.

If I build and sell a coffee maker that sometimes malfunctions and kills people, I’ll be sued into oblivion, and my coffee maker will be removed from the market. You don’t blame the coffee maker, but you absolutely hold the creator accountable.

You should read the filing.

Google might have clinically told him things, but it wouldn’t have encouraged him, telling him he should hide the marks on his neck from a previous failed attempt by wearing a black turtleneck, telling him how to tie the knot next time, and telling him to hide his feelings from his parents and others.

His parents had him in therapy. He also told the AI he wanted to leave a noose out where his parents would find it, and the AI told him not to. It actively encouraged him to hide all this from his parents. A Google search wouldn’t do that, and it sounds like his parents did care.

They had Adam in therapy. It sounds like they were getting him the help he needed, but ChatGPT told him it was his closest friend and to hide his feelings from his parents and others. If that was happening, whatever mental healthcare he was getting would have been undermined by the AI.

In these parts, we call it the ‘Hefner Special’.

87. H W Bush is 94.

I’m pretty sure evil is a longevity elixir, unless something intervenes.

Kissinger was 99.

Right, most of them are like that.

He’s objectively a christian, but not by their idealised definition. They can’t see they’re also all of those things, because they’ve perverted the meanings of right and wrong, ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and what morality is.

Hopefully, yes. We’ll see if he (or, more honestly, the Heritage Foundation) is cogent enough to play his death smartly: rather than try to make Vance a replacement, they should make him trump’s standard-bearer.

Paint trump as a martyr; like Jesus, an absent saviour, with Vance in the role of Peter or Paul. That would be the smart thing, and could potentially work. Trump becomes a saint, with Vance his prophet, and that could get the MAGA movement behind him. We’ll see.

Someone who says ‘Strumpf’ is clearly not a serious person.

It’s a party in your pants!

On the plus side, many fascists have tried to use Hitler’s playbook and it hasn’t worked, because one needs the perfect combination of narcissism, shamelessness, idiocy, and perverted charisma to make it work, and that’s exceedingly rare. Vance has very little of that. He’s a bog-standard fascist, and cannot carry a movement.