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My point is asking people to sharpen theirs. When they fail to do so, the faults in their statements are exposed, and we all learn something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

As for condescension, I'll kindly note that it was you who was instructing me how to engage people and how I should be writing. When someone is writing a statement that directly contradicts even the news of the past few days, I have to ask if they are sure. I'm not sure if I can be much more deferential than that.

Careful, that's some of that stuff that they teach in humanities and classics courses. You know, what is being labeled as wasteful or impractical in this thread.

Isn't it exactly how the tech industry largely operates today?

Who is it sitting with Donald Trump at regular meetings? Who is it who was just put in charge of the American Military?

Are you really sure of what you are saying?

Who thought understanding, in depth, the fundamental bases of their legal system was a good idea?

> I sent it back and they didn't acknowledge it, probably for various reasons, and I doubt they would like me linking it above.

Because if you study this stuff long enough, you'll find the LLMs hallucinate in this space far more than they do in a discourse or programming project.

It can be close enough to seem useful, but make critical errors that can cause rippling problems.

I've done a lot of the same sort of thing with Latin and chancery and while it can really help in understanding it on a personal level, it takes combing over what it has said and zooming in, comparing it with other information, and understanding the historical context. Otherwise it can completely mangle clauses, contexts, etc.

It is remarkable how well they can start to read things like chancery script, but again, many errors. Not reliable, especially in such large volumes. It would require extensive review. And they are probably getting flooded wth things like that now. And not all of them will be benevolent. History is laden with intentional corruptions and the flat, context-less reading that LLMs give can bury that even further.

Don't inundate researchers, churches, and records offices wth this stuff. But it is absolutely a space where it can help, with proper organization and engagement.

Il a écrit un livre dans lequel il aborde ce qu'il a dans la tête.

C'est une bonne interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g0nLGZIzhc (Anglais, désolé)

Mais les cas les plus extrêmes en Amérique sont relativement récents...

Not in Silicon Valley tech lol!

Bleeding something, alright.

I'm sure some of the career chemists et al at IG Farben and BASF felt similarly in 1945.

There is no amoral middle ground where any of this is detached from its context. Context is everything.

lol, this is odd.

British =/= Briton

And English most certainly =/= Briton.

No more than English == Iroquois

And you're already not getting hired because they're not on your CV.

Because Meta is not the default to everything.

I've personally been hoping for something like this for a while now. Especially a toolset that is not just targeting yet another SaaS or LLM or social media clone interface.

I don't know if you ever used Draft.js that FB put out some time ago, but it was a horribly buggy monstrosity that was a heavy lift to move away from. One could not write several paragraphs and edit them without losing a lot of work. I wouldn't touch "Lexical" no matter the marketing they put on top. I wouldn't be half as critical if it wasn't one of the wealthiest companies on the planet known for injecting billions into black holes while they raid every area of your life they possibly can for data to be used to manipulate socio-political matters everywhere. If they're going to do that, and release open source libraries, then at least make them good enough to be seductive. They aren't.

ProseMirror and seemingly WordGard have real thought and care put into them by people who have long made the DOM/developer experience and the writing experience priorities– not just their "mind share" for whatever dark purposes drive companies like Meta.

Those are not comparable.

One is the method of recording a message, the other is having something else completely draft a message for you.

The importance of a personal message is not just in the visual appearance or delivery, but that there has to be some emotional loading to even put the effort into drafting one.

With AI, it's a stupid prompt to get it to write trite poesy. It's meaningless and empty at its root. It's discourse with a nullity.

Nobody who values the human connections in their lives wants that. No matter what kind of marketing and fine print gets shoved and manipulated into their lives.

So a writer making money is not okay and means he is incorrect by default, but the CEOs siphoning billions off of circular investment schemes is fine?

Personally, I see both parties making predictions.

Meanwhile, I still must labour. How many more yachts are needed before the earth becomes the utopia they keep selling everyone on? How many more communities must have their rights trampled against their expressed will?

Or do I need to scan my retinas and provide Alt-man a DNA sample for a handful of empty crypto currency first?

Not good. Is this a first for the ISS?

It's not over.

Qualcomm has come out and stated they intend to see networks of agents crawling live communications data in real time. It doesn't take a William Gibson to see where this can go.

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/02/qualcom...

Claiming the rest of the country is against you is playing the victim. And which Alberta? That sounds like "What kind of Albertan were you". Which is starting to sound like real foul stuff.

It's more complex than that. I know tech workers are fond of reductionism, but it is not workable here.

In order to draw the statement and comparison you just have, you have to throw out ALL legal and historical fact. And also decide that the rights of the Aboriginal land owners in Alberta mean absolutely nothing.

I don't know what it's like to be American, but I presume that not even they would be on board with wholesale land confiscations on such a massive scale. Sets a bad precedent, doesn't it?

I understand this. I lived there, I heard the "Onterrible" jokes and wore them with grace.

The concept of an independent Alberta as an identity is a fringe matter, not equivalent with generalized notions of alienation and grievances related to equivalence within confederation on a policy level.

I am aware of recent political movements, yes. Like the Western Independence Party.

However, they failed to even get enough signatures to properly form. Their platform is to "basically remove Alberta from confederation" (the party founder's words). But note: there was no Alberta before confederation.

Alberta business owners having a beef with Ottawa leadership is not the same as a common and foundational identity across Alberta that desires independence. That latter notion is in the extreme minority. Fringe stuff. For instance, the support between the WIP (and aligned groups) is similar to the support for the province's Communist parties.

If you are Canadian, you should be familiar with the running nation-wide joke that "everyone hates Toronto".

Since you decided to take things in a personal direction, yes. I have lived and worked in Alberta. I have had family in Alberta. I have friends in Alberta. My partner is from the west, and we visit regularly.

That's some bad karma, pretending you can read someone like that and attempting to beat them down with your ignorance and then claim to be a victim.

Smith and the UCP have not been acting democratically whatsoever. Trying to paint it that way is either ignorant or deliberately malicious.

She was openly going around all standard democratic and diplomatic protocols and holding private meetings with the American executive in Florida.

That is not part of democracy, unless you are simply calling it the corrupted part.

Alberta was created out of several divisions of the NWT barely over 100 years ago, formed by the federal government of Canada.

It's not a thing.

Hatred or criticism of Toronto and Ontario at large is a thing. But that's a thing everywhere. It's a fundamental part of the Canadian identity.

By that framing you are saying that Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver should also all seek secession.

Likewise, you could say that NYC and LA should singularly secede from America by that same logic.

It doesn't track. There is no legal precedent. Alberta as an entity did not exist beyond Canada.

> Albertans, while obviously the most disadvantaged and persecuted Canadians in recorded history

Um what?

But you would be banning trains if they were built to just run smack into the centre of town squares loaded with bombs, rendering the cities to dust, as a part of their design and boasted about by the owners.

At least until the maniacally evil train ownership debacle was better organized to prevent such harm in their core application.

Don't forget that the money being spent to do said scraping has, in great sums, come from subsidies paid by taxes from public coffers.

Are you working for hire? I'd like you to join my team where we are automating parametrizing paradigms to foster growth in changing paradigms of parametrizing workflows.

It's literally funded and published by the VCs backing so many of the AI companies here. Literally the fountain of money that produced Sam Altman.

I'm going to have to ask for a little more rigour than "they use data".

Data can be wielded in all manner of manipulative fashion to suit a preferred narrative. And when it's wielded by engineers defending large AI (or any) companies, they should at least acknowledge the fact that the data reporting is "coming from inside the house", so to speak.