Back in 2023, I failed the Turing Test for a few minutes before figuring out that it was just auto-complete with some extra steps.
And then you do stuff like contemplate consciousness and try to define it narrowly and then fail and then try to define it broadly and then fail and do some research and the thought "am *I* just auto-complete with a lot of extra steps?"
Anyway. The attempts to define any given concept wrt AI will eliminate humans. It's fine to eliminate, oh, up to 5%, I'd say. Hey, some folks just roll natural 1s.
Once we start defining stuff so that we're talking about 10% of people (or higher), I start to get nervous.
Oh, I thought it was building up to some variant of "that wasn't a big deal and you're silly for thinking it was" or "but that was good though" instead of some variant of "of course freedom of speech needs some limits but even members of the outgroup should recognize that this is a bridge too far!"
I believe that there is a restraining order against Mr. Metcalf as it pertains to Karmelo. Given that Karmelo was not there, the restraining order was not being violated.
In "Where are the Free Speech Abolutists?" discourse, apparently Karmelo Anthony is having a press conference and Austin Metcalf’s father has been asked to leave.
The police have been called.
What's the right play, people who cry out for where the Free Speech Absolutists are?
"When has the left ever tried to chill someone's speech?", he asked in the thread where someone opened with "where are the free speech absolutists now?"
"Ha! Where are the people who were arguing against me when I was arguing for limits on free speech *NOW*?" is not as devastating a question as you think.
I'm curious as to whether the upsides of free speech absolutism are a bit more obvious than they were when you were arguing against the absolutists.
For my part, of FREAKIN' COURSE IT'S NOT AIDING AND ABETTING TERRORISM.
And now I look forward to the next time that my speech is chilled because of this or that new fatwa that the left issues.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
They have already taken away the salad bars from Applebee's.
They have taken away the Ponderosas.
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Luigi Mangione has been indicted with something or other that makes him eligible for the death penalty.
So we get to get ready for *THAT* argument.
On “From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?”
Back in 2023, I failed the Turing Test for a few minutes before figuring out that it was just auto-complete with some extra steps.
And then you do stuff like contemplate consciousness and try to define it narrowly and then fail and then try to define it broadly and then fail and do some research and the thought "am *I* just auto-complete with a lot of extra steps?"
Anyway. The attempts to define any given concept wrt AI will eliminate humans. It's fine to eliminate, oh, up to 5%, I'd say. Hey, some folks just roll natural 1s.
Once we start defining stuff so that we're talking about 10% of people (or higher), I start to get nervous.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
Okay, Boomer.
I'm sure that things were awesome when you were a kid.
That's one of the things people are complaining about. That stuff has changed and you haven't even noticed.
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Oh, I thought it was building up to some variant of "that wasn't a big deal and you're silly for thinking it was" or "but that was good though" instead of some variant of "of course freedom of speech needs some limits but even members of the outgroup should recognize that this is a bridge too far!"
On “From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?”
The new one. So far, it's pretty good.
I still agree with the Pokemon test for AGI but this thing is getting to be seriously uncanny.
The argument that "intelligence must be X to be AGI" strikes me as an argument that eliminates more humans than is comfortable to exclude ChatGPT.
But if you want a bright line, it remains Pokemon.
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The alleged incident isn't the focus, Saul. I've said that already.
I'm asking about the free speech rights of the father to attend a press conference.
You can scroll up and see how we're talking about Free Speech Absolutism above, if you're interested in getting some of the context of the question.
On “From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?”
An exchange I just had with ChatGPT:
Me: Do you know what time it is?
ChatGPT: yeah, it's time for you to get a watch 😎
AGI confirmed.
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I believe that there is a restraining order against Mr. Metcalf as it pertains to Karmelo. Given that Karmelo was not there, the restraining order was not being violated.
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Hey, you're just acknowledging that, sometimes, actions have consequences.
Hey, have you seen that Popper's Paradox of Tolerance has been used to explain why anti-American students should be deported?
It's going around! Hey. Actions have consequences, after all.
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I don't believe he was spouting off.
He was merely present and, when asked to leave, refused to.
The cops were called on him.
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I'm not talking about whether the alleged death was justified. Who can say? People are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, after all.
I'm asking about the free speech rights of Austin Metcalf's father to attend a press conference.
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In "Where are the Free Speech Abolutists?" discourse, apparently Karmelo Anthony is having a press conference and Austin Metcalf’s father has been asked to leave.
The police have been called.
What's the right play, people who cry out for where the Free Speech Absolutists are?
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Well, do everything you can in the meantime to explain how "freedom of speech doesn't mean *THAT*" to people. "Of course it has to have limits!"
Personally, I hope you fail to win that argument.
I suspect you'll succeed at making it, though. Good and hard.
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The first happened during my childhood (note, I'm in my early 50s). Why do you ask?
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It exists to prevent the day when you will be crying out "where are the people who believe in free speech?"
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The norm of "free speech" does not exist to protect Right Wingers from the wrong (perhaps even evil) things that they might want to say out loud.
That is a by-product, sure.
But that's not why it's important.
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"Punishing people for speech falls under the umbrella of free speech!"
Here's what you ordered, sir.
I hope you enjoy it.
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"When has the left ever tried to chill someone's speech?", he asked in the thread where someone opened with "where are the free speech absolutists now?"
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"Ha! Where are the people who were arguing against me when I was arguing for limits on free speech *NOW*?" is not as devastating a question as you think.
I'm curious as to whether the upsides of free speech absolutism are a bit more obvious than they were when you were arguing against the absolutists.
For my part, of FREAKIN' COURSE IT'S NOT AIDING AND ABETTING TERRORISM.
And now I look forward to the next time that my speech is chilled because of this or that new fatwa that the left issues.
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Grad student from GMU. Or a Fed. One of those.
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The "When Must We Kill Them?" essays have started making the rounds.
On “The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego Garcia”
So your opinion on the tariffs is immigration?
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How you feeling about the whole "Republicans are the party of fiscal sanity" thing given the tariffs?
On “From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?”
The benchmark that makes sense to me: Can it beat Pokemon?
10-year-olds can beat Pokemon.