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Comment Re:You're half right, Identity doesn't matter. (Score 2) 176

Bigoted asshole or not, he's got a point. You've both got points. Corporations adopted DEI policies across all industries starting about 2018. The problem is that it wasn't enough to push diversity in casting. The industry also pushed diversity in the writer's room. Companies brought in writers that primarily ticked boxes with a goal toward racial, sex, and sexual orientation variety. Writing skill and experience was a distant, secondary concern. As a result, we've all seen a marked decrease in writing quality across the board. Audiences have noticed too and have reacted by doing things like cutting back on theater attendance.

Comment Re:Since when do we care? (Score 3, Insightful) 283

First off, this isn't some academic forum where we back up every single claim with evidence.

Second, I'm a progressive liberal and happen to agree with his statement, which wasn't presented in an overtly political manner. Facts don't have a political preference. There certainly are preferential admissions and hiring for women. I've seen them repeatedly over my time in school and over my 20 year career in tech. I've been told repeatedly that "everything men can do women can do better." That statement wasn't created in this thread.

Comment Re:Uncertainty (Score 1) 282

Trump is gutting the EPA and other agencies that would enforce our environmental law. Business has nothing to fear. IF Trumps allows a legitimate election AND a Democrat ever wins the presidency again, they're going to first need to rebuild the entire government and the entire economy before enforcing any laws against businesses, let alone enforcing the environmental laws.

Comment Re:I am legitimately terrified (Score 3, Insightful) 85

Maybe it'll start working without errors aka "hallucinations." The problem is that the technology is fundamentally disconnected from reality. It reads the writing that we've bothered to put online. But, AI has no means of independently verifying that writing. It has no independent means of verifying the truth or falsehood of a section of text. I don't see a good means for it to get that data without first changing the way in which it interacts with the real world.

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