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Ah, I was not paying much attention to the distinction; my bad, then.

Building on what you said, I think that the sum is actually pretty significant if you think of it as being roughly $100 million per person, and then multiply by the number of people hurt by the supposed “Autopilot” who now have incentive to sue.

It is not clear to me why archive.today is so important given the continuing existence of archive.org.

The fact that I have to use a more complicated tool than cd.

But how does changing the current directory backup your files???

Given enough time, all communities become politics communities.

Yes, in the NSFW version she is forced to drink RAW MILK instead of WHOLE MILK.

Well met, sir!

Challenge accepted!

The Steam deck is pretty cool because it is just a really nice handheld PC that lets me (or, more typically, my wife) play everything in my very extensive Steam library.

Sadly, all we can afford is some ICE.

Thank you, but I figured it out after the first “Woosh” reply.

Oh, shoot… please don’t tell the cops that I bypassed my breathalyzer so that I could comment on the Internet in the morning without being drunk on coffee first!!!

Wait… why is he complaining about the “woke gay agenda” when the top app in that list is Grindr?

In fairness, the swastika was important to Hinduism long before Nazi Germany started using it, and one could argue that Indians should not feel that they need to give the symbol up just because some Europeans misused it.

On the other hand, do you think this would be giving them too much benefit of the doubt? Hindu nationalism seems to be pretty scary, after all.

Just to be clear, the article itself was written by him; he was just experimenting with an AI tool to extract quotes (because learning about AI tools is literally his job), and because he had COVID at the time he got mixed up and pasted paraphrased quotes rather than original quotes. (Arguably he should not have been experimenting with a new tool while sick, but I am willing to cut him some slack because he was probably not thinking clearly at the time.)

The serious thing here is actually not so much that he used an AI tool at some point in the process but that fabricated quotes ended up in a published article.

It helps if you think of America as believing that when an individual gets sick it is their own fault.

Yes… hence the “ill-advised” part.

I do not see it as being so implausible that he got mixed up due to being sick and thought he was doing one thing while he was actually doing another; as you said, among other things, he should probably reflect on how he takes notes.

I think that my overall point stands that there is not a good reason not to at least tentatively give him the benefit of the doubt that he screwed up in the way that he said that he screwed up, rather than assuming that he is lying and actually did something significantly worse, especially given that he fully admits to having screwed up and took full responsibility for it.

It is literally his job to be familiar with this technology, which he cannot do if he does not experiment with it.

Having said that, doing this experiment while sick was probably ill-advised, so in that sense I agree with you, but in fairness he probably was not thinking clearly while he was sick.

So in other words, you are just making an assumption.

Fair enough. Realistically, my understanding is that he and the other authors are part of WGA, so Ars would be required to go through an investigative process before firing him, which would probably take enough time that he would have had plenty of time to recover from COVID before having to hunt for a job.

Having said that, I am out for change, not for blood. I think that if Ars announced that the root problem was the lack of sick leave so it was a systemic failure rather than a personal failure (or something along those lines), then that might actually be a pretty good outcome as well.