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I do. That’d be a way for us to meet in person for the first time after years of talking online.

But even without that I promised her I’ll pay for half her trip if she ever come visit France.
Long story short, she struggled with depression when I met her online (I won’t give any more details than that to respect her privacy), so I offered that to give her a long term goal to focus on, and it worked wonders. Now she is happily engaged to what seem to be a fine man, and I hope I’ll be able to meet them both one day.

Offer my american friend an all cost covered trip to France. That’s her dream, but her family is way too poor to afford it.

Well, unfortunately the current priorities may not be the same as it was then.

No matter how well something is built, if the maintenance is bad, you waste all that good engineering.

Well, that’s a Boeing, so a small percentage of crashes are to be expected.

And whay link your rant has with the current topic?

I still gave my trusty cassette player from back then. Still works great, and sound is quite good for something that old.

Well, it has some features you don’t see anymore on “modern” cassettes players (DTS, Dolby, things like that), all in a miniaturized and portable case.

I kinda agree, but the fact it was so tightly packed made it difficult to create visual variety, and ends up becoming a bit repetitive. Forest, forest, more forests. I’d had liked to see a desert, maybe some crystal cave, mesas, etc.

That partly why I look forward to 2k2, ot seem way more open.

One of my personal favorite. I loved the first game, but felt it was a bit too… Small.
I mean, you can go from one end of the map to the opposite one in barely more than a few minutes, without even using fast travel…

I hope 2k2 will be a lot bigger.

May take a little while because I got some deadlines coming up soon, but I’ll make sure to reply here whenever it is ready. It’ll also be a good way for me to improve my English 😆.

I reread the thread, my apologizes, you are right on that, I just forgot my first comment 😅.

The “alien being a person” argument is more an ironic one, you can ignore that. Any intelligent being, alien or not, is a person.

On the other hand, I could give you a corpus of 10 texts, part of them written by hand by your truly, only using a non-ai writing help to avoid obvious gramatical mistakes (English is not my native language), imitating corpo speech, and the anothers generated by my local AI (Mistral:7B). Would you accept to try ?

To be arguing in bad faith would require me to have made an argument, which I did not.
Other than pointing out the lack of proof of your (badly) hidden argument, I never pretended it to be either LLM speech or human corpo speech. Because there are no proof of either being objectively more likely than the other.

But you did, using a loaded question, which is written in such way to deny the possibility for it to be human corpo speech, which existed way earlier than LLMs.

You asked why you were getting downvoted, I anwered with the definition of why. With a link to the definition for you to read so you may improve your “question”.

Depending on the definition of “a person”, an alien could be one. What would be your definition of a person ?

I was just pointing out your earlier answer is a loaded question, by definition.

AI learned from the best worst of us.

Do you actually think it’s okay that they had a bot make a press release this hamfisted?

You are not “saying it sounds like it is written by AI”, you are affirming it is written by an AI. Big difference.
You affirmation being formated as a question doesn’t change anything, it is a Loaded Question, which tends to be frowned upon.

Bold claim, corroborated with no proof.

Sure it looks like AI speech patterns, but they are trained on corporate speech, so hard to differentiate an LLM from a corporate spokesperson.

Simply because a weak US is an advantage for any rising autocracy out here. China and Russia mainly. Any ressources focussed on the middle east is a ressource that cannot go to the Pacific ocean to counter China influence, or to Eastern Europe to counter Russia imperialism.

There is a local relay that allows to basically use ProtonMail with whatever client you want to. It’s a bit more work, for sure, but it allows to use their encryption without having to install any addon on your client.

ProtonMail, maybe Tuta Mail.

Disposable vapes are already forbidden, at least in France, idk if it is union wide.

But yeah, those things make no sense. The only thing with a battery that should be disposable would be fire alarm. Not because of the battery, but because the main sensor has a 10 years lifespan due to its natural deterioration.

Ads and influencers pushing them.