This has happened to me at least 3 times with Google.
- They offer a free service.
- I sign up for the free service.
- A couple years later, they say to continue with the free service you must now do something I don't want to, like pay monthly or agree to put my home address publicly on the Android store.
- I decline, and my account on the service is deleted.
- For literally the next 15 years, I periodically get inscrutable emails about service changes or minor pricing changes in Bhutan
Spiritual guidance is definitely one of the things you can’t get from an LLM. The pope’s reason, because an AI “will never be able to share faith,” is pretty much why I don’t want it for music either. (Whether you choose to take “faith” there literally or metaphorically, art is about sharing something machines can’t have.)
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With some regularity, kind-hearted Technical people tell me that I Can Be Technical, Too. This usually happens when I’m asking us to define what we’re calling technical in a software environment. I understand why it happens. I am a psychologist of software environments and that is something of
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Picture 1: The Republican party is trying to promote Trump with a collage of Trump in front of a car and the text, "Make automobiles great again".
Picture 2: The car used in the collage, is a VAZ-2101 produced by the Russian car manufacturer Lada from 1970 onwards.
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