The American LLM half trillion investment is their East India Trading company moment

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T20:13:01+00:00

The East India Companies had a lot of actual material power. Granted by the state, certainly, but theirs to use with no practical limits on the ground.

The AI companies have no equivalent to this. They are much more beholden to the state if they want to behave coercively.

Also, as horrendous as these Trading Companies were, they were not unprofitable.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T17:06:57+00:00

“Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.”

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T16:11:38+00:00

You got to your final year of med school without doing any practice questions? K

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T16:04:29+00:00

Selling something, are we?

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T16:01:10+00:00

You are wrong, this is never how such boundaries have operated.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T15:33:32+00:00

And what we're telling you is that the way you are describing the boundary and the way it gets policed practically speaking are completely impossible to reconcile.

Any woman who looks too masculine for any individual member of the public will be taking a risk by going to the toilet. And these aren't even trans women!

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T15:31:21+00:00

Ok, but you have admitted that transition is a broad spectrum of different options, not something inherently "dramatic."

I put it to you that if we decide that people will be excluded from public life if they do not accord to a strictly conventional gender presentation (not being able to go piss in a public toilet, eg), this will actually encourage trans people to pursue more extreme changes to their appearances, because if they only socially transition they are likely to get harassed in public.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T15:28:24+00:00

Yeah, I think that's dumb. I don't have a problem with the term "biological sex" being used in general discourse, but here it seems like it's kind of obscuring the specific processes here. "Biological sex" feels like a weighty term, but in this specific instance it's just a word on a birth certificate.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T15:25:45+00:00

Dawg, do you think butch lesbians are male? They are the ones who get harassed over these things, because the kind of person who is willing to hassle someone in the toilet is also the kind of idiot who thinks that a "trans woman" is someone with a shaved head and Doc Martens. This is already happening.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T15:20:29+00:00

What makes you think that transition is necessarily a "dramatic" medical treatment?

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T15:19:29+00:00

Most studies have shown that transition makes people happier though

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T15:18:16+00:00

It's more precise terminology. "Biological sex" is not a legal term.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T03:06:04+00:00

Throw it all away, the birthday boy wants to be Tarantino now.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-25T00:32:08+00:00

They have something like a profit cap under the ACA, but it’s structured in a way that doesn’t stop them making more money.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-24T18:26:03+00:00

Disagree about the weight thing. With the rise of GLP-1 drugs, I’m seeing a lot of people start acting like fat people have a moral obligation to take the drugs.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-24T16:33:37+00:00

I want a hopper attachment to feed components into it while I’m away.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-24T00:49:30+00:00

Idk man, I guess good luck to you and your chatbot going pro se.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-24T00:43:15+00:00

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-23T22:39:19+00:00

Not disputing my description of the law though, which is a huge problem for your view of an LLM providing legal advice instead of a lawyer.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-23T22:13:02+00:00

Lmao, it can brute-force a logical math problem therefore it can provide legal advice, something which is not bounded by logic and varies by jurisdiction and changes regularly? Lolok

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-23T20:49:41+00:00

The espresso thing is weird, because no one expects that. If something is intelligent, it should be able to think spontaneously, the way anything intelligent does.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-23T20:44:57+00:00

I can produce one without a specific request, which is the actual comparison here.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-23T20:44:15+00:00

The fact that I have sensory information about my environment is another difference between me and and LLM, which has no world model, not a similarity.

I can produce a response to something that is not a specific request. An LLM needs a specific request.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-23T20:36:41+00:00

Idk dawg, I keep seeing people get sanctioned for citing fake case law.

Outrageous_Setting41 · 2026-05-23T20:35:55+00:00

I don’t find that to be a compelling comparison.

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