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Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold police accountable....

Even if inflation has slowed, food and energy cost far more than they did at the beginning of his term, and many voters are angry about that....

The worst futures that could come about aren’t ones in which humanity goes extinct. This video explores an even worse category of risks: risks from astronomical suffering, or “S-Risks”, which involve an astronomical number of beings suffering terribly. Researchers on this topic argue that S-risks have a significant chance...

Since he can still run for office and become president while in prison, is this actually going to do anything to stop him from being president? Obviously it’s not gonna sway anyone who’s gonna vote for him, so is there any actual way this keeps him from office, or at least has some positive effect for us? I wanna join the...

This is me using my lemmy app

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction…So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...