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Maybe. Traffic lights directly enforce social contracts

LLMs are aren't so direct


If someone just said "it's cold" then yeah that's kinda toxic.

If they said "turn on the heater" then you have no ambiguity


You are wildly out of touch

"Catch a greyhound out of town" is the "Let them eat cake" for the poor and homeless (sorry "unhoused") of New Orleans. Empathy is for the weak, said the oppressor.

Billions have been spent rebuilding New Orleans once. Per the article, there's no realistic way to save New Orleans going forward. It's sad, it's unfortunate, it's reality.

The poor and homeless of Louisiana are already receiving massive benefits: 4th in the country for the share of households on welfare, 18% of the population on food stamps, $14B+ in FY23 of federal dollars went to welfare/TANF/Medicaid/etc.


Damn, those poor and homeless are really living it up.

Is the solution to further mortgage working and contributing citizens' futures via our exploding national debt, just to throw more cash at them? California spends $40K+ a year, per homeless person, but saw the homeless population grow and the problem get worse.

For welfare, consider that a single parent with two school-age children who earns $11,000 annually from part-time work ends up qualifying for $64,128 in cash, aid, and benefits.

The same family earning $64,128 by actually working wouldn’t be eligible for any of these welfare benefits in four-fifths of the states.


For $14B+ we could have solved poverty and homelessness for all of New Orleans. Where did the money go? Not to the poor, obviously. The system is broken by design.

California clearly demonstrates that spending ever-more money on the homeless doesn't solve the issue for 90% of them.

It's a transparent exercise in ego-stroking to justify one's commitment to capital incentives.

No discussion because it's a bad idea

Try a little harder. You got this


This is exactly how I learned programming.

10-hour days practicing. Full night sleep afterwards.


That is your bias talking.


Research is of course useful but not even necessary here. This is common sense.

Yeah, seriously. Anyone with some experience in life understands that men and women are (on average) wired very differently, and this is one of the ways.

It's not, you just have a supremacist world view that requires alternative facts to stay coherent.

That's an excuse you made for yourself to feel better.

It's weird that none of your arguments or proposals hold accountable the responsible parties.

You want to force us to compromise when we were minding our own goddamn business.


Responsible parties like porn companies that distribute porn to minors? Parents are still accountable with age verification laws.

If parents suck at parenting, they will suffer.

If porn companies distribute porn to minors, which is illegal in many places such as the US, they will not suffer. Unless you start holding them accountable.


Every major adult content site has warnings that you have to be over 18 when you enter the site. Its extremely easy to use parental controls to block these sites for a kid, and parental controls don't require violating user privacy.

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