In general, that term is mostly used outside of the borders of a country looking in. After all, "illegitimate leaders" tend to be authoritarians who take power and quell dissent within the borders.
Not at all arguing that it somehow leads to justification for an illegal invasion.
In this specific case the claim comes down to assertions of a sham election. If this was indeed the case (with the lens of an international survey obviously the US view is suspect considering the attack), then the Venezuelan people themselves do not view him as a legitimate leader, which simplifies the situation.
You really believe this, right? That you can decide for someone else, specifically a whole nation, what their view is and what they want to do with their nation. That you are doing the world a favour. Guess it's worked in the past, a new sucker is born every minute.
Afghanistan had the context of 9/11. All Americans knew about 9/11, and most cared strongly about it.
I doubt most Americans know anything about Yemen or know anything about any US involvement there, nor do they care.
Military strikes in Yemen aren't seen as the same war. Afghanistan and Iraq were boots on the ground, building up military bases, hearing about the occasional death of US personnel, etc. It's also decades apart.
When it comes to Yemen, the average American is probably entirely unaware of it, and the ones that do know about it are definitely going to place it in the Palestine/Israel context (which has huge mindshare circulation here, All things considered - we usually just ignore things outside of US borders and this is ultra politicized here). Maybe without that element, there would be more truth to what you were saying, but it's definitely in the Israel/Hamas war bucket as of now.
I think Americans are broadly aware that the US has been striking AQ, AQ++, and ISIS affiliates across the Middle East as part of the broader GWOT/OIR for years, and the exact jurisdictions in which it happens are essentially implementation details.
As of a few months ago, when the US began striking Yemen for purpose of defending Israel, it ha become loosely affiliated with that conflict, but the period discussed was Obama era.
I have seen a very similar example with someone who quit their tech job to pursue th solution to quantum gravity with bizarre likely Ai generated mathematical work, and posted to HN about it. They also lived out of a car, and it sounds like OP is also homeless and could better use their elsewhere to improve their life.
I don't know what to say other than I truly hope OP can get help. If you are stuck in some sort of mental AI vortex, at least converse with some Ai about how this is an abysmal waste of time and poorly thought out. I also work in a field where I do idea generation, and most of the time is spent steel manning why I shouldn't do something. This AI slop should have never passed the filter. It really sounds like you are lacking this key step of the process.
Making a pizza out of food paste and flavor blocks and then showing AI screenshots is quite honestly meme tier, to the extent I was tempted to post these images with the descriptions as a gallery on something like /r/whatsfordinner as a joke, but I feel too bad about this to actually do it...
At first I had some suspicion that perhaps the findings were partly a result of interpretation of the question. After all, I don't generate a crystal clear image of what I'm thinking about - the image has some amorphous qualities and comes in and out of focus.
But dreams are ultra-visual experiences for me, to the extent where I will occasionally have flashbacks or deja vu to dream images that were exceptionally strong.
So that nullified my suspicion! That said, I do wonder if it's a spectrum, in that some people are more or less visual in their thinking, and on the extremes people may get the capability snipped, as the dim visual hum fades to black and background noise.
That's true to an extent - LLMs are trained on an abstraction of the world (as are we in a way, through our senses, and we necessarily use a sort of narrative in order to make sense of the quadrillions of photons coming up us) - but it's not quite as severe a problem as the simplified view seems to present.
LLMs distill their universe down to trillions of parameters, and approach structure through multi-dimensional relationships between these parameters.
Through doing so, they break through to deeper emergent structure (the "magic" of large models). To some extent, the narrative elements of their universe will be mapped out independently from the other parameters, and since the models are trained on so much narrative, they have a lot of data points on narrative itself. So to some extent they can net it out. Not totally, and what remains after stripping much of it out would be a fuzzy view of reality since a lot of the structured information that we are feeding in has narrative components.
First of all, 20 years ago porn proliferation was also rampant, and the stuff online was, I'd argue, considerably "worse" that the Onlyfans flavor content that dominates now.
Also there are so many broad brushes in generalizations in this! I've been friends with a sex worker who didn't hate her regulars, and there is a huge movement in the male oriented online space that firmly stands against "gooning" and what they label as degeneracy. That would have incredibly lame in the not so recent past but it's a fairly mainstream perspective now, and of course all of that is left out entirely.
Then there are a lot of casual statements thrown out that is very easy to disagree with. Ex: it just brushes over the fact that modern online dating as an unattractive person is complete ass, and yes, attractive people do have it easier in many areas of life, especially dating (both men and women, no need to split every other line into boys VS girls).
Hold on, I think I need to "jack in" to "Goonworld".
>what should instead happen is the AI try to guide them towards making their lives less shit
There aren't enough guardrails in place for LLMs to safely interact with suicidal people who are possibly an inch from taking their own life.
Severely suicidal/clinically depressed people are beyond looking to improve their lives. They are looking to die. Even worse, and what people who haven't been there can't fully understand is the severe inversion that happens after months of warped reality and extreme pain, where hope and happiness greatly amplify the suicidal thoughts and can make the situation far more dangerous. It's hard to explain, and is a unique emotional space. Almost a physical effect, like colors drain from the world and reality inverts in many dimensions.
It's really a job for a human professional and will be for a while yet.
Agree that "shut down and refer to hotline" doesn't seem effective. But it does reduce liability, which is likely the primary objective...
Refer-to-human directly seems like it would be far more effective, or at least make it easy to get into a chat with a professional (yes/no) prompt, with the chat continuing after a handoff. It would take a lot of resources though. As it stands, most of this happens in silence and very few do something like call a phone number.
Guess how I know you're wrong on the "beyond" bit.
The point is you don't get to intervene until they let you. And they've instead decided on the safer feeling conversation with the LLM - fuck what best practice says. So the LLM better get it right.
I could be mistaken, but my understanding was that the people most likely to interact with the suicidal or near suicidal (i.e. 988 suicide hotline attendants) aren't actually mental health professionals, most of them are volunteers. The script they run through is fairly rote and by the numbers (the Question, Persuade, Refer framework). Ultimately, of course, a successful intervention will result in people seeing a professional for long term support and recovery, but preventing a suicide and directing someone to that provider seems well within the capabilities of an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude
So... everything I thought I knew about last week's AWS outage is right?
Aside from a few tangential rants, this seems to match the coverage I had read.
>Widespread issues trend toward DNS because it is just that important to how the entirety of modern computing works today.
This one would be a correction of my understanding though. So problems conferred on DNS because everything uses DNS? I was under the impression it was a bit of an opaque rats nest that is prone to have propagation issues that can seem non-deterministic if the wrong bits are flipped. It has some notoriety. If that's entirely heresy then I suppose that's a slight update to understanding.
Not at all arguing that it somehow leads to justification for an illegal invasion.
In this specific case the claim comes down to assertions of a sham election. If this was indeed the case (with the lens of an international survey obviously the US view is suspect considering the attack), then the Venezuelan people themselves do not view him as a legitimate leader, which simplifies the situation.