Likely true by example, but not by definition.
Overthrowing power may be hopeless, but propaganda may still be used simply to prevent the masses from causing slight discomfort to the people in power.
Propaganda is a tool, not a last resort, of the powerful.
Hmmm
I haven’t watched many sitcoms recently. I felt like those pauses for audience laughs were often where they’d cut to other camera angles anyway (likely to distract from how unnaturally long the characters paused in the middle of their conversations)… But I don’t have any concrete evidence to back up my feeling.
I’d be interested to see an edit of classic sitcoms with laughs (tracks or live), edited to remove both the laugh and the associated pause in the performance.
Yes, in the proportion of furries vs weebs.
He comes out and you miss your shot because you’re blinded by a bright light he has with him
All computing is just shit tons of math operations.
That’s the “artificial” part of “artificial intelligence”, so I’m not really sure what you expect AI to look like.
I’m not a big fan of LLMs and I don’t think they’re intelligent, but if you’re disqualifying them based on using math then nothing is ever going to satisfy you
The difference is that tech bros are selling the promise of replacing expensive skilled labour, to business owners, who keep funding it because they’d rather pay one of their own than pay a living wage to a normal person.
So the money keeps coming which let’s them keep working on it
When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
The authoritarian left is bad
The authoritarian right is bad
But if you think that the two are equally bad, then you’re wronger than wrong
I think history is full of rulers who were hated by their people, but were deposed by their peers for selfish reasons, rather than by uprising.
But there is lots of wiggle room in that argument, I admit. My point was more of a technical one than a practical one.
I think that a rigid class/caste system can probably work purely on jealousy rather than on propaganda, but this isn’t based on real world example.