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Notice the example also lists other high prestige languages as being irrelevant and so through not even mentioning them other lesser important to the AI bro languages* don't even exist. It's not a coincidence it's French and German being compared to Sanskrit and Latin.

He's a notorious 'contrarian' right wing fuckwit, no more than a sad and tiresome troll at this point. 'The exercise of sound judgment' from the bloke who spent decades pushing for brexit with no plan is quite something.

His views are mainstream in certain silicon valley spaces for example and to ignore their logical structure is remiss I think. He's a fuckwit, but he's mirroring something very real that echoes down the ages sadly.

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I suppose what I struggle with is the question of whether its worth spending energy fighting these disingenuous weasels, or whether it's better spent building positive, thoughtful, collaborative, caring, welcoming practices and places. I dont know how much of the former is worthwhile.

First of all, yes, sometimes you need to fight them in the streets like with the Nazis and then you need to keep going and educate people more. Second of all, yes, welcome to the club! Let's build nice things.

Happy Friday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about it & want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years. Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.