I’ve seen someone walking a pig in the forest. Yes, a large pink hairless pig. It was almost like walking a dog, but this animal was quite a bit larger than most dogs.

Here’s a bit of code that’s supposed to do stuff. I got this error message. Any ideas what could cause this error and how to fix it? Also, add this new feature to the code.

Works reasonably well as long as you have some idea how to write the code yourself. GPT can do it in a few seconds, debugging it would take like 5-10 minutes, but that’s still faster than my best. Besides, GPT is also fairly fluent in many functions I have never used before. My approach would be clunky and convoluted, while the code generated by GPT is a lot shorter.

If you’re well familiar with the code you’ve working on, GPT code will be convoluted by comparison. If so, you can ask GPT for the rough alpha version, and you can do the debugging and refining in a few minutes.

Do they smell good?

Gorgeous!

If monofloral relationships require too much commitment, why not consider joining a polyfloral rainbow butterfly community. Maybe polyfloral is the way to go.

LOL. That’s pretty brutal.

It’s a top secret human experiment to see how different people interpret it.

If you’re into botany/entomology, this is the time and place for you to shine. If you’re out for the giggles, that should work equally well. Other options are also equally valid.

An AI ga also do the job, spend the money on Netflix and watch the movies for you.

Now that’s a properly meta headline. Are you sure this wasn’t written by The Onion?

I guess I should have use a more specific term. “External influence” is just such a short an convenient concept, but it’s clearly way too broad. What I meant to say is pretty much what you seem to be getting at. The idea is, that banning websites and services will limit the extent of influence one government can intentionally have on another nation. Individual citizens are going to be doing their own thing anyway, and that’s a separate matter.

Here’s a clarification that didn’t fit into the previous post. You can view these things form the perspective of the local government that aims to maintain status quo. If some foreign social media platform is having a negative impact on your country, banning the platform should be a net positive. However, who defines these values? Is it good for the freedom of the people, good for the people in power, or something entirely different. All of that depends on the circumstances and the country you’re in. If the EU blocks Xitter, it’s not quite the same when China is doing the that.

That’s a double edged sword right there. If you don’t allow external influences, you block both good and bad types of conversations. What you’re left with is only the local conversation, which might be balanced or biased depending on where you live.

If you live under a dictatorship, you might really want some of that external influence. If you can trust that the local conversation is good and balanced, banning Twitter and Meta won’t have any serious drawbacks.