Hanlon’s razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

But, also, Grey’s law:

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

It’s very simple: a computer controlling a human as a flesh robot instead of the other way around.

Think Amazon drivers, for instance. No autonomy whatsoever, no thinking, no decisions, just eyes, feet, and hands for the machine.

Late stage capitalism existential / body horror, and a wet dream for corporations.

I have no doubt our generation and later will never retire. They’ll just plug a chip into our nape and keep our corpses working until they fall apart. 40K was off by 38 centuries.

It’s fearmongering intended to push regulation to ban foreign models (i.e., competition) and locally run ones, and to prevent new AI companies from gaining traction, thus guaranteeing a monopoly for the current subscription based ones.

Also to “place limits on how powerful the models can be”, so they have an excuse when they reach the limits of what LLMs are capable of or model collapse starts making them worse, whatever comes first.

In both cases, futile attempts at ensuring their survival once the bubble bursts.

Also, astroturfing. Marketing. Making their models look more powerful. Dangling forbidden fruit in front of their customers and their competitors’ in order to entice them, feed their AI psychosis, and strengthen their addiction.

The th pronunciation is Spanish.

In Catalan c before e or i is pronounced like a hard s.

Hm… Ro as in Ross…? The rest is the correct pronunciation, yes.

Maybe, I don’t know… an as in anvil and te as in tenant…? English, being several unrelated languages in a trenchcoat, can be a bit weird, and pronunciation varies excessively with dialects…

The vowels in Castilian (aka Spanish outside of Spain and other Castilian speaking countries) are very simple, five vowels, five sounds, pronounced more or less as they would have been in Latin.

C is pronounced like a k or a hard z, never as an s (except in some dialects).

Rocinante. From rocín and antes, for he was a rocín (old horse) before being Quijote’s steed (also during, but the old man wasn’t all there).

Thin, not sin.

Ro as in rod. Thin as in, well, thin. An as in ant. Te as in tent.

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French people seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely not French.

In their defence, though, they also seem to be extremely hostile to anything and anyone remotely French.

Maybe it’s not much of a defence, now that I think about it.