QuietCupcake

Whenever I dare look at the .world (and co) modlog, I know there's a decent chance I'll see one of your removed comments there. But every time that's the case, it's always an excellent, sensible comment, the deletion of which always a testament to the vacuous dipshittery and hypocrisy of the liberal lemmy instances. It's like always so clearly just that they can't argue against it without blatantly abandoning the pretense that they're any different than the maga conservatives or outright fascists they love to claim they oppose.

So anyway, your name and pfp are very appropriate. Thank you for your service of frequently wading through those brainworm-infested waters and spraying some dewormer around. It may seem like a drop in the bucket but I'm sure some of it gets through here and there.

Well as a human, if they learned just a little bit more that panic should melt away to be left only with awe.

Maybe they did produce such strains already but we don't and never will know about it because that:

could single handedly kill all cartels and cia money machines

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I don't know what to tell you because it very much is true. What are the stores near you selling that they are calling Tylenol but that does not have acetaminophen as the primary ingredient? If you go buy a drug from them that is labeled Tylenol and it does not have acetaminophen as the main ingredient, then you could probably make a lot of money suing whoever it was in the distribution chain that changed and mislabeled a drug.

regardless, it's not all ace and not all diphen.

It is though. I'm sorry, but you're wrong. For a product to be sold as Tylenol, the main active ingredient legally must be acetaminophen. Tylenol products can contain other ingredients, but acetaminophen must be the primary active component to be labeled and marketed as tylenol. This is true of benadryl always having to have as the main ingredient diphenhydramine.

is it really that big of an ask for a doctor to prescribe medication and not a corporate brand name?

In a better world, we wouldn't have corporate brand names at all. But a doctor using such a name (in the world we live) is not misusing the name.

I hear you, but to be perfectly honest, this comment is not accurate. It is not at all like saying Nike. While Nike is the company that makes the shoes, Tylenol is not the company that makes name-branded acetaminophen. Benadryl is not the name of a company. The company name is Johnson and Johnson, or it used to be before some sort of bullshit "corporate reorganizing" or something.

Anyway, Tylenol and Benadryl are names for the drugs, they're just the names the corporation that had a stranglehold on their sale (aka "patent") chose to give them and not let anyone else use. It sucks that capitalists get to make these decisions, but tylenol and benadryl really are valid names for those drugs as sold by the company that patented them. Their generic names, acetaminophen/paracetamol and diphenhydramine can be used by any manufacturer that makes them, so the medical community tends to use those because it works in all cases. All benadryl is diphenhydramine but not all diphenhydramine is benadryl. Still, there is nothing inaccurate about a doctor writing a prescription for benadryl (well, other than the fact it's over-the-counter and no prescription is needed, but you know what I mean).

Loratadine and certazine are completely different drugs, they are different compounds and do not refer to the compund that is the drug benadryl aka diphenhydramine. Loratadine and certazine are the generic names for the brand named drugs claratin and zyrtec, respectively

Ambien is the name of a drug whose generic name is Zolpidem. Xanax is the name of a drug whose generic name is alprazolam. These aren't misnomers.

Still showing only as an upcoming title in the playstation store.

I mean, they need both. Education is for learning about the world around them, such as how a compass works, or modern economics (Marxist economics with cybernetics). Yes, they definitely need that as evidenced by this OP. But reeducation is for unlearning the capitalist propaganda they've been boiling in their entire lives. From US exceptionalism and white supremacy to capitalist realism and the "necessity of competition," with all kinds of other shit in between. Education and re-education serve different purposes. Both are going to be greatly needed.

Agree. But... The only reason I'm hesitant to refer to LLMs as "clanker" is because I dont want to even further humanize them.

They are doing exactly as you said, trying to preempt people from spreading negativity about their latest Big Hype, but they're also trying to legitimize it as being "intelligent" when of course it's not. This is largely about getting people to believe that "AI" (in the traditional sense of an actual thinking, sentient entity) has arrived. It hasn't. Calling it "AI" in the first place is an intentional misnomer. These are just programs, no more aware than the enemy "AI" in a video game. I know everyone here knows that, but even people I've spoken to irl think that these LLMs are on the verge of self awareness, which is precisely what the people pushing "AI" want. Just getting "clanker as a slur" into the discourse is about cultivating that "intelligence" narrative. It elevates LLMs to being closer to personhood and in turn devalues actual personhood. So personally, I'm going to keep calling them "glorified chatbots" - apps that can't be called a slur because slurs are used for the purpose of dehumanizing real people, which LLMs are not and never will be.

That's the thing about propaganda and cultural hegemony (well, one of the things anyway) - the author doesn't necessarily have to have a conscious agenda in order to reaffirm and reproduce the dominant narrative which is based on the agenda of the ruling class. They propagate the agenda just by being steeped in the cultural narrative and taking it as "common sense" without even thinking to analyze it with anything near the kind of scrutiny they apply to other historic cultures. They probably think they're being strictly objective even as they push a very real but unrecognized liberal agenda.