If someone is a Catholic, and you go out of your way to insult Catholics right in front of them, then you ARE insulting them AND being underhanded about it. If someone is a Catholic, and you go out of your way to insult Catholics right in front of them, and you try to pass this off as civil discussi...

If 2 ^ x is multiplying 2 by itself x times, and x is 1, ...

As I predicted. The definition of "woke" changes depending on who you ask. The term has recently been used by some conservatives as an insult against progressive values. [ABC News] Among conservatives, "woke" has been adopted as term of derision for those who hold progressive soc...

kevinswatch wrote:Awww, shucks. You all are a crepuscular bunch of formicating puissants!

You do know "puissants" is a compliment, right?

Which makes me wonder why it got the explanation of 2^1 wrong. You know, that "wrong" can honestly be construed as a disagreement about terms. People do say that 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 is "two multiplied by itself 4 times" - meaning that there are 4 2s. Even though your argument that it ...

"I like Joe Biden". Anyone who likes Joe Biden is a complete moron who hates the US and wants the government to change their diapers. * Moderator: hmm, doesn't talk about the poster. Pass. - - - - "I like Joe Biden". I don't know why you are saying torturing babies should be lega...

You make an assumption that chatGPT "learns" from it's interactions. AFAICT it does not. Other chat bots have been rigged to do that, tho.

The Tank could be fixed with one rule: any post that references a member instead of their words gets deleted. There's simply no reason to make it personal. If you can't hear an opinion without attacking the person stating it, you should stick to talking about toilet paper. Sounds good to me. The on...

So the reason is "wanting an audience" ? Still dodging. Why didn't you invite this audience to this other forum so that they could high-five your posts when you make them there? Nothing you have said requires discussing politics HERE. The corollary is: if there is a reason it needs to be H...

No, Z, I asked several questions. You cherry picked one.

Create a forum somewhere else. Invite the people you want. Done.

The fact that you haven't done this already leads me to doubt your sincerity here. You seem to want something else.

Apples and oranges. I'll have a different opinion of toilet paper discussions if and when they become acrimonious to the degree of which we speak. Meanwhile: We tried politics. It ended badly. It is now in a new category, pretty much by itself. Create a forum elsewhere. It is EXACTLY the same as hav...

Fist and Faith wrote:Of course, another legitimate question is, why should the discussion of politics not be allowed on the Watch?

We know why. The benefit of the doubt was given with two open hands. Another legitimate question is, if we get fooled twice, shame on who?

An AI isn't an AI isn't an AI. They are built for different purposes, and so have different capabilities. For exactly the same reason that you don't expect your email app to play music, or expect candy crush to give you a traffic report, you should not expect things like Bing or chatGPT to approach ...

Devil's Advocate says: Why do we need to host a political forum? There are literally billions of political forums. I include reddit. If you want to discuss politics with other people, use them. If you want to discuss politics with members of the Watch, why not pick one of those forums and agree to m...

BTW, be careful about distinguishing what chatGPT can do - a specific AI with a specific and limited purpose - and what AIs could do in general. AIs may be able to find new knowledge; chatGPT cannot. chatGPT communicates, but it does not think. Ever since Eliza was written in 1964, people have under...

Maybe. But I'm left wondering if such things as burning down the house or the finger stuff correlated to some specific part of that war.

I can't think of too many movies that are about the heartache of a friend dumping you. I enjoyed it for this reason, among others. The thing about the donkey is that it exposes the poverty of male friendships. A man can admit to a fondness for his donkey but not for his best friend. I suppose if I u...

F2P. Free to play.

Just don't make any purchases. And have what fun you can.

Unless it's player vs player. When it's pay to win, win by quitting.

Pow!

That shot to your jaw was Ep 5. You will say "ouch!".

Wayfriend wrote:[spoiler]if a kaiju-class fungomonster were to emerge from under that basement, I would be pleased.[/spoiler]

I am semi-pleased. On the basis that that was a warm-up act for bigger things to come.

This has the ominous look to me You are misconstruing things if you think that the Chinese are ramping up something. These "balloons", whatever is their purpose, have been in use for quite some time -- it's just that we've started noticing them. (In a weird twist, the reason we started no...