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Breakfest-burrito t1_ja2icgl wrote

I'm saying he's an idiot for thinking it's not geographical and that simply being Chinese grants you access to the Chinese version of TikTok. Your region determines your viewing, it's like if someone says everyone in the UK watches BBC but I chime in saying "I have a neighbor from England and he watches CSPAN"....like yeah, you idiot, because he's your neighbor here in America

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Mrogoth_bauglir t1_ja2evsk wrote

Well, it was only the defence position (and potions) that was terrible, everything else was fine. Also care for magical creatures wasn't great as well I guess. He had no choice but to keep Snape in potions, and as for defence there was nothing he could do, the job was jinxed. He did hire great teachers, Lupin, Barty Crouch Jr, even Snape.

The only questionable choice he made was Lockhart. He had no part in Umbridge's employment and as for Snape while he was unpleasant he was a competent teacher. We have no mention of how Quirell taught so I won't include him here.

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One-Step2764 t1_ja2bq3p wrote

Futurists worry about rogue AI for pretty good reasons; we've already experienced a primitive form of the problem in our social bureaucracy. Those politicians and powerholders do horrible things as they optimize toward a misaligned reward function, whether that's votes in a unrepresentative majoritarian polling system, leverage in an absurdly lopsided legislative system, or financial tokens in an economic system that rewards hoarders.

What's happening now in the US is not dissimilar from a game AI spamming some useless behavior that runs up a counter to no useful purpose. Unfortunately, the dollar-counter gives our social AI ever-greater power to perpetuate itself. Millions, billions, trillions of dollar-points, all redeemable for more and more human labor to be spent on accumulating more and more points, absolutely disregarding the humanitarian or ecological cost.

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