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Nah I was dismissing faux outrage at a guy saying whatever dumb shit, and those people basing their outrage in large part on such arbitrary jurisdictional issues.

Outrage about the actual crime of human trafficking is of course called for but has nothing to do with RMS. Also, outrage at RMS won’t actually in any way address those crimes. But it feels good!

That is the context of the subthread to which you responded. Sorry if it wasn’t clear from my original post.

Yes those are indeed real crimes and there are real ways to effect change with respect to those issues.

RMS being a bozo isn’t a crime and internet outrage about it has no effect on real crimes.

If you donate $5 to a charity helping those affected, for instance, you’ll have done more than all the virtue signaling outrage in the world. You’re not raising awareness, you’re not changing opinions, it’s not “problematic”, you’re just getting your anger/attention rush. It has negative utility and value for the world, and you’re making things worse.

(You in the general sense, you understand. Not you specifically).

Which just demonstrates how nuts this all is. You’re in this jurisdiction on day X it’s one crime, another jurisdiction on day X+1 it’s another crime.

There are real crimes happening you can get upset about (and maybe even do something about). This is about internet points for people that want to be seen to be upset. They are trading on the suffering of the very people they purport to represent.

Indeed, plus what are you going to do otherwise? Google it. And how will you vet the pages Google returns? Intuition and common sense, and perhaps an appeal to authority.

> Early on, ChatGPT knocked a bunch of highly technical questions I sent it out of the park

I hear this all the time but never with a transcript. I wonder how much experts “read into” responses to make them seem more impressive. (Accidentally you understand, no malice). Or if in the moment it feels impressive but on review it’s mostly banal / platitudes / vague.

The few times I’ve used it for precise answers they were wrong in subtle but significant ways.