Oh my gah!

If it was an honest mistake he would’ve apologized.

The person reading this is cute

An integer solution does exist.

They are another corporation.

I would’ve thought folks here would understand why corporate ownership of social media is ultimately the problem.

The problem I have with it isn’t the feed, it’s the ownership.

Bluesky isn’t much better.

All of this just sounds worse and worse. NFTs, seriously?

From what I’ve gathered, this appears to be an unusably slow 4chan for crypto bros.

What exactly do you mean by “prosecution” in the context of social media?

If/when I can afford to upgrade - big if - I’m considering a foldable just to play rhythm games on, because some games I’ve tried feel like they aren’t designed for just thumbs and want a bigger screen. I dunno what else I’d use it for, but I see at least one niche use case for this gimmick and it happens to be a niche I’d use.

If we weren’t capable of higher reasoning to ask this kind of question, it wouldn’t be a very good simulation, would it?

A few other names have been discovered that ChatGPT also will not output, and none of them seem to be anyone special.

I think the most plausible explanation is that these individuals filed a Right to be Forgotten request, and rather than actually scrubbing any data, OpenAI’s kludge was to simply have the frontend throw an error any time the LLM would output a forbidden name. I doubt this is anything happening within the LLM, just a filter on its output.

Well if nothing is permanent, then I guess the word ban doesn’t have to be either.

Your question is built on a faulty assumption, so I simply answered with another question that would more accurately reflect what we’re discussing.

You gave me a word which only means temporary, which is very much not what I am looking for. Do you understand what the difference is?

You’re hung up on the assumption you’ve made that anything that isn’t explicitly defined as temporary must be permanent, failing to consider that a word could simply mean neither. This assumption is on you, no one else has made this assumption and a dozen people have all explained to you why that’s not so. No one else is having trouble with the word but you!

You made this thread to ask a question, got answered, and proceeded to reject every single answer given to you. Why make the thread at all if you’ve already made up your mind that the rest of the world is wrong?

‘Ban’ isn’t just a word for a temporary condition. Just as it isn’t just a word for a permanent condition.

Can you give an example of a word that could be temporary or could be permanent, and the definition explicitly points both out?

Neither is implied unless otherwise defined. I’m saying that it isn’t necessarily temporary either. It’s not explicitly defined as temporary because it doesn’t have to be temporary.

Back in my day we had both tempbans and permabans as two types of ban. If you wanted to explicitly specify, you’d use one of those terms.

It’s not redundant to have more specific terms. Assumptions like yours are exactly why disambiguation is useful.

Why would you assume anything at all? It also isn’t explicitly defined as permanent either.

It isn’t explicitly defined as temporary because it doesn’t have to be temporary. It isn’t explicitly defined as permanent because it doesn’t have to be permanent. The word could be used in either situation.

To my mind, Ban has always meant permanent.

I’m not sure where you got that association from. Even the dictionary definition you gave says nothing about permanence.