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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I’m going to very lightly disagree here and say that I found this informative and it saved me from having to read the entire platforms and then summarize them for myself.

    We are all responsible for educating ourselves and llms are error prone but that does not remove all the value from this post. Today, this post helped me better understand the history of our parties in a way that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

    Would it have been better if a domain expert had stepped in and summarized, absolutely. But we can’t all be domain experts, we don’t all have all the time to read all the things. Sometimes it’s nice that we have an algorithm that can do a “good enough” job at summarizing things.














  • I understand feeling frustrated about Kash Patel’s actions, but this kind of ethnic stereotyping isn’t the way to express it. The “Patels should stick to corner stores” comment reinforces harmful stereotypes about an entire community of people.

    People with the surname Patel are doctors, engineers, artists, teachers—contributing to society in countless ways. When we reduce any group to a stereotype, even in casual comments, we lose sight of their humanity and individuality.

    We can criticize someone’s actions without bringing their ethnicity into it. I’m sure you didn’t mean harm, but these small moments are where we can all help build a more thoughtful community.