I was going to post a reply similar to this, but as a joke. Fuck you for doing it in earnest instead.

Machine translation was the original purpose of the transformer architecture, and I guess it was unreasonably good at it compared to the existing state-of-the-art RNNs or whatever they were doing before.

beautiful

I bet if they restricted the survey entrants to people who actually write on LW, the score would have been far lower. Has a single article on there contained even a twinge of a useful idea?

nope, they're still figuring out how to use it. It's just THAT good.

global southerner? edit: nah I don't like it.

Idealism? check

False dichotomy between said idealism and cherry picked reality? check

Mistakes avoided by anyone with a mental age over 16.

How did they respond to the counterargument that humans are simply... built different?

In this case, the context is definitely humans being born on earth. The entire diatribe I responded to can be summed up as "People have all kinds of ethical and moral objections to surrogacy. In this post, I dismiss all of those without an argument, and instead assign positive moral value to everything that increases the number of lives, including surrogacy." It's probably one of the dumbest things I read this week.

Midjourney is profitable, so they fucked up BIG time. Imagine going bankrupt while someone else uses your technology to make money hand over fist.

who the FUCK is John Galt?

More details on the rust thing? I can't find it by searching keywords you mentioned but I must know.