Comment by pu_pe
1 day ago
It's telling that they don't just tell the model what to think, they have to make it go fetch the latest opinion because there is no intellectual consistency in their politics. You see that all the time on X too, perhaps that's how they program their bots.
very few people have intellectual consistency in their politics
Fascism is notoriously an intellectually and philosophically inconsistent world view who's primary purpose is to validate racism and violence.
There's no world where the fascist checks sources before making a claim.
Just like ole Elon, who has regularly been proven wrong by Grok, to the point where they need to check what he thinks first before checking for sources.
A good rule of thumb: If your theory of mind for literally anyone is "they just want to hurt people", you are repeating propaganda.
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That or, more likely, we don't have a complete understanding of the individual's politics. I am saying this, because what I often see is espoused values as opposed to practiced ones. That tends to translate to 'what currently benefits me'. It is annoying to see that pattern repeat so consistently.
In the Netherlands we have this phenomenon that around 20% of voters keep voting for the new "Messiah", a right-wing populist politician that will this time fix everything.
When the party inevitably explodes due to internal bickering and/or simply failing to deliver their impossible promises, a new Messiah pops up, propped by the national media, and the cycle restarts.
That being said, the other 80% is somewhat consistent in their patterns.
In the UK it's the other way round: the media have chosen Farage as the anointed right-wing leader of a cult of personality. Every few years his "party" implodes and is replaced by a new one, but his position is fixed.
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This is almost 40% in Slovenia, but for a moderate without a clear program.
Every second election cycle Messiah like that becomes the prime minister.
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> That being said, the other 80% is somewhat consistent in their patterns.
Yes very consistent in promising one thing and then doing another.
Is being a tax haven and doing propaganda to tell your citizens how virtuous you are economically (what NL has been doing for several decades) not right wing populism?
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Many people are quite inconsistent yes but musk and trump are clear outliers. Well, their axiom if any is self-interest, I guess.
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It is an ongoing event
With an absolute mountain of historical information behind it. You can form an opinion with that info.