From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 21:20:00 -0000 (UTC), oldernow    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-04-01, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >   
   >> A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of   
   >> America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions   
   >> had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change   
   >> their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not   
   >> deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and   
   >> Trump).   
   >>   
   >> You can see the blog post here:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI   
   >> component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.   
   >>   
   >> You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post.   
   >>   
   >> Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically   
   >> correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok   
   >> is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".   
   >>   
   >> How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the   
   >> leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies   
   >> in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and   
   >> Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"   
   >> than the human actors.   
   >>   
   >> And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself.   
   >   
   >"Political correctness" is a useless term in the context   
   >of a sea of egos convinced they're right, and disagreers   
   >wrong. A more honest rendering of it would be "political   
   >as-I-believe-ness", removing the dishonest claim of   
   >objectivity of the word 'correctness'.   
      
   The meaning of "political correctness" has nothing to do with   
   objectivity, since the meaning of "correctness" is modified by the   
   adjective "political", and refers to whatever is deemed correct by   
   those in political power, whether it is objectively correct or not.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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