From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   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:   
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   >   
   > 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'.   
      
   --   
   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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