I’m reading (via AI) about how the working week (at least at some period in the middle ages) was only three days, and a serf could take his lord to manorial court over him trying to extend it to four days; apparently records show that serfs often won these cases.

Today, serfs wage slaves work five days a week, are pressured to work extra for free, and the rich win most legal cases.

The elites really did refine the system didn’t they?

    • g_mer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Social media is designed for engagement, while LLMs prefer to minimize computation costs, and therefore want to give you an answer that satisfies your and makes you stop asking more (without any regard for truthfulness).

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        That’s not true, there’s a reason why most AI answers will end with a follow up question.

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          I think that’s due the truthfulness problem. But they do want you to use more tokens so you have to buy more tokens, otherwise they can’t keep the bubble up maybe.