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by Fricken 3y ago
Only as a statistical average. Hunter gatherers who survived past age 5 had a good chance of living into their 60s and 70s.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Yes. I wasn't searching for a button, I was searching for a brownie recipie
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by Fricken 3y ago
Way too much fucking around.
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by Fricken 3y ago
The first time I visited "Love and Lemons" (the first non-sponsored link I got) I scrolled down looking for the actual recipie until I gave up. Right before you made this comment I checked again and found the link to the recipie
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by Fricken 3y ago
The acid test: can I find a brownie recipie without any fucking around? ...nope, I still can't.
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by Fricken 3y ago
A young guy from my town made Skinnamarink at home. Rolling Stone ranked it the best horror flick of the year. The thing you need isn't AI or any other fancy tool. You need talent, and a great distribution deal.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I came across a news item in Canada saying Heroin is basically impossible to find now. The lower quality but much cheaper product has replaced it. Clayton Christensen's theory of disruption in action.
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by Fricken 3y ago
It's not clear modernity is making us any happier than our hunter gatherer ancestors. Of course, people everywhere tend defer to what they're familiar with, so it will be a tough argument to make with this crowd. https:/&#x2
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by Fricken 3y ago
I suppose it depends on which risks you're trying to reduce. The risk of death, however, is 100% no matter what, so it's not worth getting uptight about.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Tea, and isolating various behavioral traits of wolves we've made various types of dogs. They're all less than a complete wolf.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Domesticated animals tend to be less intelligent than their wild brethren. I'm not convinced that 10k years of agricultural civilization has done anything to make us more intelligent as individuals. Relative to surviving as a hunter ga
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by Fricken 3y ago
It's no rumour that Apple was developing vehicle autonomy. Their test vehicles were driving around Cupertino for years.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Apple couldn't commit to self driving car development. They never really figured out if they were developing a Robotaxi or just an EV with automated features. (L5 is still science fiction.) Google/Waymo has been working on level 4
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by Fricken 3y ago
The comments here are all so off-base. People who work on cars don't get moved to gen-AI. People who work on robocars get moved to gen-AI.
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by Fricken 3y ago
How long has it been since I've been able to get through a 24 hour tech news cycle without hearing about Elon? A decade, maybe? It just keeps getting dumber and dumber.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Remember Sam Slater? In the US he is known as the father of American factory system. In Britain he was known as "Slater the Traitor", because he stole their IP and brought it to the Americas. What goes around comes around, I guess
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by Fricken 3y ago
I stayed in a quite poor village in rural mexico while on a surf trip. The houses were shaded, the walls were vertical slats with gaps to allow air flow, and they kept their floors wet. It worked. We prefer to make things excessively compli
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by Fricken 3y ago
Yes, and they have been.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Meta likes to release positive news about itself in the wake of it's competitors misfortunes.
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by Fricken 3y ago
An image generator is supposed to hallucinate. That's the whole point. If you want a non-hallucinogenic image, then use Google image search. It's just so ass-backwards to release a creative tool and then attempt to constrain it to
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by Fricken 3y ago
You don't have to spend much time with Gemini to see how far Google has driven it's head up it's ass. They drove their heads up their ass on purpose. None of the results are a surprise to Google.
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by Fricken 3y ago
It's not some weird coincidence that a request for Germans is spitting out Japanese and Africans. Gemini has been filtered to the point of absurdity Wholly inoffensive images become taboo when you describe them using plain language...
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by Fricken 3y ago
On r/chaptgpt op, using Gemini asked for an 1820 German couple, and the 4 images were diverse, with one of the 4 generated images showing a black man and Japanese woman. Some people used the same prompt and received the images you woul
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by Fricken 3y ago
Hunter gatherers are like you. They are bound to their identity and are incapable of imagining things any other way unless it is forced upon them. They prefer to stick with what they know.
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by Fricken 3y ago
It goes both ways, dude.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Consensus reality is already cracking up due to the internet, smartphones and social media. The Media theorist Marshall McLuhan had a lot to say about this well in advance, but nobody listened.
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by Fricken 3y ago
We can't do narrative sequences with persistent characters and settings, even with static images. These video clips just generic stock clips. You cut cut them together to make a sequence of random flashy whatever, but you still can&#x2
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by Fricken 3y ago
A pick-up truck being towed crooked and backwards. Both vehicles failed to read the situation in the same manner. Autonomous vehicles have various redundant systems built-in that can take priority and override false positives. I was previo
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by Fricken 3y ago
In 1621 The Dutch waged a bloody battle to secure control of the Banda Islands, which was for the west the only known source of Nutmeg, and prior to knowing the source Europe paid exorbitant prices for Nutmeg that came to Venice via Arab tr
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by Fricken 3y ago
The first objective is to develop a robotaxi service convenient and affordable enough that people come to depend on it. The second objective is to enshittify the service. (Try not to say that part out loud)

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