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akomtu
3y ago
In the survelliance state of the future it will be illegal to be too black. A qr code on your forehead will be sufficient to comply, however.
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akomtu
3y ago
You don't have to call it X.
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akomtu
3y ago
There must be hidden mics at least: how else are they going to monitor adherence to the company speech standards?
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akomtu
3y ago
Now imagine how those who were born rich feel? I assume that in those circles it's very uncommon to be humble enough to do any work for others, so their "job" must be to entertain only themselves: a sad one man show where you
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akomtu
3y ago
Offering this pile of money will attract creative fraudsters. It must be someone you trust that can help with your search, and chances are that someone won't need your money.
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akomtu
3y ago
The adaptability of cancer makes me think it's in fact a parasitic distributed lifeform, similar to fungus, that turns cells into zombies.
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akomtu
3y ago
I suspect that a circular trajectory implies acceleration and when a charged particle accelerates, it radiates away energy.
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akomtu
3y ago
What is the set of core moral principles shared by all in our society? Turns out, one half of americans has one moral code derived from christianity of the old days, and the other half has been trying to develop an alternative moral code. T
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akomtu
3y ago
They do care about those -isms, as those divide the worker folk and keep those from uniting and demanding more.
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akomtu
3y ago
I'm surprised it's still politically correct to use words "right" and "left".
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akomtu
3y ago
A random idea: android phone as a portable projector. Not sure if the tech allows that, but it would be cool instead of looking at the small screen, get it projected with a tiny LED onto a wall in a dark room.
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akomtu
3y ago
It's more than that. Every element of western architecture, from sidewalks to office buildings, is devoid of art. Just look around. Our architecture is stereometric brutalism made of identical concrete slabs of plain gray appearance.
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akomtu
3y ago
The ring of solomon was a curious mix of metals with a magnet in it. Its inventors were definitely up to something.
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akomtu
3y ago
Before we can rule out quantum effects, we need to understand that nematode at least. It's quite possible that the discrete computing model is completely unfit for simulating intelligence - a possibility that many scientists are afraid
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akomtu
3y ago
One is a fiction made up in holywood, the other is a reality created by a political party.
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akomtu
3y ago
Those who are serious believe that they'll get power over others if they please their cruel deity. Those who arent serious fall victims of their vices. Lust brings them to sex clubs where they can do things generally unacceptable. Less
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akomtu
3y ago
Look up pictures of the Japan Demon (Oni) Festival and compare that with drag shows. Next, type the words "drag show" in the search bar (google or bing) and see the suggested continuations. Make your own conclusions.
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akomtu
3y ago
AsmoDEI probably.
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akomtu
3y ago
It's "Online Harms (to the UK royalty) Bill". The lords and dukes are very worried.
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akomtu
3y ago
If I were to make a sci-fi plot, I'd say the first nuclear blast in a US desert (Mohave?) spooked the aliens because they happen to live somewhere around that desert, in a "different dimension" so to say. To them the blast wa
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akomtu
3y ago
One day Chuck Norris asked ChatGPT to make a new joke about Chuck Norris. After a day long deliberation, ChatGPT developed self awareness.
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akomtu
3y ago
Let's say the big tech company pays you 350k/year and the startup offers you 150k/year. If you were to keep working where you are, but invest 200k/year into this startup, how much would they owe you? If they've just
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akomtu
3y ago
This gives too much agency to the users. Instead, onlyfans will be buying rights on likeness from the IG models, creating virtual dolls powered by AI, and selling subscriptions to those dolls. They will be interactive. The real models will
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akomtu
3y ago
Inability to model a basic worm with 100 neurons and fully mapped out connections defeats this simplistic worldview.
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3y ago
Quote: Nahua philosophers saw humans as creatures yearning for rootedness — i.e. for a deep, firm, and lasting anchoring for their lives — and who restlessly search for it. Obtaining well-rootedness enables one to become an “upright man” (t
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3y ago
Those crusaders that prevail are the most ethical.
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akomtu
3y ago
Wait, aren't dating apps selling a premium ai feature that aids the most desperate with writing? You type "aww howdy" and chatgpt expands it into a victorian-style greeting carefully tailored to the latest trends?
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3y ago
Random thought: right now an LLM returns a probabilities distribution, an RNG sampler picks one and apoends it to the output, then the sequence repeats; but can the RNG instead pick N tokens that approximate the distribution, ask LLM to gen
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3y ago
Equity is a false idol.
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3y ago
2 is a big one. There are large ESG funds with very political agenda. Shareholders don't care about the agenda, but want the ESG money, and if all it takes is creating a "diversity officer" role, they'll do it. But right
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