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by allturtles 1y ago
This news is about the elimination of childhood vaccine mandates - measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, chicken pox, polio, etc. It has nothing to do with COVID.
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With an average speed of 70 mph, the Brightline isn't high-speed as it would be defined elsewhere in the world. Neither is the Amtrak Acela, for that matter.
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# of X closing / time isn't a meaningful measure of decline . You would have to subtract # closing / time from # opening / time. But even a net loss of colleges doesn't necessarily indicate a loss of students , it
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I don't think people have gotten stupider or leaders have gotten worse at justifying their policies. IMO what is happening here is a consequence of a catastrophic loss of trust in elites and institutions.
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> I don't get it. The prevalence of headaches must mean some doctors also get headaches. How do they reconcile their symptoms with their practice? I don't get what you or the OP expects them to do about it. There is no secret c
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by allturtles 1y ago
I think you're missing a middle ground, of people who want to let people know a thing they found or learned, and want to get credit for it . Among other things, this motivation has been the basis for pretty much the entire scientific
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FWIW, the data I found puts potatoes at 1.7% of world calorie consumption [0], but also puts the sum of maize+wheat+rice+potatoes at closer to 50% than 80%. [0]: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-important-staple
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by allturtles 1y ago
AFAIK the dominant theory is that they weren't memorized as a whole text, but composed on the fly with the help of a memorized set of stock formulas. [0] [0]: https://poets.org/glossary/oral-formulaic-method
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by allturtles 1y ago
Before paper became cheap, wax or wooden tablets were used for ephemeral writing. > I have read a lot of late 18th, 19th and early 20th century books and diaries, and it is plainly clear that writers such as Tolstói, Zweig, Goethe and ot
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What is the moral distinction between an intelligent humanoid machine and a human? What is a human but an intelligent flesh-and-blood machine?
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> I don’t think I could name many 19’th century engineers Unlike engineering, the whole English literature curriculum in high school is built around reading particular works by particular historical writers. The highlights of nineteenth-
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How are these statements contradictory?
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You can figure out from later context that it's some kind of legal institution with an associated court. The students were also allowed to look things up: "Facilitators also provided subjects with access to online resources and di
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Not just university students, but English majors [0]. [0]: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922346 It's a very depressing study overall: " When we asked our subjects to name British and American authors and&#x2
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by allturtles 1y ago
Good thing it was called Top Gun: Maverick, then! No number necessary. :-)
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It was definitely farm fields growing crops, you can look in Google Earth and see for yourself. Edit: Anywhere in the Midwest where there is a large expanse of flat ground will almost always be growing crops or have a town built on it. Unde
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by allturtles 1y ago
The person you're replying to said "For me the risk of timelines is that they're unknowable due to the unpredictable nature of ASI." So they are predicting >90% chance of doom, but not when that will happen. Given tha
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by allturtles 1y ago
To elaborate on lapcat's point, you have to look at this from the point-of-view of a young, would-be aspiring literary fiction writer. From that vantage, it doesn't matter what the steady state of English/MFA professorships i
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by allturtles 1y ago
Isn't this easily solved by reading part of the book and then deciding whether you like it enough to continue? The typical novel takes no longer than watching a season of a serialized TV show... and because it is written as a coherent
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Being anti-vax is a luxury position for people living in a place full of vaccinated people who want to signal that they are non-conformist and don't kowtow to the elites. Holding this position has zero cost as long as everyone else aro
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by allturtles 1y ago
Okay, well I disagree with your dimensional analysis. To me moral clarity is being confident about who is in the right and who is in the wrong. Taking action to do something about it is another matter. To me it's morally clear that Ukr
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I don't think it has anything to do with moral clarity. The western allies didn't hesitate to attack because they weren't sure whether Hitler was such a bad guy after all. They feared another repetition of wwi and worse, beca
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> In any other context, this would be known as "civil disobediance". It's generally considered something to applaud. No, civil disobedience is when you break the law expecting to be punished, to force society to confront t
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If they didn't break the law, your pragmatic point about outcomes is irrelevant. Open AI is in the clear regardless of whether they are doing something great or something useless. So I don't honestly know what you're trying t
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Why not simply make your counterargument rather than accusing GP of being in bad faith? Your argument seems to be that it's fine to break the law if the net outcome for society is positive. It's not "bad faith" to disagr
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“What hope can there be for mankind,” I thought, “when there are such men as Felix Hoenikker to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost all men and women are?” And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokono
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Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952) has a lot of relevance these days. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)
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No offense to the people of Velankanni, but Our Lady of Good Health is rather rinky-dink compared to the great historical cathedrals. Looks like the nave is about 20 feet tall and the bell towers 40 feet maybe? Notre Dame it isn't. Per
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I think it's the wrong analogy. The prompt engineer who uses the AI to make code maps to the poorly-paid, low-skill power loom machine tender. The "engineer" is the person who created the model. But it's also not totally
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> My job isn’t replaced because coding is not my job — it’s solving domain specific problems? I would wonder why you are so complacent as to think next year's models won't be able to solve domain-specific problems? Look at how

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