antisthenes

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by antisthenes 2mo ago
Calhoun's mouse utopia experiment is looking more and more real by the day. > The "Beautiful Ones": Younger mice withdrew entirely from social interaction, spending all day grooming and eating alone without mating or fight
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
> Yes, when the effects on the environments are so bad that there can be no denying anymore because they affect everyday life of almost all people. I can't reconcile 2 things here. The effects will be so bad, but at the same time we
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
> so that in the future when the shit really hits the fan we have enough energy and assistance from AI to create a scalable technology to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere proactively. > In my view there is no credible future in which th
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
> Is this the same "media" that Trump and his dullards claim is so corrupt and contrary to The Truth? Are you influenced by this "media"? I don't read The Guardian or Jacobin, but I'm occasionally exposed to
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
Do you have a graph that extends to 2020? https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber Roughly ~400 index pre-Covid. Roughly ~580 index the past year. 45% inflation, compared to 30% reported inflation by BLS from Octo
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Moscow metro is a work of art (the older stations anyway). The only feelings that NY or DC metros ever evoked from me is "how fast can I get the hell out of there" and move on with my day.
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
If you can find a sugar mommy, sure.
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
> I can drive from NYC to Boston on ~10 gallon. NYC to Boston is only ~220 miles. You can drive literally any car there for 10 gallons. Or did you mean there and back?
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
Then the most optimal solution of all is to have a lawn that doesn't need mowing at all.
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by antisthenes 2mo ago
It's also important not to put too much faith into ancient sayings and aphorisms. As a civilization, we are currently brushing up against the physics of efficiency. In many areas we have achieved close to what is theoretically possible
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
You need to tell them in high school, before their brains finish developing. If you don't instill critical thinking into people by the age of 17-19 at the LATEST, it's already too late after. College is already too late. You just
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
Given the state of the US healthcare industry and how little shit some doctors give (and some are legitimately overworked), this isn't as absurd as it sounds.
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
Just ask Claude if they are secure.
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
Yeah, that's just TMI. I don't think anyone ever pressed for more details after a coworker said "I had some issues with my health". People show empathy, and move on. No need to ask for details.
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
> It’s pointless to try and force-fit LLMs into the present day American-centric two party political spectrum. Yes, thank you! Especially when using a weird set of simplistic "vibey" loaded questions that would have very differ
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
Man, this is tiring. There's a certain category of people who seem to be unable to have any thought or perform any action without first having a mini culture war and annoying everyone else around them with it. Reading the questions, so
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
> If the cost for sodium batteries is similar to LFP, that alone would be a reason to switch. Why would that be a reason to switch, given the LFP batteries typically have better operational parameters in everything except cold-weather ch
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
Windows 10 LTSC IOT will be the last Windows I ever use. As I grow older, I simply do not have the patience or the will to do all these workarounds and tweaks to my OS to turn it from a piece of barely-working corporate spyware into somethi
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
> would someone a million in the future be able to tell that today's bananas, corn, watermelons, cattle, dogs etc. were the result of selective breeding by an intelligent species? They might be able to, based on when these disappear
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
> If there are 10x and 0.1x engineers, you bet there are 10x and 0.1x doctors. So if we already have a massive doctor shortage, including 0.1x doctors, you can begin to guess how awful the medical system is in the US. You could be paying
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
> Read the Docs, a non-profit that hosts documentation for open-source software, who watched a single crawler download 73 terabytes of zipped HTML in one month, costing it over $5,000 in bandwidth From the article. Not the same site, but
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
> The thing is, people were scraping and monetizing other people's websites long before the current LLM fad. The difference is the magnitude of the problem. People doing it with a couple of machines and residential proxies versus An
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
It also doesn't matter for a simpler, and much grander reason. All LLMs are trained on the corpus of humanity's knowledge, the legacy of everyone who's ever lived and our civilization as a whole. Anything that prevents or cir
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
Anything presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
It's like the century old fable about the businessman and the fisherman. Nothing new.
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
If I turn up my volume loud enough, then the car next to me is going to be listening to the same song I am :)
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
The AI craze not only destroyed books, but many small websites who couldn't bear the load of constant scraping, or many communities that took open forums and took them offline or put them behind closed doors. There is less publicly ava
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
tl;dr educational nimby-ism. And we all pay the bill for the shortage.
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
> A good rule of thumb is "if you think software can solve a problem, you probably don't understand the problem." Someone let American health care startups know that. Not sure what any of them are doing, but it's not
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by antisthenes 3mo ago
Do you consider the possibility that some of those people gave good answers?

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