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by api 8mo ago
If you took Jesus' teachings and stripped the name off, would most of these people agree with them? Things like welcoming the foreigner and treating them as one of your own, not judging others, etc.? I don't think using the name a
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by api 8mo ago
The way I see it, we build technology to be what we are not and do what we can’t do or things we can do but better or faster. An unpredictable fallible machine is useless to us because we have 7+ billion carbon based ones already.
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by api 8mo ago
This is why I’m not sure most users actually want AGI. They want special purpose experts that are good at certain things with strictly controlled parameters.
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by api 8mo ago
I’ve always seen American evangelism as a political movement first and a religious one second. This impression has strengthened quite a bit in recent years as it’s become clear that political movements and politicians that are diametrically
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by api 8mo ago
I wonder how many of them are basically click fraud to get money from ad networks.
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by api 8mo ago
Short form video content in general is ludicrously addictive. All infinite scroll is addictive but there’s something particularly strong when it’s short videos that each deliver some kind of hook or punch line. I landed on YouTube shorts on
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by api 8mo ago
The best are the one trick doctors don’t tell you or the thing THEY don’t want you to know about. A lot of scams and cons are deliberately stupid looking and absurd to pre-select for gullible marks. It’s also why goofy conspiritainment show
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by api 8mo ago
100% if you go back a little further. Large hominids aren’t native to this continent. BTW have you ever thought about what incredible bad asses people had to be to cross the Bering strait during the ice age with Stone Age tech? We could def
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by api 8mo ago
Why is that only a problem for democracy? It’s one of the central problems of civilization and has been discussed by philosophers since the Greeks. In monarchies you’d often end up with kings and people in line for the throne being murdered
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by api 8mo ago
The extreme of this is airships, but also trains.
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by api 8mo ago
Most of the anger from regular folk comes from the reinflation of the housing bubble, continuing to price two generations out of home ownership. If you want to see why people are mad look at what is actually causing them pain. For young peo
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by api 8mo ago
It’s a recession being masked by two things: inflation making nominal numbers not go down, and the fact that stock markets have fully decoupled from the actual economy. They are just casinos now.
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by api 8mo ago
Smaller subs can still be decent but I agree about popular and larger subs. They’re just brain rot and engagement bait now.
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by api 8mo ago
It’s not really social media at all and we should stop calling it that. I call them chum feeds or scrollers. There’s no social component. It’s just addictive short form infinite scroll brain rot. Social media deserving of the name is almost
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by api 8mo ago
Microsoft really seems to be tripling and quadrupling down on total surveillance of the user's "own" system. If you haven't ditched MS yet, I'd consider it now. Linux is becoming more and more viable for a gaming PC
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by api 8mo ago
Uhh... how about show me both? I think that's always been true. The ideas and reasoning process matter. So does the end product. If you produced it with an LLM and it sucks, it still sucks.
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by api 8mo ago
Pricing mostly, and also simplicity. Big cloud is incredibly expensive when you really look at it. The markup is huge. It’s weird because in most of this industry scale results in lower prices. Not in cloud.
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by api 8mo ago
There's an indie sci-fi film called Sleep Dealer about this. It's not bad.
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by api 8mo ago
The only places it does is where humans can't easily go: space, underwater, hazardous industrial sites, etc. It can occasionally make sense for high skill stuff where the shortage is people who can even do it, like remote surgery. In y
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by api 8mo ago
Consumer robotics strikes me as an engineering tar pit so deep it leads to hell. If full self driving is hard due to the long tail of unusual special cases, this is orders of magnitude worse. Take FSD but multiply the number of actuators an
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by api 8mo ago
It's super cool but I see it as a much more flexible open ended take on the idea of procedurally generated worlds where hard-coded deterministic math and rendering parameters are replaced by prompt-able models. The deadness you're
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by api 8mo ago
I think he might be the greatest person at failing up who has ever lived. It has to be some kind of savant-like skill. After this he’ll probably become the literal king of the world.
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by api 8mo ago
I assumed this was going to be about how drunk you’d have to get to ride an elephant into battle.
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by api 8mo ago
I don't think the two topics are separable. This is a specific case of the general trend.
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by api 8mo ago
I'm referring to mobile phones, software that constantly spies on you, location tracking, and mass data fusion without any regard for legal limitations or privacy. Each individual data point seems normal or innocuous, but when you tie
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by api 8mo ago
Starting way back in the early 2000s I was predicting all this and was consistently called nuts and paranoid. In retrospect what has actually happened with mass surveillance has been far worse than what the most unhinged conspiracy nut on s
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by api 8mo ago
It doesn’t need to be rational. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/03/afghanistan.lu... The thought experiment I’m doing is asking what happens if there is a link between hyper aggressive species
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by api 8mo ago
The irony is that Ruby Ridge and Waco were big rallying points for the “patriot” right when it was precisely this mentality that led to those events. Now a lot of those same patriot right types are cheering this on if not enlisting.
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by api 8mo ago
Honestly so is the USA. Yes there is racism, more than I used to think, but it’s below average. Not being racist is really a pretty modern idea that didn’t become popular anywhere until the last 50 years. For most of human history it was co
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by api 8mo ago
Sometimes when I think about this it makes me wonder if we should take the dark forest hypothesis seriously (re: Fermi paradox). Not only are we the only species to reach this kind of technology but among humans the first group to reach spa

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