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by aredox 3y ago
I would at least have expected an observational data point - doping with LSD, the same way we see widespread doping in many professions (including creative ones) with amphetamines/Adderall. But no, I mostly see use by creatives "s
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by aredox 3y ago
Creativity is difficult to measure in the lab, but if taking LSD was a game changer, you'd see a majority of creative workers taking LSD the same way Adderall & co are massively used (there and elsewhere - anywhere where staying mo
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by aredox 3y ago
Funny to see so much admiration for psychedelics from universities such as MIT. Has there ever been any objective -strong emphasis- of the efficiency of LSD to improve cognition, creativity or consciousness? Because I definitely never see
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by aredox 3y ago
What about - hear me out, I know this is crazy, but... holding elections on Sundays? You know, when people can go without taking a day off from work? Like any other democracy?
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by aredox 3y ago
Americans may finally start to realize they are not "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"
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by aredox 3y ago
Whereas if I had voted Le Pen or abstained, I would have gotten what? A better deal? Maybe you are just a sucker.
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by aredox 3y ago
Calling 'stupid' cartoons that very accurately describe Hitler's doublespeak only proves further your dishonesty. Le Pen would have done no better, or even worse, while puffing up the immigrant/woke menace to distract th
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by aredox 3y ago
Only idiots, naïves and bullshitters would think that Le Pen has a better social policy. For reference: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacobus_Belsen_-_D...
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by aredox 3y ago
Exactly. A correct analysis would be to determine the baseline pre-chatGPT, examine if there is a trend (some language "clichés" evolve with time) and then check if there is a clear shift post-ChatGPT.
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by aredox 3y ago
If there is a constant in the History of cars, it is that reliability problems kill your reputation - and your company - very quickly, whatever good your engineering may be. Citroën, DeLorean, Hillman, GM, Lancia... Trust is brittle.
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by aredox 3y ago
Maybe it won't be your cup of tea given your reference to Emacs, but there's guix if you want to try a saner alternative to nix.
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by aredox 3y ago
They are suited for each other, but their families are at war with each other
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by aredox 3y ago
There is certainly a sweet spot where they can increase the price of permits and still get more money in total. If an economist would do some good in the world, they could help the Nepali government find this sweet spot. It would improve Ne
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by aredox 3y ago
Go watch the recent movie "The zone of interest". https://youtu.be/GFNtVaAuVYY?si=jiQlDA9Z1EKnPZ0Z
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by aredox 3y ago
HN as an attack vector. Definitely a good way to get reach.
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by aredox 3y ago
Those safety parachutes have been there for decades in private aircrafts and have already saved a lot of lives.
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by aredox 3y ago
After 5.5 billion dollars and 15 years of work... they taxi a few people in a few select cities. Not what was promised. https://electrek.co/2015/12/21/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-drops-pre... A hundred billions have
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by aredox 3y ago
Text summarisation routinely hallucinates, code fails outside of boilerplate, and poetry is literally the least coherent form of writing. And no, AI can't diagnose yet - even expert systems forty years ago did better and it wasn't
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by aredox 3y ago
Tesla says: >The currently enabled Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. Also, how long will you have self-driving? It is notorious for havi
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by aredox 3y ago
Glorifying a lane assist that only works on highways by good weather is not self-driving. From Tesla's own admission: >The currently enabled Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features require active driver supervis
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by aredox 3y ago
>The skeptical folks rolled their eyes at suggestions that we'd have self driving cars everywhere in a few years, but lo and behold, they were right. What? Where?
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by aredox 3y ago
Does MS Word "understand language" because of autocorrect?
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by aredox 3y ago
"I haven't run into the wall yet. Sure the wall is there, but I am running full speed and I haven't it it yet"
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by aredox 3y ago
You mean, - customer service: chatbot invents refund policy that costs the company money and reputation https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy... - sports writing: a private equity group is runni
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by aredox 3y ago
What do mean, "not falsifiable"? Do we have self-driving cars? LLM attorneys? LLM radiologists? No, no and no. And the continuous failure of self-driving cars should worry you.
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by aredox 3y ago
But France is on the "continent" so has to manage transcontinental traffic, especially freight trains - which are very long, very heavy and very slow. But no, it's so easy for you to just shout "it doesn't make any
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by aredox 3y ago
Very ironic to read this... when Taleb is himself behaving more and more like an inhinged idiot - and no, I am not talking about his takes about the Middle-East, I am talking about his general behaviour and "reasoning"...
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by aredox 3y ago
#OpenLAIS
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by aredox 3y ago
And even that, in woodworking there's been three "new" methods of sharpening in the last decade or so which all became trends (and counter-trends); and new tools, new jigs, new tricks pop up all the time, so...
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by aredox 3y ago
France doesn't get clockface timetabling because the topology of the network doesn't allow it - to mamy chokepoints. (Of course when I say doesn't allow it, I mean they could, but it would be very impractical and require maj

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