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2mo ago
> Also, why ask this here, and not simply use Google or an LLM to find the information? It comes off as a bit lazy - why answer? - Google is a fucking mess, no thanks, quicker to ask a person who knows the answer already - llms don'
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I'm guessing, they too live a sedentary lifestyle and that's why their muscles are wasting away. Ive seen 90 year olds in rural Italy out every morning watering the garden. She didn't need to spend any time exercising because
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2mo ago
I think you've missed my point. Do hunter gatherers need to exercise? Pastoralists? It's only those of us caught in civilized society that live sedentary lives and have this problem in the first place
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2mo ago
"Itll either be a utopia or a dystopia" How prescient
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2mo ago
Why would you need to exercise unless you were living an unnaturally sedentary life due to being trapped in wage slavery? Shouldn't this be retitled to something like overcoming illhealth related to sedantism?
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2mo ago
3.6 rods? Not great but not terrible either
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2mo ago
Paragraphs wasted on guardrails... Id happily have the dangerous but cheaper and better version
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2mo ago
Are there any like this but in c or c++?
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2mo ago
But he sounded so clever with his quippy little lines... America loves appearances more than the reality
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2mo ago
> That would in fact be the main argument against humanoid robots in many (most?) applications. Buy one robot, use it for many things, is an attractive proposition I think
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> I’d argue that there’s a clear line connecting the automation of typesetting and counting in the late 19th century to the rise of electrical computers a generation later, and then the early Internet and AI research a generation after t
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2mo ago
Climate change has come through for us once again
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2mo ago
Parkinson's lol do you know what that actually looks like? It's degenerative. In a country where only the poor are expected to do all the work, seems fair to me that when they cannot work, the state provides them at least a meagre
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2mo ago
> Whut? People and companies are always being sued and punished for injuring or killing others with cars or by any other means. I said ban > Do you understand the difference between banning a tool and prosecuting those who cause damag
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Except it's not a bank, it's a country with a few hundred million people that need to work and eat. Once the lenders have a problem, it would already be the end for Americans.
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2mo ago
> midwit I'll take that as a compliment
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No longer well anybody be wasting their lives doing data entry. That absolutely hellish job is practically dead now. And there are thousands of low hanging fruit type cases AI fixes. Ai is the new digital dogsbody. You might not think that&
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2mo ago
> is a foundational skill to evaluating virtually any factual claim you'll ever encounter... Calm down Doris. You advocate for what you like but I'm just not convinced
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> Do you read books on phone? Books typed up or scanned into Ebooks, sure. Books, no.
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> Not at all, "books" could also specify "long form writing". If you really reach for it, sure. We were talking about screentime. Books are books. When have books really meant anything other than a physical book or
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2mo ago
Same reason road vehicles haven't been banned despite killing hundreds of thousands every single year for over a century
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There's danger in operating at faster speed than humans. So every processor since the 50s then? What kind of comment is that to make on here
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2mo ago
Clearly didn't get enough attention from their last attempt at hype...
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Using this as your argument is dangerous. You're saying AI is inherently dangerous and an emergency stop button is actually what you need to be safe from the dangers... Forget the fact your open weighted model could be ran from a cent
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3mo ago
At least there's the occasional cat on reddit
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> Simply saying a confounding variable was missing isn't helpful because it's impossible to control for all confounding variables That's the problem with studies though. My point is why defend something so ardently when we
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Hed have said screens or ebooks if he meant otherwise
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> One showed that texting benefits the skill of grasping meaning; the other showed texting to be a negative influence on basic reading mechanics at the letter and word level. But doesn't texting involve reading still? How could you
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> and if kid has phone it doesn't read (books) I haven't read a physical book in about a decade. I read everyday. How is this possible?
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More than one way to do guard rails, slopboy
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