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by bko 1y ago
How much of this is that children refuse to eat normal whole foods? I've heard stories from teachers that mention that children often would rather go without food than eat anything remotely healthy (e.g. apples from cafeteria). My own
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by bko 1y ago
ChatGPT currently has ~ 120 to 190 million daily active users and ~ 800 million weekly active users. It's the fastest growing product in history, blowing others out of the water. I think investment is warranted
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by bko 1y ago
Yes, without [popular activity] there would be more [resource activity uses] at a lower price. At some point you have to grant people agency and accept that things spend money and time on things that are valuable to them.
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by bko 1y ago
The worst thing about this is that these kids often get prescribed mind altering medication to have them sit still in class, just because we don't feel comfortable accepting that natural ability exists.
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by bko 1y ago
I don't know where this extreme egalitarian belief that it's bad to let smart people excel is coming from. How is it not healthy? Even Marxism, an extremely egalitarian system of belief has a phrase "From each according to hi
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by bko 1y ago
I'm not sure if you're familiar with gifted children, but some kids thrive in and want a challenging environment. Not every kid is "normal" that wants to do "normal children things". Thats kind of the point.
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think all gifted kids do just fine. I would be willing to bet a lot gifted kids get put on medication because they can't sit still in the classroom due to being painfully bored. The smartest people I've ever met are a
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Gifted children are special needs children(mleverything.substack.com)
66 points by bko 1y ago|140 comments
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by bko 1y ago
While that's true, there is some market clearing price in which the activity just ceases to exist. For instance, take something with a small marginal benefit like a dedicated person at a supermarket to bag groceries. It's a nice t
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by bko 1y ago
> One person said the device would be “always on” rather than triggered by a word or prompt. The device’s sensors would gather data throughout the day that would help to build its virtual assistant’s “memory.” That sounds like a terrible
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by bko 1y ago
> Normies don't persuade easy, that's why they're normies That's where I disagree with you. Normies persuade very easily. Just give them a better life. Tell them you'll make their life materially better and they&
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by bko 1y ago
This is the phrasing of the question: > "Do you think Donald Trump has gone too far, has been about right, or has not gone far enough when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally?" 52% said too fa
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by bko 1y ago
> You can also add to the fact that they don't want their children slammed into the pavement for minor infractions such as having an open container beverage or doing 35 in a 25 mph zone. This is what I'm talking about. Complete
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by bko 1y ago
'democracy' is used 4 times. Arguments like this: >But as I said, this isn’t about crime. It’s about paranoid conspiracy theories and an attempt to dismantle democracy. Most people don't think of 'normal law enforceme
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by bko 1y ago
What are the costs? Seems like a huge benefit to me considering the alternative would be... I don't know. No updates? Maybe some shitty custom app that would 100% for sure have worse data security and privacy rights than something like
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by bko 1y ago
It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.
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by bko 1y ago
I think it's incredibly naive and arrogant to tell billions of people who use a product through their own free will "ackchyually its really bad and you should stop". Almost everyone would give you a response similar to mine.
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by bko 1y ago
Yes, Facebook is a benefit. Among other things, it gave me React which much of the modern web is built on, and React Native, PyTorch, GraphQL, Cassandra, Presto, and RocksDB just to name a few. The question is, what are billions of people d
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by bko 1y ago
ChatGPT currently has ~ 120 to 190 million daily active users ~ 800 million weekly active users ~ 450 million to over 800 million depending on the data source and methodology. Get a grip. Hundreds of millions of people are using it, most of
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Why a reachable chess position can have at most 218 playable moves(lichess.org)
1 points by bko 1y ago|1 comments
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by bko 1y ago
The thing that stuck out to me was this: > The 2,890-metre-long structure, which took more than three years to complete, reduces travel time between the two sides of the canyon from two hours to two minutes. Pretty impressive. I feel lik
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by bko 1y ago
I think the big dream thing is overrated in terms of popularity. In some cultures it would be taboo to say you're not ambitious. But most men i know want to marry a beautiful mid, make enough to support a family and watch football on t
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by bko 1y ago
I agree. Zero sum games really should be avoided unless it's obvious that you're an extreme outlier. But let's not extend that to paint a false egalitarian view that talent or natural ability doesn't exist and everyone h
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by bko 1y ago
> In a very short summary - talent is time spent on learning or doing something. Which means that anyone can be talented in any area. That’s it. That’s the secret. Go, and be the next Mozart, Copernicus or Tesla (don’t be Edison, that gu
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by bko 1y ago
I think text is the ultimate interface. A company can just build and maintain very strong internal APIs and punt on the UX component. For instance, suppose I'm using figma, I want to just screenshot what I want it to look like and it c
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by bko 1y ago
Why can’t you rank? I had no trouble getting ranked if I did the search console stuff and I had a unique name (which I checked before picking a name). Or do you just mean that your organic result is below the paid results? What’s more likel
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by bko 1y ago
> Have you done the following in the past 12 months just to catch up on sleep? > Used PTO days > Taken a vacation https://amerisleep.com/blog/top-cities-for-sleep-vacation/?s... I pay no attention to anyt
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by bko 1y ago
It's pretty clear that proper meaningful AI regulation would require the equivalent of a one world government. Few AI alarmists talk about this, but to his credit, Eliezer Yudkowsky openly speaks about what he would like in terms of re
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by bko 1y ago
I think a few things: Wanting to finish school is a negative signal. Also > Also we know that many students spend a lot of time in Fall or during their final year applying for jobs or internships. Early Decision gives students another op
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by bko 1y ago
> In a sane market, those dark patterns would be defeated by competition, but there is a distressing lack of sane markets today Did you miss the part where the parent said "I’ve recently switched to Facebook Dating"? It sounds

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