cgriswald

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by cgriswald 8mo ago
There’s also a difference between “saw my first” and “saw a playboy once.” I need you to understand I was a good kid whose parents cared until they divorced some years later. And yet I had multiple sources of access to this stuff without l
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
The older kids are often the easy source for the younger kids. At 8 I had already seen a Playboy and knew kids who had seen harder stuff. I could have easily gotten a teenager to get me cigarettes (and drugs, but I didn’t know what those we
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
The number of times I objected to my parents rules because my friends didn’t have those rules and the response was: “I’m not their parent.”
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
Which is exactly why all people everywhere giving up their privacy will also be ineffective. Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, pornography were all illegal for me to access as a kid but I wouldn’t have had any trouble getting any of it.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
On the level of the individual a working placebo is a success.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
That’s how it should be but the poster is literally calling the individual experiences of others “superstition” based on the population at large .
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
I’ll say a lot of information is cheap and what often matters is presentation. I still visit Wikipedia even though I ask LLMs things.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
I use LLMs in my fiction writing; and before the wolves come out to shred me to pieces: The LLM never gets to see my writing and doesn't do any of the writing for me. I use LLMs in other ways. One of the first uses I discovered was to
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
The “incentives of the people” are famously steadfast and resolute in favor of the rights of others.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
The point is, paying for things isn’t a solution. Paying for things is a consequence of having fixed the problem. I pay for Kagi and buy groceries from a ma-and-pa grocery store where I’m still going to be tracked if I use a credit card, br
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
People pay for things and are still spied on.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
I think valuing the source of information over its quality is probably a mistake for most contexts. I’m also very skeptical of people’s ability to detect AI writing in general even though AI slop seems easy enough to identify. (Although lot
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
Right. I don’t think I disagee with anything you’ve said here. However, if I had an idea and just fobbed the idea off to an LLM who fleshed it out and posted it to my blog, would you want to read the result? Do you want to argue against tha
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
Clarity is good for writing and homogenization can increase clarity. There is a reason technical writing doesn’t read like journalism doesn’t read like fiction. There’s a reason we have dictionaries and editors. There’s a reason we have sty
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
> For me, writing is the most direct window into how someone thinks, perceives, and groks the world. Once you outsource that to an LLM, I'm not sure what we're even doing here. Why should I bother to read something someone else
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
I’m going to suggest re-reading the top level comment and the GP’s response. I don’t see anyone suggesting non-facetiously that free love and sex trafficking are synonymous nor that sex trafficking of adults is acceptable. I think the top l
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
You won’t get them anyway because the acceptable substitutions list is crammed with anything they think they can get away with and the human fulfilling the order doesn’t want to walk to that part of the store. So you might as well just let
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
In the game Clair Obscur sun plus moon equals twilight.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
> Tom Thumb is somewhere here but he is too small to draw.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
I had a construction worker absolutely screaming at me to go through an intersection and refusing to look where I was pointing, when I was correctly waiting for a pedestrian to cross. So, naturally, I ran over the pedestrian.
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
There are (and continue to be) millions of young people who do not yet have firm preferences. For the already faithful, their advertising is mostly about reminding them to consume more .
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by cgriswald 8mo ago
They didn’t get a pass from me. My MacPro has been running Linux longer than it ran MacOS. Apple stopped supporting it officially at Mojave but I jumped ship earlier when I was forced to do a clean install rather than an upgrade because I h
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
I watched it at school too but just once. We all sat in the gymnasium. We also had a magician perform, some type of band, and some other activities over the years. Looking back I think there was always some “special” day right around the co
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
What really drives me nuts about von Däniken (and Tsoukalos, Childress, et al. …) is that he contradicts himself. (Sorry, I don’t care about this stuff enough to have a recent example.) His position isn’t consistent. Zecharia Sitchin’s ar
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
Willpower is what you use when you’re allowed choice and know you should make the good choice but actually feel like choosing the bad choice. The trick to good discipline is to never allow it to be a choice. There are no excuses. There is n
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
Ah, apologies for my misunderstanding. Maybe I should be more generous in interpreting others words. I don’t think we disagree about that either. To me it isn’t about “What it’s called” but about the concept itself. Intervals are “hidden”
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
Right, and I addressed all that as well. I doubt we are in serious disagreement here and calls for me to “read a book” are frankly rude. I think you need to be more generous in the interpretation of others words because I actually disagree
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
Yes, which is why it doesn’t teach intervals, but is still useful.
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
This teaches intervals like Duolingo teaches language rules. You sort of pick them up because you need them to figure out the small melody it plays. But you don't get the concept of a 'fourth' or a 'fifth' and there
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by cgriswald 9mo ago
I can solve a mystery novel based on the evidence alone. Assuming an LLM doesn’t already have the answer it will offer solutions based on meta-information like how similar mysteries conclude or are structured. While this can be effective, i

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