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by elil17 9mo ago
Thank you! I feel very proud of it.
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by elil17 9mo ago
As someone who did about 51k in 2025, oh my goodness how would you possibly have time for 300k?
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by elil17 9mo ago
He does link to someone who does 3k flashcards per day to prep for Jeopardy.
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by elil17 10mo ago
I'd love to be able to know what is actually in ChatGPT's memory text in this case.
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by elil17 10mo ago
A better title would be "More efficient method to capture CO2 from the atmosphere." The method is not objectively efficient, but may be more efficient than other methods (solvents/sorbents) used for DAC.
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by elil17 10mo ago
"No one in America today lives under the cloud of desperation that these children did." Is this true? Certainly many fewer people do. However, there have been high profile child labor busts recently: - 13yo child in a car factory:
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by elil17 10mo ago
Ah, I understand now. Before I defined my values, I don't think I thought all too much about the "value of values" - I definitely was convinced by what Ralph Keeney said on the podcast I linked. I also started working on defi
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by elil17 10mo ago
I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "happened over the value of values." Could you clarify?
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by elil17 10mo ago
How do you know what your values are? I've spent a lot of time thinking about this after listening to this podcast episode: https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/238 The interviewee gives a good map for figuring out
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by elil17 11mo ago
I'm guessing that is the most common view for many users, but their paying users are the people who are more likely to have some kind of delusional relationship/friendship with the AI.
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by elil17 1y ago
Because I always forget lol. My point is that I still had a good effect even though I'm doing an extremely sub-optimal job of taking it/probably getting a dose-equivalence of way less than 2k IU/day.
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by elil17 1y ago
I personally found that taking vitamin D regularly dramatically reduced how many colds I got (10 in 2024 vs. 1 in 2025). I take 2,000 IU per day, typically without a meal.
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by elil17 1y ago
I view this as something that could be more useful in a journalistic, legal, or governmental context rather than in a creative or artistic one.
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by elil17 1y ago
> The announcement follows the release of an external report by UK-based consultants Alma Economics, which found that the pilot cost €72 million to date but generated nearly €80 million in total benefits to the Irish economy. I feel like
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by elil17 1y ago
What I really mean to say is that there's no strong evidence that CI is more efficient than other language learning methods. It is certainly a way to learn a language. But is it a good way to learn a language? You are smarter than a ba
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by elil17 1y ago
> I assume you are basing this on second hand information, or “really strong evidence” is doing a lot of work here, but volumes have been written about the efficacy of comprehensible input in foreign language learning. What I really mean
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by elil17 1y ago
I'm urgently trying to learn a language and I've done a lot of research on this. There's no one hack, but here are my top three: - Anki - Focus on producing speech over everything else, it's the hardest part 90% of the t
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by elil17 1y ago
Houston already has an amazing replica shuttle that you can go inside and explore. Why do they need to spend hundreds of millions to dollars to steal another one?
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by elil17 1y ago
I found seeing it in Udvar Hazy incredibly impactful.
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by elil17 1y ago
I mean, the Space Center in Houston isn't really convenient for visitors either. It's about as far from Houston as Udvar-Hazy is from DC.
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by elil17 1y ago
Charlie Kirk said repeatedly said it was okay to have a society where people routinely get shot and killed. Pointing that out right now highlights just how wrong it is. Charlie Kirk shouldn't have been shot. The way to have prevented t
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by elil17 1y ago
>America is an amazing country & objectively the best place to live in the world rn Really? By what objective metric? Certainly in the top 50%, but the best?
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by elil17 1y ago
There's an attitude of, to quote Charlie Kirk, "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."
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by elil17 1y ago
So does archive.org
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by elil17 1y ago
That has similar efficiency compared to this but probably looks much worse in terms of capex
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by elil17 1y ago
The amount of power consumed by the desalination process >> the amount of power produced by the osmosis power plant It is more like it slightly reduces the power required to run the desalination process
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by elil17 1y ago
If you want that much salt, then yes. But you probably don't
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by elil17 1y ago
They really fail to explain a key point here. The reason you colocate this with a desalination plant is because you use the super-salty wastewater from desalination as the salty side of the osmosis power plant. Then you find some wastewater
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by elil17 1y ago
One thing they neglect to mention (which is by no means a deal-breaker) is that you waste a good portion (about half) of the electricity in the process of charging and discharging the pile of dirt. Chemical batteries are much more efficient
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by elil17 1y ago
It is absolutely criminal. Whether it gets prosecuted is a different matter - prosecutors love giving corporate interests a free pass

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