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At least!
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So, if you got a time machine back to the year 2000 and knew how to code Transformers - could you do it? Your CPU/cloud/parallel processing hardware would be limited, but as I understand it there's nothing revolutionary being
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8008135 We had a telephone system installed at work, the default password from the company who did all the installs in our area was the upside down version of Boobies
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This site got linked a few days ago. https://www.philosophybro.com/archive/descartes-meditations-...
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Maybe your missed the tone of their comment?
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"You" in a geological and time sense are almost nothing. Fill the room your in with dead-body clones of yourself, it will probably take well over a hundred. Collect all the humans on the surface of the Earth, they'd all fit i
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"There is no natural state as defined by hyper static equilibrium. Only brief moments where we purport to control it — building up a chaotic momentum beneath it." The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage
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There's a farside cartoon where one mosquito is about to explode and the other one is yelling "It's an Artery, pull out!"
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Existing concepts of reality and truth will definitly be completely and utterly destroyed by LLMs, and even actual, real information will be tainted by the fact that it could be fake – we are already seeing today on a smaller scale what liv
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OP here. I'll write a post longer than yours, haha. Same story. Lonely at home - married to a loving but non-friend-compatible wife. Showed up to my local running group, kept showing up. "After running and talking to someone for h
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The sadness. Most groups end up chatting along the way or in the parking lot afterwards. The other option would be to start your own. My most local group was started as a Facebook group by a lady who wanted to run with other people. She liv
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All the wording on that meetup page says to me "come run with us". 3.5 miles and then back to Starbucks to chat for 25 minutes sounds just about right. Most people will have driven, so if you turn around earlier you can be back at
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This. Most groups are casual, but they all have their own styles. One is a trail run where we stop every mile or so for a few minute break (if needed). Another is a 'meet at starbucks at 8am and we'll see you at 9am for coffee&#x2
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Your local Facebook or meetup.com page probably has a running group that meets regularly. Look for the "Meet at 6:30am Friday morning in the parking lot by Starbucks" group. If you show up to that enough I guarantee you'll ha
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The prairies in North America are human shaped as well. The natives knew that fresh grass grew after a wildfire, so they'd start fires regularly to keep the prairie grasses suppressed, over the centuries the amount of prairie grassland
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13 Minutes to the moon is a Apollo 11 deep dive done by the BBC, with a Hans Zimmer soundtrack. The podcast series focuses on the last 13 minutes of descent in Apollo 11, but does a deep background story to explain the whole Apollo missions
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So. The Amazon was grasslands in Jesus time? Weird
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What happens when some whiz kid hacks the actual water treatment plant or nuclear power plant and just assumes it was a game... It's like Ender's game IRL
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One village or area develops written language, and their neighbors just smash and burn it all when they come raid them.
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Next time you eat a fast food item, think about how many people were involved or one step away from making that burger or sub. Meat, bun, spices, ketchup, mustard, pickles, lettuce, cheese, bacon... Every one of those has hundreds ro thousa
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There's a Cadillac where the glove box open button is an option on the main car touchscreen.
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Every individuals everything has no relation to another's - which I think is a core cause of society's disconnects. Not that people got along before algorithms drove everything, but it's certainly been a destabilizing factor.
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Doesn't bother me either. All the car companies issue recalls regularly, sometimes an issue only shows up when the system hits capacity or you run into an edge case.
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Did you use Dogpile, Ask Jeeves or Yahoo search and try to get useful information out of them? Webrings were still a thing where a website about birds or something would have a list of other sites that had similar indie - and that was how y
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I want to buy a physical Encyclopedia Britannica for just this reason. All our historical records are becoming digitized, and AI can now make convincingly fake history characters, images and video. The actual history is going to get swamped
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Was yours? Meat-brain here... (that sounds rude, not intended!) The internet is going to be ruined by AI. I see myself falling for it even now as AI becomes more mainstream. "I don't think that's true, that writing style soun
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The gaps of "what do we show now" are filled with popular content, so culture war content is what you notice but there's probably other tamer things that only the algorithms know is popular.
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The Curiosity Daily podcast covered this a few days ago. The podcast is a daily 15 minutes where the hosts present science topics like this in a more casual friendly way. One person tells the other about the contents of the article and the
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All the ideas that the world will be perfect if you would just think thoughts like these... "manifest what you want from the world" and "think positive thoughts and everything will be ok" Is actually kind of true when yo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture I mean, if the sidewalks outside your house were government controlled, the most likely people to try to take control of them would be people with an interest in making

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