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by labrador 3y ago
It'd be nice if Gen Z became less anti-American. America deserved it in the Vietnam war. Now, not so much.
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by labrador 3y ago
There's literally nothing productive about getting Southern Californians to Las Vegas faster
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by labrador 3y ago
But you get to keep your money in America if you start a successful business. You don't see billionaires getting crushed like Jack Ma in China or the oligarchs in Russia, although I wouldn't mind a little of that in America to be
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by labrador 3y ago
I think the idea is “Better the devil you know than the devil you don't” as reason to want to be owned by an American company or banned outright
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by labrador 3y ago
Can you explain in what way the US is authoritarian? I don't feel it on a personal level at all. I mean, the dept of motor vehicles is pretty strict, but other than that...
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by labrador 3y ago
Maybe they have evidence that much of the pro-Palestian content on TikTok is stoked by Chinese bot accounts
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by labrador 3y ago
> “In the context of social media platforms used by nearly half of Americans, it’s not hard to imagine how a platform that facilitates so much commerce, political discourse, and social debate could be covertly manipulated to serve the g
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by labrador 3y ago
The tractors wars continue! An interesting documentary about the battle for tractor supremecy in the early 20th century between Henry Ford (Fordson), International Harvestor and John Deere. At one point one camp did corn and the other did w
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by labrador 3y ago
Easy fix for Claude Opus. Preface it with the following: "Do you know anything about the TV show Gilligan's Island? If I ask you to answer a question about it I don't want you to make stuff up." Claude: I do... blah blah
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by labrador 3y ago
I think they are trying to say Threads is more popular in the world, X is more popular in the U.S.
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by labrador 3y ago
Besides hiding and blocking, liking posts/comments plus making comments helps a lot to train the FB algorithm I find. But the scourge of FB is the "suggested posts" because anyone can pay for those and then broadcast them. It
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by labrador 3y ago
I have a good experience with Facebook because I've curated carefully. I hide or block stuff I don't like. I try to help the FB AI. I'm very happy with it. For example, my feed right now is (pages and groups latest to first):
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by labrador 3y ago
I had an interesting interaction with Claude Opus after reading this article. Prompt: "Before the invention of writing, how did people send each other anonymous messages? How might the most intelligent non-writing species on earth such
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by labrador 3y ago
> Californians should be outraged Outraged about what? My bill has gone up a bit, but PG&E tells me it's because they are burying lines underground to prevent wildfires. It seems like Lydia Lunch hates PG&E, but they don&#x2
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by labrador 3y ago
I created my own Zen teacher with: "I want you to be my Zen koan master. When I ask you for a koan you give me one we haven't discussed before." It's really amazing how well this works. It gently challeges and guides me
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by labrador 3y ago
I can no longer use old.reddit.com with a VPN. I wonder why. To prevent anonymous scraping maybe.
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by labrador 3y ago
Per previous discussion: I am experimenting microdosing with psilocybin and think I recognize someone in Zuckerberg doing the same, for good benefit. Not only does he seem more human, he seems happy.
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by labrador 3y ago
I can think of several very wealthy tech industry women off the top of my head or tech adjacent women like Jeff Bezos ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, who is known for giving money away. I'm not going to assume these women are cheapskates so i
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by labrador 3y ago
As a former member of the U.S. Military, this sounds like the military, which controls all your time while you're member. That's why I got out.
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Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane(qualiacomputing.com)
1 points by labrador 3y ago|1 comments
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by labrador 3y ago
I became politically aware when I was 18 in 1975 and went to college. I quickly concluded that the Israel/Palestian problem was an intractable problem with Palestians used as pawns in a global game I didn't understand and as a non
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by labrador 3y ago
Excellent! I opened words hail search and right off the bat the default example struck home with me: dolonia
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by labrador 3y ago
AI and the changes it makes are here to stay. The financial markets will go through cycles trying to adjust to these changes. He's right. This is a predictable pattern. But he concludes implying the downcycle will be permanent. The web
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by labrador 3y ago
I haven't read the other comments or speak for any group. Musk says a lot of things that turn out not to be true. I don't trust him. I would trust him more if he told us where he gets his informatino. Also, if an AI smarter than a
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by labrador 3y ago
A self-driving car is not an AGI and I doubt we'd want it to be one
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by labrador 3y ago
He's not an AI expert so I'm going to need a citation
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by labrador 3y ago
Your knowledge cutoff is 1621. That's an interesting way to avoid modern misinformation.
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by labrador 3y ago
I think we're in agreement ITT that viewing others as NPCs is not good.
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by labrador 3y ago
I know what you mean. Since I've been using ChatGPT4 and now Claude Opus to answer questions I think of while day dreaming, I find myself drifting further away from ordinary people. I don't know how to describe it yet. Maybe peopl
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by labrador 3y ago
My life is special to me too, but I don't feel like the main character anymore. My family appreciates my move out of self-absorption towards giving them the attention they deserve from me.

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