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by labrador 4y ago
His account of his escape West after accepting a job with his brother can be read in Roughing It https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roughing_It
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by labrador 4y ago
There's very few Trump people in San Jose and very large Asian population so there's no discrimination. People here are worried about the large amount of travel between Silicon Valley and China. Santa Clara County was the first in
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by labrador 4y ago
Nothing you have said has refuted the idea that I got a new mutation in March, which might medically be good for me to know. Instead you call me racist and stupid for emotional reasons that I'm not interested in.
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by labrador 4y ago
I see. Thanks for the comment. I'm resentful towards friends and family who are anti-vaxxers and downplay the danger, esp since I have elderly parents at risk. I'm mid 60's, they're mid 80's. > just racist or stu
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by labrador 4y ago
I managed to avoid Covid for three years but finally got it. I suspect it is one of the new more transmissible strains from China after they opened up and 230 million Chinese got sick, because I got it at the Trader Joe's next to the S
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by labrador 4y ago
Thanks! I've had Covid for 6 weeks now. Now that I've discovered it's mental effects are real, I can up my meds to help. The strange thing is I was using cannabis to help manage my bipolar, not on a regular basis, but as need
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by labrador 4y ago
I found out today I don't exactly have Covid brain fog. Covid has triggered my bipolar disorder, so I have flu-like symptoms and hypomania, a combo I've never experienced before so I'm not used to it. It's a bit wild. h
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by labrador 4y ago
Sorry I have Covid with brain fog right now so maybe you could help me out Edit: Off the top of my foggy head, LLMs as I understand them are text completion predictors based on statistical probabilities trained on vast amounts of examples o
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by labrador 4y ago
The AI maximalists think we're on a exponential curve to the singularity and potential AI disaster or even eternal dominance by a AI dictator [Musk]. Realistically though, the road to AGI and beyond is like the expansion of the human r
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by labrador 4y ago
I don't imagine they paid that much for it. This is a good way to scrub those inadvisable hate posts you and your rich right wing friends made while drunk late at night in the heat of the moment
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by labrador 4y ago
The inability to naturally and spontaneously think or feel empathy, sympathy, and compassion is one of the hallmarks of the psychopath. Faking these three for approval is also the hallmarks possibly making one a psychopath.
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by labrador 4y ago
Thanks for the info. He seems rather more lucid than some of the other writers and more in line with my thinking so I'll take him with a grain of salt as I familiarize myself with his writings. I don't think "mind" is th
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by labrador 4y ago
This is an excellent description by Cal Newport, who I hadn't heard of until now. He is a MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University & Bestselling Author. I'm always impressed by New Yorker content. I wou
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by labrador 4y ago
> Twitter only responds to requests for comment with a poop emoji now and hasn't officially commented on the controversy He changed the corporate sign in SF to Titter as well. Sad.
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by labrador 4y ago
Congress needs to focus on regulating corporations and their practices, rather than playing into their hype of “powerful digital minds.” This, by design, ascribes agency to the products rather than the organizations building them. - Timni
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by labrador 4y ago
I'd support the Federal Government nationalizing Twitter. We live in a time of war after all, mostly cold fought on a cyber and informational front, but just as serious just the same. Musk has suppressed support of Ukraine on Twitter a
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by labrador 4y ago
I've long thought that a service like Twitter is a public utility and should be run in a democratic way with government funding. The tragedy of Twitter only confirms that. I hope that a billionaire creates a Twitter clone and grants ov
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by labrador 4y ago
Great! I was talking to a friend about it and came up with a couple additional thoughts: I always felt hesitant about rewriting Bill Wilson, because he's a Saint to some people, but knew I would someday. I'm aware he's just
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by labrador 4y ago
My steps aren't even Alcoholics Anonymous or about alcohol, although derived from what Bill W wrote. In my case, my personal step 7 to change was Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy an
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by labrador 4y ago
Yes, I get the feeling to. I just posted a comment I hope anyone reading this will find helpful
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by labrador 4y ago
I'm a recovering alcoholic who has worked the 12 steps. To get this out the way, I agree that courts should not be sending people to AA. It's no good for anyone. The reason that the 5 to 10 percent do well in AA actually doesn&#x
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by labrador 4y ago
> Macron never said or implied that Not helping the US defend Taiwan implies Macron accedes to the CCP's wish to govern it. That's why they are happy. Or are you being deliberately obtuse?
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by labrador 4y ago
The CCP has never governed Taiwan, but Macron wants to give it to them. Does he want to give Ukraine to Russia to or is there a double standard?
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by labrador 4y ago
I think the results speak for themselves. Rockets: Yes. Electric cars: Yes. Software Driven Social Media Companies: No
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by labrador 4y ago
Mentally ill people will be triggered to do things by it. As an older guy, this reminds when LSD was introduced. We learned to manage that after we had a bunch of acid causalities and Charles Manson cults, we'll learn to manage this
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by labrador 4y ago
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould We could work on our
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by labrador 4y ago
Full disclosure: I also oppose Elon Musk by argument, meme and by not giving him any money because I think he's a menace to democratic society and wish he'd return to his native South Africa to enjoy the good life there.
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by labrador 4y ago
I'll save this for further study but off the top of my head, if we no longer live in big cities we don't need all that cement. We aren't going to keep fighting yesterday's battles.
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by labrador 4y ago
The discussion was not about comparing GPT to a child. I started it so I should know. The discussion is about "having the mind" of a child. Sentience. I don't care if it can mimic Albert Einstein, I'll be impressed when
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by labrador 4y ago
GPT-4 reminds of some smart mentally ill friends I've had, but even they are disordered in human ways while GPT-4 hallucinates in machine ways. I suspect people who think GPT-4 has a mind just don't have a lot of experience talkin

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