lithocarpus

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by lithocarpus 8mo ago
It seems as if some researchers think that reducing this single metric without considering any other factors is inherently always a good thing and is very important.
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
I'm for subsidizing agriculture that improves long term soil quality and abundance. i.e. kind of the opposite of what most big ag row crops do now. It's tricky to implement any subsidy in a way that's not exploited by big co
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
I assume that's simply a calculation they do of how much their revenue will change if they adjust the prices up or down. Until it makes financial sense to lower prices, they can wait on trying to capture the market. I would guess the
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
This is true to a degree, but, if big ag subsidies were phased out, small local farms would have a better chance of being viable. I guess you could say this raises prices, but on the flip side, small farm prices could start to come down if
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
Genuinely curious as I don't know - could zoom not still record what is said and use that for their own purposes? I just assume anything said near a computer could be and likely is recorded and stored by somebody, nowadays.
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
If you have a fertile abundant landscape covered in old growth forests and marshes, and then cut all the forests, put roads everywhere, and plough up the marshes for farming, the landscape then holds a lot less water and the weather becomes
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
If you have a fertile abundant landscape covered in old growth forests and marshes, and then cut all the forests, put roads everywhere, and plough up the marshes for farming, the landscape then holds a lot less water and the weather becomes
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
The OP and the farmer are people who coded in the past. There can be a big difference between someone who understands how computers and code work generally, and someone who doesn't. I was a software engineer up till about 8 years ago.
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
One way I'd describe it is LLMs say lots of things that technically make sense but aren't quite like anyone would normally say it. And secondly they like to use more nouns for things, in my experience. Of course all this is just w
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
I'm dubious about the idea that the cellulose additive is no different than eating plants. The forms that are used in food are refined / modified, i.e. not the same thing that I eat when I eat plants. I know a few people who rea
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
Sure, and, more processed is almost always less healthy than less processed. Doesn't mean "bad for me" just "not quite as good for me"
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
Partisan spite does cut both ways and should be seen as such and ignored on either side. Regarding fat I think "eat real whole unprocessed food" is a simple way to cover it. These guideliness recommend using less added fat includ
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
Some of us do want to live near where our food comes from and eat it fresh. I haven't seen anyone advocating that pasteurization should be banned, just that raw milk should be un-banned.
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
I mean I've seen "low calorie bread" that was basically industrial bread cut with cellulose which is analogous to very fine sawdust.
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
I think avoiding industrially processed food is wise, but it eliminates 99% of restaurant food and 90% of prepared food in almost any setting, only exception being about half the stuff at a salad bar. Almost everything that isn't a sin
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
Not disagreeing but also I wonder how it compares to inequality in Britain before the US was a thing.
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
I would guess fear of losing market share and valuable data, as well as pressure to appear to be winning the AI race for the companies' own stock price. i.e competition. If there were only one AI company, they would probably not relea
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by lithocarpus 9mo ago
Some people are dropping things in response to how things are being ruined. Many people are not. I hope you're right but I imagine with more computing power used more efficiently, the big companies will hoard more and more of the tota
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by lithocarpus 10mo ago
Palantir is more directly involved in the surveillance state and military industrial complex. Not saying Google isn't, but it's at least not as public or blatant, and is much less of what Google does overall.
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by lithocarpus 10mo ago
Don't worry sufficiently advanced LLMs will learn how to put in the right amount of typoes to be convincing.
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by lithocarpus 10mo ago
I mean, it does for people like me who decide to work less as they don't need to earn as much.
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by lithocarpus 10mo ago
I've been envisioning a market for agendas, where the players bid for the AI companies to nudge their LLM toward whatever given agenda. It would be subtle and not visible to users. Probably illegal, but I imagine it will happen to so
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by lithocarpus 10mo ago
More fundamentally, the trend of the world economy is toward turning everything anywhere in the world into either a resource to be exploited or a playground for the rich. This is a big generalization but I think it's broadly true. If y
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by lithocarpus 10mo ago
Not quite - because the person with the 300k house still owns the house. They have a 300k asset and <300k in debt. (assuming house value didn't crash after they bought it.
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by lithocarpus 10mo ago
This has been happening for a very long time. The current administration is just worse and/or more blatant about it than previous ones. So I agree with your sarcasm and I also agree with the parent comment that the current admin is do
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by lithocarpus 11mo ago
"The condition results from past exposure to certain tick bites" This is a real thing I know two people who have it, but I haven't heard of any evidence that it applies to all people even in a small way. I'm open to hea
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by lithocarpus 11mo ago
Yes that makes sense. I'd still rather eat the grain fed meat than the grain itself, but best would be grass fed meat.
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by lithocarpus 11mo ago
I am dubious about "red meat" being called pro-inflammatory. Are there any studies showing that real red meat - say venison or grass fed beef or acorn-fed pork is inflammatory or harmful? I'd not be surprised if a comparative
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by lithocarpus 11mo ago
Ok. All of the handful of folks I've heard talk about chemtrails used the word to refer to the contrail that they thought had something added to it.
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by lithocarpus 11mo ago
So sprayed metal particles from airplanes for weather modification are only "chemtrails" if it's done covertly. Language sure is interesting. I guess there's also a spectrum of what covert means. If a government does th

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