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by mcphage 2mo ago
The rice piles in that picture are uncomfortably regular.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
Agreed.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> If people genuinely, actually care about energy costs, they can vocally support when calls for setting your thermostat at 78F in summertime go out. Or, we can prefer energy being spent on air conditioning, and not on data centers.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> making an assumption that they must have only or mostly non-religions motives I don't know anything about their motives, I just think we should start with the basic assumption—until proven wrong, of course—that they understand the
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> Iranian regime is on a path of creating nuclear weapons and they are going to do use it again Israel That's a really big claim. I don't think you can just assert that Iran is suicidal without having some sort of evidence to
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by mcphage 2mo ago
It's a significant difference.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
There's also the bit where none of us cold be old enough to remember it in person, and so everything we say about it is just vibes that we picked up from the internet.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
That’s up there with unpopular opinion “I like the feeling when I’m washing my hands and the ends of my sleeves get wet”.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
It would come off as bland writing, but I don’t think you’d jump to assuming it was written by a computer. If you got exposed to just how much AI writing was out there, you’d definitely feel like there was something really strange going
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by mcphage 2mo ago
Talk about the gift that keeps on giving…
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by mcphage 2mo ago
For the Modern American version of that—last time I was in an Urgent Care, they had a tv playing one of the Sharknado movies. The security guard there was excited to show everyone the bit where he was an extra in the film.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> Fake ad clicks cost the advertiser money, not the ad company. It also diminishes the value of the clicks provided by the ad company. It doesn't cost them dollars directly, but makes all their advertising worth less.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> I do not see problems with fake ad clicks and have no sympathy for ad companies. Yeah, it's like—a cheap streaming stick AND it poisons the advertising well? I'm pretty happy with my Fire TV Stick, but they're really
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> I've been kind of puzzled, since the first time I gave it any thought, why "going to a movie" is culturally thought of as an activity one does with a companion, even a date. Because after going to the movie, you've
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by mcphage 2mo ago
> Where does my logic break down? What am I overlooking? (1) Clothing manufacturing is a lot more complicated than sockets (2) Generally products aren't discontinued because they're popular. So what you're describing is a
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by mcphage 2mo ago
…then why does the page keep saying it’s always possible in less than 5 questions, if it sometimes requires 5 questions?
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by mcphage 2mo ago
It's honeypots all the way down.
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by mcphage 2mo ago
I'm not sure I understand. In the 4 card case, there are 4! or 24 different arrangements. So a total of ~4.5 bits. Each question gives you at most 1 bit of information. So it would seem like it takes up to 5 questions, but the page
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by mcphage 2mo ago
And all it will cost them will be a huge settlement!
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Thank you! I don’t know much about Zoroastrianism, and that discussion jumps right into the deep end, but I’ll see what I can get from it. :-)
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by mcphage 3mo ago
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’m interested if you could find that link later.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Does this not very simply constitute a large scale attack on civilian infrastructure? No.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
It's either that or let Google strangle them.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
They are! Coincidentally, there's been a precipitous decline in software quality and reliability the last few years.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> I think theft is bad everywhere, not just when Anthropic does it. It seems like you think theft is bad everywhere except when Anthropic does it.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Families come in all shapes and sizes, even for the ancient Egyptians!
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Is poverty a requirement for being a good person? Do you suppose those are the only two options? Poverty or billionaire?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
What year was your son born? Nobody has said “Silly Billy” in 30 years, unless under the auspices of a duly appointed official.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> When did humanity first figure out that inbreeding might be a bad idea? I suspect it was prior to recorded history.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Weren’t you afraid of any ancient bacteria from the mummy? I don't think we're certain that the sarcophagus ever contained a mummy.

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