narrator

11 ms·

121.
by narrator 11mo ago
All the back to the land decentralized survivalists solarpunk people can do just about everything except for rare earth refining. That's the part of solarpunk that can only happen in China because nobody anywhere wants that in their b
122.
by narrator 11mo ago
If you've ever looked at the plans for Absolute Zero 2050, they predict a world with no shipping or commercial air travel, among many other restrictions. That sort of thing could only be implemented under an authoritarian government.
123.
by narrator 11mo ago
The WEF did publish an article that said that. They may have deleted it by now because of all the bad press it generated.
124.
by narrator 11mo ago
Maybe this would be good for a personal quadcopter, however the batteries weight would probably make the motor weight savings unimportant.
125.
by narrator 1y ago
This is what all the people put out of work by AI are going to do.
126.
by narrator 1y ago
>Or as someone suggests lower down, in our current form all needs could ultimately be satisfied if AI just provided us with the right chemicals. (Which drug addicts already understand) When you suddenly realize walking down the street th
127.
by narrator 1y ago
I read On the Road, and I think the most annoying thing about that book was how they had an enormous focus around funding their road trip and all the things they had to do to get money. Maybe that was all the plot they had, but it just fel
128.
by narrator 1y ago
Bolivia also ended their socialist government recently. The mass exodus out of Venezuela has hurt the reputation of the left in South America.
129.
by narrator 1y ago
Prompt Injection is an interesting difference between human consciousness and machine "consciousness", or what people try and liken to it. A human can easily tell when information is coming from his memory or internal thoughts an
130.
by narrator 1y ago
Peaceful competition is a good thing. It's better than a unified one world government throttling everybody.
131.
by narrator 1y ago
Old machines use a lot of power, so not good for the climate. My rule of thumb is if it's less powerful than a $90 raspberry pi 400, which uses 10 watts max, it's probably worth e-wasting.
132.
by narrator 1y ago
Even a benevolent AI acting for the benefit of a collective will have to choose which individuals suffer when suffering by some members of the collective becomes unavoidable.
133.
by narrator 1y ago
I read political books from the 70s and everything is the same. It's been the same since the mid-60s. That's when the western narrative shifted from technological progress to environmentalism and the lawyer took over from the en
134.
by narrator 1y ago
They left out the third leading cause of death which is medical errors. Going to hospitals can be bad for your health. https://baltimoretimes-online.com/news/2024/05/10/johns-hopk...
135.
by narrator 1y ago
Good thing we found out what our dependencies are on China were before we got in a shooting war with them.
136.
by narrator 1y ago
I have written some stuff with n8n and I think it's is better than most no code platforms because it's debuggable. For example, it keeps all the historical executions so you can see what happened when the workflows failed and wha
137.
by narrator 1y ago
I think the problem with most average left of center people who want to be agreeable and civic minded is they have total incredulity at the government would actually do anything really screwed up, especially as they are so "moral"
138.
by narrator 1y ago
Fun fact, Faroe islands have some of the highest birth rates in Europe. Above replacement! The rest of Europe should study them.
139.
by narrator 1y ago
The bitter lesson is making it so all these people hand designing features with econometric models are being obsoleted by big models and lots of data.
140.
by narrator 1y ago
The other thing is the completely different information universes left and right live in in America. It's difficult to have a conversation with someone on the other side of the political divide because they believe a completely differ
141.
by narrator 1y ago
One interesting thing about roommates is the landlord can't discriminate, but the roommates can discriminate against other roommates on any basis they want if they reside in the same dwelling, at least in the U.S.
142.
by narrator 1y ago
The hallucinations in legal briefs get really out of hand when the attorney wants to make an argument not supported by the case law. The LLM wants to do a good job defending a case, so it invents the legal precident, because otherwise it&#
143.
by narrator 1y ago
The legal system is not an API you can spam. You must have credentials that involve passing a very tough exam to even submit to it and going to school for 3 years. If you make a submission that is not fully syntax and reference checked yo
144.
by narrator 1y ago
The irony is the British signed the Balfour declaration back in the day that in many ways helped to create Israel in the first place.
145.
by narrator 1y ago
Dialectical Materialism much?
146.
by narrator 1y ago
Papua New Guinea more peaceful than the United States, huh? Even experienced travel vloggers barely visit that country because of how much violence there is.
147.
by narrator 1y ago
I got scammed because somebody put a fake bank location into Google Maps and so the Google voice caller ID said it was my bank. Luckily, I realized I got scammed and called the bank up right away and they got the charges reversed, which is
148.
by narrator 1y ago
You might have to slow it down to 0.75x on the audiobook so you can savor and have time to construct the visuals of the scenes in your head. For fluff business books I listen at 1.25x or even higher if it is garbage, but for very difficult
149.
by narrator 1y ago
The reverse causation here is obvious. It's perfectly normal to be depressed about losing one's cognitive faculties.
150.
by narrator 1y ago
The Instacart thing is just bluster. If they tried to file any lawsuit against these guys it's be an easy SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) defense, which is a way to quickly throw out lawsuits in most states wher

More ›