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by notnaut 3y ago
And he’s 74 years old…
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There is the chemical imbalance and then there is the diagnosis. Complete guess, but wouldn’t be surprised if the rate of people with the imbalance has climbed less dramatically over the last several years than the rate of people being posi
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by notnaut 3y ago
The question was about fairness. When concentrated wealth goes to a selected individual or group of individuals, it is usually seen as "fair" when it has been earned in some way. This didn't need to be explained, right?
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One more thing psychedelics has pointed me towards is the feeling that reality may be recursive in some possibly incomprehensible way. So yeah!! Maybe!
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I’ve done plenty of psychedelics. I have no idea why you would imply dreams and near death experiences are in the same boat, and much further than that, why you’d combine them with the concept of an afterlife. The pineal gland isn’t a third
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We’re in a period of karmic-inflation, where any given soul will get you about 1/5th what it’d get you in the good old days. Nowadays you’d be lucky to die into a fish or bird - most of us are destined bugs, or industrial farm animals.
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I was using the phrase sort of idiomatically, but fair enough!
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He’s also got a very strange and endearing sense of humor!
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So you think the logical patterns found in human language might also be similar enough to the logical patterns found in other systems that these LLMs have a jumpstart in figuring those out? We already have such a poor idea of how these thin
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So… Why do bugs bash into lights? Because they think they’re the sky. That seems to be the simplest, most down-to-earth and in-touch with instinct interpretation I can think up for this. The only confusions resting on the word “think.”
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by notnaut 4y ago
Billions of monkeys serendipitously writing Macbeth is a classic for folks familiar with that image, as well! It’s a bit easier when you can say “Macbeth-like is good enough.”
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Also shows an understanding of the importance of off-hour processing with any high thought work. Shower time, commuting, cooking dinner, sleeping. All things that give your mind time to coast over the things you may have struggled with in t
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Ignoring people with opinions that are sophomoric, bigoted, or can’t be differentiated from trolling saves an immense amount of time and frustration. Filtering noise can surely be closer to something a person with a healthy attitude towards
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I have noticed this too as a very tall person. At times I’ve realized I’ve got a lot more sway over controlling a crowd than most. Unfortunately for me, the confidence to wield it doesn’t just come with the physical trait.
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Good article but I think a few examples would benefit illustrating some of these pitfalls in action.
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There is the Walmartized rainbow culture that you’re talking about and then there’s the meat and potatoes queer culture that is and will always be counterculture for as long as human reproduction remains sexually binary. There is still a su
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Did you at least reap some of the buyout benefits?
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Art and publishing too
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Most of the ai art I’ve seen could really only be used as something like flavor art. Magic the gathering or slay the spire, you might imagine certain generators making an interesting set of cards for.
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HN has a sort of hilarious amount of puritan sentimentality when you look at comment patterns at large
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If there were a bandaid cure for cancer, we’d use it.
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by notnaut 5y ago
> You have to be kidding me. This is your big experiment? >> You sure like to be condescending. this place gets more and more like reddit every day...
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Reminds me of an old favorite that I also used to waste a lot of company time playing! https://www.crazygames.com/game/99-balls
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The massive 5G infrastructure push should help deal with some of you “occasionally offline” dissidents