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by sandspar 2y ago
Haha, I'm talking to a real life Inspector Gadget, how neat! And thanks for answering.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Interesting project. Not something I'd do myself! If you look at your past, did anything foreshadow that you'd one day do this? Like you played a game with a modified character or something like that? Also, one semi-serious questi
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If you're genuinely curious then we now know that much of these instances of blacklisting were due to all-but-direct intervention by the Biden administration, effectively unconstitutionally.
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Nutrition and psychology studies with soundbite conclusions like this almost always fail to replicate.
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Seems like a fair and balanced source.
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>There’s a group of the population that is disgusted by anything related to LLMs or generative AI. I feel genuine concern for this group of people, a group which includes some of my own family members. I worry that they're going to
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by sandspar 2y ago
Cynically, the more you think about being a good person, the more superior you can feel to others who don't think about it as much. This interpretation fits with explanations for Trump's win, that intellectuals like Vox readers ha
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by sandspar 2y ago
You're right, I'm sure you could have done what he did (or even better!) if you'd been in his shoes.
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It's a book written for non experts and clearly labeled as such. Bill Gates likely knows more about AI than you do and yet he recommends a book that normal people can understand. There may be a lesson here.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Note that his post saying that HackerNews is full of Elon haters was downvoted to negatives.
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Maybe YouTube can't exist without ads but the next thing might.
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Ads haven't always existed. Economies without them can exist and we can move toward one.
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Why do you believe it's cynical?
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Young people want their generation to have its own "thing". Hype trains make them feel like their generation is unique.
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He's right of course. His argument builds on the "newspaper effect," where articles in your area of expertise are full of errors, but those outside it seem accurate. The elephant in the room is that AI-generated content doesn
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by sandspar 2y ago
Yeah makes sense, thanks.
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George HW Bush built part of his folksy persona around hating the taste of broccoli. If one day he tried eating broccoli and enjoyed it, would he tell everyone? Likely he'd choose to keep his reputation and just keep his new taste to h
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by sandspar 2y ago
? There's a video of it exploding. https://youtu.be/HLgKKKWDJF0?si=eRWipHRDMJ08Qltc at 1:07. I Googled "Cybertruck exploding" and it came up. It took 5 or maybe 10 seconds. Are you trying to quibble over whet
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by sandspar 2y ago
I use Google Forms to send data to a Google Sheet. You just put whatever lifts you have in the Form with spaces to add weights. I use this Google Form --> Google Sheets thing for a dozen different things.
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Do you sincerely believe that Gemini is not very biased?
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Maybe work with difficult high performers? Talented people who are difficult because they're brash rather than untalented people who are difficult because they're messy.
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There's lots of clubs that are politically aligned. Board games and Dungeons and Dragons and maker spaces tend to be progressive, certain types of volunteering lean conservative.
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This also works for hosting things in general, not just meetups. If you host something then everyone there will want to make friends with you.
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Written by 3 DEI consultants and a professor. If nothing else, DEI has provided thousands of jobs for these sorts of people. No wonder they want to keep it going.
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Schizophrenia often feels like extremes. You experience supernormal heightened states of terror and beauty in a roughly 9:1 ratio.
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1/3rd of schizophrenics are fully symptom free once on the correct medication.
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The point is that you don't know which one will stick. Even people who are desensitized will remember certain things, a person's facial expression or a certain sound or something like that, and you can't predict which one wil
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Professional computer touchers tend to have confusing relationships with other people.
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Your problem is that you tried to make a relationship with your oneitis. Those never work.
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Pressed "Try for free" and it brought up a survey so I exited the tab.

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