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by sandspar 2y ago
I've been using ChatGPT's new memory feature. It's buggy, but when it works it's quite cool. It feels like a glimpse of something big. Since it began making me aware that it remembers my activities, I've been pushin
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by sandspar 2y ago
Pedantic but I believe there was no jump, it was shades?
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by sandspar 2y ago
Nobody alive has the slightest clue what consciousness really is, including you. Your sense that it's obvious to attribute this opaque phenomena to an opaque species is just voodoo.
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by sandspar 2y ago
It's neat to see the whole-party effort behind these things. The climate people and the government want to ban gas stoves, journalists write stories saying that this is misinformation and that the government has no such plans, universi
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by sandspar 2y ago
That's a massive change! It's realistic for an untrained person to expect a 15% change in a year with exercise; you went up almost 50%. What subjective changes have you noticed in your day to day?
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by sandspar 2y ago
As an aside, high skill and low excitement is a great recipe for composure. It makes me think of a veteran I once knew. He once talked us out of a sticky situation because seeing his calm demeanor, the authority figures had no reason to sus
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by sandspar 2y ago
Did you misunderstand me? I meant that the protests are likely to not remain docile for the future. I didn't mean "for how much longer will you continue to believe they're docile", I meant "what do you believe is th
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by sandspar 2y ago
Of note is that the applications drop from Jewish students is likely higher than 5%. Jewish students are generally among the highest performing students on the campus.
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by sandspar 2y ago
>The protests are docile For how much longer do you expect them to remain docile?
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by sandspar 2y ago
The article isn't labor saving. Reading it did not reduce my future cognitive load. I've read its arguments elsewhere. Reading it is a waste of time. It's just a rant.
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by sandspar 2y ago
As Paul Fussell puts it in his book on class, the lower classes love "goop".
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by sandspar 2y ago
It's odd that the author is a college professor, a professional discoverer of knowledge, because I didn't see any original ideas in the article. Blames the sports people. Blames the administrators. Blames the politicians. It'
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by sandspar 2y ago
One way to tell if someone is smarter than you is if they are continually taking actions that appear stupid to you, yet which keep working out for them for reasons that appear like luck.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Article makes the usual mistake when talking about money, focusing on extremes. The day to day difference is "one guy is a waiter, another guy got a PhD in a bullshit subject and takes ten flights a year". These two people are act
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by sandspar 2y ago
Imagine if you're seven years old and your dad took mushrooms and then suddenly wasn't your dad anymore, but some other guy.
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by sandspar 2y ago
JK Rowling uses it frequently in the Harry Potter series, a series aimed at children. I assume her editors carefully combed her words for anything that may confuse a child. Nonplussed got through. Perhaps because British editors thought non
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by sandspar 2y ago
Running a dictionary seems like it takes a great deal of humility. You have to continually cede ground to people who know less than you.
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by sandspar 2y ago
So do people only get 8 prompts in this a day? I don't understand how people here are making such wild guesses about it being GPT-5 or 4.5 or whatever. You've only talked to it for like ten minutes.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Maybe this'll work.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Many parts of the underground started going to the overground about that time. The stuff that only weirdos talked about eight years ago is becoming common parlance.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Unrelated to Japan, but what's the reputation of train simming video games among train nerds? Are train sims deemed realistic? Also the trains would be crowded right now. Maybe an interesting experience, since it's a once in a lif
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by sandspar 2y ago
In other words it's both the best time to take a vacation to Japan and the worst time. Pros: a cheap country is even cheaper. Cons: hordes upon hordes upon hordes of tourists. I don't envy the Japanese right now.
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by sandspar 2y ago
I'm reading the comments here and it's remarkable how few people seem to have felt the vibe shift. The vibe began shifting like a year and a half ago and it's getting more widespread by the day. Zoomer males, future leaders,
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by sandspar 2y ago
"The Metro has 114 bus routes in Los Angeles with 11,770 bus stops." Numbers vary a bit by source. Los Angeles is a car city like Dallas or Houston.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Imagine if you could sell cigarettes by the stick at the register. $1 for a cigarette.
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by sandspar 2y ago
I genuinely think it's neat how all of our impulses have been commoditized. People want to feel "different"? Great, there's ways to make money from that. Money is such a spur for creativity.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Loneliness has almost nothing to do with work hours or pay. People in literally all of human history worked and yet we've only had ubiquitous loneliness for like 30 years.
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by sandspar 2y ago
Austin is just a bit too hot for the average person. Their summers are fine if you grew up in the desert. But people who move from WhereEversville America to Austin - they're gonna have a rough time in Austin in August. If you've
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by sandspar 2y ago
First sentence of article: "One Wednesday in May 2023, a small group gathered at an outdoor café in Barcelona, Spain, sipping coffee in the late morning sunshine and talking about their lives." Can we please stop starting articles
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by sandspar 2y ago
When Leonardo da Vinci was a boy, he went to the woods near his home and drew what he saw. He learned directly from nature.

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