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Buttplug-MCP – Buttplug.io MCP Server(github.com)
4 points by unwise-exe 1y ago|0 comments
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
>> I wonder if people would be more introverted/extroverted depending on the fit with the people they are around. Personal experience says yes.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
Must be nice when everyone you need to know happens to be someone you enjoy knowing.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
>> Functionally equivalent but no soul. Something that predicts no observable differences is unfalsifiable aka bullshit.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
If you want to know what life is like when society is run by beings smarter than you, ask someone who flunked out of high school. If you want to know what life is like when society is run by alien intelligences, ask someone who lives under
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
Just because he has, um, interesting ideas about what's worth covering or what lens to view things through, does not change that he does in fact report things and is therefore a reporter.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
> I do wonder how much it's people in the media trying to protect the rest of the trans community from association with this story, and how much it's just people writing stories based on the other coverage and not realizing th
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
<< To do so, court records reveal, the insurers have turned to a coterie of psychiatrists and have continued relying on them even after one or more of their decisions have been criticized or overturned in court. >> ...ok? Is Pr
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
I thought advertising and marketing materials were expected to exaggerate things to the point of blatant falsehood. Is that changing, or is this company being singled out for some reason, or are they really that much worse than everyone e
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
Sure sure, the "one neat trick" for getting around the bill of rights by deputizing the private sector to do things that only get recognized as rights violations if it's the government doing it.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
The "study" this is based on is paywalled and not on sci-hub. A comment from the article: << "Industrial civilisation is facing 'inevitable' decline as it is replaced by what could turn out to be a far more ad
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
I don't really have one.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
In-house workers can phone it in as well. At some point, your recursive watchers of watchers watching watchers has to have a base case of "we trust this entity" (or maybe, "you, the public, trust this entity"). Outsourci
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
>>> Any criticism or critique of this paradigm gets hated on without anyone really listening I'm having a hard time following this. Could you perhaps reference some examples to illustrate what you mean here?
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
>>> I'm willing to bet this is within human baselines but either way, researchers really need to start including human baselines in these kinds of papers. They should indeed, but is that "I've never seen this before&
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
>>> since on tests, there's usually an assumption that all information given is relevant Maybe on grade-school tests, but the professional certification exams I've taken have questions about scenarios where part of the ch
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
Interesting. I would have thought that the training set (basically the whole internet AIUI) would have included various "teacher's version" exams with enough word problems with intentionally-distracting extra information, tha
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
The only way to not leave out critical details is to just learn the math behind it. The problem with doing this is that getting an extra graduate degree is a lot of work.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
>> Nobody is ever going to say "I'm sure glad we spent two trillion dollars on the F-35." Nobody cares about your server backups either. Unless something goes wrong and you need them.
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by unwise-exe 2y ago
A few billion here, a few billion there, pretty soon we're talking real money. >> The idea that there's a fixed-sized pie for science and every project takes away from something else is, frankly, defeatist. What fraction of
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
The actual comparisons from TFA: > That meant he had to grow fast and figure out the engineering on the fly — the classic entrepreneurial strategy of Silicon Valley. When it works, you get Tesla; when it doesn't, you get Theranos.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
I read that as B.I. taking the problems at Theranos as being entirely that the tech didn't work out, and ignoring the whole thing about lies and fraud.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
Kind of odd to see the guy who provided proof of the coordinated censorship that everyone knew was happening, being held out as the one named example of unregulated tech companies becoming more illiberal. . > Technocrats are right that
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
Here's a few you can have: 717ea633-a296-49ca-8895-425eb0aa61e5 87a636ef-24d1-49a8-90cf-75deead14181 06c1817a-dfbc-43ee-85e8-885737db1e2d 48a3e739-12f5-44a1-9265-7c3a41748cb2 da55983d-5143-4e14-8e87-d53fc91211c8
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
> This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make meaningful contributions to work, but **feel** they aren’t that smart and don’t have any talent. So yeah, it's not for people who truly are not smart, i
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
If the US stops offering as much free military help, the EU would just have to provide more of their own defense, yes? Maybe even make a stronger military side to their current mostly-economic union.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
I do not see how your mechanistic description actually conflicts with my description. > their brains reward them less The reward centers show lower activity . This does not have to be some inscrutable thing only noticeable with a fMRI
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
I read this less as "this makes it more likely that there was life" and more as "if there was life, this makes it more likely that we'll have found it".
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
> fMRI https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe... > “If you’re in a highly resourced environment, with many rewards available, your brain gets tuned in a certain way. If you’re in an envir
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
We know for a fact that genetics has a large influence on intelligence. We know for a fact that genetics has a large influence on personality. . We know for a fact that (at scale*) intelligence is the single largest influence on success. II

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