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by viridian 1y ago
How so? There are 172 million Muslims in India.
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by viridian 1y ago
You should choose to practice kindness and charity if you can at all help it. Accusing a whole class of people of arrested development is incredibly derogatory. There are healthier ways to frame criticism.
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by viridian 1y ago
I think what's more important, is that you have a device that will broadcast you a personalized feed of whatever the most engaging stupidity in the world is, at that very moment, 24/7. The magnitude of this passive exposure is far
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by viridian 1y ago
I wonder how this interacts with the fact that women initiate 80% or so of divorces. I'm not sure it says anything about appeasement, but if you have two people who are each 4x more likely to initiate a divorce than two other people, t
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by viridian 1y ago
I don't think much of Travis Kalanick, but this kind of journalism sucks, the paper is so yellow I can barely read it. I don't want to forego addressing your point though, and yeah, Kalanick seems to be one of the people delusiona
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by viridian 1y ago
I think input strategy probably accounts for the difference. Usually I'm just asking a short question with no additional context, and usually it's not the sort of thing that has one well defined answer. I'm really asking it t
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by viridian 1y ago
The last US recession that didn't also pull in the rest of the western world was in 1982, over 40 years ago. Western Europe, Aus, NZ, Canada, and the US all largely rise and sink on the same tides, with differences measured in degrees.
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by viridian 1y ago
This post doesn't make any sense. I've never seen an LLM proclaim anyone to be an expert unabetted, alone the leading expert globally. And on the other side of the coin, very few people are willing to believe an obvious sycophan
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by viridian 1y ago
I'm sure the reason is the plethora of markdown data is was trained on. I personally use ``` stuff.txt ``` extremely frequently, in a variety of places. In slack/teams I do it with anything someone might copy and paste to ensure t
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by viridian 1y ago
I'm curious what your prompts look like, as this is the opposite of my experience. I use lmarena for many of the random one shot questions I have, and I've noticed that mistral-medium is almost always the worse of the two after I
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by viridian 1y ago
While I wouldn't prescribe someone to sit down and think about why they tie the two together, you are probably right that it's reflective of their greater worldview(s). I wouldn't prescribe it because odds are, they already h
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by viridian 1y ago
At this point I think the Democratic party would rather cede every office in the country to the opposition rather than tear down their careerist, insider focused superstructure. If you are losing the chess game to adveraries who started pla
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by viridian 1y ago
You've made my case for me, if by "I think I should reflect on that", you do in fact mean "[you've] been holding a silly opinion don't want to admit it". The former is a passive-aggressive way to say the l
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by viridian 1y ago
I would advise against it, personally. Its a passive aggressive, thought terminating cliche that might as well be saying "I know better than you".
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by viridian 1y ago
I starting writing a response to your post, but as I kept writing and investigating, it became clear that the MIT article you linked is just overflowing with false statements, half truths, stretched truths, and unsourced information. It is
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by viridian 1y ago
The logical end step of these trains of thoughts is always the same. If you aren't contributing to the solution in a big way, you should kill yourself. And even if you can't take that step, you should absolutely not have children,
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by viridian 1y ago
In my opinion, all energy industries should and probably do feel threatened by solar. Since 2022 or so, all metrics I have seen put its cost per kwh ahead of natural gas, and thus, significantly ahead of every other energy source. It's
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by viridian 1y ago
Would you claim that the U.S. invasion of Iraq being primarily for oil was not a conspiracy theory? If so, then you are at odds with (at the very least) then president George W. Bush, and then prime ministers Tony Blair and John Howard. You
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by viridian 1y ago
They like the wind so much they pay Iowa for extra helpings!
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by viridian 1y ago
One can be immersed in the behavior of the spectacle while also opposed to it. Frankly, I'd say that applies frequently to most situationists and critical theorists I've interacted with, including myself. The fact that signposting
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by viridian 1y ago
Just about every crawler that tries probing for wordpress vulnerabilities does this, or includes them in the naked headers as a part of their deluge of requests.
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by viridian 1y ago
I wish this were true, but the critics as a polity just don't have a sophisticated palate. Many individual critics much like many general audience members do, I'm sure.
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by viridian 1y ago
I completely agree. Feels a bit ironic that not only do anti-woke conservatives seem to implicitly believe California = woke, but this unnuanced read is apparently held a plurality of liberals as well.
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by viridian 1y ago
A California bias is not the same as being woke. 6 time Oscar award winner and 14 time Oscar Nominee film La La Land wasn't especially woke, but it was damn near manufactured in a lab to appeal to the exact sort of sensibilities that a
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by viridian 1y ago
Man if you saw the endless wailing and gnashing of teeth about every single change that happens iteration to iteration you'd be astounded. The two subfranchises, modern warfare and black ops do generally feel substantially different th
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by viridian 1y ago
Why would anyone lie about that?
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by viridian 1y ago
I think its overgeneralizing, but mostly accurate to say that the human-free constructs built by the Germans are quite efficient, but the human processes, systems, and interactions by which they get to these other results are byzantine at b
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by viridian 1y ago
Even the phrase Americentrism undermines your point. This is like reading about a Dacian complaining about the Romans using the term Mare Nostrum. Nobody really pays any mind to the client states of an empire.
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by viridian 1y ago
Yeah, the CS skin market is pretty crazy, but its still no where near CoD sized. Black ops 6 turned over $3 billion in revenue, and black ops 7 is expected to sell higher yet. I find the yearly release model exhausting, honestly. Some peopl
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by viridian 1y ago
I think the psychology is a bit different though, winning the lottery is a moonshot that everybody will at least say they don't think will ever, ever happen. Meanwhile you can watch a video on youtube of a streamer pulling a $10000+ kn

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