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by yawpitch 2y ago
Everything this channel does is pretty well thought out, and they’re certainly not engaging in LLM hype, they’re just starting a series exploring the many potential implications of an AGI — as breathlessly hyped by a lot of other people —
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by yawpitch 2y ago
https://archive.ph/wdguU
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ok, now go prove that camels can do n-dimensional calculus.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> he was chatting with Nikki about everything from their sexual fantasies to their shared love of cats Dear gods, sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Ok, I’ll bite: which scammers ruthlessly exploiting uncritically accepting people kept us from discovering electricity for 5 millennia?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> If you are looking to be judged in this way, then I am not aware of any book which is better for this purpose then the Bible. That’s the problem with circular reasoning… I’d suggest the entire works of Terry Pratchett will provide much
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Is there evidence of the drug itself harming anyone with PTSD (as opposed to the weird, kind of cultish, touching + talking therapy the group involved seems to want to bundle it with)? Seems to me this is just going to lead to more people t
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The problem, in this case, is that there’s a group of people intentionally mispronouncing the second black (de facto) nominee’s name, and that this is precisely the same group that, again intentionally, mispronounced the only first blac
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Yes. By her own account, by her family’s account, and coming from every remotely reliable source that could have any knowledge to the contrary, she was born as, raised as, lives as, and most importantly is a woman. Now, what I’m not cle
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by yawpitch 2y ago
As an English-speaking person who has had to try to say the Danish word “hygge” several thousand times and never once correctly, I’m sensitive to that fact… however most of the people I hear (very often intentionally) mispronouncing her nam
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Sure. Which you should happily delve into after you’ve asked the person with the name and consistently been able to pronounce it in public.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Oh dear lord what went wrong with that guy’s brain? Was it, in fact, the billions, or just the lack of oxygen up there? No , you cannot get charged in the UK for merely retweeting those words, and only the delusional believe otherwise.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Isn’t simplest rule of thumb to just ask the person whose name it is?
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> BECOMING A COMPUTING EXTREMOPHILE Ok, right on, I’m listening, go! > All my work machines (local or Remote Desktop environments) boot up to exactly two applications: Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Teams2. And you’ve lost me…
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Pretty sure he exposed himself first, but good on her for pulling his pants down further.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
“Introducing” and “modern” are a bit odd, here, since it’s been 6 years since the last time normalize.css got an update.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
When you’re facing people who are willing to joyfully blow their own genitalia off just to have a hope of downing an aircraft — the actual goal isn’t that, it’s to inflict economic damage to the economy that keeps the planes moving, which
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by yawpitch 2y ago
No. There are no gods, there are only accidents trying to make sense of their accident.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Fascinating that you seem to think that taking the time and energy to write a trollish shitpost about your offense at someone’s use of pronouns is somehow not acknowledging or caring about that someone’s use of pronouns. I don’t think you
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> I know that's basically the official story (they just hate America in a supervillain kind of way), but it doesn't really make any sense. The official story from say Little Bush might have been “they hate us”, but the actual s
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I’m enticed, I just wish I wasn’t a) out of the US (emigrated to escape blast radius of Trump 1.0) and b) what we in Blighty call “skint” at the moment. Unfortunately the two incentive payments from Der VannabeunFührer went to BLM and abort
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Bin Laden wasn’t all that interested in pan-Arabian unity, or even pan-Islamist unity, unless you were Sunni, more specifically Salafi / Wahhabi. Whatever his message, for the majority of Arabs it included the “oh, and follow my litera
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by yawpitch 2y ago
You don’t chose the Twin Towers as the target for the second time in a decade because what you’re trying to do is talk to average Americans about geopolitics… you’re literally trying to hit them in their stock market. Twice. You also don’t
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by yawpitch 2y ago
See my other comment, on the backend they’re splitting donations above the personal per candidate per election limit across multiple candidates and elections, while allowing the contributors to specify a custom split that remains within app
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Harris Victory Fund accepts contributions of up to $929,600 from a person and $415,000 from a multicandidate committee (“PAC”). The first $6,600/$10,000 from a person/PAC will be allocated to Harris for President, with the fi
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by yawpitch 2y ago
That article really overestimates the desire of suicide bombers to survive their attempt. It also really overestimates how hard it is to do massive economic damage just by implying you know how to make TATP. What Bin Laden et al wanted
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Give 100ml total of a whole lot of different room-temperature liquid reagents to a moderately-trained college-level chemist and down cometh that plane. Security theatre is such a waste.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41148139 https://github.com/amarcheschi/SPAMerica-PAC
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I like the impulse to digital direct action, even if too many years programming has me screaming “refactor!” constantly.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Having spent a pandemic locked down in a boat, I beg to differ.

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