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Commented on A Wonky Experience
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
welcome to the new normal... and here I thought the days of villages posting sentries on overnight shifts to watch for attacks by hungry wolves was long gone I honestly do not understand what your point is. Are you saying...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
if ever there is a SkyNet-equivalent it will be a terrifying nightmare to haunt malicious hackers as it hunts 'em to protect itself from harm Our Gracious Host has a book about more or less this scenario. It is called...
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I am quite certain Romeo was 16. Heteromeles' "fantasy" makes Romeo older in order to create a modern day morality tale, since nowadays 18 is the magic number....
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We moved fast, and one of the things we seem to have broken is our intellectual links to the deep future of humanity. Does this matter, or not? Any interest in building it back better? Who is "we", Kemo Sabe?...
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Kaiju Preservation Society, of course. Hm. I tried to read it, found it boring and gave up. Perhaps I should try again....
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Fair warning, John Scalzi got there a few years ago. Can you be more specific? Which Scalzi book(s) are you talking about?...
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Back when I worked in tech (so, 80s) corporate policy was that a TLA had to be spelled out the first time it was used in a document, after which you could use it freely. This was a good idea...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
And the actress dubbed "Meth Lab Oompa-Loompa" is now cashing in on the experience (after suffering several days of Internet hate): https://gizmodo.com/viral-oompa-loompa-cameo-greetings-kirsty-paterson-1851307899...
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Commented on A Wonky Experience
The poor rat in Figure 1. Ouch. My wife told me that when she was a kid, she had a pet rat not unlike that one. His name was Scrot....
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
The LLM is not actually being encouraged to give correct answers, it is being asked to produce language which /sounds like/ somebody who is being encouraged to give correct answers. I know that. The weird part is Star Trek. Why...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
Since we are past 300... Here is the weirdest AI news I've heard yet. And I do not mean "weirdest in 2024" or even "weirdest since OpenAI came to be". I mean weirdest I ever heard, and I had been...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Economic benefit of obesity drugs is already being recognized: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/drugs-ozempic-wegovy-could-strengthen-120023197.html Goldman Sachs argues that since poor health unambiguously weighs on the economy, improving health outcomes due to GLP-1s could lower costs and boost productivity, shoring up economic output. The Wall...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
So far as I can tell, there are the same number of controls on the Camry cruise control stalk as on the Bolt button cluster. They’re just formatted differently. That's why I said I have poor thumb control. I...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
Don't know what to say. Perhaps I have poor thumb control; all my gaming was always with a keyboard and mouse, never with game controller. Here is what the steering wheel on my 2008 Camry looks like: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803617383567.html And the...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority, but having a game-controller style steering wheel is useful. Since I did not know what you mean by it, I just looked up Bolt steering wheel. https://www.chevybolt.org/attachments/bolt_button-jpeg.47014/ Ack! I think this alone is...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
Yeah, I use a rear camera all the time. Indeed, I’ve had to learn to stop depending on it when the neighborhood produced a crop of young kids who like t run full tilt. After a close call, I started...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
I very much agree with Mike. I have Tesla Model Y, and honestly, I don't even notice when I drive downhill -- or uphill for that matter. The car takes care of the necessary braking or accelerating. To the point...
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Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
Which leads us, in this country, at the very least, towards various climate protestors, who are being, ISTM, viciously persecuted ... the new "laws" & sentences handed down seem disproportionately severe, even if some of the protestors have been stupid...
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Peter Turchin's cliodynamics is pattern matching nonsense that plays fast and loose with the data that don't fit what he wants to prove. Sounds superficially compelling, but is horseshit. Here's an actual historian - https://acoup.blog/2021/10/15/fireside-friday-october-15-2021/ I never heard of cliodynamics...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
Loved it!...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
I used to have a similar opinion: That a year of driving a motorcycle should be prerequisite for getting an automobile license....
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That's a major error. It should read "this is ALWAYS a mistake." Except when it is very much on purpose...
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And went seriously downhill from there. I am genuinely curious as to what happened next....
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
What, you thought all clerics were defined as Christian? The fact that 1e clerics were limited to blunt weapons does suggest this interpretation. Having said that, everyone I knew back then thought the rule was ridiculous; a cleric of Odin...
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"RIP TP" means "Rest in peace, Terry Pratchett"...
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Do Australians call "grog" what Americans call "moonshine"?...
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Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
Oh god. One of my childhood nightmares was spinach soup. The way Russians make it, it still has identifiable spinach leaves, but they are basically leaf-shaped pieces of slime. I threw up more than once. I was fine with raw...
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Wonderful explanation, but what is a "breadhead"? I had never seen this expression....
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Instead of listening to decades out of date "don't pay off your mortgage" What was the reasoning for that in the first place?...