The cat dialed back pressure through its crushing jaws, and the friend was able to pull away, fellow cyclists said in an interview one month after the incident east of Seattle....
Got it. I will turn my back and run away from any threatening bears I encounter. Should I also make any high pitched squealing sounds? Perhaps I should climb a tree?
Often we dig our own grave making people “defend” their opinion. Instead of winning them over, we push them to become more and more entrenched in their opinion as they build larger mental defenses against the challenges we present. So I want to hear from you:...
I wouldn’t point out a gish gallop, it’s just a waste of time. Just ignore points that are not relevant to the discussion. If they call attention back to a point by emphasizing it later, then go ahead and dismantle it. Usually people won’t bother though.
Staying focused on-topic is definitely one of the most important things to remember.
I haven’t found anything calling this crank science, although it does make some rather sweeping claims. One is that dark matter does not exist, and another is that the universe is 27 billion years old....
Dark matter theories have had competitors for a long time. MOND is a pretty significant one.
A helpful thing to keep in mind is astrophysicists are well aware that theories of the “age of the universe” are closer to that interesting thought experiment phase than a more concrete sort of harder theory. This stuff is still many years from being nailed down even a little bit.
If you search YouTube for V60 brewing videos and guides you’ll find about three billion different ones. Some with agitation, some without; pouring fast, in the middle, making circles; 40-60 or 30-70 or whatnot....
Not a difficult thing to perform controlled tests on.
edit: Downvote if you like, but I’m not kidding. Keep water temp, grind, bean type/quantity etc all controlled, vary the pour method between trials. Taste. Do the cups taste the same?
That does not make sense. Temperature and grind size cannot replicate the effect of gravitational sorting, where smaller objects settle beneath larger ones after agitating. It’s why crumbs are at the bottom of a bag of potato chips and not mixed throughout.
Granted. Everything is now extraordinarily boring and complicated, with every time someone opens their mouth, a long, dry, analytical summary of various problems and different theoretical solutions is given, with a long, nuanced list of potential pros and cons for each, presented in a realistic way where it is made apparent that not everyone can be made happy.
With no drama anymore, active voting percentage drops to the low double-digits for a period. Eventually populism disappears and only policy wonks are left running, and without obstructionism, they begin to actually try new things and solve some problems.
LLMs are solving MCAT, the bar test, SAT etc like they’re nothing. At this point their performance is super human. However they’ll often trip on super simple common sense questions, they’ll struggle with creative thinking....
Those tests are not for intelligence. They’re testing whether you’ve done the pre-requisite work and acquired the skills necessary to continue advancing towards your desired career.
Wouldn’t want a lawyer that didn’t know anything about how the law works, after all, maybe they just cheated through their classes or something.
Yeah, that’s a little weird. Subjectively though, you could do the offgrid cabin-in-the-woods thing and hardly ever see another human more easily if you wanted. Statistically those people won’t make a blip in the bigger picture due to how few there are, but as an individual experience it’d be difficult to find something more peaceful than that kind of Thoreau experience.
What is your favourite developer company? Mine is ID Tech because they made games like the original DooM games which have serious long standing modding support and Quake for some of those tense DM games!...
I’m going to go a little unpopular here, and say Paradox Interactive.
Their milking of their properties with DLC is the stuff of legends, but at the end of the day, nobody else is even close at modeling rich, complex and hugely broad historical simulation the way they do. They’re everything I ever wanted when I was a kid, playing Koei strat games. When you’re that good at what you do, fine, make money. Whatever.
Yeah, US troops were not there first. And I know it goes against the grain a little bit, but not everyone that works with the US is some puppet of our evil empire or something.
Some people just choose to do business with our companies of their own free will, as outlandish as that may sound.
edit: Oh, and I had to look it up, but they’ve been their current size and shape for 200 years now. I don’t see how the Spanish colony of Venezuela has any more right than the British colony of Guiana.
“They” is the traditional English-language pronoun when an unknown person could be of either gender. “Mommy, my teacher said a funny thing at school today!” “Oh? What did they say?”
Teacher is singular, but assigning a gender would feel awkward if one doesn’t know, so “they” is used instead.
Fuck, how widespread is this? It was one thing when they were all faceless, malevolent, digital actors. But how much of the time is it someone trapped into slavery?
If I argue with a Chinese troll, am I actually arguing with some Uygher in a detention camp somewhere?
But China never wants to hurt anyone, I read it on the internet. So, if they collect our data, it must be to help us be better people, because that’s all China wants. Everyone to be happy, with sunshine and rainbows all day long. I bet they’ll make unicorns too, and we can all be happy together.
The main risk currently is LLMs being incorporated within biological robots. Therefore all creators of LLMs need to have regulation under a treaty that states they will not permit use of their LLM within a biological robot and will take active measures to include in the source code a shutdown mechanism should it detect...
So, an LLM would have to eat and shit without actually knowing what food and shit actually are. Hmm, yes, very concerning.
Protip: How things sound and how they work are not always the same. A fucking parrot can talk if you train it well. This does not make it a threat to humanity.
I dunno, I think it’s pretty clear that it’s basic freedoms within the law. Words like Libertarian takes over after that, going into dismantling a lot of the existing laws.
It’s all over the writings around the founding of our country, at any rate, so it’s not going anywhere no matter how much people fuck around with it.
I don’t think its glamorizing to point out some of the nuances in the job itself. And they’re not all in some grand conspiracy or something. You can understand why a good one believes as they do, if you put in the work. You just need to learn enough about the issue to become somewhat fluent in it. Say, covid vaccines or something.
Real information, though, not just emotionally-digestible good-sounding information. It takes actual hard work, like classroom-style.
That’s why I just explained that you can understand exactly why they have the positions they do, if you simply put in the work to do so. We run into trouble, however, when people try to understand without putting in that hard work.
Then people begin to just apply blanket assumptions across the whole profession, like “politicians bad” or whatever. In real life, nothing is quite that simple.
But to really “get it”, you need to pay quite a lot of attention to voting patterns, as well as work to understand whatever issue is important to you. A good politician, which do exist, has done that work. A citizen that does not will not necessarily understand it, however.
You’ve mischaracterized me several times now. I think the reason that is happening is because I’m challenging a worldview that you hold. Not because I am actually doing any of the things you claim.
Lastly, Einstein’s Relativity in both its forms is extremely misunderstood. People think they get it, but they’re just wrong. Really understanding it comes in around 2nd-3rd year of college level physics. It’s not E=mc^2, that’s pop science. When it comes to a politician, they can spend their time teaching you, which is really the job of a teacher, or they can spend their time teaching themselves what is necessary to do their jobs.
It’s easy to wish for the world to be simple, like in a video game or movie. But its really horrendously complicated, just about all the time. You can understand this yourself, if you put in the degree of hard work that is necessary. Economics? Complicated as fuck. Geopolitics? Complicated as fuck. Psychology? Complicated as fuck. It is not your politicians’ jobs to teach you these things, that’s the job of university professors, mainly.
I’m not assuming anything. I have a broad knowledge base that I put a lot of work in for, over a lot of years, and I like a handful of politicians that vote as I believe a knowledgeable person should vote. I’m not “guessing” like some random kid would need to. I’m not using my feelings.
I’m against trickle-down-economics, for instance, because I’ve spent hours and hours poring through really dry, boring shit. So I don’t need to guess that it boosts corporate profits in the short term, but does not measurably improve life for the working class.
I don’t need to assume anything, because I put in work a long time ago.
When it comes to something I don’t understand as well, say, global trade, I just don’t keep a strong opinion. Then I vote based on those things I understand. Feelings and assumptions and trust don’t belong in politics. Facts and hard work and not having an undeserved opinion are what belong.
Note, I’ve never asked you to assume politicians are good or something, have I? I’ve simply described the necessities of the job. But you really didn’t like that I guess, you maybe think “a normal guy” could do better? And no “normal people” ever run or something?
Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws (www.nbcnews.com)
The cat dialed back pressure through its crushing jaws, and the friend was able to pull away, fellow cyclists said in an interview one month after the incident east of Seattle....
Convincing: How do you convince the unconvincable?
Often we dig our own grave making people “defend” their opinion. Instead of winning them over, we push them to become more and more entrenched in their opinion as they build larger mental defenses against the challenges we present. So I want to hear from you:...
A cosmology without dark matter
I haven’t found anything calling this crank science, although it does make some rather sweeping claims. One is that dark matter does not exist, and another is that the universe is 27 billion years old....
Anyone think that manual "pouring techniques" are mostly fluff?
If you search YouTube for V60 brewing videos and guides you’ll find about three billion different ones. Some with agitation, some without; pouring fast, in the middle, making circles; 40-60 or 30-70 or whatnot....
I wish politicians could only tell the truth.
Is chatgpt proof that standard tests are bad measures of intelligence
LLMs are solving MCAT, the bar test, SAT etc like they’re nothing. At this point their performance is super human. However they’ll often trip on super simple common sense questions, they’ll struggle with creative thinking....
Mike Johnson Suddenly Seems Ready to Stick a Shiv in MAGA (newrepublic.com)
The House speaker is open to a stand-alone vote on Ukraine aid. Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t going to like that one bit....
What is the most peaceful US state to live in?
Favourite developers
What is your favourite developer company? Mine is ID Tech because they made games like the original DooM games which have serious long standing modding support and Quake for some of those tense DM games!...
Crisis in cosmology? Or just tweaking models?
I have read several articles like this one....
Venezuela’s election in the crosshairs of new US regime change scheme (peoplesdispatch.org)
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Hundreds rescued from love scam centre in the Philippines (www.bbc.co.uk)
Young and tech-savvy victims are trapped and then forced into running illegal operations online....
Do you believe that Christo-fascism will take over America if Donald Trump is reelected?
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I have unearthed Google Gemini's utopian vision for our future
The main risk currently is LLMs being incorporated within biological robots. Therefore all creators of LLMs need to have regulation under a treaty that states they will not permit use of their LLM within a biological robot and will take active measures to include in the source code a shutdown mechanism should it detect...
Disinformation Is Tearing America Apart (time.com)
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Swedish police forcibly remove Greta Thunberg from parliament entrance (www.theguardian.com)