intensely_human

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I can’t believe you would rather let people die than let your house get spray painted. Monster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

but always break down as bad actors and grifters work their way in to cause trouble

This is the reason for having a slow, steady, methodical, skeptical approach to social change.

If your thing gets hijacked every time, eventually you gotta take responsibility for being so easily hijacked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Yes I would say that about BLM. Justifying this stupid shit with that stupid shit doesn’t sway me. And no, now that I’m pissed off about this library vandalism, that does not in any way make me likely to support Gaza.

How do you not get that there is no mechanism of incentive here?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

throwing shit on the Mona Lisa. Are you more aware?

No. I already knew about climate change.

Stonehenge. Are you more aware?

No. I already knew about climate change.

The audience is everyone who doesn't give a shit about the protests but instead pearl clutches over the covers of books getting some paint on them

I am opposed to spray painting library books. But that does not mean that spray painting library books is a way to recruit my help.

In fact, there is no reason to think it would recruit my help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I don't give a shit if a hundred libraries burn to save the lives of even ten children.

There is no mechanism by which burning a library saves children’s lives

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Imagine waking up and one of your toes is gone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Gee that sounds a lot like the men in this story who also got ZERO PRISON.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

No, but they might be able to produce 300x the value.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.

Why not? Why not value the work based on what others are willing to pay for it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why don’t you ask a conservative or a republican?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Go ask the person who said that for their source, and ask yourself why you didn’t start with them in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I take my consent from the dog. You’re its caretaker, friend, and family. None of that means the dog’s incompetent to decide and communicate desire to be touched.

edit: I should be more clear. I ask for permission from the owner. I say “Can I say hi to your dog?”

Then I say hi by putting my hand out to smell. Then if the dog wants a pet, I’ll pet the dog.

Permission to approach from the owner, but consent to pet from the dog.

 

O’Neill cylinder is that big rotating cylinder space station format that uses the spin for artificial gravity.

At higher elevations the gravity will be lower. BMX bikes will be fun too. Make a big jump and you can go across the center and land on the other side, or go into a zero-gee part in the middle, which works out if you’re always inside a curve.

 

I’ve noticed ChatGPT gets less able to do precise reasoning or respond to instructions, the longer the conversation gets.

It felt exactly like working with a student who was getting tired and needed to rest.

Then I had above shower thought. Pretty cool right?

Every few months a new ChatGPT v4 is deployed. It’s got new training data, up through X date. They train up a new model on the new content in the world, including ChatGPT conversations from users who’ve opted into that (or didn’t opt out, can’t remember how it’s presented).

It’s like GPT is “sleeping”, to consolidate “the day’s” knowledge into long term memory. All the data in the current conversation is its short term memory. After handling a certain amount of complexity in one conversation, the coherence of responses breaks down, becomes more habitual and less responsive to nuance. It gets tired and can’t go much further.

 

I just stopped at McDonalds and ordered two orders of hash browns. I expected to get four “patties” of hash browns, but only got two. Each order has one big oval shaped chunk of hash browns.

I asked the guy about it, asked when it had changed, and he said it’s always been that way. I searched google images, and all the pictures show a single chunk to an order.

Does anyone else remember an order of hash browns being two separate pieces?

For me this changed in like the last week because the last time I got an order with two in it was a week or two ago.

 

I asked GPT-4 for a list of the most important threats to human civilization, their likelihood, and why they were considered threats.

GPT's output is also pasted into the comments.

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