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Apparently it's used by about 10% of UK university students, according to a survey: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40979-024-00174-3 I remember there being kind of a bu…

> Orexins are only produced by a small cluster of neurons in the hypothalamus, a brain region located roughly behind the eyes and between the ears. https://sleep.hms.harvard.edu/ed…

Our "natural" impulse is to eat everything tasty within reach until we're full. That's not so healthy when the tasty stuff regularly includes foods like liter soft drinks, ice crea…

Checking out his Twitter feed first might have dampened some of that shock.

Neural minimalism, the newest health trend coming to a social network near you.

Even if I never needed to sleep again I would kind of miss dreaming. Maybe we could take another drug to make us dream.

Why would you want AI content to be indistinguishible from human output?

It saves the non-anglophones the bother of learning to write readable English, so there's that.

"Perfect as far as human perception can tell" is a weaker standard than "bit-to-bit copy." Maybe it's that?

Ha, I used to do the same back in high school. Never know when a site's going to go down or change without warning.

The only way to be immune is make ads and tracking impossible or at least not profitable enough for bigcorps to care about putting them there. So, maybe a web without Javascript, i…

The brief era where the "social web" consisted of blogs and old-school chronological forums was pretty nice. I enjoyed it, anyway.

It undermines the social incentive as well if potential creators assume that everyone else will be getting their content through AI. They won't be looking at my stuff, they'll be l…

> clinging like Harlow's monkey to a simulacrum of togetherness mediated via a screen like we do today Damn that analogy hits hard.

Money doesn't buy happiness but definitely makes pursuing it easier.

Ultimate dominance: when your shooting victim apologizes for being shot.

"Ghost guns" exist, too, but we still try to prosecute reckless use of firearms to the extent possible.

> The hacks also present a challenge for legal systems. Hacking, when humans do it, is a crime. When an ai is the wrongdoer, though, it is unclear how to assign blame. Blame the pr…

I was betting on some kind of satire. Poe's Law at work.

Did you read about the Canadian politician who was making a speech and simply thoughtlessly read out some of the LLM boilerplate prefacing the text some chatbot had written for him…

I'm the same way. The "grind" makes the successes all the sweeter.

Wonder if there any guys who are therians and identify as male anglerfish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therian_subculture

To a man with a hammer...

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