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Surely you could have made essentially the same point without regurgitating one of the most perniciously derogatory lines ever concocted to describe teaching? All of the market for…

He can be wrong in both directions! Lived experience is a uniquely rich and direct source of knowledge, and on average it's wise to take people seriously when they're speaking from…

If we're making superficial critiques of others' comments with minimal relevance to their philosophical content, let me point out that meat is defined by its consumption as food an…

>If someone actually joined and org with plans to be a whistleblower Yeah, I mean that's just espionage and should raise your standard of evidence for any claim made. The credibili…

But you can see the CBRN weapon nexus in your examples that's missing from the Tiananmen prompt, right? Do American models refuse to tell you about COINTELPRO, Kent State, or My La…

That would be Skippy's List[0], which as far as I know is the seminal work in the genre (at least on the internet). I originally learned about it through a (rather less compact) ve…

They already ride British nature photographers—what do they need bikes for?

Well, we could start with some ELIZA instances.

I think having a commitment that strong to a dangerous activity should factor into whether you have kids in the first place. Maybe it doesn't make the answer an automatic "no", but…

This is the best work I know on the topic (admittedly having done no literature review): https://gwern.net/tla

To the windoooooooooooooooooooow....

There's probably a legal distinction, but personally I really don't want, say, my grocery store tracking how long I spent in which aisles to add to my advertising profile. (Yes, I …

Alternating or stochastically varying pronouns in your examples used to be a common way to make an effort at inclusive writing, usually preferred aesthetically to constructs like `…

>corporate entomologies Now there's a ready-made Far Side concept.

Just to be clear, even when a human writes and refines prompts, tweaks parameters, and iterates generation until they see something they imagined but lacked the traditional art ski…

>Art has depth, art has emotion But significant portions of those qualities are imputed by the viewer! The artist has their own intent and experience during the creation of the art…

>why are you in the comment section of Hacker News and not just asking ChatGPT to generate social media comments on the article? Because I know the brains generating these comments…

I think I'm slightly more worried that photonicinduction has actually died when he goes silent for a while, though. I know it's mostly down to career/relationship ups-and-downs, bu…

I mean, yes, I would love to see a gravely sick institution volunteer, "we are flawed, we are obliged to change, and here are some well-coiffed heads on spikes as a down payment". …

While I've said something like this comment scores of times in my life, and it's definitely a necessary corrective for a lot of optimists who don't think too hard about how they th…

But those people have generally marinated their entire lives in a background frame that usefulness == worth and (as a generalization) are under-equipped to generate meaning interna…

If they won't even let a book in, the phone is definitely in exile - between eye strain, work emails, and the entire internet, phones are pretty terrible sleep hygiene offenders.

From a slightly cynical perspective, the biggest advantage to human moderation may be psychological: it's easy to choose who to blame for failures and often you can push that blame…

>Are you arguing people can't easily switch between ios and android? I mean... yes? Even just affording a new handset could be prohibitive if you want a parity of hardware features…

>RealID requirements This doesn't invalidate your point, but man it irritates me how many states have chosen to retain a noncompliant ID tier in order to avoid eating costs or rais…