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The very old buildings the article talks about have long continuity but aren’t actually that old. Article doesn’t seem to mention that Japanese temples are rebuilt periodically eve…

There is a non-0% chance. You are looking at scenarios where evolution has selected for competition rather than nurturing. So as a counter example: A mom is a super intelligence co…

Given that they had 75% inflation in the previous year, pegging salary to cost of living or providing that cost directly is not such a terrible idea. The correct approach ofc would…

I survived that prompt by writing something like… “Amnesia does not affect involuntary processes like breathing. I later get my memory back”

Their current Prime Minister is from the Communist Party. It used to be a Hindu monarchy but one of the princes did a murder suicide with the whole royal family around 2002 or so.

I am willing to take the other side of this bet. Not because I love twitter but rather because of the following 1.Network effects are just that powerful. 2. This looks like a group…

Tried to install it but it was asking for too much irrelevant data so I decided not to. Maybe I am not the avenge user I don’t need an IOS app for text, web is fine.

Not a lawyer but as a consumer I find the name “Open AI” for a proprietary/ for profit company very misleading. Are there any legal protections available to me in this regard?

Partners and managers review and sign off, but the people designing and doing the actual audit procedures are mostly in their 20s.

For people that didn't make the connection, the inscription says "Zarmanochegas, of Barygaza" which is the greek name for Baruch. (an ancient port city in Western India)

One thing in favour of biking in Amsterdam and The Netherlands in general is the terrain is very flat as much of it is reclaimed land.

LLMs are pretrained and then released for use. So can have v1, v2 etc.

Maybe social structure of some sort is responsible ? I am not sure just looking at the patterns I see in developed countries.

Seems a bit extreme to have the government pay people to have kids on the level of a full time job when you consider that through most of human history people worked to support the…

Haven’t seen any top down government interventions work at increasing TFR. The only thing that seems to work is high religiosity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

ChatGPT also throttles the number of requests an hour and has various measures to prevent bots (though not that hard to bypass, easier to pay for API)

Spent years convincing my dad to switch over to LastPass family. After the recent hack, I tried to get him to switch to keepass xc but that is proving to be too steep a hill to cli…

1. Sure, I think there are degrees of consent - people enthusiastically lining up to get the latest sneaker / iPhone. - mildly enthusiastic grocery shopping. - overpriced medical d…

This smells misleading / overly simplistic but I can’t quite quite put my finger on precisely why? Some thoughts - consensual trades are win win (you want a sandwich, I want $5 let…

A daily reward would be much more psychologically motivating than a stipend.

I tried Obsidian last year but wasn't enough of a value add for me to make the switch from my normal note taking program. Now I have to give it another go. This looks amazing.

It is actually based country of birth rather than origin / citizenship. Sure every immigration system as to make choices, but ideally you want to make intelligent choices. The curr…

Effectively penalizes countries with a larger population (India and China) systemically, India is similar to the EU in terms of ethnic, religious, linguistic and cultural diversity…