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16kg is pretty standard for a male. Personally, with getting older I really love higher reps for conditioning with a 12kg but they all have their use. I think most people are delus…

He makes some good arguments and is certainly better read in economics than the youtube conspiracy theory video level/back cover summary of the Creature from Jekyll Island economic…

It is incredible that you can ask chatGPT anything and this is what people spend their time with.

I completely disagree and I love David Graeber. We will automate some bullshit jobs but create all kinds of new bullshit jobs that have titles that start with AI. Thousands of titl…

It is because you don't know what you are talking about when it comes to economics. A currency that doesn't inflate, doesn't get spent. It gets horded and stops acting as a medium …

To say it is a random walk is confusing a model of reality with reality. Totally agree with the other poster though. You can pretty much prove whatever you want in the market depen…

Not to mention funded by foreign governments to further their own agenda.

I have lifted for 30 years. The standard bullshit line in the fitness industry has always been "everyone else is wrong". Practically what every single trainer ever in the world has…

I forget what lecture it was but Feynman thought the idea of "computer science" as a bit bogus and that it is really all computer engineering. To me, it is that at our core we are …

It is all bullshit. The problem is that it is obvious how useless and misconfigured our entire corporate management structures are with remote work so the easiest solution is to go…

We really got to the point of having these almost mandatory, 100% formulaic and 100% useless sex scenes in movies. Not even sex scenes but kissing and clothes unbuttoning scenes wi…

Duolingo was my gateway drug to Anki. I just can't imagine going back to Duolingo with the speed of going through say a 100 cards in Anki. There is just so much animation/sounds/no…

On the navy video I remember one of the guys mentioning they think it is a drone. It such hubris to believe those are alien craft and not foreign military drones. As if alien craft…

I think that underestimates the massive amount of distractions a person had to deal with being born in 2000. I can remember being bored out of my mind and so practicing Bach on gui…

That is a huge assumption. The simplest explanation to me is that while they have larger language models they don't have a better product than chatGPT to release. I would think bui…

It makes me a bit sad thinking about how smart creative people in order to make a bunch of money use to form bands like this. Now they form startups in a much more dull society.

Awesome. I am ordering this right now.

I see it as the opposite. It is amazing what the model can do with poor quantitative reasoning. I just can't imagine adding super human quantitative reasoning is going to be that b…

I think it is really hard to say where all this goes right now when we currently don't even have good quantitative reasoning. 10 years ago we were still working on MNIST prediction…

The radar and RF on approach might make sense. I just don't see how a provocation test makes any sense though. It is hardly like America is not willing to use military force. Reall…

It would be pretty absurd to believe the US military is not tracking every inch of its own air space.

I just don't see how chatGPT and crypto are at all comparable. One immediately and obviously has thousands of use cases while one we are still trying to figure out the use case 13 …

I don't think the lack of user pictures can be underestimated. No pictures and great moderation is basically the opposite of Instagram and I think exactly why real discussion takes…

I think an uncensored model will ultimately win out though exactly the way a hard coded safe search engine would lose in time. Statistics seem to be 20-25% of all search is for por…

Totally agree. I was just thinking how I will eventually not use a search engine once chatGPT can link directly to what we are talking about with up to date examples. That is a sit…