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> While in theory building rapport and loyalty sounds nice, what you actually end up doing is spending a lot of time on the people who ask the most of you, but their subscription d…

>37 data centers and there are plans to build 17 more, including plans to convert hundreds of acres of _ Civil War battlefields _ into data centers. Those poor battlefields. How ra…

Is it that all or nothing? Are you sure you're not overthinking it into two extreme choices of total life disruption and just putting it all online or something?

How do you keep robustly pro active without data? Of course megabytes of data isn't a direct measure of health. That also isn't what medjourney is proposing be the metric. They did…

I used the phrasing the article author was objecting to for cars. It anthropomorphized to the same extent as what the author is complaining about. So, I suppose you could collapse …

If everyone continues to agree it's worth what it says then not very much. Of course the whole thing can collapse for a number of reasons, not much different from other mediums of …

The premise is false. Headlines or descriptions of events like *"Three innocent bystanders were hit when a spray of bullets burst through the door, killing 1 and injuring the other…

fake stops being an applicable term as soon as people start agreeing to accept it, which the article says happened. Then it's as legitimate as anything like Bitcoin.

>AI guardrails will interfere with you identifying any meaningful anthropological conclusions. In this respect it depends on how AI is used. In this case, I didn't envision it doin…

Precisely this! Too many confounding variables to look at such a surface level, a few high-level population wide stats. Nothing is that simple, nothing is clean in this sort of thi…

>Violent crime against children has fallen steadily since the early 1990s.... The world didn’t get more dangerous. We got more afraid. This is the step that otherwise smart people …

There is a certain mindset that looks at any series of a problem that didn't get worse as evidence that any reaction to it was unwarranted, without considering if it was the why be…

A scan of headlines doesn't show any "scream of apocalypse", not across multiple news aggregators, incognito mode, etc. Out of dozens I noticed maybe one or two that might have see…

I'm not sure of your reasoning on "anything can be...". Yes, I suppose, but without elaborating further that doesn't explain why you're taking it to be circular, because I could ha…

Algorithms like these typically have some foundation in the same type of vector embedding used elsewhere in AI, eg semantic and other qualities that map to overlapping or nearby la…

I wonder if we gathered all of the "don't quote the ai" people and all of the lmgtfy people in the same place, would they cancel out? Like matter/anti-matter annihilation?

>In this person's communication culture, they are saying Wittgenstein termed precisely this sort of practice a “language game”. With the rest of his work (Philosophical Investigati…

This is unfair to those of us who’ve been writing walls of text to simple questions all our lives. I demand AI be the ones who start writing shorter things. Then I can go back to p…

Good for him, his public work these last ~1-2 years has been influential for me, as I'm sure it has for others. I even share his concern about struggling to keep pace with the rate…

Typo when it was created.

>I forget what Stross has to say about it I've seen him comment on it a few times over the years, though I wouldn't take my vague memories on them as canonical: He's mainly pissed …

Language is leaky, it gets just about everywhere. Some LLM goes and spills a bunch of emdashes and subordinate clauses all over a billion folks’ browsers and a bunch of them— espec…

> rewards health outcomes rather than required activities… earn the full amount only when patients meet measurable health goals, like lower blood pressure or reduced pain They’ll j…