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I other words, bullshitted them instead of being truthful. If you play piano for Chopin they aren't going to give you a participation trophy. Give me a break.

Negro wasn't an offensive word even in the 90s from what I remember. It would have sounded overly formal and a bit outdated but it wasn't a slur. I assume this just comes from Span…

75% of Gen Z doesn't even qualify to join the US military from obesity and drug use. I am pretty sure the military is doing whatever they can do to market to that remaining 25%. Be…

Even better is "Filter feedback the way you filter calories: take only what you need. Take the rest with a grain of salt." It takes a special kind of person to write that and not e…

IMO it is really just paranoid AI risk cultists theater for narcissists. The more narcissistic types have figured out it is their moment in the sun to see their name in the paper a…

It is like saying the newspaper can just digitize the stories they were going to write anyway and keep selling the newspaper as they had before. That works until people stop buying…

This is not how the future is going to be. There is no modeling going on with this. At most they are providing a system prompt to the chatGPT api to stay on the topic of CS. It is …

There is just enormous variability with professors. The more MOOCs you take the more obvious this becomes. If you had good professors in college you should consider yourself lucky.…

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You obviously weren't high enough. It totally works if you are super high. It works though the same way that I will think I made some masterpiece of music while being super high an…

It was a huge miscalculation. Even Russians that hate Putin are not going to be comfortable with support for a coup from a private military. Peter Zeihan stated the obvious in a vi…

23% of US households with children have just one parent and 86% of those households are single mothers. I am not even sure what this article is claiming to compare but it strikes m…

I think in the US at least, travel has an even deeper aspect of ritualized behavior or religiosity in the positive sense of those concepts. A pilgrimage for people who don't believ…

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? LLMs should make us take seriously that the whole idea of consciousness is just superstition and unnecessary. That definition is pre…