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> Yet, lo and behold, we survived! This is called survivorship bias. Sure, we survived—but that’s because you’re not including all of the bored people who died of reading instructi…

> The only thing Fable was given was a clean of copy of the Ancient Greek. …and all of its training data.

> I'm sure there's a plaintext essay that can explain this just as well if the RCT style was distracting. Not distracting, just felt like a missed opportunity. A factory simulation…

It's neat, but I'm not entirely sure what the animations contribute. What's neat about games like RollerCoaster Tycoon is watching this entire map full of things happening without …

The rice piles in that picture are uncomfortably regular.

Agreed.

> If people genuinely, actually care about energy costs, they can vocally support when calls for setting your thermostat at 78F in summertime go out. Or, we can prefer energy being…

> making an assumption that they must have only or mostly non-religions motives I don't know anything about their motives, I just think we should start with the basic assumption—un…

> Iranian regime is on a path of creating nuclear weapons and they are going to do use it again Israel That's a really big claim. I don't think you can just assert that Iran is sui…

It's a significant difference.

There's also the bit where none of us cold be old enough to remember it in person, and so everything we say about it is just vibes that we picked up from the internet.

That’s up there with unpopular opinion “I like the feeling when I’m washing my hands and the ends of my sleeves get wet”.

It would come off as bland writing, but I don’t think you’d jump to assuming it was written by a computer. If you got exposed to just how much AI writing was out there, you’d defin…

Talk about the gift that keeps on giving…

For the Modern American version of that—last time I was in an Urgent Care, they had a tv playing one of the Sharknado movies. The security guard there was excited to show everyone …

> Fake ad clicks cost the advertiser money, not the ad company. It also diminishes the value of the clicks provided by the ad company. It doesn't cost them dollars directly, but ma…

> I do not see problems with fake ad clicks and have no sympathy for ad companies. Yeah, it's like—a cheap streaming stick AND it poisons the advertising well? I'm pretty happy wit…

> I've been kind of puzzled, since the first time I gave it any thought, why "going to a movie" is culturally thought of as an activity one does with a companion, even a date. Beca…

> Where does my logic break down? What am I overlooking? (1) Clothing manufacturing is a lot more complicated than sockets (2) Generally products aren't discontinued because they'r…

…then why does the page keep saying it’s always possible in less than 5 questions, if it sometimes requires 5 questions?

It's honeypots all the way down.

I'm not sure I understand. In the 4 card case, there are 4! or 24 different arrangements. So a total of ~4.5 bits. Each question gives you at most 1 bit of information. So it would…

And all it will cost them will be a huge settlement!

Thank you! I don’t know much about Zoroastrianism, and that discussion jumps right into the deep end, but I’ll see what I can get from it. :-)

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I’m interested if you could find that link later.