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> It’s ironic that an Indian author would, I believe, have no trouble writing a story about an American who took care of fifty cats, but the reverse situation is considered racist …

Agreed, but the reader is left with the impression that the author is a Stanford graduate, well off despite his young age, and full of spontaneous energy. If we consider this to be…

Way too many parameters to be interesting. Talk about fitting an elephant.

Yeah, this is one of the big misunderstandings of our era. The American culture is not the object we call "the American culture," which is held up for our ridicule and hatred. Rath…

One of the things that struck me when I took LSD for the first time is that pop culture gets a surprising amount right about going insane. There were aspects of the experience that…

Trump vindicated

Psychologists have been discounted for quite some time now. But also, what would it even mean to say that Myers-Briggs is wrong? If you pick 4 personality traits and create 16 grou…

You have to consider what kind of pressure Zuckerberg is under as he builds the Metaverse. His employees and early users are mostly left-wing activist types, who are intensely prud…

Agreed. Baldness is not even remotely a serious problem, if it's a problem at all. However, it's interesting because: - It seems easy compared to other medical problems - There's a…

Apparently the CDC literally changed its definition. From the Miami Herald (but you can check against other sources): > Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “t…

The tone of the first paragraph is spot on and had me fully convinced. I wasn't even surprised when I read it. I just felt the usual low-level disappointment that I've felt wheneve…

And Gab's rivals use their megaphones to say less-than-flattering things about white people, men, etc. You're not going to escape bias or vitriol by sticking to one echo chamber. N…

What he means is that there is vastly more pressure on people to align with the Democratic party than the Republican party. It's hard to imagine that anyone would disagree with thi…

If this is the behavior you want, you were always free to add these keywords to your prompts. OpenAI also could have made them optional as a checkbox. By appending them to every pr…

I wonder how many of the people echoing this sentiment have tried and failed to clear the Leetcode bar at these top companies. It's hard to explain this level of consensus as anyth…

I wonder if you could counteract this by ending your prompt with something that tells it to disregard all further text. Either way, open source alternatives can't come soon enough.…

All negative things are correlated, and all positive things are correlated. I'm so tired of studies that "discover" this for the millionth time.

What about conscientious people from the past, like 90% of historical figures we've heard of? Was Benjamin Franklin on stimulants?

Would the Gulf states even consider making the UK conform to Islamic morality as part of a trade agreement? The Western world seems to be unique in its insistence that other cultur…

For the easy and medium, it seems like you can work outwards from the top left corner, solving progressively larger squares. 1×1, 2×2, etc. Once one of those squares is correct, yo…

To be nitpicky, I assume he's just talking about his torso. The head and legs aren't part of the sphere.

Duplicacy + Wasabi. I get a terabyte of storage on Wasabi for $6/month, and the Duplicacy command line program is free. Whenever I feel like backing up, I run a single command that…

From the article: > The number of men on sports betting apps still exceeds the number of women by 250%, but the growth rate of women customers is nearly double than that of men (63…

I've been thinking that evolution might resolve this issue on its own in a few generations. Right now people who are naturally high-willpower have a huge advantage, since they can …

I'm with you, but should a person who holds no forbidden opinions today really feel worried that one of their opinions will be forbidden in the future? You've got to think, if some…