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This is an engineer perspective. Reading/studying is only really about learning what knowledge exists so you can find it and employ it later in the service of building something. T…

The article is not fluent, it's difficult to read and written in broken English. Possibly not written by AI? Understandable enough but difficult and weirdly painful to read. Defini…

Seems like excessive government overreach. Even California hasn't gone so far as to ban mere hiking as far as I'm aware. Failures by the government in forestry management and firef…

You can just ask chat GTP to help you plan your vacation.

Pretty clear that OP signed away his shares and ended up with only 1% of what they were worth. Presumably they told him his shares would be worthless anyway an if he didn't take th…

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Turing test failed, human.

Darn

My first thought was who could possibly say with a straight face that we are close to super after the spectacular failure of AI to scale up with more compute. Oh right, Sam Altman.…

Lesswrong: The support group for humans who are bad at the Turing test.

"Player Piano"

While it's true most people can't fly around the world to shop, e-commerce brings the shops of the world right to their door. And sure, middle class westerners don't have a lot of …

Octopus are a tricky case. We just don't know. On the other hand we can confidently say clams don't believe in conspiracy theories. Neither do jellyfish.

"conspiracy theory" is usually defined narrowly so that it is invariably something "only other, stupider people believe" I think that's hypocritical.

Interesting information but his key point wasn't really presented with any evidence. He didn't make a good case that octopus don't believe in conspiracy theories. How would we know…

But there's nothing stopping anyone from making their own website. There are even lots of free options for hosting, the problem is audience, which is captured and driven by platfor…