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> Yet LLM responses seem overly verbose and also too chipper. I don’t understand the origin of the “personality” that seems to be prevalent. LinkedIn posts and Medium articles.

It's not you; the culture around here is not what it used to be.

If you have a recent sleep apnea diagnosis, get your testosterone checked too. Years of poor sleep will crater your levels and CPAP will not help as much as it should.

I'm with you in spirit but publishers are hardly blameless. SEO optimization and framework bloat made internet browsing downright unpleasant since the late 2000s. Google is deliver…

Given the track we're on, in 80 years Americans will be extinct and whoever's occupying my current space will be living in the Managed Democracy of Monocolored Benetton. Their kids…

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> every time I go past a construction site, all I see are white guys whose great-great-great grandparents came over on the Mayflower. If you're going to lie to people, at least com…

What data suggests there is a positive outcome for the first world in integrating with the third world? Because my data suggests we're enthusiastically recreating the conditions th…

All Jews are dual citizens of Israel. Whether or not they've invoked the right to return, access is made available to them by default.

In this case it is fundamentally impossible, since halakha prohibits deliberate targeting of civilians-- but not collateral damage. So if you optimize for collateral damage and all…

> The "danger" was probably spam content and mis-information. AI brings normal people dangerously close to seeing through the matrix of lies that shape "their" values and beliefs. …

> For whatever reason, Reddit gave enormous amount of censorship and conversation-shaping power to mods It's been "bad" since the 2010s, but censorship went into overdrive once Ope…

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The 83+ let you type the full set of lowerchase chars as well, but they used 2x as many bytes per character for storage.

My Samsung has "Galaxy AI" all over it, it's just an S23. I've tried to use it out of curiosity and it rejects a lot of my image edits as inappropriate (violence) so the foundation…

"Whims" skew discriminatory. Enough of the real world interfaces with online services that arbitrary bans cause actual damages, more harm than banning an annoying player from your …

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> There is no 'symbolism' or conscious allegory in my story. Every author says this; they have a financial stake in not alienating outgroups they hope to sell their book to. Fictio…

> You're unhappy that more people have access to it and wish it was still exclusive to the small group you conveniently belong to. This is not an argument made in good faith. It's …

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This is a bit of an oversell on their part. The offenses include: > A 36-year-old woman who had been unlawfully at large for more than 20 years and was wanted for failing to appeal…

It doesn't matter what the article says. There is no penalty for lying and no incentive to be honest. The media exists to broadcast their lies at scale. Back in the 2000s, upon arr…

It has diminishing returns. Taken continuously you'll only get 5-7 years out of it. One thing I've noticed is that it fuels people with a sense of self-righteousness that will alie…

> with the European laws the incentive to do something at the last minute doesn't really exist. Sibling comment correctly points out that misbehavior would follow a different termi…

It's not theater, it's defense against aggrievement. Termination is a traumatic event that threatens your ability to exist or provide for dependents. People [rightfully] don't hand…