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Several EU cities have experimented with making public transport free, and people seem to really enjoy it. Also, as you so eloquently put it, it isn't clear that the cost for issui…

Seconding Uvix's question. I was looking for work in 2021-2022, and an approach like yours got me a job after interviewing with circa 10 companies. Unfortunately ended up on the wr…

> Those people who have to apply to 100s of jobs are probably in that situation because they’re spraying low-effort LLM resumes around and most hiring managers can see right throug…

cost and outcomes. In aggregate, Americans pay much more and get worse outcomes

Define "smart". And explain how "smart"=="conscious" I can agree that there is no genetic benefit to being able to move at the speed animals move, because that's not how plants obt…

Alternative hypothesis: Given that plants do not have a central nervous system, it is reasonable to expect they have a distributed consciousness. Recall that most plants avoid buil…

Hey, will say your right about "seems similar to human", but behavior such as moms taking care of their babies is found in many plant species, as is loyalty. Probably happiness and…

> If we define hallucinations as falsehoods introduced between the training data and LLM output, Yes, if. Or we could realize that the LLMs output is a random draw from a distribut…

It's also much faster to get in front of a NP than a doctor.

hey, I hear you. Modern America is full of voices demanding you give them care/attention. Every. Single. Thing. It is overwhelming. See following comments on the need for slack/mar…

if you'll forgive my prior snark, some people successfully involve the children in the cooking. When this is done, the children seem to prefer the home-cooked because they are part…

> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love. Let me fix that for you: Children notoriously prefer heavily mar…

Not too hard to build your own. Lots of tutorials based on i.e. ESP32 chips, various blinky light options. Google "Adafruit clock" to get started.

Wow! So a visual effect similar to some psychadelic hallucinations is associated with brain cleaning! Also, I've been at concerts where the light show guy seems to have reverse-eng…