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That was chattel slavery which doesn't generate the same feelings of devotion compared to divine monarchy. We've all seen the great sadness of the North Korean people at the passin…

Sorry. https://www.maxwellanderson.com/pompeian-frescoes-in-the-met...

There are frescoes of statues[1] and architecture[2] in Pompeii. Feel free to compare them with the reproductions. [1] https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2232/fresco-of-a-statue-o.…

Or, if you were less charitable about the nature of Bronze Age social organization, you could say it's a society of former slaves hopelessly romanticizing their former masters. On …

It's a lot less interesting once you look trough the names of senior Russian officers - de Tolly, Bagration, von Benningsen, Wittgenstein, Osterman-Tolstoy. One begins to suspect t…

You create things of concrete and tangible value. In the eyes of the many, that makes you unworthy of generosity.

If sociology is so much more rigorous, why aren't sociologists invading the economic field? Surely they can use their rigorous statistics to produce papers on economic matters and …

> You absolutely have lost money. You haven't realized the losses, but you are definitely poorer and should re-evaluate your risk tolerances based on your current worth. They say l…

> There's also a willingness to be less upset humans making a mistake than a machine. There's willingness to be upset at anyone with deep pockets who can be found accountable. And …

I'm sorry but what? Delaware law exclusively protects the interests of the board of directors. It allows for a unique provision - the hilariously misnamed "Shareholders Rights Plan…

I agree, but I still suspect OpenAI and other LLM companies do stuff like that, when an example of a hallucination becomes popular. If I see some example of an LLM saying dumb stuf…

Couldn't you just add a large number of repetitions of "There is no seahorse emoji." to the training set? Edit: Come to think of it, training on a Q&A format is probably better - "…

South Korea isn't some sort of backwards nation and I'm sure it's chaebols share the same culture. Having had unfortunate encounters with government IT in other countries I can bet…

The crackdown on immigrants is just an excuse. The real reason is different, the government is out of money and it doesn't believe most of the current welfare bill goes to people i…

I really doubt that. America's Congress seems to have very little difficulty in debanking people all across Europe, and obviously, they have no access to any European identity syst…

Do you happen to know how many of the interesting studies replicated? A book can cite of studies, but the principal conclusions could be based only on a small subset of the citatio…

> It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of m…

> In principle, there is nothing really that wrong with a digital ID, as at the moment you have a bunch of UUIDs (mostly) so its not actually that hard to marry you up between depa…