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It’s never happened to me either. Maybe he’s experiencing some weird regional thing.

Still. Putting Dawkins up against the KKK is a reach.

There’s a chance this isn’t being done by someone who only wants Wikipedia’s data. As the amount of websites you scrape increases, your desire to use the easy tools loses out to creating the most general tool that can look at most webpages.

Pretty huge distinction

Are you talking about golems?

If they’re withdrawing to their bunkers, the surface probably isn’t that great.

I like how knowing all these lyrics will convince people that all of you are older than 23.

I think you’re thinking of VIKI from I, Robot.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence was the movie where Haley Joel Osment was a robot kid.

I thought Facebook was dying a few years back and I only became more convinced when an older family member was trying to convince me that it wasn’t.

A social media app that targets old people can’t last.

So is the argument now we should act like China?

Unironically, I think most people who are going to Red Note might think so.

The first person got the implant on January 28 2024. Your clock is ticking.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/29/elon-musk-neuralink-first-human-brain-chip-implant

Same Kenyans were probably used to train those AI models.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai

The answer is probably “yes”

1. Food is probably worse.
2. Your taste buds might have changed.
3. Your gut bacteria might be different.

I have a couple reasons for believing each.

1. Nutrient concentration in food has decreased over time (Veritasium talked about a fascinating explanation for this) and the desire to find low cost alternatives like HFCS over cane sugar changes the taste of food.
2. “Children prefer higher levels of sweet and are more sensitive to bitter tastes until adolescence.”
3. Your gut microbiome literally changes over time.

Smallville very directly addressed this in an episode where Clark Kent’s mom got mad at him for hiding an undocumented immigrant on their farm. He had to remind her his own paperwork was also less than legitimate.

You’re right, but I think it was a combo.

October 7th spilled a bunch of gasoline on the ground. (Almost immediately after that day his polling trailed Trump’s.)

His debate performance dropped a lit cigarette.

In my opinion, you really needed both of those things for him to drop out. A physically struggling Biden that’s polling at 60% would’ve stayed in the race. A Biden with an excellent debate performance that was polling at 45% would’ve stayed in the race.

EDIT: typo

People keep saying this but they haven’t finished counting the votes. In California alone only 55% of votes were counted and he had 4,000,000+ votes there. The remaining votes could easily put him past his 2020 total.

This doesn’t make sense. How could the “Abandon Harris” movement start late last year when Harris wasn’t even the candidate?

They are programmatically token predictors. It will never be “closer” to intelligence for that very reason. The broader question should be, “can a token predictor simulate intelligence?”

Fillory and Further by Christopher Plover

within

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

what’s easier? Convincing everyone you know to download signal or whatsapp or matrix or whatever or having that built into the text app [convincing everyone to buy the same phone].

FTFY

When presented this way, the choice is very different.