The Beatles

Isn’t this effectively what getting a mortgage from a co-op bank is?

I assume it’s from Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’?

you’re literally parroting the “wake up sheeple” trope

Cheeseweed Flapwort sounds like a hobbit name

Your impression of a city is probably skewed by how you interact with it. If you drive in, pay for parking, go to events or attractions, eat out, etc. it all adds up. But that’s not necessarily the experience of someone who lives in a city. They’re living their life, not sightseeing.

Cob and rammed earth are hard to beat if you’ve got the right environment for them

I’m no fan of the democrats, but they don’t want to systematically exterminate people like me.

That’s fair. I went with Covid because J6 did have any real ongoing impact. It happened and then everyone tried to move on like nothing had happened. That was itself surreal, of course. Covid had more of the “this changes everything forever” feeling (though at this point it seems like everyone has forgotten about it)

Look, I lived through both 9/11 and the pandemic and other events besides. If you didn’t feel any weird vibes in the first weeks of March 2020, I’m guessing this is more of a You problem.

My point is that many people felt destabilized by the attack. Maybe you’re too galaxy brained for that, but maybe you can try being galaxy brained enough to understand how others felt.

You remember how weird and scary and paranoid everything was in the early days of the pandemic? That’s a bit what it was like on/after 9/11. It was a shock to the entire nation, and the world suddenly felt uncertain in a way it hadn’t on 9/10.

You’re contextualizig the attack in terms of loss of life, numbers, but what you’re missing is the vibe of the thing.

Yes! It’s the greatest show I can’t talk anyone into watching. It and The Leftovers.

Reminds me of this scene from Patriot: https://youtu.be/v4RmvPcaYw0

Yeah, I got a shocking amount of incredulity from people at the office when I offhandedly mentioned walking my dog twice a day.

That’s when it stops being maths and becomes science

I mean, mathematics are an invention. A useful one, sure, but the whole thing is just made up by people playing around with numbers and going “what if we had a new, different kind of numbers…”

LLMs are trained to do one thing: produce statistically likely sequences of tokens given a certain context. This won’t do much even to poison the well, because we already have models that would be able to clean this up.

Far more damaging is the proliferation and repetition of false facts that appear on the surface to be genuine.

Consider the kinds of mistakes AI makes: it hallucinates probable sounding nonsense. That’s the kind of mistake you can lure an LLM into doing more of.

lol, spoken like somebody who has never actually tried to speak English in Germany. As a shameful monoglot, I have had occasion to test the limits of English understanding in a variety of countries, and Germany has pretty low rates of English speakers in my personal experience. The Netherlands on the other hand…

I think you should read more carefully in the future, but this time I’ll explain it to you: The OP used the word relative. The reply went into a discussion about how the word subjective has a narrow meaning in philosophy that isn’t the same as the common usage. The OP was not discussing subjectivity in the sense of the reply, nor did it use the word subjective.

Yeah, I guess. Maybe they misread the OP. I agree that it was interesting, though completely irrelevant to the statement in the OP.