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5too

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  • Do you think intergalactic travel will ever be possible?

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  • Galaxies are closer together relative to their size than stars; but they're still a few orders of magnitude farther apart than this.

    The scale I've seen is: If the sun were the size of a ping pong ball, the next nearest star would be hundreds of miles away. But if the Milky Way were the size of a CD, Andromeda would be on the other side of the room.

  • LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about

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  • And people rich enough to stupidly link those AI agents to their bank accounts.

    I need to pay more attention to how rich people are using AI personally....

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • At this point, I question whether they're even experts in that kind of finance, or if they're just connected to each other well enough, and have a few willing experts in hand, to maintain their position.

    I honestly think the only thing most of them have going for them is that it's their name on the accounts.

  • Why I gave up electronics club

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  • Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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  • Yeah, I was just poking at what I assumed was a day off the cuff response. Didn't occur to me they might have tried formatting it, and failed.

    Thanks for breaking them out!

  • Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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  • ...what kind of game is that?!

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    Elon Musk Seeks Image Repair After Epstein Files: Cuts Starlink Access to Russian Military Following Years of Data Sharing

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  • And yet it still keeps finding ways to tear him down!

  • Billionaire Ehud Laniado dies during penis enlargement surgery, surgeons banned

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  • Think they want the whole gorilla

  • “This Was Not Accidental”: Scientists Unravel Video Supposedly Showing a Pet Cow Using Tools

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  • I absolutely agree with everything in your first paragraph, and completely disagree with the second! That said, stories evolve at least as quickly as the language they're built from, and I'm sure every family that hangs up stockings has their own unique spin for Santa. But intentionally gaslighting your kids in order to teach an object lesson about how people will manipulate you seems like an awfully convoluted way to go about it, especially when the kid comes out ahead for it!

    I think it started as a story to get kids excited, because that's fun. In my family, the kids were brought into the act as they got old enough to understand that the point; and I assume this was very common back when kids had to help with everything as soon as they were old enough. The kids then get to practice giving without any intention of getting recognition for it, which helps make more charitable adults.

    That's not to say that the story doesn't get used to enforce behavior - the existence of Krampus shows a long history of that! But I don't think it's used primarily for that anymore.

  • “This Was Not Accidental”: Scientists Unravel Video Supposedly Showing a Pet Cow Using Tools

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  • I was incautious with my phrasing, I should have said something like “humans have a singular capacity” etc. There may well be other storytelling species (in fact, I hope there are!) Whalesong seems like it could have the necessary complexity, for instance. I don't think crows warning each other about particular faces quite constitutes a story, though - that seems more like spreading "we hate that guy!" without any of the context a story would provide. Would be easy to check for storytelling with the species that can imitate speech, though.

    I suspect this is a big part of what we're looking for when we're exploring personhood in nonhumans, too - whenever talking to animals, aliens, etc comes up in fiction, people inevitably end up swapping stories with them. Suggests to me that storytelling ability is what people are actually looking for.

  • “This Was Not Accidental”: Scientists Unravel Video Supposedly Showing a Pet Cow Using Tools

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  • I heard a fascinating notion on the radio the other day - the thing that makes us unique as a species is that we're storytellers. Other animals can teach each other things, like whales and dolphins teaching their young how to hunt fish, or crows warning each other that one particular person is shady; but no other species invents Santa Claus to demonstrate that one should give for the joy of giving.

    Humans have a unique capacity to not only understand complex, abstract ideas about how we should interact with each other; but also to reinvent and transmit these ideas in an evolutionary eyeblink. This memetic transmission and interpretation of societal ideas is having an impact on the earth as profound as when genetic transmission came along. And it's done through our capacity to tell each other stories, about how things might be and how we think they should be.

    I wonder how much of our sense of self, as an ongoing narrative, stems from that ability to invent a story.

  • trickle not

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  • I haven't; I'll look into it!

  • trickle not

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  • Hah! I hadn't thought of it from that perspective!

  • trickle not

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  • I always wonder what a modern day Robin Hood might look like in relation to people like this. How would such a person target a billionaire, and redistribute even some of that wealth to people who actually need it?

    In particular, how would you do that at a billionaire's scale, in such a way that financial institutions don't or can't immediately claw it back?

  • Crazy that they actually debate about it

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  • That assumes they're following the legal framework. ICE is well outside of it now.

  • That's nice that they got a rejection letter though instead of being ghosted

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  • Generally they beat me to it - either it's posted in the ad, or your asking rate is in the application questions. I do usually wait to ask until later in the process, though - employers can be pretty unreasonable about asking about salaries in general

  • That's nice that they got a rejection letter though instead of being ghosted

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  • It's common practice now. I've been interviewing for over 4 months, and ask these kinds of questions every time (except for the salary). Over a dozen interviews, and not once has there been even a hint of relucrance to respond.

    Op dodged a crap company

  • So many successes

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  • What I’m saying is that it suggests uncomfortable things about the ethical framework in which whoever is making the valuations is operating. Not because of any specific valuation schemas, but because reducing people to numbers (values) is inherently dehumanizing.

    I'm not saying that there aren't terrible people who do terrible things. But any ethical framework or decision that dehumanizes people I would consider inherently unethical.

  • So many successes

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  • So it lets us work out certain laws inherent in our universe? Wow, I did miss that implication...

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