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5too

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  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Right now, it’s just a fun toy, prone to hallucinations.

    That's the thing though - with an LLM, it's all "hallucinations". They're just usually close to reality, and are presented with an authoritative, friendly voice.

    (Or, in your case, they're usually close to the established game reality!)

  • So many successes

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  • Hadn't heard of her before! The theorem sounds interesting, but the Wikipedia article is a bit dense - I got that "any system with symmetry will have conserved values", but I got lost on the implications. Would you mind expanding on her theorem?

  • So many successes

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  • Declaring people to have a certain value relative to each other strikes me as uncomfortably close to treating people as things.

  • Reader maturity

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  • I just reread the series a few months ago. Seeing the Shire suddenly jump from a place of ordinary happiness to a place where Frodo has to sneak from place to place, depending on the discretion of his neighbors, hits a lot differently now than it used to...

  • Jesus H. Christ

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  • Yep, this is how I understood the story. For whatever reason, God considered himself bound by the rules he laid down, and so worked the system to break everyone out of it.

  • Jesus H. Christ

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  • It's based on the old idea of offering sacrifices to atone for sins. Do bad thing, sacrifice a dove or whatever to God to make up for it.

    The idea is that God decided to do away with the sacrifice system using said system, by sending and then accepting a sacrifice great and pure enough to wipe the slate clean forevermore - his own self/son.

    I've heard that it hits people from cultures where they do still sacrifice for every sin particularly hard - we might not have the frame of reference to really get this fully anymore.

  • What mistakes did your parents make while raising you that you will be careful to avoid in your own parenting?

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  • Perhaps. I'm not sure I agree, honestly.

    But I'm certain there's never a time to hit a person you're responsible for, who depends on you.

  • What mistakes did your parents make while raising you that you will be careful to avoid in your own parenting?

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  • Man, my kids love windows.

    They keep opening their bedroom windows in the middle of winter and making igloos from their pillows and blankets!

  • not sure if i chose to post this

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  • I like to replace the concept of "free will" with that of "agency".

    The Britannica definition of free will is "the supposed power or capacity of humans to make decisions or perform actions independently of any prior event or state of the universe". But it seems to me that any state where you temporarily cannot act or communicate would automatically rule out free will, at least while that condition persists. Do you lose free will every time you fall asleep? Are people who are aware but whose bodies are nonresponsive - people who are "locked in" - lacking free will? Certainly both conditions lack agency, but these are still inarguably people - yet free will is so tightly bound with the concept of personhood, that it's supposed lack is often used to imply one is "less human"!

    Frankly, free will seems like too broad and binary a concept to match what people actually do and deal with day to day. Agency comes in degrees, and can be gained and lost - which seems to me a much closer match to what people were trying to describe with the phrase "free will".

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  • The d in "dick" doesn't quite have the top of the round part connected to the vertical part, so it looks like "click" - a homophone of "clique"

  • Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to world

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  • He's not accepting it, he's declaring it!

    Totally different thing!

  • Judge: Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in only blue states

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  • Yeah, from the article, it sounds like only a few organizations were in the lawsuit. They're the only ones the judge ordered restored.

  • Ken Jennings on Doomerism/Nihilism

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  • "There's not going to be an election in 2026" is defeatism. The message to fight for it is, "We need to make sure there's still an election in 2026".

  • Renee Good Not an Activist, Had Just Dropped Son at School

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  • The administration is characterizing her as an activist and an agitator, in order to try to retroactively justify her killing.

    This story is putting the lie to that statement.

  • Apple (SMBC)

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  • Doesn't say it wasn't an apple!

  • Woman Arrested Mid-Interview After Protesting Against Trump’s Venezuela Strike

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  • I absolutely would not

  • What's the most recent lie you told?

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  • One of my kids left a piece of candy corn for the tooth fairy last night, hoping to fool them into leaving money for the "tooth".

    So I pretended to be astounded when he found a note from the tooth fairy this morning, saying essentially "nice try!" in my wife's left-handed handwriting :p He did get a penny out of it, though!

  • Found this one online

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  • That was a surprisingly disturbing read...

  • Which model of good and evil, if not somehow both, do you think is more accurate?

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  • Good and Evil are ideas that help perpetuate the idea of Society. Good can be considered as "anything that helps my people" and Evil as "anything that hurts my people".

    I would argue that they are some of the earliest memes, in the original sense of the word - they are ideas that spread through imitation and story that helped early people (likely at least as far back as protohumans) maintain themselves as coherent groups.