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AbouBenAdhem

@ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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  • We always seen/heard/read about dumb criminals. Has the opposite ever been true a smart criminal? Not including that white collar crap?

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  • Convincing people to dismiss their crimes as “white collar crap” is the most insidious trick of successful criminals.

  • YSK that taking health advice from youtubers, celebrities and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities

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  • Research isn’t advice, either—it can provide the data to make an informed decision, but you still need to figure out what information is relevant to your particular case and how it applies.

    In particular, you shouldn’t read a random study or research paper and take it as an actionable recommendation—you need to be familiar with other similar studies, and how they fit into the current state of the rest of their field.

  • LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently worded on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs.

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  • I don’t think the quality that gives prose an AI smell is eloquence per se, so much as the use of common tropes and rhetorical formulae. The kind of rhetoric AI is best at is the kind that relies on appeal to a shared tradition of discourse more than on novel arguments or reason—and I think that type of rhetoric is more common on the right than the left.

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    Proprietary software are undocumented immigrants – they are functional but source is unreadable

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  • Except that we’ve criminalized the wrong one.

  • The opinion of one great artist is worth more than the opinions of 100,000 normal people.

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  • Fruit evolved to appeal to the animals that disperse their seeds, and art evolved to fill a social function that’s determined by the rest of society. The value of both is contingent on the roles they fill for others.

  • The opinion of one great artist is worth more than the opinions of 100,000 normal people.

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  • Great art is great because it’s in dialog with the opinions of 100,000 normal people (either in the production or the recognition).

  • Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  • I love Tchaikovsky, but sometimes I wonder if he’d be better off spending a bit more time with each book instead of cranking out so many of them.

    Like... each of his books seems to accomplish exactly what he wants it to, and as soon as it does he sends it to the publisher and starts the next one. But I feel like most of them have room for an extra layer of subtext, if he were to set them aside for a few months and reflect on them and come back to them with fresh eyes.

    But that’s probably more on the genre expectations for speculative vs literary fiction than on Tchaikovsky as a writer.

  • NSFW

    Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees

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  • Who are we to say what bees suspect?

  • Where do you draw the line regarding windows?

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  • I drew the line fifty years ago, with Bill Gates’ Open Letter to Hobbyists.

  • Is geolibertarianism left wing or right wing?

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  • Most of the underlying concepts are left wing, but the people using the label aren’t.

    (The main example I can think of is Foldvary, who I’d hesitate to call either left- or right-wing).

  • Is geolibertarianism left wing or right wing?

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  • It’s basically a version of Georgism, rebranded to avoid Georgism’s left-wing association.

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

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  • “Day one” was Groundhog Day.

  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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  • In the late nineties, I thought the availability of online knowledge would make universities obsolete.

  • What motivates social media trolls, or trolls in general?

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  • I think there’s a part of human nature that’s drawn to actions that produce a disproportionate response, regardless of what the actions and responses actually are.

  • What are your favorite non-fiction books?

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  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

  • Smashing Pumpkins Singer Billy Corgan Mysteriously Claims the Government Contacted Him About ‘Things Way Above My Pay Grade’

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  • Corgan then compared the situation to something he’s dealt with before. “It’s similar to when I talked about experiencing a shape shifter on Howard Stern,” he explained. “It became this thing where I was hunted in airports. ‘Please tell me the shapeshifter story!’”

    That seems pretty close to the benign end of the scale of potential responses to claims of experiencing a shape-shifter.

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    Do biracial women like/ date black guys?

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  • When you see strangers interacting via video, you see people judging each other by some of the most superficial criteria possible.

    In real life, most people get past those considerations within minutes, and the ones who don’t aren’t worth interacting with in real life anyway.

  • People who care deeply about important events they have no impact on are abnormal, most people just go about their day without giving a shit.

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  • People care about events that make a compelling story. Whether or not they have an impact is secondary.

  • ELI5 How Pete i am a moron Hegseth can go after Mark Kelley and threaton to pull his pension? I thought when you served long enough no one could take it from you or privledges??

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  • It seems like that call should be made by the court or Congress, not unilaterally by your former employer.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Turing speculated that the ability to act human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.

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    The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Dionysian imitatio

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysian_imitatio
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.

  • California @lemmy.world
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    California opened college savings accounts for millions of kids. Why do so few know about it?

    oaklandnorth.net /2025/11/03/california-opened-college-savings-accounts-for-millions-of-kids-why-do-so-few-know-about-it/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Shift-and-persist model

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shift-and-persist_model
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.

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    People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
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    What would be the drawbacks of a genetic code with 6 nucleotides instead of 4, but each amino acid could be coded with 2 base pairs instead of 3 (so the genome could be 33% shorter)?

  • California @lemmy.world
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    Governor Newsom to deliver major address to Californians ("Democracy at a Crossroads")

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    If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.

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    Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.

  • Biodiversity @mander.xyz
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    Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)

    onlinelibrary.wiley.com /doi/full/10.1111/ele.14230
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    If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.