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Meron35

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  • We had working digital assistants since more than a decade ago.

    Siri, Google Assistant, and even jankier offerings like Cortana and S Voice were perfectly fine at creating calendar events, timers, and diction typing.

    The LLMs are actively worse, and where is this more apparent than with Google Maps. If you enable Gemini, Google Assistant is pseudo-disabled in a limbo state, and you are left with no assistant at all for Google Maps.

  • Norway José!

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  • Worth noting that the Nordic model made Norway, and other Nordic countries, quite rich even before they discovered oil.

    It is replicable, and continued to make Nordic countries without oil, rich as well.

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  • Honey is acidic with a pH of around 4, so it technically corrodes metal if left for prolonged contact.

    Same reason it's not recommended to use metal pots or utensil for curries, the metallic taste can leech into the food.

  • Instacart Charging Customers Different Prices for Same Products, Study Finds

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  • Actually, this will reduce poverty because poor people who get lower prices can sell their identity and profiles to people who want lower prices /s

  • Change my Mind

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  • Debate isn't effective, and its main purpose is theatrical. It is basically the modern day equivalent of gladiator fights, except with the side effect that it platforms and legitimises the opinions of the participants, no matter how extreme.

    There is now mountains of scientific evidence showing the debates have limited to no effect at changing people's minds. Instead, simply making friends and spending time with different perspective is effective.

    This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why | Sarah Stein Lubrano | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/18/change-mind-evidence-arguing-social-relationships

  • builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers

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  • AI = Actually Indians

    I feel conflicted. On one hand, the underpaid work often carried out by Indians is getting recognised. On the other, this is also saying that the collective work of 700 Indians is no different to AI slop.

  • Mark's very own Zooncka Loompa

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  • They've replaced the button that goes to the top of unread messages with a summarise with Meta AI 🤢🤮

  • Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children

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  • Is not you. I'm just lazy.

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  • And in true macOS fashion it only works if you stay within the Apple ecosystem.

    Applications and sleep are intimately tied to native macOS workspaces, which are themselves cursed af.

    If you use an alternative manager, like Aerospace (which reimplemented workspace/tiling), then applications cannot sleep properly, leading to severe battery drain.

    https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/discussions/1008

  • Princess Aiko's popularity sparks calls to change Japan's male-only succession law

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  • Japanese conservative monarchists are wild.

    Look up the Google Maps reviews of the imperial palace. For some context, the majority of the imperial palace is completely off limits to the general public (in stark contrast to most developed countries), and the royal family does a new years greeting.

    The reviews are monarchists unironically saying things like that they travelled for days, lined up for hours, caught a glimpse of one of the royal family, were temporarily transported to heaven, and will dedicate their lives hoping for the forever prosperity of the royal family.

  • Veronica Explains why she doesn't stream (from Netflix etc) #algorithmic_helplessness_sucks

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  • Side note, the restaurant analogy is exactly why I hate the seemingly American style of service where the waiter asks how the food is halfway through.

    I guess that's a good analogy for how creepy surveillance capitalism is, it's like a waiter judging and recording your every move and reaction throughout the entire meal.

  • Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?

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  • Except that the Nordic model has been replicated across all the Nordic countries, of which only Norway has vast natural resources.

    And even then, Norway, under the policies of the Nordic model, was already quite rich before it discovered oil.

  • Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

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  • Everything reminds me of him

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • Unfortunately I find even prompts like this insufficient for accuracy, because even when directly you directly ask them for information directly supported by sources, they are still prone to hallucination. The use of super blunt language as a result of the prompt may even further lull you into a false sense of security.

    Instead, I always ask the LLM to provide a confidence score appended to all responses. Something like

    For all responses, append a confidence score in percentages to denote the accuracy of the information, e.g. (CS: 80%). It is OK to be uncertain, but only if this is due to lack of and/or conflicting sources. It is UNACCEPTABLE to provide responses that are incorrect, or do not convey the uncertainty of the response.

    Even then, due to how LLM training works, the LLM is still prone to just hallucinating the CS score. Still, it is a bit better than nothing.

  • Feminism in 60s was co-opted by the wealthy and powerful as a distraction

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  • Eh, perhaps semantics due to not enough context in the original post. "Co-opted" suggests that the original goals of feminism were changed to favour those in power, when in reality it was more of an "always has been" situation.

  • don't do ai and code kids

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  • Renaissance Technologies is arguably the world's best hedge fund, and supposedly only uses AI based strategies.

    High Flyer are the founders of DeepSeek, and are also all in on AI, though their performance is more volatile.

  • Feminism in 60s was co-opted by the wealthy and powerful as a distraction

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  • No, first wave feminism was originally for the women who were wealthy and powerful.

    People really underestimate how racist everyone used to be. The suffragettes were all for equal rights for all, but seethed when black men got voting rights before them, due to the implication that while middle class women were lesser than black people, who were viewed as subhuman.

    Rebecca Felton was an major figure in the American suffragette movement, and was a proud slave owner that advocated for lynching instrumental in the establishing the Jim Crow South.

    Hence the need for the subsequent waves of feminism.

    Rebecca Latimer Felton - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Latimer_Felton

    The Suffragettes Were Not Allies to Black Women, They Were Racist - https://www.edpost.com/stories/the-suffragettes-were-not-allies-to-black-women-they-were-racist

  • same shit every day, on god

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  • Low key this is a great way to convince people to switch away from fossil fuels.

    Most people seemingly don't know that coal/gas stations work by essentially boiling water. Most are horrified at how trashy and underdeveloped the concept is compared to high tech alternatives like solar, wind, or hydro.

  • The system continues to work as intended

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  • Apologies for my pointed tone, but the demotion of Economics as a lesser science due to lack of controlled experiments is a pet peeve of mine.

    Economists do run experiments, or work very hard to try to hard quasi-like experiment designs.

    Angrist Krueger won a Nobel for showing that increasing minimum wage actually increases overall employment, by utilising data in border towns in NJ/NY where the differing laws across state lines constituted a natural experiment.

    Amy Finkelstein won a Bates medal (basically a baby Nobel) for her work in health policy, which involves being the lead investigator in coordinating the large scale Oregon Health Insurance Experiment that randomly assigned participants with health insurance.

    It's even possible, though much more difficult, on the macro side. Scholars such as Emi Nakamura look at high-frequency data of bond markets to see how markets and the economy respond to the actions of the Federal Reserve.

    More recently, “General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence From Kenya” won the Frisch medal for conducting randomised, large scale cash transfers to low income, isolated rural communities, where due to the isolation, could make it arguably similar to UBI.

    Actually good Econ channels:

    Money and Macro

    TLDR News (though their non UK/global coverage is a bit sus)

    National Bureau of Economic Research (live streams economic research conferences, wouldn't recommend actually watching but you can get a feel for what Econ actually does)

    Unlearning Economics (maybe only 70% correct, but very engaging and not as "mainstream")

    Shit tier channels (at least for Econ):

    Economics Explained

    Kurzgesagt

    Infographics Show