ANewFormation

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by ANewFormation 1y ago
And don't forget the inevitable graffiti. The uncreative will simply spray random words and letters, but the deep thinkers among us may have the wit to draw a penis on it.
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
I also think more accurate. The opening sentence of Neuromancer is one of the most beautifully perfect metaphors I've ever read - one that's also chock full of symbolism. It may be the single best line of writing I've ever re
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
Russia is neither forcibly conscripting nor are they preventing anyone from leaving the country should they wish. Ukraine is doing both at an increasingly absurd scale, all the while people wave their flag-of-the-week in their social media
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
For things like this I don't think you can view it as a destination, but rather a journey. Your mind, body, and any skill will deteriorate over time if not regularly trained, so it must become a part of your life. And because of this,
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
Further claims from Ukraine: they've had 30,000 total deaths, are inflicting casualties at a 10:1 rate, have a 'Ghost of Kyiv' single handedly flying around taking on Russia, Russia is out of missiles, and so on endlessly. Th
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
Probably driven in large part by the expansion of the voting pool. Great political thinkers have no more appeal to the masses at large than Beethoven, Dostoevsky, or Linux. So we get entertainers and silver tongued devils for politicians wh
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
This is complete nonsense. There's no shortage of low still, low wage jobs - most of which would pay better in the longrun, have opportunities for advancement, and so on. But they don't come with the freedom that gig jobs do which
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
There are lots of people that enjoy the 'gig' jobs because of the freedom to work (or not) whenever they want.
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
LLMs are 100% deterministic. The facade of randomness is injected solely by a superfluous rng factor.
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
There is again no need for first person pronouns there. E.g. 'File not found' vs 'Sorry I could not find the file you were looking for.' Same stuff, but one just adds an artificial and unnecessary anthropomorphization.
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
So is a command prompt.
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
You ellipsed out the answer - economic opportunity.
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
I think you may have misread his post. He was not speaking of being born and raised in an area but his thought experiment was swapping out people explicitly from different cultures, and seeing at what percent the 'host' cultures w
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
And so if you went to Saudi Arabia you'd pretend to be down with executing people for apostasy? Obviously it's an extreme example but many of the norms of a Western mindset would be no less offensive to billions of people in this
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
This is commonly stated but seems more driven by ideology than science. People's racial identity is near to perfectly correlated with their genetic identity as can be ascertained with a very limited number of genetic markers. And essen
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
Similar experience/perspective as the gp. People in different places are, in many if not most cases, just fundamentally different in countless ways. I think both genetics (personality, among endless other characteristics is significant
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
He's implying causality the other way. A desire to not want to die paired with a desire to avoid traditional religion leads people to indulge ideas and concepts they would otherwise dismiss as nonsense - singularity, simulation, medica
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
There's obviously many more long tail games, but with few exceptions games, even long tailed, tend to be heavily front loaded. The list, in terms of games from e.g. 2018-2023 will likely look identical, so far as the games included, in
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
It set the standard for online matchmaking, had exceptional (if not revolutionary) AI for an FPS, phenomenal level design, and is a definite competitor for the best game soundtrack ever. It is probably Bungie's magnum opus. So it makes
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by ANewFormation 1y ago
Think about what you're saying - the majority of those games are at least 16 years old. That itself is fairly damning but what puts it over the top is that there are wayyyy more gamers nowadays than there were 16 years ago. Modern AAA
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Think about all the hours you've spent doing what we all do on this site which is, ultimately, nothing. Imagine if you had directed those hours towards learning or training some sort of skill. You would, almost certainly, be in the top
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
You can keep getting rich off shovels long after the gold has run dry.
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
At my university I know at least one person who intentionally tested positive soley for profit - the drugs sold/sell for huge markups, especially around exam time. No idea what all it entailed other than the fact that they're unab
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Meh results oriented thinking. Elon revolutionized rockets and electrical vehicles with 0 previous domain knowledge. In another timeline both concepts fail and he's just another clueless guy who blew a bunch of money on ideas outside h
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
I did multiple accounts with no problem, but in trying to do you I got the same error. You've broke the system.
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Oh god that's genuinely way more amusing than I thought llm systems were capable of.
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Antarctica isn't this great example people think it is. International treaties require people leave it in as close to its natural condition as possible. Taking a piss outside is illegal, even peoples crap has to be collected and shippe
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Sabatier reaction also rocks in this context. CO2 + O2 => methane with water as a byproduct. So all you really need is hydrogen. And conveniently part of the water you produce or harvest can be split into H2 and O2. The absurd convenienc
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Except it's not especially hard? I, and I'm sure many of us, have decent little home gardens. For fruit trees you have to do literally nothing to get just massive amounts of fruit that tends to constantly scale up as the trees gro
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by ANewFormation 2y ago
Even beyond green, it's nice to see things being tried in the real world that aren't just scammy/$ grabs. It's not quite as cooperative as the digital, but rather more relevant.

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