Biologist123

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by Biologist123 5d ago
The devil’s own horseman, whipping the horses on: “faster, faster, more compute! But I might also just ride this carriage over the cliff!”. Laughing maniacally as he goes. Which one is it, Dario?
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by Biologist123 19d ago
Corporate law.
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by Biologist123 19d ago
Fair enough.
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by Biologist123 19d ago
Thanks - useful to think about as I try and wean myself off the novel information highs. I’ve been consciously aware of the problematic aspect of my behavior since about the pandemic - but struggle to make much change.
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by Biologist123 19d ago
That’s a good point. Internet addiction didn’t have a name, or a stigma, in the way alcohol or other drugs did so in a sense I had no idea that the slide I was on was harmful. It also felt a lot like what I did a lot of at university - libr
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by Biologist123 19d ago
I don’t think I’m necessarily caught in a doom loop news cycle. My reading habits are around philosophy, sociology, anthropology, technology. That’s not to say I’m immune to clickbait!
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by Biologist123 19d ago
> People increasingly behave like addicts because addiction is the business model. I sense my internet addiction got a lot worse in recent years. I don’t use social media, but I consume news, blogs and newsletters - and comment threads -
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by Biologist123 2mo ago
And the rest you squander. (RIP George Best).
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by Biologist123 2mo ago
Blimey. This surprised me. But I see Labour also run one. I suspect more influential is gambling industry lobbying and sinecures.
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by Biologist123 2mo ago
> As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. I work in mediation and have recently seen a few cases where I’ve wondered if the participants were suffering from AI psychosis as related to their claims: where
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by Biologist123 2mo ago
Ummm, whose that?
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by Biologist123 2mo ago
Are they serious when so much of training was on illegally acquired data? Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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by Biologist123 2mo ago
Is this a new record for enshittification?
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by Biologist123 3mo ago
Eh? The more standard view is that Clegg put in place efforts to ward off regulation as long as possible…he’s as popular as Jimmy Savile in the UK.
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by Biologist123 4mo ago
Err…becuase we speak Scottish not English.
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by Biologist123 5mo ago
I guess you have to turn it on. Might be handy for things like electrician courses, DIY jobs, maths homework etc. Maybe one day even surgery!
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by Biologist123 5mo ago
Well done. This is precisely what the future will look like. I’ve hacked together my own version of this using N8N whereby I feed in tasks via text or photo through telegram and it outputs a to do list. At some point I’ll link it to my pers
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by Biologist123 6mo ago
Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!
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by Biologist123 6mo ago
The UK has land ownership inequality comparable to South Africa and Brazil. Quite something.
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by Biologist123 6mo ago
Maybe add climate change is real but there’s little we can do to stop it/change the systems which result in it.
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by Biologist123 8mo ago
Not enough is understood about the replication crisis in the social sciences. Or indeed in the hard sciences. I do wonder whether this is something that AI will rectify.
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by Biologist123 8mo ago
Thank you. This was well-written and made a point I think I needed to see set out in this form. > We cannot go through our days questioning everything all the time if we want to remain functional, some things we will have to take for gra
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Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by Biologist123 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Biologist123 9mo ago
There’s an alternative theory that cities need to be bit chaotic: “The Uses of Disorder analyzes human development at the personal and collective level in wealthy cities, presenting the thesis that such cities are excessively ordered and th
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by Biologist123 11mo ago
Great idea! May I ask what the information source is?
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Coinbase's musical ad satirises the state of Britain(creativereview.co.uk)
4 points by Biologist123 1y ago|1 comments
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by Biologist123 1y ago
Thanks. V helpful. Especially the point about dopamine hits.
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by Biologist123 1y ago
Can I sketch out one future of news for input? - Personalized - No adverts - No hidden dopamine hooks - Assigns probability of accuracy - Explains relevance to you personally - Explains emerging news events and context, highlighting propaga
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by Biologist123 1y ago
Very interesting. Could become a geopolitical and trade football between Europe and US. Tariffs anyone? Ultimately it’s a question of power: will Europe allow its citizens to be predated upon? My guess is probably.
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by Biologist123 1y ago
My apologies. By available carbon budget, I meant the carbon we can burn before we exceed 1.5 degrees, or 2 degrees etc.

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