BurningFrog

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by BurningFrog 5d ago
If half of graduates get their degree from learning and half from cheating, the degree isn't really worth much.
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by BurningFrog 5d ago
The fact that cheating works is pretty damning for the utility of colleges.
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by BurningFrog 6d ago
I read that book and strongly recommend it too! Don't remember that part though. It's been a few decades.
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by BurningFrog 8d ago
I learned this from "The Elephant in the Brain", which I strongly recommend: https://amzn.to/4iSyLX8
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by BurningFrog 8d ago
Starving tens of millions to death is also part of the CCP's traditional values.
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by BurningFrog 10d ago
There may be a good argument for your assertions, but I don't think you're making it.
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by BurningFrog 11d ago
I would describe it at showing how poor/unproductive the rest of Botswana's economy is. Or is the theory here that De Beers somehow keeps the part of the Botswanian economy they don't participate in poor/unproductive?
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by BurningFrog 14d ago
Astronomy/Physics is overflowing with unexplained physics phenomena these days. Especially after JWT started looking deeper into the early universe.
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by BurningFrog 15d ago
I can't think of any rich free market democracies the US has fought wars against.
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by BurningFrog 16d ago
We have found a way to not kill each other! Rich free market democracies don't fight wars against each other.
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by BurningFrog 17d ago
It also takes some load off the AI data centers. IDK if that might be a concern for Apple or their AI partners.
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by BurningFrog 17d ago
That's actually a good explanation!
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by BurningFrog 19d ago
Eve Online used to be great. Is there anything similarly great around now?
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by BurningFrog 19d ago
Does Claude claim a gender/pronouns now?
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by BurningFrog 19d ago
Just a guess, but maybe this is a result of the dysfunction in Congress. Someone has to get things done, and if Congress won't do it, maybe the President has to.
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by BurningFrog 19d ago
There is no point for a Republican to fight Trump now . He'll be out of power in 2 years, so it's much smarter to just wait him out. What happens then will be very interesting! I don't see anyone who can keep wielding Trump&
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by BurningFrog 20d ago
We have been automating away jobs pretty frantically since the Industrial Revolution started ~250 years ago. It has always resulted in no long term effect on unemployment and higher worker wages. If you don't understand why that counte
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by BurningFrog 21d ago
We clearly live in very different moral universes. Hope yours works for you!
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by BurningFrog 23d ago
That rhetoric is old and trusted because it's true.
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by BurningFrog 24d ago
Technology like that would be incredibly valuable, which means it will be developed if it can be. You might possibly convince decent democratic countries to not do it, but if you think China, Russia, etc, would hesitate to get hold of t
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by BurningFrog 29d ago
People are terrified of AI, for a big number of both silly and serious reasons. That fear and rage needs to be expressed somehow, ang going NIMBY on local data center construction is probably the only real way most people can do anything
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
Yeah, this is much like when your alcoholic friend says he's decided to stop drinking for real this time.
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
We already have 8 billion human brains, and we routinely duplicate them biologically. AI is something else, as it should be.
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
Supporting parties or candidates you want to win elections is a core part of democracy. Calling it "interfering with elections" is utterly bizarre to me.
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
And yet sorting a deck of cards is much easier than solving the cube. 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 is a fun trivia number, but it tells you nothing about how hard it is to solve the cube.
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
It's really 21, since the centers are all one unmovable piece. https://jhodileongseportfolio.weebly.com/center-faces.html
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
This is indisputably true, but downvoted without comment...
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
Sure, but it's only damaging globally. It's no more damaging to the local environment than to anywhere else on the planet.
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
Since not everyone seems to be familiar with human communication: The phrase "X is the hard part" means that X is the hardest part, not that all the other parts are easy.
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by BurningFrog 1mo ago
Stopped reading when he out of nowhere felt the need to say that Linnaeus was probably a racist bigot, based on nothing.

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