DStiego

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by DStiego 2mo ago
The background is so green that when I go look at a website with white background afterwards, the white will appear like red because the cells for green in my retina have been depleted.
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by DStiego 2mo ago
Relevant context might be for example that there are 4 mentions each of Claude by Anthropic and XGPT by ThreatBook, both based on LLMs. AI attribution might be one reason people are particularly curious.
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by DStiego 2mo ago
Especially the (slightly frightening) animations they show!
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by DStiego 2mo ago
Yes. I don’t want to invalidate people’s bad experiences, but I think it’s a more general problem and not specifically xenophobia. What you describe can happen to anybody! The same is true for speaking English, which is considered very high
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by DStiego 2mo ago
Can you give examples? I'm curious which of your beliefs have changed
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by DStiego 2mo ago
I don't think it's an obvious joke. In general, you can totally be against the way immigration is handled in one place while being an immigrant elsewhere. The family you mentioned likely considered themselves different from the im
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by DStiego 2mo ago
There's two things at play here: 1. Defensiveness; one could describe it as "Stockholm syndrome" 2. What outsiders don't understand about the language thing is that it's not about how much German you need to get alo
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by DStiego 2mo ago
I see two big problems: 1. A "meta-problem": While many Germans agree that things are bad, people favour completely opposite solutions. My meta-solution to that would be decentralisation and letting more things be decided locally,
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by DStiego 2mo ago
Correct. German culture is to take any idea to its conclusion, until the idea is dead.
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by DStiego 2mo ago
This is one of the most accurate descriptions I’ve seen here. Germany is a country with immense potential. All one can say is “what a shame”.
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by DStiego 2mo ago
That’s good life advice.
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by DStiego 3mo ago
Great design is more about consistency than uniformity. Just imagine how hard it would be to read a text if all the words had a similar shape! You want them to look very distinct while the predictability of the layout helps you read (which