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LLMs: A Mirror to the Human Mind and the Emergence of Digital Hierarchy(citymeme.com)
4 points by jdrc 3y ago|0 comments
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Riots Erupt After MIT Enforces Free Speech Mandate(citymeme.com)
2 points by jdrc 4y ago|6 comments
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Elon Musk Builds Time Machine to Undo Purchase of Twitter(citymeme.com)
5 points by jdrc 4y ago|1 comments
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by jdrc 4y ago
What if we just implemented PHP on the browser instead?
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by jdrc 4y ago
"Do not sympathize too much with jesus because you may turn to one of his followers" I really hate this era of discourse. It's mostly dominated by emotionally-driven americans with juvenile opinions who take twitter and faceb
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by jdrc 4y ago
Every opinion should be attacked from all angles to prove its validity. Saying that people are contrarian for expressing a counteropinion is asking for people not to attack a position, which would lead to false opinions being propagated.
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by jdrc 4y ago
hint: openAI didn't care either
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The Long Arc of Historical Progress(wsj.com)
1 points by jdrc 4y ago|0 comments
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by jdrc 4y ago
The order is reversed
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by jdrc 4y ago
obviously nonmonogamous communities did not survive so what we see may be survivor bias. Nowadays however it IS becoming possible for nonmonogamous socieites to survive due to our superior technology. Hopefully there will be better studies
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by jdrc 4y ago
Maybe that's why Zuck is pushing the metaverse. Since people can't be glued off their screens, create a party inside their screens and remake their friday night through faithful facsimiles to force them to party again like it&#x27
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by jdrc 4y ago
That's why people don't buy a house, live with parents longer, live as nomads etc. I don't share the pessimism around this - housing should be a commodity i can get at a touch of a button because it is easy to build (and i wo
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by jdrc 4y ago
Just leave some hair somewhere... In the future, kids will clone us and keep us for pets in their garden
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by jdrc 4y ago
Hotter take: men don't want long-term partners period, monogamy is social conditioning because it leads to stable and more successful settlements.
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by jdrc 4y ago
Eros did not just represent lust but also love. Agape is a context more limited to christianity, which kind of has anti-sexual overtone. But there were many Erotes representing all kinds of desire and attraction > Anteros ("Love R
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by jdrc 4y ago
For Ukrainian willingly endangering the pres would amount to treason
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by jdrc 4y ago
Sure people stop and think. traditionalism does not have a lot of potential for commercial exploitation so you see more of the other. You can't stop it, but you can at least let people know that the whole romantic ecosystem from hollyw
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by jdrc 4y ago
and knowledge is a boner-killer
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by jdrc 4y ago
at some point one realizes that people like to make up dramatic situations in their own minds and then live in that reality, and that's a form of self-gratification. According to Brave New World, we should have gotten over this neo-rel
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by jdrc 4y ago
if you are a journalist and leak out endangering information you should never be trusted again, with or without an NDA
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by jdrc 4y ago
given that it's impossible to enforce it, no. but it s a great way to communicate a message
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by jdrc 4y ago
... for now
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by jdrc 4y ago
Car design is much more interesting than the wholly homogeneous world of mobile and computing. Hasn't anyone come up with a nice idea for 15 years?
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by jdrc 4y ago
Doesn't that already exist?
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by jdrc 4y ago
also "tech people" is underdetermined. Are there prominent founders who are 'woke'? prominent developers or technology pioneeers? Those tend to be generally individualist and libertarian
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by jdrc 4y ago
Did it lean left in the 90s? the 00s? It seems that the progressive turn happened after tech became mainstream and recruited hordes of all kinds of employees, and implemented diversity quotas
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by jdrc 4y ago
You re not just biased, you re angry. Realize that you 're not the first angry religious person. Europe fought religious wars centuries ago and it was devastating. It fought nationalist wars in the past century and was almost leveled t
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by jdrc 4y ago
i think academia's future is remote. school too - especially if people want to travel nomadically. Academia has actually had this model for a long time - people moving with their families for postdocs every few years and keeping in tou
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by jdrc 4y ago
The gist here should be that there needs to be worldwide coordination for taxation base of workers. Remote work visas are a start but there needs to be a clear global standard. Maybe airbnb could push for this
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by jdrc 4y ago
they would cause trouble to the company though. And the company would have troubles with the country where they are tax residents

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