Being shitty is much easier and takes much less effort so it prevails wherever people don’t collectively resist it.

Exactly what Charlie Kirk would want! More censorship!

Depends on the context, but almost always a strawman imo.

Evil is simpler and easier to pull off than good (because you don’t have to value everyone in your equation), so “reasonable” compromises with evil compounded enough times leads to some pretty evil outcomes.

It would be like requiring age verification to subscribe to an RSS feed

my cousin’s cat catches lizards and iguanas, I can’t imagine he’d leave frogs off the list

That’s my read too, they’re only focused on the short term sort of by design

In academia there’s a pretty solid understanding that grad students need to be included broadly not just for their own edification but because they are the next generation of scientists and if we want the whole enterprise to keep rolling we need new generations.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out in the tech sector. Typically upgrades in technology that allow the workers to be more efficient towards a task only briefly make a company more money than their competitors (limited to the gap of time where others haven’t made the same ‘upgrade’). If they all cut out low level engineers to tighten profit margins they’ll have to pay increasingly large amounts to a shrinking and aging pool of engineers who have experience.

Hmm I’m no ethics expert but I think you have to give that baby back Greenland. When this kind of thing happens I always try and fail to get in the mindset of the people who led to it. Someone flagged the case, discussed it with people, someone rubber stamped it.

Because kids don’t need proper nutrition when they’re sick, ideally only dirty salt water

They’re reflecting our reality here, we’re just in denial!

I’m not nervous about LLMs in that regard. I think sentience will have to be a biological phenomenon. I think people who were hopeful that consciousness happens spontaneously with enough processing power were wrong. Currently we can clone biological things quite well but we haven’t managed to give something the spark of life without biological input.

I also think humans are more than happy to anthropomorphize everything. There’s the famous example of telling someone the name of a pencil then snapping it in half. This makes me worried that people will be more than willing to treat LLMs as conscious regardless of their lack of mind.

I think we should make NY a safe state for Israeli zionists even though people already live there because of what germans did to jewish people during WWII and maybe we can also send everyone who lives in NY away or kill them if they won’t leave because that sounds like a recipe for justice and fairness

I think that might be it!

Idk what it was called but there was a movie where a group of people got trapped in a flooded underpass that I watched at 7 or so that gave me recurring nightmares for years.

Also I saw Munich in theaters when I was 13 because my mom thought it would be an informative historical film and we ended up having to sneak out (I’ve only left a movie once since then! Some terrible christmas comedy).

I’ve really enjoyed Busuu (created by Chegg, a US company) for learning eng—> spanish and eng —>german. Their free version has annoying ads but it does give you a chance to test the interface. The yearly subscription fee isn’t bad for the premium version that gets rid of ads. I’ve taken traditional classes and also used various apps like duolingo. Busuu strikes a happy medium between immersion and clear, digestible grammar explanation. I also like their review area (for vocab and grammar topics).

The platform doesn’t support Vietnamese yet but has chinese, japanese, and spanish of the ones you mentioned.

Those hunky water bottles. In general why are there so many water bottle trends?

Now do one on how you played a large part in manufacturing consent for this NYT

Besides gambling hype I think regular people are into it for a couple reasons:

-don’t have to trust the whims of your state government (who could devalue their currency at any time)

-deflationary by design so your earnings maintain value (no one could discover a btc meteor to mine)

-Requires broad miner consensus to change the rules

I only played it late, after they basically gave you free legendary stuff, so I can definitely see that being a dealbreaker

Had a lot of fun playing it with friends for a few weeks. People are haters.