the divergence really taking off in 2022/23 is making me guess at least part of it is the pervasive "ai is coming to take/transform all your jobs" fucking with people's intuitions about current unemployment rate and making predictions about future earnings/unemployment levels more pessimistic
The world still operates like a bunch of feuding empires when it is very clear that not one nation can exist and flourish alone.
yeah, that's the opposite of how it works! argh! you have to fact-check the LLM, not the other way around
i do not think people understand how much it scares the forces of evil that you have allegiance to humanity, not any given nation
Unique regnal names. No numbers. Pick a name no-one else has used yet or be assigned a random alphanumeric string.
the quality of Andreessen's statements about the past sure does support his claim to never fucking think about it
('400 years ago no-one -' hey, Marc, René Descartes would like a word)
The people who are keen to absolutely die on the hill that the market is always right should be a bit more goddamn honest with what the market is actually saying about the profitability of various forms of energy, absent massive government subsidy to the fossil fuel industry.
right-wing British social media, that's where he gets it from
he's tweeting like someone's racist uncle with a motorbike for a profile picture whose hobby is trying to trigger lefties in their neighborhood Facebook group, and he probably got it from them, I assume they're on X as well
oh hey, I'm coincidentally currently in the middle of that
do you have thoughts about the book or just about the being-read-to experience?
idk man, if you find other communities' deep-seated conflicts and tensions bewildering, then if someone asks you for your opinion on them, Zohran's "I haven't thought enough about it" seems like a more appropriate response than Matt's glib shit. Not understanding it isn't an excuse to belittle it.
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I do strongly feel that even though I think the general changes are bad, it's especially heinous changing the rules under people's feet like this. It isn't fair.
100%
5 years is a big chunk of your life to spend doing everything you're told to and then have the other party just go back on their side of the deal
and like, why should anyone trust that if they try and obey the new rules for several times longer, there won't be another rug-pull in the middle?
If the test to get into BBQ University in China isn't called either the 高烤 or the 烧考, I will lose all of my remaining faith in humanity.
I don't understand why people don't like Tom and his yellow boots :(
depends which macroeconomic data is good
and if someone is responding to "but Dave is broke" with the kind of data that isn't correlated with more jobs, that's not a "that data is wrong" situation it's a "that data is irrelevant" situation.
o no, the teefs thiefs :(
It is, of course, not just children but everyone who will have to pass these checkpoints.
Papers, please.
half the time they also go on about how it's "LGB" people who are being transed out of their sexualities, which intensifies the nonsense even further, because there is no universe where it would even be logically possible to cancel out bisexuality by transitioning.
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
Or at least, not by mistake.
I am tired of Big Ideas, actually. I want policymakers who will calmly and decently and fairly implement things that we know work.
Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba
as well as what other people have already said, switching back and forth between a lot of different tasks can be harder work than getting really into one - if the AI-monitoring workflow is bittier than the doing the work yourself workflow that might also contribute
You too, fellow Morgan :)
another bit of chipping away at the idea that the state has/should have a responsibility to and for all its citizens
Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.
What did you think would happen?
The obvious benefit of Over The Counter availability is that you know that what you are buying is what you intended to buy, you have regulated manufacture and quality control, a recommended dosage limit printed on the label, you have clear batch labelling and ways of tracking tainted batches, etc.
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin