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On 2/6/2024 at 3:48 AM, ignatius said:
Scavengers Reign - PK Dick meets Fantastic Planet meets Ursula K. Le guin. i really liked it.
The Moebius vibes are strong in this one! Love it
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1 hour ago, xxx said:
This was my favorite sit-down yet but more from a satirical perspective than anything else. It's important to know that Jordan is full throttle apologetics now in the spirit of C.S. Lewis. Any conversation that may seem to be about science, philosophy, politics, etc will inevitably steer towards the Biblical corpus and it can be a drinking game to figure out when it will happen.
Dennis was so funny at times. When Jordan does his 5,000 word essay on Bible stories being psychologically true, Dennis paused and said something like ".... you're making something very easy so hard" and it summed up the entire JBP experience in under 1 second lol.
He gave Dennis a deference that he doesn't normally give to guests and it made for a much nicer dialogue. I know the Lobster King is full loon but I am grateful for these kinds of podcasts because, otherwise, my feed is diabolical: Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker debating the ethics of jacking off while your wife pumps breastmilk or Tim Dillon making an incest joke...I am not a refined podcast listener hahaha.
Was one of Dennetts (Dennis?) last interviews. He died the 19th.
His interveiw/podcast with Brian Keating was more recent. And better, imo.
Peterson The Lobster King is a loonytune. He's grifting on the conservative/evangelical US crowd. Tiresome.
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Interesting piece in the economist by a Chinese expert on Russia. Consider this a sign that China's relationship with Russia is under strain. Note that the fact this piece comes from China is what makes it meaningful. Or rather, carry considerable weight.
QuoteRussia is sure to lose in Ukraine, reckons a Chinese expert on Russia
Feng Yujun says the war has strained Sino-Russian relations
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The war is a turning-point for Russia. It has consigned Mr Putin’s regime to broad international isolation. He has also had to deal with difficult domestic political undercurrents, from the rebellion by the mercenaries of the Wagner Group and other pockets of the military—for instance in Belgorod—to ethnic tensions in several Russian regions and the recent terrorist attack in Moscow. These show that political risk in Russia is very high. Mr Putin may recently have been re-elected, but he faces all kinds of possible black-swan events.
Adding to the risks confronting Mr Putin, the war has convinced more and more former Soviet republics that Russia’s imperial ambition threatens their independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. Increasingly aware that a Russian victory is out of the question, these states are distancing themselves from Moscow in different ways, from forging economic-development policies that are less dependent on Russia to pursuing more balanced foreign policies. As a result, prospects for the Eurasian integration that Russia advocates have dimmed.
The war, meanwhile, has made Europe wake up to the enormous threat that Russia’s military aggression poses to the continent’s security and the international order, bringing post-cold-war EU-Russia detente to an end. Many European countries have given up their illusions about Mr Putin’s Russia.
At the same time, the war has jolted NATO out of what Emmanuel Macron, the French president, called its “brain-dead” state. With most NATO countries increasing their military spending, the alliance’s forward military deployment in eastern Europe has been greatly shored up. The addition of Sweden and Finland to NATO highlights Mr Putin’s inability to use the war to prevent the alliance’s expansion.
The war will also help to reshape the UN Security Council. It has highlighted the body’s inability to effectively assume its responsibility of maintaining world peace and regional security owing to the abuse of veto power by some permanent members. This has riled the international community, increasing the chances that reform of the Security Council will speed up. Germany, Japan, India and other countries are likely to become permanent members and the five current permanent members may lose their veto power. Without reform, the paralysis that has become the hallmark of the Security Council will lead the world to an even more dangerous place.
China’s relations with Russia are not fixed, and they have been affected by the events of the past two years. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has just visited Beijing, where he and his Chinese counterpart once again emphasised the close ties between their countries. But the trip appears to have been more diplomatic effort by Russia to show it is not alone than genuine love-in. Shrewd observers note that China’s stance towards Russia has reverted from the “no limits” stance of early 2022, before the war, to the traditional principles of “non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-targeting of third parties”.
Although China has not joined Western sanctions against Russia, it has not systematically violated them. It is true that China imported more than 100m tonnes of Russian oil in 2023, but that is not a great deal more than it was buying annually before the war. If China stops importing Russian oil and instead buys from elsewhere, it will undoubtedly push up international oil prices, putting huge pressure on the world economy.
Since the war began China has conducted two rounds of diplomatic mediation. Success has proved elusive but no one should doubt China’s desire to end this cruel war through negotiations. That wish shows that China and Russia are very different countries. Russia is seeking to subvert the existing international and regional order by means of war, whereas China wants to resolve disputes peacefully.
With Russia still attacking Ukrainian military positions, critical infrastructure and cities, and possibly willing to escalate further, the chances of a Korea-style armistice look remote. In the absence of a fundamental change in Russia’s political system and ideology, the conflict could become frozen. That would only allow Russia to continue to launch new wars after a respite, putting the world in even greater danger.■
Feng Yujun is a professor at Peking University.
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"up yours" He's such a fine adult
Anyone seen his interview with Daniel Dennett? So much cringe. Was hoping for some good arguments. But it's another classic "Jordan Peterson tries his hands on philosophy and fails". It was mostly about Peterson and his ideas. Kinda like watching Bill Maher. But less fun. Dennett kept his friendly loveable giant schtick going. As opposed to, say, Zizek, who had none of it during their session.
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21 hours ago, chronical said:
I already can't stomach most of the music in the charts, there's not really much creative difference listening to these AI songs and actual overproduced garbage. Just the image of a non-music-snob listening to AI music not realizing it at all is kinda weird and probably already happening
^^^ my thoughts in a nutshell
It sounds like a mishmash of material that's already out there. But if this catches on (meaning: people are making money with this), lawsuits will follow. That Motown tune sounds like Stevie Wonder. I'm no lawyer, but to me this is a new kind of sampling. Generative sampling, if you will. If it is allowed, there's going to be plenty of push to make it illegal.
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*prints a "Capitalism is evil" cup for decibal cooper so he can network with like-minded people
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The north face logo was too subtle. Black on black. Rob hates his influencer role!
nice pics, wunderbar!
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
rumor is that Ai will be part of next MacOS and iOS updates. fucking shrug.
there's already siri? and you can copy paste text from images. ai is already everywhere.
1 hour ago, ignatius said:anyway, this Ai trend in operating systems is looking pretty fucking hyped up and stupid.. just marketing bullshit. different companies trying to keep up w/each other.
built in ability to summarise texts is nice. built in function to transcribe audio. i'm seeing plenty positives.
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2 hours ago, o00o said:
this shit looks strait out of black mirror
https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-wants-replace-nurses-with-ai-1851347917
who is even responsible if the AI is suggesting you something incorrect and you get seriously ill from over / under dosing the medication.
This is 10 times worth than outsourcing it to a nearshore telemarketing agency. It basically says your health is so worthless to us that we do not even care to have a human talk to you over the phone. this soulless avatar trained on 2 PDFs is all you get.
I understand your concerns. And to a degree they are valid. One thing to take into account though is the growing lack of nurses. So the scenario AI where AI is seriously looked at for being a viable option, is the scenario where people otherwise wouldn't receive care.
When it comes to responsibility, I'd normally expect these technologies to be part of the care people receive when being treated by some care organisation. As is currently the case. And the responsibility will likewise be similar to what is currently the case. Or in other words, these technologies should be brought to clients/patients similar to other technologies which are currently being brought to clients/patients within the healthcare system. Like a prescription by a certified doctor.
What is so frustration about this article in gizmodo is that it starts from the assumption that it's about cost reduction. It seems completely blind for the bigger problem which is the growing shortage of nurses. (which is a world wide issue btw)
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19 minutes ago, xox said:
Dunno… it makes sense to me!
How i understood him was that his patients see their lives and “objectively” think that their lives are not worth living. “Objectively” in a sense that they don’t believe anyone could fix the situation, that the situation is unsolvable and that there’s no point in continuing the suffering.
He did say "they genuinely have a life that is no longer worth living" though. I can understand why that would trigger a bunch of people. To me his point was clear. Which you refer to as well.
The funny thing was I had to rewatch it a bunch of times, because I only heard his broader argument, and listened beyond that specific comment. I just assume he misspoke - call it the benefit of the doubt, if you will - as I believe he was obviously trying to make another point. To me it was *just* an inconsistency within his broader argument.
Disclaimer: I had seen some youtubes of this guy before. And although I do think he puts some valuable content online, I can also see why he can come across as a *cunt* at times.
Take for example, the next clip.
Even though I don't necessarily agree with everything he's saying here (his premise and a bunch of other generalisations), I can understand his perspective and what he attempts to be doing here. To me, there is some usefulness to it. Despite his premise about the world being a bad place, and all that. In short: it's about some kind of meta-mindfulness on what it's like being happy or unhappy.
Does this mean I think everyone should agree with me? No, def not. There's nothing here I expect to change peoples minds about him. And I don't think everyone will take something useful from this clip. I'm just willing to go there with him, despite his premise.
I can understand other people logging out after that first minute. Which is fine. This is not north Korea.
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1 hour ago, usagi said:
the irony is that watching this cunt try to tell people their life may not be worth living would actually fire (some) people up to say fuck you I'm going to push on.
Where did he say he tells his clients their life may not be worth living? He says that many (half) of his clients who are suicidal don’t have mental pathologies, but are in a genuinely rough spot in their life (such that they think their life is not worth living). It wasn’t judgmental as far as I can tell.
I honestly don’t get why the guy in the clip warranted a “this cunt”.
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it's 2024 and we're still talking about the 2020 election. marvellous!
perhaps if i don't vote this time there will be less talk about the 2024 election
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"It also caused a decline in science"
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40 minutes ago, o00o said:
yeah I had the same experience. I always restart with a better promt when asking coding questions and almost never start a conversation about it. the worst results are when you tell it to correct itself instead of starting a new session
caude.ai also got an update recently which made it perform better than GPT. I gave it another spin today and the results are really great so far: https://claude.ai/chat/
Yes! As soon as you need to correct chatGPT it's over. And also, as soon as it starts to write a solution, but in the end starts to correct itself and completely starts over. Another red flag. That's when chatGPT starts to get weird. Often, in hindsight it's because the question was too broad and/or complex. Sometimes it can take me a day to get to the right set of questions.
37 minutes ago, zkom said:Well, yes, this is kind of what I meant that when you have well defined problems like you would get in a coding challenge or CS class it gives decent answers. But the real world problems when you're developing software and systems are hardly ever so well defined and everything is kind of murky and undocumented and ill-defined, possibly with inaccurate documentation that no one bothered to update. The kind of algorithmic part is usually fairly straightforward, it's all the technical details and buggy hardware and software that are the pain in the ass.
Really can't comment on your specific situation. Feeding it error messages might help. But I'm sure you've already tried that. Not telling you anything new, I'm afraid. It's just that my current intuition/experience about ChatGPT giving helpful code is about optimising the set of questions.
And yes, you do need to define a problem. That's the art of it. Within a google challenge thats different to real life issues, obvsly. You need to "tell" ChatGPT what it needs to do. Not necessarily how, btw. It can produce the required algorithm all by itself.
In the end, it's the proverbial "stochastic parrot" which returns the most probable sequence of words/code to an input. The input defines the output.
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20 hours ago, zkom said:
As a software engineer I fucking wish I could just let AI generate the code for me by describing the problem, and we actually have an access to to a kind of "corporate" version of an AI at work but it sucks so much at programming. It can only solve the easiest most generic problems you can find in a computer programming class. Like, whoop-de-doo, another implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm but now in Rust. I wish my job was just solving basic programming puzzles all day, but it's actually mostly battling with undocumented idiosyncrasies of different frameworks and systems that the AI has no knowledge of. Well, I can still use it to flesh out bug reports or whatever.
I have some pretty good experiences with using chatGPT (4,0) for writing functions so far though! But I've noticed it's a bit of an art to ask the right questions.
Basically, the idea is that ChatGPT could give the right answer/code, IF it is being asked the right question. So you're searching for the right questions. And be careful to not ask too many questions in one session. Because the longer the chat, the worse ChatGPT performs. After a while, it does become rubbish. So basically, if you haven't got a good solution after three questions, you're better off starting over anew with a different approach. As opposed to keep on trying in the same chat. Because it will hallucinate after a while.
A while ago a got an invitation for the Google Foobar challenge (which is a story in and of itself: https://itsmohitt.medium.com/things-you-should-know-about-google-foobar-invitation-703a535bf30f). And without much Python-experience I got ChatGPT to write the solutions successfully. After a bunch of successful challenges, I got asked if it was OK if a Google recruiter would approach me. But it ended there, because Google ended the Foobar challenge (https://foobar.withgoogle.com)
That was just last month or so. Around February. Right around the time Google pushed their *woke* Gemini generative AI. And lost considerable value in the stock markets.
And I guess they noticed themselves it was fairly easy to pass the Google Foobar challenge without much programming knowledge. (I do have a background in AI/Computer Science though. I'm just not into programming. I'd rather have ChatGPt generate the code for me)
Possibly a combination of the two: they need to fire a lot of people, and their particular way of looking for the right people wasn't working because of ChatGPT.
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
i've not noticed an increase in burgers.
watmm is quite silo'd sometimes. aphex, BOC subs especially, are kinda their own thing. i go in there and and there's different names, different people.. people running around saying things that don't make sense. not a sean pls in sight. it's like a WATMM suburb.
btw any new members.. i'm sorry i called that guy a punter. he's probably fine. i'm old and out of touch. ask anyone.
anyway.. dostrotime.. getting to know ye. it goes well w/BUAH. need to make a playlist.
The "I'm old" is the new "I'm drunk" !
I agree though.
/continues programming in LISP
/gets cancelled
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LOL
Quote‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs without side effects
A German man who voluntarily received 217 coronavirus jabs over 29 months showed “no signs” of having been infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 and had not suffered from any vaccine-related side effects, according to a study published in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The 62-year-old, from Magdeburg, Germany, whom doctors described as “hypervaccinated”, said he had had the large number of vaccines for “private reasons”, according to the researchers from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg who examined him.
According to the news magazine Spiegel, the man’s vaccine spree had sparked a criminal investigation against him for suspected fraud, after suspicions he had run a scam to sell the vaccine certificates to people who did not want to get the jab.
Allegedly, he's now working in Mega Man games as Magnet Man
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PROOF: A daily dose of bass is healthy for the mind!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07132-6
QuoteAbstract
The glymphatic movement of fluid through the brain removes metabolic waste1,2,3,4. Noninvasive 40 Hz stimulation promotes 40 Hz neural activity in multiple brain regions and attenuates pathology in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease5,6,7,8. Here we show that multisensory gamma stimulation promotes the influx of cerebrospinal fluid and the efflux of interstitial fluid in the cortex of the 5XFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Influx of cerebrospinal fluid was associated with increased aquaporin-4 polarization along astrocytic endfeet and dilated meningeal lymphatic vessels. Inhibiting glymphatic clearance abolished the removal of amyloid by multisensory 40 Hz stimulation. Using chemogenetic manipulation and a genetically encoded sensor for neuropeptide signalling, we found that vasoactive intestinal peptide interneurons facilitate glymphatic clearance by regulating arterial pulsatility. Our findings establish novel mechanisms that recruit the glymphatic system to remove brain amyloid.
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First (peer) review published by Nature!
badum tsh
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Excellent
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What about a discount for beards
Or better, the opposite: the bigger the beard, the higher the fee. This place needs a little more diversity and inclusivity. All those whities with huge face beards. It’s like a giant sloth of
. Cannot be healthy
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1 hour ago, EdamAnchorman said:
I think what Satans Little Helper is saying is that it seems like the lion's share of Trump voters don't care about facts. They don't care about what's true and what's not true. Your dismantling argument would have almost no effect on them.
yup. thx.
and also, trump voters have their own truth. just like the rest of us. it's rather simple really. and it has little to do with logic. or rather, a different one.
tiny edit:
QuoteTrump voters don't care about your facts.
it's cynical, but it is what it is.
@trying to be less rude you can facepalm me all you want, but again, you can't talk trump voters out of it. it's like a crazy cult. quite literally.
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1 hour ago, trying to be less rude said:
i listen to sarah longwell's focus group podcast and trump voters are all buying a trick from 2016. the "political outsider champion of the people" idea. that's been a ridiculous idea since 2017.
it's deeply absurd on its face....etc
that's a rather long rant to say you don't understand trump voters.
that's fine though. but remember, if you'd actually understand them, you wouldn't be writing posts like this. (please note that understanding and agreeing are two very different things)
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yup. sad but true
/embarrassed civilian
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Wu-Tang Clan - Once Upon a time in Shaolin
in New & Upcoming Releases
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I assume it sucks until proven otherwise.