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Until, of course, it’s all of a sudden all at once. Good, because it was intended to throw shade, not illumination. While you’ve hand waved away in dismissive tone my challenge of your comment, it twas you who expressed certainty about events in the future as if your subjective opinion and forecast magically sits equivalent to fact and observation. I reject that approach entirely, and not solely for its hollow arrogance.

I have not noticed any issues with staleness when cold brewing. I’d brew enough for the week and then finish it within 3 days bc it tasted so badass… but hmm… could it be maybe that’s why it never got stale?

That’s awesome!

Definitely. The bitterness comes from the brewing process and is much lower when cold brewed. Warming after doesn’t introduce any bitterness not already present. We’ve been out hunting morels the past week or two, but getting skunked every time. Hope your luck has been better. My skin is super reactive to them, and I generally to use a bench vise plus some needle pliers to remove the nut meats. SUPER slow process. Hours of work for a small bag or two. Any tips for dehusking and deshelling? I do love building things out of their wood, though. One of my faves.

Sam Harris kicked this idea of objective morality around a few years ago. His basic premise IIRC was that moral should equal “what does the most possible good for the most possible people.” It could then be fed into a statistical engine to determine more moral versus less moral. The problem I believe was similar to your core challenge to Dim here. How does one define “levels of goodness” in a nonsubjective way? Because it’s always arbitrary, it cannot by definition be objective.

Kinda like humans, especially young ones Please elaborate. Can you please also share next weeks winning lotto numbers?

Cold brew is far less bitter. Tastes much better and is easy to make stronger. ✌🏼

Gotta do something to prepare for my next job after it steals my current one https://twitter.com/DanielleFong/status/1651073282052091906

Even easier is making cold brew. Get a cheese cloth, soak in water overnight. Tastes better. Wastes less. Can be stored in fridge just like you do now. https://twinsandcoffee.com/cold-bew-coffee-with-cheesecloth/ I have a machine that grinds while beans with each brew so I buy 3-lbs bags at Costco for $10 when they go on sale and it lasts forever. I save money by focusing my hypercaffeinated energy on to DIY projects that would cost thousands to have others perform.

Try first telling it that it’s really quite good at math, more capable even than Euclid himself, before inputting the variables and asking for the answer. You’ll get better answers in response.

Fair. AND. Balanced

Didn’t you see the press release about it? He did a big show and tell on Twitter. Nobody cared and the story never went viral.

Is that whiskey I smell on your condescension, bud? 😎

Yes, we surely cannot trust all those “doctors” with their “medicine” and years upon years of “training” to do what’s right FOR their patient in consultation WITH their patient and WITH the parents of those patients over the course of SEVERAL years working together to find the healthiest path and treatment regimen for these children. They’re just looking for a quick score and to make a quick buck! 🙄

No. That’s 9-4-3. Not haiku.

Another hallucinating LLM

I knew UK was rapidly deteriorating into a dystopian hellscape, but I had NO IDEA it was already so far gone. OMG… The horror!!

I'm reminded of the day I took my kids to the beach. The vast ocean crashing her waves before us, the bright sun shining above, and my youngest suggested we could make the beach larger / the ocean smaller by slapping at the waves with their mini-sand shovel and plastic pail. Next, we'll be jumping high to fix problems with orbiting satellites using our pogo stick! Nolege is power!

Mass shootings aren’t the big problem we face. It’s regular old every day ones. And suicides. Emphasis mine in the below. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ How many people are killed in mass shootings in the U.S. every year? This is a difficult question to answer because there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the term “mass shooting.” Definitions can vary depending on factors including the number of victims and the circumstances of the shooting. The FBI collects data on “active shooter incidents,” which it defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Using the FBI’s definition, 103 people – excluding the shooters – died in such incidents in 2021. The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again excluding the shooters). Using this definition, 706 people died in these incidents in 2021. Regardless of the definition being used, fatalities in mass shooting incidents in the U.S. account for a small fraction of all gun murders that occur nationwide each year. (…) In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were accidental (549), involved law enforcement (537) or had undetermined circumstances (458).

He might try to primary Trump and take the presidency Or he might just ooze over to newsmax instead

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The bigger risk IMO is how much better these systems will be at exploiting the most massive risk in the systems security chain: us humans. A simple click on a simple link somewhere with malicious underlying code to infect the users computer has just gone up orders of magnitude in likelihood. It’ll be easier to fool us than it already is on the psychological side of hacking.

This touches on a parallel theme that interests me. What happens when multiple AIs that have trained themselves in silos begin interacting with and learning from one another? There’s a lot of meat on this bone to chew.

Maybe not fully connected yet to their news, but work being done by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence is already rivaling ChatGPT and Google (at least according to a well positioned President inside Microsoft).

One thing that bothers me somewhat is how our lives are so online now, even at work for those with remote working opportunities, that socialization in real life is falling aside. We’re forgetting how to get along. How to work through minor disagreements. How to associate with those who fall outside our tribe. How to think differently and challenge our own thoughts. How even at grocery stores we no longer have to interact with a cashier, opting instead for self-checkouts. This came up in my own thoughts in context of americas gun problem (not the subject here!) and how even the most minor of scuffles leads people to reach for a gun instead of a conversation or outstretched hand… but I wonder too how able and socially competent todays kids will be when they age since so much of what they do is online. We seem to be losing our ability to work together, or at least don’t seem to be practicing it enough lately… But then again, perhaps all young men transitioning into old-farts across the generations feel this way and this category of concerns are a regular part of aging… much like how “all modern music is crap and they just don’t play or write songs like they used to!”