Everything posted by iNow
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Who do I vote for to aid singles suffering involuntary celibacy
Picking fights is obviously their entire reason for posting
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What can I do to make a thermos that can keep cold water cold for sometime? Can air be used as an insulator for this and how?
Yuck. Itchy. I’d create two containers, a smaller one inside a larger one… wrap the inner edges with some foil then use high density spray foam insulation between them.
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Schedule F appointments (split from Today I Learned)
It’s part of a much larger and broader assault planned against democracy called Project 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 It’s a maximalist interpretation of the unitary executive theory which “asserts that the president has absolute power over the executive branch upon inauguration.”
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ChatGPT is bullshit
I mostly align with your central point, but there is a lot work happening which allows you to use other AIs to evaluate the accuracy of the prompted tool and they seem rather effective. The basic idea is you have AIs with expertise in certain spaces and use those to evaluate what is returned prior to showing it to the user. It depends on the LLM and the relationships they've established with other companies. You may have seen big news somewhat recently about OpenAI forming an agreement with newspapers and publishers like Washington Post (or getting sued by the NYTimes), and others inking deals with Reddit to train on their vast troves of data, for example. The training corpus for these models varies, and obviously companies like Google for Gemini and Meta for Llama 3 (or even X/Twitter model Grok) have a much larger pool from which to work than some of the smaller players.
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ChatGPT is bullshit
Which model one uses and how they prompt it are extremely relevant. Not all LLMs are GPTs nor are all GPTs at the same version nor trained on the same dataset(s). So are approximately half the voting populace.
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Can you sense when someone looks at you?
You remember the times you turn and someone is looking at you. You don’t recall all the countless many more times you turn and nobody is there, yet that’s the experience in the vast majority of times. You have a confirmation bias, not a magical phenomenon
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The Dawkins delusion...
Yes, and I’m one of those adults who needs unicorns in order to have something not to believe in. You’re doing a great job of taking absurd to the facepalm level
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Regulating AI; Should AI be limited in how much it emulates human behaviour?
Let’s assume we all agree. Let’s assume we write these laws. How do you enforce them and prevent the havoc from those who will inevitably ignore them? Unilateral disarmament doesn’t end well, either.
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Major breakthrough faster than light travel
You obviously didn’t play enough video games. Chances of successful arrival would skyrocket if my kids had the helm over me.
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Bias in science (split from Evolution of religiosity)
Of course, but I’m not the one making assertions here.
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Who do I vote for to aid singles suffering involuntary celibacy
Nobody you vote for will change that, nor can they nor should they. Find a hobby or a sport and socialize.
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Is it illegal to use certain drugs to remove memories?
No drugs remove memories. Hiding from your trauma isn’t sustainable. Find help. Process it. Accept it. It’s part of your story and cannot be ripped out like some chapters worth of pages torn from a book.
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Bias in science (split from Evolution of religiosity)
The ironic thing is there's more bias coming from the OP about science than we're likely to find within science itself.
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"Elementary my dear Watson."
The relevant point here IMO is enforcement. Congress writes laws. Judicial interprets laws. Executive executes laws. If the principle executive broke the law, and it's the executive branch which enforces laws, the principle can simply choose not to enforce. This is at the core of Trumps immunity argument, btw. Who watches the watchers, basically.
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RICHARD DAWKINS ❤ CANCEL CULTURE (or not)
That’s all well and good lil’Gaga Gigi, but we can all acknowledge you’re trying to dismiss him and frame him as small and unworthy. You sound childish when you do, and it makes you easy to ignore as a petulant trollish waste of bandwidth (like I just did here to you)
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Bias in science (split from Evolution of religiosity)
Did those articles lead you to your conclusion, or did your conclusion lead you to those articles?
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Bias in science (split from Evolution of religiosity)
As evidenced right here in this thread, nobody is making that claim, so maybe this too is another example of:
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Major breakthrough faster than light travel
If he’s moving faster than light then that’s not unreasonable
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Are all kinds of vinegar more or less the same?
I noticed it too, and left it bc it made me laugh ✌️
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Bias in science (split from Evolution of religiosity)
In a world where Pearl Jam gets played on the oldies station and episodes of Discovery and Picard are themselves already a few years old, ST Next Generation episodes ARE the older ones
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When did spacetime form?
On a Tuesday
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Bias in science (split from Evolution of religiosity)
Or as the prophet Adam Savage once said: https://youtu.be/BSUMBBFjxrY
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Are all kinds of vinegar more or less the same?
Old house in Texas. Had a fly like this land on a bay window in the kitchen. Discovered quickly that day it was single pain glass when I smushed the fly with my now bleeding thumb. Taught myself that weekend how to glaze a new pane into a bay window. And squished the fly, so it was basically pure win.
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The Man of Hate and Greed
It's hard to fathom the number of ways our world would be simply better if there were fewer NDAs preventing people from sharing their experiences and telling the truth.
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Trump Guilty
Based on what we’re seeing, it depends more on who the felon is and whether they’re part of the governors in-group or out-group