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I indeed read the paper. No snark needed.

I disagree with your interpretation of the stable plural patchwork that you’ve represented here as supporting your claim. However, the nuance in difference of our opinion isn’t that important in the grand scheme.

For your last two paragraphs, I think you are actually describing social sorting - which the paper asserts as the underlining mechanism for which polarization happens online. The filter bubble is colloquially known as not seeing differing opinions online, yet as the paper states is untrue. Online we counter more diverse opinions. That’s what I wanted to point out.

Best of luck to you.

This "filter bubble" is not true, and does not seem to be the issue people think it is.

We interact with more diverse people online outside of our bubble. It's actually our real life that's the bubble, and bubbles aren't necessarily bad.

Link to paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2207159119

I don’t follow why that’s the next best thing.

It seems like making cars more convenient would induce demand (i.e. add more cars), opposite of what the parent comments desire.

What I found is that works, but is very expensive:

- Do chain prompting where each character gets a separate prompt for the dialogue. Here you'll give it all the character info needed to figure out what the character would do (emotions, background, the story context) and then have GPT4 take passes at what this character would think/do/say.

- Optionally, you can use some sort of reACT or chain of thought prompting to proof-read/critique the answer to minimize noise. I haven't fully explored this, but I think this agent needs to know the entire story outline/context.

- After you get this, you can use an instruction-tuned agent like text-davinci or text-davinci-edit to actually write the prose. It works really well with few-shot examples. It's much better at creative writing. I'm sad they consider it legacy because to me it's the _only_ way to get usable creative writing.

- Now run the rest of the story. You may need to keep some sort of state about the character so that it informs the next character interaction, but I haven't gotten that far in my research.

People are free to live where they want, but should pay for the full externalities that these lifestyles cost.

For anyone wondering if this works, the EPA seems to think it does:

>>> High-pressure membranes, such as nanofiltration or reverse osmosis, have been extremely effective at removing PFAS. Reverse osmosis membranes are tighter than nanofiltration membranes. This technology depends on membrane permeability. A standard difference between the two is that a nanofiltration membrane will reject hardness to a high degree, but pass sodium chloride; whereas reverse osmosis membrane will reject all salts to a high degree. This also allows nanofiltration to remove particles while retaining minerals that reverse osmosis would likely remove.

>>> Research shows that these types of membranes are typically more than 90 percent effective at removing a wide range of PFAS, including shorter chain PFAS.

https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/reducing-pfas-drinking-wa...

Would you be open to speaking more about your experience? What level of Japanese did you have prior? And now?

I swear by coaches/instructors in other areas of my life, but haven’t had much luck with language teachers. I’ve had private teachers with middling success (great at correction, bad at longer term planning), and found I had more improvement by self-studying.

I think you're being bit disingenuous, but I understand why you might be skeptical about carbon taxes. Unlike those scams, this is one of the more simple and straightforward policy recommendations.

A carbon tax essentially charges a fee on greenhouse gas emissions, aiming to account for their environmental impact—an externality not usually priced into the cost of fossil fuels.

The concept of a carbon tax has been considered for well over a decade.[0] While it might be a suitcase term on its own – different people interpret the phrase differently – the overall concept has been studied, has a lot support and popularity from economists.[1][0]

Several strategies exist to implement a carbon tax, but a widely favored method is a market-based, "revenue-neutral" approach. Here, the funds raised from the tax are redistributed (through various means, not necessarily something like UBI) to offset any financial burden on consumers or businesses.[2]

As far as my understanding goes, a carbon tax is simpler to put into practice—and explain—compared to other alternatives like specific environmental regulations or cap-and-trade carbon pricing schemes.[3]

[0] https://www.kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/carbon-taxes-ii/ [1] https://www.econstatement.org/ [2] https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/comparing-effec... [3] https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/20/8680/pdf

You should try it again, should you get the chance. I drink coffee on a terrace almost daily at my local place in shibuya. You can also nomikai outside at a ton of places. The version of outdoor seating is not the same as Europe but if your marker is enjoy your meal outside, you most definitely can.

As for cycling, I can’t speak to it as much, but it seems like the cycling culture is much more casual. Tons of parents cycling their preschool children, people biking on sidewalks, etc.

That said, my best mate is an avid cyclist and worked bike shops most his life. He exclusively cycles here and always points out the sheer number of hobby (expensive? custom?) bikes casually posted outside shops.

The article covers this.

> In the 1990s, a wave of lawsuits holding architects and engineers liable for health problems related to poorly built or maintained buildings led to massive overhauls of construction codes. The new codes created restrictions for the materials architects and engineers could use in buildings and HVAC systems. “Buildings were afraid of litigation,” said Sachin Anand, an engineer who leads a Chicago-based sustainable building firm. So most of them made meaningful changes that ultimately led to much healthier indoor climates all over the US.

> By the early 2000s, complaints of sick building syndrome — and concerns about indoor air quality more broadly — had faded from the public eye.

Cars aren’t quiet

Why did you link us to your own review of a film?

It’s sitting at a 3.8 out of 5, in the upper half of his films, on letterboxd. https://letterboxd.com/director/wes-anderson/by/rating/

I don’t find this to be the case. I’m a senior designer at a FAANG and chose this over being a SWE. And nowadays, the salaries are very competitive between pm, design and eng.

When I was earlier in my career it was a major struggle to stop coding. every place out of university would say there was some kind of design opportunity for me, but then I’d find myself implementing mine and other designers features. I’m glad that’s over.

Anecdotally, I’ve met several eng -> PM and Eng -> design transfers, probably all possible to the leveling of pay and prestige.

> For a weightlifting competition, those constraints are things like "don't use steroids" and "don't use an invisible string to assist you in lifting the weights".

This is a good point. The constraints seem important, yet at the same time no one seems to be following them.

Whether it’s elite CrossFit, bodybuilding, powerlifting, or Olympic weightlifting, people ARE taking gear to stay competitive. I could see digital art becoming a similar arms race.

> How could anyone reliably, conclusively determine that an image was generated using a locally-run tool?

https://github.com/ShieldMnt/invisible-watermark

(still ways around that, though)

I can't say what's an exaggeration, and I don't know I'd call any place a haven. Japan isn't perfect, and raising kids here has issues, sure.

It seems we've had completely different experiences. Through shibuya/yoyogi area, I pass a half dozen parks (kids are playing double dutch, soccer, pitching baseballs), 2 rec sports field and countless kids of all ages walking alone or with friends. Not to mention the preschool children being wheeled around in those huge laundry carts.

Often topics on here and reddit become "Which place is best?" but I don't think that way. I'm happy for you and your family's move to Calgary, and have no doubt it's better for your kids.

Compared to when I lived in the bay area (and then rural America before that), it's a stark contrast and I appreciate any city that where most people can feel safe walking around just about anywhere, whether that's Calgary or Tokyo.

I usually chime in with Tokyo talk not say "yay Japan is the best!" but rather "America deserve at least a little better than it's getting."

I live in Tokyo and just today on my way to coffee, saw several kindergarten-aged children crossing busy main roads to go to school. It does happen and happens nearly every day.

This show likely does help prevent accidents (and yes 2 year olds aren't running errands every day) but the main point still stands, kids are living more autonomously in some ways in their every day life.