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I may be misremembering, but I thought you can fill petrol with UPI too?

What's the difference between entering in an anonymized patient history into ChatGPT and, say, googling their symptoms?

Your comment is ironic to me, because I often feel the need to suppress my urge to call out people who seem obsessed with Elon Musk, but your comment is proving that my instinct is right.

Really feel like alot of answers to this question are more influenced by the commenter's own partisan affiliation within their own country. India's BJP seems to be used as a proxy for conservatism in Western liberal publications, and so their critiques of BJP tend to act as critiques of the right-wing parties in their own countries.

Hmm, and wouldn't that work both ways? What's stopping this from being an impetus for China to stop being dependent on US-allied countries for semiconductor fabrication?

I think the tools and techniques for developing AI-assisted art are gonna explode, and we will see things like "Photoshop for AI-Generated art" or "Blender for AI generated models", where there are mixed tools that allow touching-up AI-generated art with more AI-based tools.

I think this will absolutely change the content space. We will see smaller groups of individuals able to make animated-films, add-special effects to their video-projects, etc. Get ready ready to see more content geared for the fringes of society, and thus amplification of their preferences in media, politics, etc.

A worse one is to me is that they aren't allowed to say "Quantum Supremacy", because it reminds some people of "White Supremacy"? Nevermind that you actually give that concept more power when you make it so that even discussing it or inadvertently bring it up is stigmatized. Things are starting to get kind of Orwellian.

I mean, the boy's father also says that there will always be "horse and buggy" Amish. We are forgetting that there are different Amish orders that lie on a spectrum of conservatism within the Amish community. Even if there are some groups that end up looking more like us there will always be the Amish who don't use the internet, electricity, and probably even diesel power.

I still don't think you understand.

If your passion is painting, and its something you would do for free, then fulfilling your artistic potential is still work. It still requires hours upon hours of deliberate practice. The great masters would spend years working on a single painting. You don't think there would be times when they just didn't feel like making progress? Where they wanted to just take the day off and hang out at a bar with their friends?

Part of the human condition is struggle, imo. That's what I think the OP is getting at when he says that human beings need work. Maybe not a 9-5, but we all need something worth staving off instant gratification for.

I think his point (and the broader point being assumed by the author) was that "spending your time in activities that realize your self" does, in fact, feel a lot like work.

Is there a way to tell if my phone is affected? Some sort of "test dial 911"?

Sure, but didn't pretty much every English person those days?

I feel the real interesting point is that he was interested in the unknown, and back in those days they didn't have the modern distinctions between what we now consider as natural and supernatural.

Seems that if you want to make progress in human knowledge, you assume the risk of doing things that appear frivolous or just stupid in hindsight.

There is one reason Twitter is not doing this, and one reason the governments can do this in the first place, and that is money. Twitter makes money off of users in other countries (its stock performance is tied to % increase of DAU). Twitter knows its service is pretty easy to replicate and is thus willing to play by these government's rules. If Twitter doesn't play by the rules, there are plenty of local players who would be very happy about that.

WSL2 is slick, but the process of getting on Windows Insider Program and updating Windows to the right version is quite clunky.

Why would you say it's an error to use a float for currency? I would imagine it's better to use a float for calculations then round when you need to report a value rather than accumulate a bunch of rounding errors while doing computations.

I think this is Amazon's goal, where you're expending energy not to buy from them. You need a reason not to and then it only lasts for a short time period.

They're banking on being people's default retailer which lets them get away with this behavior.

No, I'm not saying we compensate people for the opportunity cost for not having kids. I'm saying we compensate them according to the value to society of them having them and spending time raising them.

I don't think the goal should be to eliminate disparities. I think it should be eliminate obstacles.

If the husband and wife agree that they want to use their combined paternity/maternity in a given way, who are you or I to tell them that they can't? The wife could just as well force the husband to take care of the child and work on her own next book. Or the pair could stagger their leaves so that they spend equal time taking care of the baby.

Unfortunately I just don't think it's a tenable position to assert that women (or men) should be able to take 2-4 years off of work and not be disadvantaged in their career for doing so.

I wholeheartedly support the idea that, as a society, we ought to value childcare/child-rearing and (perhaps monetarily) support those who perform this service. But I don't believe corporations ought to be the ones making a space for that.

Erm, there's a good portion of the world's population (I'd say over half) that doesn't think the US military's activities support it's safety.

I can't tell if you're being serious. If by your answer you mean nothing, are you saying that the farm bill panic is simultaneously both fear-mongering and push back against blatant propaganda by those in power?

If by your answer you mean something else, why didn't you just say so instead of being so cryptic?

I get the impression reading articles like this that the farm bills would certainly negatively impact farmer. See this quote from the article:

>The country’s capital city has seen over four months of protest after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government enacted agricultural laws that would adversely affect farmers across India.

However, from speaking to people and watching interviews where people discuss *the actual bill itself*, the only answer I ever hear is something along the lines of, "this bill *could potentially* lead to things that are bad."

I'm asking from a place of good-faith here, but what separates claims that the farm bill is bad from blatant fear-mongering?

This was addressed in the article, though. PredictIt odds could've been skewed by:

* Maximum of $1000 being able to be invested on the platform

* A small fee being taken by PredictIt out of every bet.

I see quite a bit of disappointing talk that disregards the contents of the article, here.

Namely, the author names one sort of bias that led 'Very Smart People' to give an outsized likelihood of Trump winning:

>I remember thinking at the time that this particular opinion of his was over-confident, perhaps even a result of over-internalizing the heuristic that if a viewpoint seems clever and contrarian then it is likely to be correct.

Doesn't this explain crypto-user's pro-Trump bias? Someone who uses crypto as a way to play on a prediction market is necessarily going to be contrarian, to some degree (remember we're being constantly bombarded by claims of how all crypto is "just speculation"). In the same way, believing Trump actually has a case for overturning the election results is a highly contrarian view.

While this is true, you could easily write a listener script (very easy with ETH due to the extensive bloom filter use) that adds more collateral to your position if it reaches, say, within %175 of the capital you withdrew.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I've seen oauth implementations that require you to be redirected to the site you're giving credentials for to finish the flow of authentication. Wouldn't this make it a lot easier to determine that you're being phished, if you have to go to a whole different web site that warns you that you are giving external parties access to your credentials?

> Then, yes, BTC has that property... but, tons of other things do! E.g. why not invest in amber, it's probably one of the rarest things in the universe.

Yes but the amount of amber, gold, silver, etc. on Earth is a known unknown. There are presumably deposits of gold that we don't yet know about. The amount of BTC is known. You seem to be conflating rarity with fixed scarcity.

> Using existing anti-money-laundering laws & global institutions, you'd be effectively banned from getting back any value from your BTCs (or, doing so would expose you to all the associated risks).

While this is true, this is sort of the whole point of bitcoin. Like, it's a currency that is independent of any nation-state and acts as a sort of systemic-hedge against governmental incompetence/malfeasance. So the fact that it could even be banned by any particular country is kind of part of its value proposition. And, similar to VPN's, just because an IP-based technology is banned doesn't mean that it'd become impossible to use.

Absolutely not. Tens of thousands of Indians fought and died (not counting the Bengal famine which killed millions, but may or may not have been a result of malfeasance. Resource extraction from the colonies helped them fight as well.

Agreed, but I'd argue that the US's imperialism is fairly well-known. The British managed to avoid that via shrewd and destructive campaigns of divide-and-conquer that stacked the odds against future democracies.

Right, so if BP drills for oil in South Texas that means that the Texas oil reserves should be under their control? This viewpoint reeks of racism and Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism.