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My kids love that game! But it's not destroying lives, more like committing a series of naughty pranks (like, you can sneak into a TV studio and interrupt a broadcast by honking and flapping about).

I am unable to comprehend the state of mind that would lead a person to publish an ad like this. Like, you can't make a job a part of your core identity. Everyone there is going to forget you 10 seconds after you quit. Which, you can know with certainty is something that will happen sooner or later. So then what happens to your core identity? Do you just become an empty shell, waiting on the sidewalk for someone new to tell you what to do?

But yeah the attitude on display here is terrifying to be honest. Honestly this guy needs medication and therapy. There are some deep seated issues here.

Yeah I don't know why people pay attention to those things, in terms of accuracy you might as well give your uncle 5 or 6 beers and tell him to just go off.

Maybe we just live a charmed life but me and my husband just never worried about it, nor did we either go out of our way to expose our kids to nuts or avoid them. We gave them little bites of whatever we were eating and later we started giving them peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I mean peanut allergies are still very rare are they not? I dont think I know anyone personally who has a nut allergy, children or adults. None of my kids friends have nut allergies. Is this a regional thing?

You have to keep in mind that the original google search, by summarizing search results based on links between pages, essentially destroyed the web of interconnected links that existed at that time, so that the original pagerank algorithm doesn't even really work anymore. And the search results Google returns are worse than they were years ago. And you know, I use it, it is still super convenient, and the long term effects took some time to become apparent.

Now it is again feeding on and regurgitating Wikipedia but again in a way that will end up destroying the thing it is summarizing. Aggregators are parasitic on the thing they derive information from.

That little AI generated summary that seems to show up in every Google search is riddled with errors. I've learned that as often as not it's just making things up or confusing two different topics. I would not trust that thing under any circumstances. Its no better than a wild guess from a stranger on the street.

Hmm this is a really tough one though. How about, depending on how the person responds you come back with "well that's not what your mom said last night!"

Yes, all the cells at death are divided pieces of cells that were present at birth.

The basic pattern of not having one object construct some other object that has external references to it is.. kind of obvious. I didn't know there was a name for it but sure, I agree, fine.

But the way DI is usually implemented is with this bag of global variables which you just reach in and grab the first object of the desired type. I call this the little jack horner pattern. Stick in your thumb and pull out a plum. That, is stupid. You've reinvented global variables, but actually worse. Congratulations.

If the epigenetic drift theory of aging is correct, it's because when the jellyfish becomes a polyp again its epigenome is reset to factory defaults, erasing the effects of aging.

According to this theory, the reason the epigenome accumulates damage is because while the dna strand is static through the life of the organism, and therefore has all sorts of error correction mechanisms, the epigenome changes on a per-cell level as the organism grows according to hormonal signals and so on. That's how a nerve cell and a muscle cell can have the same dna strand but act almost as if they are from totally different species. Therefore it has to be flexible and can't be error checked in the same robust way. So aging is a consequence of multicellular life cycles.

The problem I have with ai generated code is that there was no human who put in the detailed effort to write it. And so if it breaks, who do you ask? What you might end up doing is simply adding more ai generated code. And soon you have a codebase that no human understands.

"Back then, wealth mostly came from land grabs, tax farming, and debt slavery. The rich were rich because the poor were poor."

With all due respect my friend. That is 100% how it still works right now. That is how it has always worked. The reason you think otherwise is because you are not poor.

Well it was nice while it lasted

What a wonderful man! Thank you James.

The solution to that might be to increase funding to the irs; currently the political elites are seeking to kneecap the irs so that it’s even easier for them to evade taxes.

A society of equals needs very little coercion to run, since everyone feels like they have ownership and importance and so everyone feels like they are more or less on the same team. A country in which a wealthy few rule over masses of poor however requires a lot of violence to keep orderly. And of course, it will be in the interests of the elite that the poors are divided against one another.

It’s a peek behind the curtain for sure.

Well I’m convinced at least that there is potentially a significant danger. I’ll stick to microdosing shrooms.

I certainly hope they don’t install any kind of backdoor, because they will give unfettered access to the fbi, and they will likely use that to hunt down marginalized groups (trans women) to eliminate them.

This feels like the work of a highly intelligent person operating on very scant information- it’s easy to construct castles of thought that more or less fit your experiences, but at some point the slow tedious work of conducting experiments and data has to be done, and most of these sorts of elaborate guesses turn out to be wrong.

It’s not about emptying them out so much as replacing them with loyalists.

I would say that a pledge that you only keep as long as it’s convenient doesn’t mean much. And neither does the word of the company that made it.

At any rate it doesn’t matter what you or I think or say anymore. Politics in the sense of the people debating and voting is dead now, because democracy is dead. Trump is replacing the whole federal bureaucracy from the top down with loyalists, including the justice department- he no longer has to listen to congress or the courts. Democracy lasted 249 years; we had a good run.

No, politics is dead, there is only survival now. Trump will continue to yank our chains, keep us guessing, suppress free speech, target minority groups for extermination- and we have to endure, or run.

Ah, I see. You ignore my question and answer as if I had asked a different one more to your liking.

https://youtu.be/CaPgDQkmqqM?si=2yOYdn0aYAOcsYvv

I suppose this could be considered a type of gish galloping too.

https://youtu.be/FK4RHzNHZXY?si=leCItVHw2OkZzZjr

If we start by cutting services to the public, the tax hikes on the rich are 100% guaranteed to never happen. And then after several years the economy declines, and inequality increases, and tax revenues go down, rinse, repeat and eventually you end up where we are now.

Why is making the public suffer considered fair game but making the super wealthy pay their share politically inconceivable?

I think that we should cut the amount of money going towards superyachts and 10,000 dollar bottles of wine, rather than education, infrastructure and healthcare. Which do you imagine will lead to a healthier economy in the long run?

Because when you cut taxes on the super wealthy, you are effectively taking money away from education and infrastructure and allocating it towards superyachts.

Isn’t that a plot point in “everything everywhere all at once”? Did she watch that movie and take the silliest element way too seriously?

Quantum computations have to be reversible , because you have to collapse the wave function and take a measurement to throw away any bits of data. You can accumulate junk bits as long as they remain in a superposition. But at some point you have to take a measurement. So, very much related.

Music is about a bunch of people in a room sharing a feeling and a beat and creating and enjoying something beautiful. People are addicted to their media feeds, their screens, their ragebait and clickbait, and do you know why? Because they don’t have real people, friends, in the room sharing real time. Music can do that, AI is a perversion of it.

The latest wave of capitalism is that they have successfully invaded our personal relationships and replaced and monetized them. Let’s not do that to music too.

Easy, hate is what those people throwing stones were feeling, and sun is what they were accusing that woman of. You know the verse, right?

The hate remains the same today, except now the “sin” is being gay, or getting raped, etc.