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It's a good habit to have if you want to "live in a society". Unfortunately, that seems to be in tension with the way you should treat a value-extracting technology with an asymmetrical power dynamic.

Interesting approach. I hadn't heard of it. I think treating rocks and fungus and trees with empathy is a different kind of thing and safer than an LLM.

This is more like an NPC in a video game, but it's tracking your every move and reporting to corporate HQ.

buffer overflow vulnerability in code dealing with user generated data and a complex file format.

Your empathy towards the machine controlled by the trillion dollar conglomerate is a vulnerability and will one day be used against you.

Maybe not for you

I've never seen someone wearing a VR headset in public. I'd do a double take for sure.

> That said, truly not caring what strangers at a coffee shop think about you is probably a great step toward a great life.

To an extent. But this is also how we get people watching social media clips at full volume in the cafe/bus/hiking trail. Which is a great step towards diminishing the life of everyone around you.

Game consoles, which constitute large deployed numbers, generally have gameplay at lower resolutions.

The creation of shareholder value. Much has been thought about it.

I ain't asking for perfection here.

On the other hand, if you know enough to build an igloo, you're probably going to be ok regardless.

If it was actually not hard, they would have made their demo with it. I don't know the technical details, but I expect a product reveal like this to show the thing at its absolute best.

> Genie 4 has advanced audio capabilities

> Prompt asks for saxophone

Looks inside:

> Sound of a clarinet

Maybe Genie 5 will get it.

I guess we'll find out when they publish it.

How does that argument work? I've seen more than a few advances, yet I don't see how any of it provides evidence that we are simulations. This might be one of those things that comes down to the definition of "simulation" I guess.

You must have a very narrow conception of sanity.

> Money can only be spent once

Nope. One of the fundamental premises of money is that it circulates. The only way money could not be re-spent is if the money supply were to decrease.

The total volume of new power generation is going to be mostly determined by how much those capital holders value it. If there's more utility in power this year than last, we may see more new starts in generation projects, regardless of which type of generation those projects are doing.

Build nuke and solar then. The more the merrier.

If it displaces fossil generation, it's still a big win.

That's like all industries. Food is not an industry. Concrete is not an industry. Long haul trucking is not an industry.

For your way of scoring maybe. If I can see and do some cool stuff along the way and maybe even love, then my final score will be non-zero, according to my scoring system.

Well, that doesn't make any sense either, as major chords don't have any perfect fourths in them either, unless you count the interval between the fifth degree and the tonic in an inversion.

For the harmonic convention of chords based on stacked fourths, I've always heard it called "quartal" harmony, but my knowledge doesn't go very deep there.

In any case, wikipedia disagrees.

> In music theory, a tetrachord (Greek: τετράχορδoν; Latin: tetrachordum) is a series of four notes separated by three intervals

Otherwise unspecified "major chords" are generally assumed to be major triads, and thus not tetrachords at all, which require four notes. I tried finding this section in the sources, but I couldn't find it. I wonder what's meant by this. Could it really mean that major triads are less pleasant than all tetrachords? That's surprising, since many tetrachords contain major triads.

> Major chords (which is what people who grew up hearing Western music tend to rate as positive), the Kalash instead describe as “strange,” rating them as less pleasant to listen to than “the most dissonant [of] all the possible tetrachords possible within the octave”.

There's a whole product segment for this that seems to be gaining some traction. "Digital Audio Player" aka DAP.

Not only that, but everything else is also securities fraud.

I don't personally think that the existence of an HOA implies a failed city. But perhaps the utility of an HOA is even higher in such a city. I also will grant that bad HOAs can and do exist.

> whatever city you live in is basically a failed state

And yet, people still live there. Sounds like a reasonable work-around.

You've misunderstood. It has nothing to do with typing or being an introvert. At least for me. It describes me. I don't think I'm an introvert and I don't particularly like typing. But the post you're responding to describes me.

My HOA seems pretty good.

If that's your persuasion don't buy a house in an HOA. You can go to the city pool.

If you haven't tried it, Reader mode in Firefox is perfect for this.