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I think the issue is that in a calm, rational state you would think "let me just slowly visually examine the door area and where a typical lever or latch would be" but in a state of panic humans get tunnel vision and lose their slow methodical approach. That's why emergency planning and evacuation type designers will create UX/UI affordances that are multi-factor and unmistakable (flashing lights, alarm sounds, bright colors, capital letters with simple instructions). Think about the neon red EXIT signs above doors or the horizontal panic bar door mechanism (which to be fair has other design considerations like the fact that in a crowd crush situation even people unable to move their hands and arms may push the door open using the weight of their body and torso itself against the panic bar).

Mental imagery and mental language could both be a layer above a lower more basic form of abstract thought. You might not need either to think, plan, and reflect effectively.

What can stop Google is building the wrong thing, or being so scared to launch anything that they smother their own fledgling products before they are born or before they can mature. Their product and finance and accounting teams should be tossed.

I agree. The idea behind predicting the next token is that you regress to the mean. If humans are mostly idiots, then the mean is idiots. If you filter your data to only include genius humans, then you can train and get an average answer that a genius would write online to a given prompt. But how would you train to generate an order of magnitude of intelligence or insight above a genius if the entire corpus of training data is at most genius-level?

You'd have to hope for some sort of emergent intelligence or knowledge-breadth integration based intelligence I suppose. But I already get annoyed by ChatGPT 4o for having Average Redditor Tier ideas and responses.

Because acknowledging the utility of these solutions would mean facing that you yourself have an issue or a problem and the readers would rather maintain cognitive dissonance about that.

Serious question, what percentage of people working at a Google office wear a mask during work? I'm at an office in NYC of a smaller but household name tech company a few blocks away that used to do in-office mandatory nasal swab testing and masks at one point but now there are no precautions taken at all other than "if you're sick, you have to tell us and not come in".

Curious if there's been a big bifurcation of covid precautions at workplaces that I'm just unaware of (since I only regularly enter one office).

Yes, Tsinghua is the Harvard of China. It would be weird if Stanford research came up with a breakthrough but the headline merely stated "US". Let's begin to treat Chinese universities as a non-monolith.

If the problem is crypto, leave crypto out of the resume and say that you became a monk or took up sailing or volunteered overseas or something during that time and see if it helps.

Does anyone have any advice for someone who's done a bit of solo travel in Europe and Asia and a teensy bit in South America but is considering going to Accra or Kampala or Nairobi or Kigali or Lagos, as far as how to figure out where to go?

Some samples I found quickly scanning the ChatGPT subreddit for anyone curious:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1awm8kv/chatgpt_sp...

^ quick non sequiturs

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1aw1o9x/i_had_a_re...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

^ incredibly trippy text that devolves into strangely formatted comma separated text that almost resembles some code / amateur cryptography with multiple languages/alphabets

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1avydjd/anyone_els...

^ multiple responses in the same conversation that start off fairly normal but end up unhinged each time

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1avyr09/first_time...

^ business/tech jargon nonsense soup

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1awtvq6/descent_in...

^ purple prose nonsense

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1aws3j1/what_in_th...

^ techy/business/purple prose-y nonsense

It's unfortunate that Open AI seems to be deleting these from user's histories, they are really fascinating as almost a "peek under the hood" into what crappy outputs and failure modes can look like. Some of the fake words / invented language really passes as stuff that you'd believe were real English words if you googled them, but when you do they have no definition or search results, which is trippy.

The one that has the cryptographic looking / symbolic looking messaging is really spooky, I could see someone suffering from delusions/mental illness believing there was some deeper meaning to the text and really going to bad places. Honestly makes me think we might have real problems in the future with people reading into gibberish as if its mystical/prophetic. People already use Tarot or Astrology similarly and its not nearly as neat.

Well, Einstein and Da Vinci were fallible as well.

Imagine you had a coworker who was like Leonardo Da Vinci and Einstein and someone with the power to access the hive mind of Reddit wrapped up in one but had dementia and sometimes spoke believably while completely hallucinating and lying, so you still needed to verify their work or take their answer and double check it.

Now imagine they have zero problem with you interrupting them to ask the stupidest question or the most profound, difficult question, as long as you want, and if you don't like their answer you can tell them to try again. And they don't care how often you do either.

What kinds of questions might you ask that coworker in the course of your work? It's highly individual.

I'm going to go ahead and suggest you don't make a proclamation of safety (about a product associated with severe lung disease) followed immediately by "mostly a guess".

In an ideal world, manufacturers would begin to phase out the use of PFAS as waterproofing, which many already are. An alternative would be Nikwax, waxed canvas, or polyurethenate-coatings or TPU coatings. These alternatives are already used in many goods! For containers (not wearables), you can get aluminum, stainless steel, TI, or glass waterproof cans and jars and bottles that have threaded, screw on caps with silicone o-rings to create watertight seals.

For outdoor goods like backpacks or bags that you want to stay waterproof, I personally recommend PU and TPU coated drybags. For clothing like pants or shirts, I'd recommend opting for non-water-resistant/non-waterproof versions, and just buy an umbrella or raincoat with a PU or TPU coating to shield you rather than trying to wear clothing that will have water bead. Waxed canvas clothing is another option but it can be heavy. Cool if you are into it though, Fjallraven is famous for it, as is Filson.

I don't think you'll be too sad if your disposable food packaging gets a little soggier. You'll probably be a little more sad if you get cancer :(

So over time, hopefully you own fewer and fewer goods that are destroying the planet! Happy friday.

Eg:

https://www.polartec.com/news/polartec-announces-full-use-of...

https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/pfas.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/06/pfas-tox...

> A lot of care goes into their disposal or recycle.

Are you aware of the usage of PFAS in textiles, food packaging, and waterproof-treated goods? I'm a little confused what you mean by care goes into their disposal. PFAS treatments on textiles for example are disposed of by pouring down a washing machine drain into municipal sewers and from there into natural waterways.

Because of the "forever", small amounts add up, perpetually and over time could become not-small amounts.

ahh that sucks.

What happened to your friendship?

Or they received a classified briefing showing how far ahead China or other adversaries are in terms of AI for military use and felt obligated to not let the US fall further behind.

It was just amateur porn by young adult women or late teen girls, like mirror selfies by women/girls in bikinis with their tops pulled down or ass bent over or whatever, but the people in the photos were very young. Whether that meant 18, 19, or 17, or 16, people weren't too concerned.

Titanium is not good for flavor, its good for strength to weight ratio for people concerned with weight (think EDC, ultralight, etc)

No you are not. Because "it should be obvious: ____" is a handwave with zero evidence, it's a projection on the part of the author. Insert power, insert sex, insert greed, insert idealism, insert black and white thinking, insert jealousy, insert naivety, insert ignorance, insert racism, insert nationalism.

Take your pick and state it in a highbrow fanciful way and boom you're cookin with gas.

That's not really a great encapsulation of the AI safety that those who think AGI poses a thread to humanity are referring to.

The bigger concern is something like Paperclip Maximizer. Alignment is about how to ensure that a super intelligence has the right goals.

check out https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/

Only semi-related, but Intake Breathing strips have been life-changing for me, even if expensive I find it worth it and just hope their success would lead to competition and price decrease.

I don't really agree. Many men experience weaker erections or fewer spontaneous erections even in late 20s or early 30s, and that is definitely culturally a time where you are expected to be at your 'peak masculinity'.

In a world absent stigma, perhaps these drugs would simply be seen as performance enhancing to the extent 21 year olds with perfectly functional circulatory systems would take them so they could go for a round 2 and round 3 more quickly.

Definitely.

The idea that you'd "need" to take Viagra or Cialis is an assault on many men's sense of masculinity and virility.

NYC has one of the largest homeless shelter systems in the world - over 100k people are housed by NYC at public expense - and the system is so at capacity due to migrants that they are simply being told to sleep on public sidewalks.

It's not an exaggeration to say many migrant would have better luck attaining indoor shelter just flying off to Omaha Nebraska or wherever.

It's a real shame that drugs like cialis / tadalafil have negative social/cultural stereotype due to the meaning we attach to unaided sexual prowess and shame to sexual difficulties, as it really does feel like a drug that just makes sex better for people with sexual difficulties but also make sex amazing for people with normal sexual function. And likely has other unknown long-term benefits as well.

I was very against losing headphone socket but just accepted the iPhone SE 2020 and actually using thunderbolt to headphone jack adapter is not that bad. But the ultimate realization is when you finally try Airpods Pro and you are converted.

Sewage is easy when population size is small.

When you have a lot of people in an area, you start running out of places to dig a hole and shit in it pretty quickly. You'll be surprised how often you'll start digging and find someone else's shit, which I can't imagine you'd be excited about.