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1yr ago
plant machete
This installation enables a live plant to control a machete.
https://www.dwbowen.com/plant-machete , with video
I like his other works too, such as telepresent wind https://www.dwbowen.com/telepresent-wind and, of course, fly revolver https://www.dwbowen.com/fly-revolver
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1yr ago
This is smart, because he couldn't remember if 1 or 5 was the most severe, so he hedged his bets.
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1yr ago
Am I supposed to feel good after exercise?
People say things like "Every time I run I feel like anxiety doesn’t exist for awhile and just feel good." or "Does anyone know exactly why it feels so fucking good to lift heavy shit above your head?? I have never felt anything like it in a gym. It is THE MOST addicting feeling I’ve possibly ever had." both quotes from random reddit comments.
I've tried both running and weight lifting in the past, and never got a huge positive psychological effect. Mostly I just feel slightly content, or just plain tired. Do some people just not have a strong positive response?
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1yr ago
https://www.gwern.net/reviews/McNamara
Quote:
Some were trapped in boot camp: Gregory describes how many would be sent to remedial training repeatedly, failing the exercise requirements each time. They couldn’t understand how to correctly execute actions: in swinging from monkey bars, they would try to swing one bar at a time, coming to a halt each time; in running an obstacle course, they would have to pause in front of each arrow and think about what an arrow meant before understanding which direction to go, costing them too much time to ever beat the deadline; they would insist on throwing grenades directly at the target like a baseball, not understanding that throwing upwards in a high parabola would gain them the necessary distance; and in the mile run, they would sprint as fast as possible at the start and be surprised when they became utterly exhausted long before the finish line.
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1yr ago
Your species is an immutable characteristic, so I would ask the professor about their attitude towards beastiality.
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1yr ago
Now that Binance owns FTX
FYI the deal is now off (AFAIK they only ever had a letter of intent) https://twitter.com/binance/status/1590449161069268992
So it's game over, right?
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1yr ago
Are you both gaming and working in the same machine/room/environment? Because I would strongly suggest never doing that.
IMO you need a work space completely distinct from your recreational space. I work from home and have a separate work set up in a different part of the house. Yes this means I have to double up on chairs, desks, monitors, etc. Else the alternative is working in a cafe, like other commenters suggested.
If you roll out of bed and sit down in the same place you previously racked up 5000 hours in Dota, then you will be overwhelming your brain with "it's time to relax" triggers that you have conditioned yourself with over time. You need to create an environment you associate with focus and work (and only work). You can also add other work triggers, like getting dressed as if you were going to the office. Basically, you must embrace the good screen/bad screen meme - they cannot be the same screen.
Something else can help is time blocking (e.g. the pomodoro technique). Ideally you'll work in a state of flow where you don't feel the passing of time, but failing that, working in 25 min chunks feels easier and less intimating than a long unstructured day.
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1yr ago
This proves too much. Is having anal sex with a woman also gay, because it's also a physical simulation of sex with man? What about kissing women, considering gay men also kiss?
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1yr ago
Imagine a text-based 160 IQ AGI, akin to GPT-3, was introduced today. How much impact would it really have?
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Private sector in areas with low regulation would see incredible productivity gains.
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Public sector would continue to trundle along as is, completely oblivious to technological advances.
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Regulated industries would still be bottle-necked by the law and stuck waiting for the government to move, if they move at all.
It already is the case that you can get unlimited video entertainment for $10/month, while healthcare, education and housing costs continue to rise. AGI can't change the law or force itself to be used (unless you're talking about a different kind of AGI than I am).
I can imagine a world where most people's work can be automated, but for various reasons, it isn't. So I guess this is a vote for option 2, considering we're sort of there already.
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1yr ago
I have a couple of Casio F91W in obnoxious colours (not my picture) I don't like the aesthetics of the gshock and these Casios fit my style (or lack of) better.
I have baby wrists so dive watches are out. I bought a vintage Raketa from etsy that I like, but I would guess it's a chop shop job and doesn't keep time very well.
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1yr ago
Indeed the exact question is
Yksi elämäni päätavoitteista on ollut tehdä vanhempani ylpeiksi
Good sample size too of >1000 for each country.
Also:
The main mode in EVS 2017 is face-to-face (interviewer-administered). An alternative self-administered form was possible but as a parallel mixed mode, i.e. there was no choice for the respondent between modes: either s/he was assigned to face to face, either s/he was assigned to web or web/mail format. In all countries the EVS questionnaire was administered as a face-to-face interview (CAPI or/and PAPI); in Germany, Netherlands, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, and Latvia additionally self-administered mode (CAWI/Mail) was used.
Interviewer administered questionnaire would surely bias the subject towards more socially acceptable answers. A few countries (including Finland) had some people self-administer. So might we expect those countries to answer slightly more honestly? Perhaps they controlled for this somehow.
https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/methodology-data-documentation/survey-2017/full-release-evs2017/
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1yr ago
Strongly against day trading. Do value investing if you must, but really, I suggest just trying to match the market with index funds. Investing should be boring!
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1yr ago
I have a new respect for the moderators and admin. It's a tough job.
Maybe this is was the real motive all along...
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1yr ago
I had a family argument about this. Either you want to live forever, or you want to die, and why the hell would you want to die?!
I think it's cope of the maximum order. One way of accepting death is to believe that you desire it.
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Do you think Greta actually writes her own tweets? I can't imagine an autistic Swedish teenager tweeting like that.
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I believe the ancients used it to memorise speeches, which could still be useful today.
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1yr ago
I guess Effective Altruism is not on the table? I donate to Givewell's Maximum Impact fund.
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1yr ago
In some sense, it is whatever the courts decide, since this is a legal issue and all laws are made up.
But IMO no, not at all.
If you agree with me, what’s a simple way of explaining to normies that ChatGPT-generated content is not IP theft?
I don't know about chatGPT, but the stable diffusion model is about 4GB in size. There is not enough room in the model for it to be directly plagiarising.
The Counting Song https://youtube.com/watch?v=VWSXbl1c2Ag
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