sarker
competency crisis actor
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
competency crisis actor
10hr ago
The point I'm trying to make is that there's plenty of good books that aren't difficult (surely that should be clear from the examples I gave). It's not clear to me that reading slop helps read good books any more than watching tiktoks helps you enjoy movies.
sarker
competency crisis actor
11hr ago
I admit I mostly skimmed, however:
No, seriously. If you feel like you're a guy, and you don't read enough, stop forcing yourself to read highbrow literature or books like you feel you should read, and track down some lowbrow junkfood.
Uh, why? There's twenty thousand years of human literature out there. Believe it or not, the ancestors even had literature that wasn't highbrow (Portnoy's Complaint? Robert Louis Stevenson?).
sarker
competency crisis actor
16hr ago
It seems quite clear that the number of people who are merely diligent is greater than the number of people who are both diligent and have expertise in means of killing lots of people.
When you reduce the price, the quantity demanded increases.
there are 100,000 people whose GAs would be devoting their efforts to not letting their user get killed in a Sarin gas attack.
What does that look like?
50% chance of nerve agent release on the subway today, better pack your gas mask!
Send that agent back to training. You can avoid sarin gas poisoning with proper PPE, but you need more than a gas mask - you'll need to wear a level A hazmat suit with a SCUBA setup (the gas can get you through the skin). Perhaps you believe that this is a future that people are going to be OK with? A conversation with the median voter may correct this impression.
sarker
competency crisis actor
22hr ago
I think it would be bad if psychos got help from AIs to plan and carry out terror attacks. What does the world look like when anyone has the expertise necessary to carry out a sarin attack on the subway? To paraphrase, the optimal number of sarin attacks is not zero, but I doubt that people will accept it being very high without demanding that something is done.
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
It could simply be the case that a large number of people refuse to admit that Iran has lost, which is actually very common in the history of war.
Can you name another example of this common occurrence?
"you can't press the beans into bricks, okay?? You just can't!"
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
The downfall of 99% of veg burritos is that they replace the meat with lettuce instead of a veg protein and Las Pencas is in the same boat.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
I've been a vegetarian for a number of years now so I can't speak to the meat options, but the veg burritos at Senor Sisig are quite good.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
Chipotle charges $15.60 plus tax for a steak burrito (with guac) in my part of coastal California. A place I like in SF charges $16.25. You can hit $20 with various additions but it's on the high side of things.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
Any sort of heating is going to nuke the vitamin C at the least. Boiling also leaches stuff into the water.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
I can't think of any other technology in history that has achieved 50 percent market penetration in 3-4 years.
What did you think takeoff meant? Vibes? Papers?
and they both start to take off in early 2023, which was about how I remembered when I first started hearing about them.
That's when GPT-4 hit the public imagination.
HALF of Americans are doing this weekly?
Yes!
My circle must just be in the stone age, then, because I still know multiple people who don't own computers.
About 9% of American adults don't have a smartphone, so sure, it's not out of the question that you know several of them.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
I suppose it would include things like Alexa/Google Home/Siri?
Well, no, those are not chatbots.
I wasn't even hearing the term "A.I." as anything other than the movie (or Allen Iverson) in any remotely mainstream sense, unless post-Covid.
Huh? The prominence of the AI boom is largely a post Covid phenomenon.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
Almost half of Americans use chatbots specifically, with about a quarter doing so daily.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
I'll bet less than 5% of people have ever used AI in any form,
Almost a supermajority of Americans use AI at least multiple times a week. Let me know how you want to pay up.
sarker
competency crisis actor
6d ago
Ironically, the pizza in the third world is much cheaper.
sarker
competency crisis actor
6d ago
14" Domino's "ultimate pepperoni" is $26 plus $6 delivery to my house.
sarker
competency crisis actor
6d ago
The cost savings feel minimal on a per meal basis
What? A pizza for "one" (10 inches) from a chain pizza joint in town is $20 before any delivery fees.
sarker
competency crisis actor
6d ago
sarker
competency crisis actor
7d ago
You should probably just start by looking at ACE recommended charities which mostly work on improving the lives of farmed animals.
As a vegetarian, I'd love it if we just stopped slaughtering and torturing animals, but the first goal is pretty remote. I'd be happy if we stopped putting male chicks in shredders, sows in cages, and so on, which are actually feasible goals.
sarker
competency crisis actor
8d ago
do not deserve to be compensated in such a way that someone would work {dirty job} voluntarily
They are doing it voluntarily. It's just that they are voluntarily doing it for wages that some people believe are too low. It's basically "the myth of consensual employment".
sarker
competency crisis actor
8d ago
Income taxes payable to the city are a ridiculous burden on productive economic activity. NYC ought to have a land value tax to discourage disused dwellings instead. Such a tax also cannot be dodged via "primary residence" shenanigans unlike the pied a terre tax.
sarker
competency crisis actor
9d ago
It's not about mid-range anymore. K3 is quite close on the index to the absolute top of the line. Some say Chinese models are still six months behind, some say the gap is closing, but nobody thinks it's increasing. It's also quite clear that they don't have the compute that the US had six months ago. Seems you don't need it to reach that level of performance.
You have an incredible talent for talking to someone without responding to them.
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