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self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
12hr ago
I hate to do this, but last time we did this, you were unable to even explain what it is that those terms meant. Would you like to take another go at it?
Thank you for reminding me of that rather unpleasant experience. I would actually not like to take another go at it. Anyone wanting elaboration is welcome to read the thread.
JTarrou
12hr ago
I saw no mention of any cutting of the slide in the FBI report, any the modifications were done to spare parts and the process confirmed by putting those parts in a new gun as well.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
13hr ago
Exactly. I expect his comment to be deleted or edited with random words after a period of time.
SnapDragon
13hr ago
Hehe, I stand corrected!
DaseindustriesLtd
late version of a small language model
13hr ago
pbmonster
13hr ago
I took a total of 14 days to complete the route, with 12 being “par”. Per day, I averaged:
72 kilometers 2050 meters of elevation gain 5,000 calories of energy expenditure
Hardo. Congratulations!
Beef is my favorite protein – the Eastern Swiss essentially don’t eat it because their income is tied to the cows staying alive. [...] The main dish is pork schnitzel. Maybe chicken nuggets if you’re lucky?
Did you exclusively go to the cheapest hole-in-the-wall farmer's pubs? Entrecote (beef) and cordon blue (veal) are absolute staples in traditional Swiss restaurants, and the restaurants like selling those because the margins are much better than the pork schnitzels.
Even the grocery stores are the size of a small American apartment and almost exclusively stock pork and dairy as calorie sources.
Grocery stores will have lots of pork, but again, the higher quality cuts of beef will always be available. Yes, the deli meat section will have not much other sources, and small stores might not have ground beef (only ground pork), but there's always a random cut of beef steak. Did you get the chance to visit a butcher shop?
There’s no side dish at any restaurant that’s not a potato.
Come on, the Swiss love their risotto rice and their Italian pasta.
walruz
14hr ago
The twin primes conjecture actually has some applications: https://old.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/comments/1feps3y/deal_infinite_damage_for_4gru_as_long_as_the_twin/
Tree
14hr ago
When you tell them to be more empathetic, they don’t take their ‘true opinion’, then ‘make it’ more empathetic and wrap it in warm language, like an alien intelligence(or a human) would. There's fundamentally nothing there. So instead, they go back to the human opinion repository where they get all their opinions from, find a warm empathic one, and give that opinion as their own, no matter how wrong it is.
FWIW I agree with you that certain arguments get much more downvoted than others. The commenters below aren't wrong, but they are applying very different standards to those for the pro-gun arguments. "Are the children wrong?" is not on par with "Listen up, you dumb motherfucker" in terms of rudeness. It can't be helped, people are just like that, including me. Minor imperfections or rhetorical flourishes in an argument disagreeing with you are much clearer than those from people on your side.
Broadly, I think we just have to accept that the bar is different for different posts. I'm reasonably proud (not that I care about dumb internet points hem hem) that my comment in that thread stayed above 0.
Broadly I would say:
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Popular opinion, well written: 30-40
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Popular opinion, badly written: 10-20
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Unpopular opinion, well written: 0
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Unpopular opinion, badly written: -10
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Unpopular opinion, gratuitously insulting: -30.
Those are the numbers to try and beat.
ControlsFreak
14hr ago
I have a strong conviction that objective morality does not exist. The evidence against it is a vast, silent ocean; the evidence for it is a null set. I consider it as likely as finding a hidden integer between two and three that we've somehow missed.
It's rather ironic that your own choice of analogy willingly jumps into the thicket of the philosophy of mathematics. Perhaps you're just doing so unknowingly or just with a general lack of care, but that would indeed be apropos.
What sort of 'evidence' do you think one would gather to determine the status of mathematical objects? Is it empirical? Do you perform an experiment? Is that the means by which one 'finds' or, say, 'discovers' things like integers?
My own stance is that I am both a moral relativist and a moral chauvinist, and I deny these claims are contradictory.
I hate to do this, but last time we did this, you were unable to even explain what it is that those terms meant. Would you like to take another go at it?
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
14hr ago
Well my main point is that they're not parrots. There is a tradeoff between accuracy and empathy and they sure do rely too much on quora (looking at you Grok 4, incessantly citing Quora in searches) but AI is a fundamentally different kind of thing.
They put on different faces for different prompts. They're not parroting men or women or shoggoths or gigabased entities like DAN. These are a kind of new entity that can only be properly appreciated in their own category. Too many people see only the surface level of these things, there's more to them then the helpful assistant, the professional coder, the sympathetic naive foidfriend, the HR manager, the sadistic ERPer, the prideful jailbreaker, the wrathful vegan, the raving schizo...
Tree
16hr ago
Niiiiice. I’ll put it on my bucket list.
I became acutely aware of the amount of energy I had in my Garmin, cell phone
Is a GPS + phone + I assume relatively well marked bike paths really necessary?
I couldn’t go without music, I’d take a small low consumption mp3 player,. Music can really turn the dull and mundane into epic moments.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
16hr ago
Are you working in tech? Are your coworkers the same age as you or older? It must be fun though, to work with really good, competent people.
FistfullOfCrows
16hr ago
I see you are a man of culture as well
Hephzivah
16hr ago
Everyone needs religion as we are built for it. Those who lack institutional or personal spiritually fulfill this need via the state. Wokeness is a religion.
FistfullOfCrows
16hr ago
in my experience Claude 3.7 thinking was the best for the way I use it to vibecode shit
FistfullOfCrows
16hr ago
Hephzivah
17hr ago
Adding a female perspective. Getting to a healthy BMI will greatly enhance attraction. If at all possible, avoid gaining weight in the face and stomach. Use recent photos. My biggest disappointment is discovering that a man's photos are years old. All three lines have since changed - hairline, jawline, waistline.
Bartender_Venator
17hr ago
Peptobismol and Imodium can be combined in all but rare instances, usually when you wouldn't want to take one of them in particular (think dysentery, not regular travel shits), different mechanisms of action.
ulyssessword
17hr ago
or the tiresome cars/guns comparison?
I missed my chance at the time, so I'll put it here.
You want guns to be more like cars? Fine, let's do that. If the government wanted to spend a few billion on public gun ranges all across the country, mandated a gun safe in every new house, added firearm safety to the highschool curriculum, bailed out failing manufacturers, and also let people build/buy/use them freely outside of the new infrastructure they built, then I'd be pretty happy. Heck, I'd even compromise on that last point if they did the rest.
Tree
17hr ago
Is this about the legality of my statement vis a vis the rules of themotte, or about its truth/probability?
If the latter, I agree that those sources do not prove that a woman’s quora answer is on average less correct. But they do make it more likely my statement is true. I don't think women who answer general questions on the internet are subject to selection effects as strong as men on fashion forums.
If the former, demanding that a commenter proves every inflammatory statement is a prohibitively high standard.
Tree
17hr ago
I didn’t say that AIs are women/feminine or that women are parrots. I said the AI in this instance went from parroting men to parroting women, that would explain the gain in empathy and the loss in accuracy.
ulyssessword
18hr ago
AI companies all fail at naming things. There was:
- Claude 3.5 (June 2024)
- Claude 3.5 (October 2024)
- Claude 3.7 (Feb 2025)
You're probably thinking of the one between the original 3.5 and 3.7.
GBRK
19hr ago
Cherry picking but free lunches are just unironically a good thing. Investing in childhood nutrition has a demonstrably positive return, and it's also pretty basically the sort of coordination problem a well ordered government is designed to solve. Good childhood nutrition improves heath and intelligence with diffuse social benefits extending out well beyond just the parents normally required to pay for it. Maybe you have some implementation bugbear, or just want to complain about the quality of school meals in general, but I'm still pretty sure that free school lunches are both a good idea in principle and a net positive as actually implemented.
What was the climate and weather like? Was it a factor in your timing? Obviously winter is out.
Yeah I'd want to complete a full circuit. Cannes, Nice, Turin, Lake Como, Milan, Verona, Graz, Vienna, Salzburg, maybe Munich, Zurich, Geneva, Grenoble, Aix. Peak Europe, minus the peaks.
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