TylerLives

Facial asymmetry, testosterone (thick eyebrows, baldness), weight, piercings, tattoos, unnatural hair colors etc. surely have some correlation with being a serial killer?

Over the years, I've seen many posts like this one. I've joined a few groups myself and every single one of them died in a few days or weeks. What brings people together is a shared activity (and shared values/interests). You'd have a better chance of success if you started a project in some area you're interested in and asked people to join you.

In this hypothetical scenario, immortalists would always outcompete deathists, so this wouldn't really be an issue.

While Serbian government is also very corrupt, Kosovo has its own government now, made up entirely (to my knowledge) of Albanian people who conquered it.

>The idea is that once enough people with a particular ideology move to a region, their votes can begin to alter regional policies and state laws.

Does anyone else find this a bit strange? How will people of Montenegro[0] see this conquest of their land?

[0] https://youtu.be/dPJI7EY0h8Q

It doesn't seem to be very effective - https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/03/man-arrested-after-making-...

>Progress in LLMs has come much more rapidly than expected

I hear this very often, but I'm not sure, what were the expectations 10 years ago? What are the expectations for the next 10 years?

Using one of open source models without these restrictions would be much better.

"Regulated" means that you can't use it but they (the government and companies working for it) can. Whether that's a good or bad thing is debatable, but that's what it means.

Why are no examples provided?

Great questions. I'm busy right now, but I promise to go through the article in the next few days and respond. I'm open to having my mind changed, though I must admit I started feeling better when I started following Ray Peat's advice. I wonder if it could be that different people respond differently to different diets. Have you tried sharing your article on raypeatforum? You say that he's a "quack", but I've never seen him arguing in bad faith and people there are usually friendly and try to be objective and open to new ideas.

A different take on PUFAs - https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturatedfats.shtml

Minimizing sugar might be bad for your health - https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/glycemia.shtml

This is amazing. It's much more interesting when you enter your own responses, but autogenerated ones are also useful sometimes. Is it a finished project or do you have plans for future updates?

Do you think the outcome of the war matters when evaluating the actions of the international community in Ukraine? For example, if millions of people die in Ukraine as a consequence of war that was only possible because NATO decided to arm Ukrainians, will it be justified, because they were fighting for democracy? What if Ukraine loses anyway?

Does anyone know how they used the slurs?

>I tend to check the age difference between the earliest and latest commits because that lets me be sure it's not a project that someone spent a couple weeks coding up

I doubt anyone would do this, but commit date can be arbitrarily changed.

They never had the launch codes.

I think the fear is that you'll see a lot more of them in the future if they're allowed.

That sounds better. I think being indifferent is the most reasonable position, because it's impossible to compare existence to nonexistence.

>they think it's disgusting selfishness and that they are victims of it

Not agreeing with the original point, but what's the alternative? You can't be nonexistent. "parents brought them into the world" this seems like a conceptual error imo. Brought from where?

My prediction seems to be coming true - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34196705

Is there anything specific about Twitter here, or is it just the most popular? I don't see why they couldn't do the same on Facebook, Telegram or some other platform.

Not a native English speaker, but my understanding is that the word "equity" is now used specifically to mean "equality of outcome", which is incompatible with giving everyone an equal chance. I found an article[0] explaining the difference:

>Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.

[0] https://onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu/resources/equity-vs-equal...

>what if avoiding death ends up taking exponentially more resources as one gets older, and society becomes a superorganism oriented around keeping a small number of egos alive for as long as possible

What is society oriented around now? While the idea of living under an immortal human god doesn't sound particularly appealing to me, it would probably be better than the present situation (i.e. living under mortal, short-lived human gods with nukes)

The Ancient City - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

If you're interested in what life in ancient Greece / Rome was like. The author does a very good job at not going into too much detail and boring the reader, while still telling you all the important events and changes that took place.

You're right. I wanted to make a point how it's possible to have an objective comparison between life forms, but I judged simple life forms too quickly. I still think there are some obstacles simple life forms won't be able to overcome, but it's not obvious (to me) which of these have a better chance of surviving long term.

I think simpler life forms have no chance of surviving long term. Though now that I think about it, you could say caring about that is anthropocentric too. I don't think it's possible to truly be objective because it would require us to escape our own perspectives, but there should at least be some objective measures for this question. Without that, the question is meaningless. Number of species, average lifetime and average happiness seem sufficiently objective to me.

Given how long it takes for complex life forms to develop, and how other planets known to us don't seem to have any life at all, I think it's reasonable to prefer the existing life to the future potential life, even from a non-anthropocentric perspective.

But how do you use that to cause actual harm? Most websites would ban such content, and I doubt ChatGPT could convince many people to become racist. Other user gave an interesting idea: they could use it to trick you into disliking some group by pretending to be members of that group. For example, spreading the most extreme ideas of that group to make the whole group look a lot more extreme than it is.