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bgilroy26··on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)
>I bet if you knew your house would burn down if you didn't do "normal" things you would have done them no problem

Getting yourself to do things in a boring situation that you might only do in an exciting situation is a big challenge in ADHD management

If everything was a "house on fire" level emergency, many ADHDers would get more done but would eventually collapse from running around on adrenaline for days

These problems are not easily solved

bgilroy26··on DeepSeek-v3.1
Thank you!
bgilroy26··on DeepSeek-v3.1
I should have said, I am looking for posted chat logs where the prompts are shared as well. I really enjoy the process of making stories with AI and I am curious to see how others do the same thing.
bgilroy26··on DeepSeek-v3.1
Where would you go to find people posting their AI generated fiction? I haven't been able to find it on Reddit
bgilroy26··on Seeking AI chat-driven fiction community
Silly stories like these

https://g.co/gemini/share/34111d74b6dc

I am looking for a forum online like fan fiction has.

bgilroy26··on Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion
Art is fashion. It's something someone makes on purpose.
bgilroy26··on Human
I listen to Advaita Vedanta lectures sometimes when I fall asleep and they discuss these topics

Like this one:

https://youtu.be/mvfv_OK-TgI

bgilroy26··on Designing Cities for Families
This sort of social media commentary about immigrant rape was salacious in 2016 but no longer has the same bite

https://youtu.be/r9qiCN7CcB8?si=7-3uMLKsB00hHep8

bgilroy26··on Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
The term of the contracts were longer than 1 year
bgilroy26··on The Burnout Machine
That makes sense. Treasury and Cash Management have been business functions forever.

The novelty of software engineering from an employee risk standpoint from my perspective was its control over product but in an insurance company, funds are the product too.

bgilroy26··on 'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting
The Art of the Steal was made in the middle of the controversy. They ended up moving everything to the city after all and it is alive and well

https://www.barnesfoundation.org/

bgilroy26··on The Burnout Machine
If factory workers could delete the processes and equipment they work on with the press of a button, they would be bought off too

Paying tech workers high wages reflects the need for them to side with capital when it comes to protecting assets

I had an Ask HN last weekend that did not get any responses but I would still love to learn what governance prevents workers from deleting key software products and their backups because I can't believe boards of directors are not responsible to guarantee product continuity to shareholders

bgilroy26··on Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure
They had put a committee together in case Harris won.

They lost

The committee dumps their report and disbands

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Trump's 1776 commission for redesigning history education released their report days before Biden's inauguration. They published by linking a PDF to the White House website and days later it was gone. Dust in the wind.

bgilroy26··on The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)
The quality of reddit's data is different from other data I encounter online.

It represents information more closely related to people's lives. People share information there that is closely related to the topic of the subreddit. This may not always be the case, but even though I spend much, much less time on reddit than I did in 2011, many, many people are contributing to this day.

That spigot of connection to the real world through text sounds valuable to AI based on TFA. I feel the oil analogy would be about the quality and the ease of extraction of the stake

bgilroy26··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
I think different senses of responsibility are under discussion

The parent comment I believe was saying that we do not orchestrate other people's emotions and you are saying that we do impact other people's emotions and both can be true

bgilroy26··on Many people don't pay full price, most don't want to pay at all for news
Is this what https://ground.news/ is trying to be? I keep getting advertised the service on Sean Munger’s YouTube channel
bgilroy26··on Many people don't pay full price, most don't want to pay at all for news
The papers should offer their own card
bgilroy26··on What Is the Point of Decidability
I found this blog post helpful in trying to understand all of this

https://www.digitalonus.com/the-origins-of-functional-progra...

bgilroy26··on How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success
Location to location quality is variable. I am very much a big tent, easy-to-please person when it comes to food and the nearest Cheesecake Factory to me has been a big letdown
bgilroy26··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
It's a koan
bgilroy26··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
His chicken ballotine is a great video
bgilroy26··on How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on AGI
That might be like a chat with itself, it seems trivial to me, implementation wise and it seems nigh impossible ethics wise

If I were Timnit Gebru and I saw that Google was trying to implement reflection in an AI when i felt the ethics engineering hadn’t caught up to the software engineering, I might quit

bgilroy26··on My bad habit of hoarding information
A significant resource for the concept of curiositas is the virtues section of the Summa Theologica

https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3167.htm

For those new to the Summa, generally speaking, it is good to read an article starting with the On the Contrary and the I Answer That, and then proceed on to the Objections and Replies

bgilroy26··on We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)
I'm only commenting because by coincidence, I wrote a similar google search yesterday

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The first page of results for

"dan dill entropy site:bu.edu"

Yields

https://www.bu.edu/genchem/ch131-summer-1-2021/notes/SecondL...

bgilroy26··on Woodworking through the mind of an engineer
In 2008 or 9, I was an underdiagnosed college student with intersecting mental health challenges who had trouble getting out of his room

Something about the geometric java games where you would click your mouse very precisely made them a great primary intermediate step activity-wise to building the self-esteem I needed to get out of my room and get help. I will always be very grateful.

bgilroy26··on I have 218 browser tabs open
You're probably more of a project finisher than a project starter

Many of my open tabs are write-ups of topics that I hope to learn about some day, but I have not returned to in years since opening (cumulatively 1000+)

bgilroy26··on TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants
Recent Verso author interview along similar lines, a little anti-business for my tastes, but be that as it may

https://youtu.be/g0euZ9iGGqI

bgilroy26··on Want to start hacking?
I periodically get nefarious Google Drive invitations to collaborate from stolen .edu addresses, so I hope you all are successful!
bgilroy26··on Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
Cow's milk in the United States seems to be an exception to this
bgilroy26··on I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
Have you ever read the book of Ecclesiastes?
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