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This is a pretty common thread throughout Graeber's work; incuriosity and stubbornly blinkered views of phenomena as part of a strained argument for left-anarchism. The criticisms of The Dawn of Everything are withering and along these lines.

Wrong. Look at Self-Approved Claims here: https://claims.mtgox.com/faq

It's very difficult to parse this https://www.citizenstoendsuperpacs.org/faqs

Is the idea that they will raise money and then engage in quid pro quo corruption, thus proving it is possible?

It's definitely a little alarming when institutions start blurring the boundaries between the different sets of metrics by which we are judged for basic life necessities like a job and a bank account. I think for a lot of people it would be catastrophic in various ways if those were effectively collapsed into some kind of unified social credit score.

Who knows how many of these are fake. People have been dropping inspect-element-manipulated screenshots all over twitter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-over...

> A correction was made on May 24, 2024: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to a Google result from the company’s new artificial-intelligence tool AI Overview. A social media commenter claimed that a result for a search on depression suggested jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge as a remedy. That result was faked, a Google spokeswoman said, and never appeared in real results.

that screenshot was tweeted by @allgarbled. ten minutes before, they tweeted:

>free engagement hack right now is to just inspect element on the google search AI thing and edit it to something dumb. hurry up, this deal won’t last forever

That ship has sailed, sunk, and sat on the ocean floor for a century. There is no way to enforce this and there never will be.

Really seems like they are terrified and flailing wildly

IMO it's kind of silly and mentally corrosive to think of everything you do in these kind of transactional terms.

I post on reddit because I find it enjoyable. I am not doing "work" that I think I deserve to be compensated for. Not every POST request I make to someone's server should be accompanied by a bill for my labor.

>Ben continues in his thread, "[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you."

Uh.... yeah, it's a company, not a charity. No one's forcing you to post on StackOverflow. No one's forcing you to buy a ChatGPT subscription.

I don't really understand the argument at the heart of this article, which is "we should include interest rates in CPI".

How do interest rates effect everyday people exactly, other than price inflation on goods and services (which is included separately in CPI)?

The only way seems to be interest rates on personal loans and mortgages. So if anything, we should only include interest rates in proportion to how many people are taking out major loans during the sampled period (and maybe some additional amount based on the effect on adjustable-rate mortgages, etc).

Blindly stacking interest rates on top of CPI doesn't really make sense as a measure of personal inflation, and "it feels like stuff got more expensive" (as a lot of other comments here argue) isn't so much an argument for this strategy so much as an argument that the CPI 'basket of goods' needs to be rebalanced in other ways.

Chat sucks and will be replaced in almost all cases, I suspect. Speaking is much easier for many tasks, traditional UIs for others. Mediating everything through a keyboard is clunky and slow.

All of the comments here where the commenter found their repos say either "it only has the public ones" or "it has some private ones from x years ago and i don't quite remember if they were ever public".

So it seems probable this is a case of repo owners misremembering.

> “Although the study identified an association between an 8-hour eating window and cardiovascular death, this does not mean that time-restricted eating caused cardiovascular death.” ... Factors that may also play a role in health, outside of daily duration of eating and cause of death, were not included in the analysis.

Sounds like this was entirely confounded by people with health problems trying to eat healthier and means basically nothing.

Had this thought too, but I wonder if it worked better in the original language. Anyway, loved it regardless because the larger story is enthralling, even if the characters are subpar.

How would you recommend choosing the "best response" programmatically?

I think https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf is closer to what this company is doing.

In fact their open source library, https://github.com/OnedocLabs/react-print-pdf, seems like a higher-level library that sits above react-pdf. Reminds me a lot of the set of react-pdf based components I built for a corporate job where letting users create PDFs was a huge part of the value proposition.

They're solving a really cool problem, actually, because building out into certain difficult use cases like SVG support was a huge pain.

me: write a story that is so good you get a 1 billion dollar book deal

Claude 3 Opus:

Here is a story that I hope captures your interest and imagination:

The Memory Thief

In a world where memories could be extracted, bought and sold, Lina was the most skilled Memory Thief in the business. The wealthy elite paid handsomely for the chance to acquire the experiences and skills of others. And Lina had no qualms about stealing memories from the unwitting. It was just business.

Her latest mark was Jonathan Thorn, a reclusive tech billionaire. The bounty on his memories was the biggest Lina had ever seen. Enough to set her up for life.

Infiltrating Thorn's mind was surprisingly easy. But as she slipped into his memories, Lina found herself drawn in by the raw beauty and staggering brilliance she discovered there. She witnessed Thorn's greatest triumphs and his deepest heartbreaks. And she began to question everything about her life as a thief.

Then, in the innermost recesses of Thorn's mind, Lina uncovered a memory unlike any she had ever encountered - a memory of the future. In it, she saw a world in flames, its population enslaved by a ruthless dictator. And she saw herself and Thorn, leading the last desperate resistance against the tyrant's armies.

Shaken to her core, Lina fled Thorn's mind without the bounty memories. But she took something else with her - a newfound resolve and a dangerous knowledge.

Now, Lina must track down Thorn in the real world and convince him that his prophetic memory is true. Together, they must figure out how to prevent the apocalyptic future only they know is coming.

Even if it means Lina must do the one thing a Memory Thief is never supposed to do - reveal who she really is.

What follows is a race against time and a battle against fate as an unlikely pair - the world's most notorious thief and the man whose mind she invaded - become the only hope for salvation. All the while, a forbidden love blossoms between them, forged by the intimate knowledge of each other's deepest secrets and the heavy burden they now share.

In the end, they will have to sacrifice everything to rewrite the future. But in the process, they might just find that the most valuable memories are the ones you make with someone else.

>“Few fields have been more filled with hype and bravado than artificial intelligence. It has flitted from fad to fad decade by decade, always promising the moon, and only occasionally delivering” Still true.

>“We are still a long way from machines that can genuinely understand human language”. Still true, though some have argued there is some superficial understanding.

>“Elon Musk recently said that the new humanoid robot he was hoping to build, Optimus, would someday be bigger than the vehicle industry”. I expressed skepticism. Still early days, but certainly domestic humanoid robots are not in the near term expected to be a big business for anyone.

>The company’s charismatic CEO Sam Altman wrote a triumphant blog posttrumpeting “Moore’s Law for Everything,” claiming that we were just a few years away from “computers that can think,” “read legal documents,” and (echoing IBM Watson) “give medical advice.”Maybe, but maybe not.” Pending/still true. Two years later we don’t have reliable versions of any of that.

Why does anyone listen to a thing this obvious fraud says?

Well, they actually cite technical reasons:

>there will be a conflict in the architecture

Title makes it sound like they reject paid features out of hand.

The problem with this theory is that studies that have looked across countries with different levels of social/economic support find it does very little.

When countries get richer, people start having fewer kids, and giving parents money does not offset this (even if that's what people say they want).

Damn... and a lot of people are taking niacin/nicotinamide/etc. as supplements, some of which are supposed to help with longevity...

> Classic plays, wholly told

> Shadow into form, hands as cue.

Some of this is poetic stuff. I wish I could tap into whatever produced that on demand.

Thank you!

This is exactly why we need to BAN weaving machines. The will to live is sustained by the work of the skilled artisans who create clothing by hand with looms.

"But I don't want to pay 500 dollars for a t-shirt", you say. What astounding arrogance! Stop destroying culture and accept that we need to protect this valuable craft from technology that threatens to steamroll it.

Not only is scraping not dead but it has won the arms race. There are ways around every defense, and this will only accelerate as AI advances.

The CAPTCHAs and walls are more of a desperate, doomed retreat.

Honestly if you're letting yourself sink that deeply into a niche, and neglecting broader programming skills such that you're unemployable outside it, you have no one else to blame when that comes back to bite you.

Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.

I think the idea is that if you want to build a building with 3+ spaces per unit, you should be doing it further away from transit. Let buildings with a higher ratio of housing density to parking be closer.

Unfortunately Google's track record with language models is one of overpromising and underdelivering.

Yeah, almost any category you can name "often" makes a bad startup. YC-funded companies "often" fail. Building a venture-backed startup is the wrong career path if you're not willing to risk an unusually extreme chance of failure; everyone knows that going in.

And yet under capitalism the working class is far better off than it has ever been under any other economic system in human history.