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Much ago about nothing. I find the whole premise ridiculous: to protect against "catastrophic risks posed by increasingly powerful models".

I mean what kind of a catastrophe are we talking about? Nuclear holocaust? The end of humanity?

(Famous last words...)

Being a bit of an asperger’s case, I have developed over the years a practice of listening to people talk and at the same time try to process in my head the mood of the speaker, because sometimes I'm not able to do it instinctively. I am getting better with practice though.

Sometimes I respond to my interlocutor by naming the emotion they're expressing, not necessarily directly ("oh you're angry!?") but rather stuff like "oh it must be infuriating what happened!"

I find people do respond positively to that, and that it opens a deeper connection.

There's the practice of Non Violent Communication [1], which has inspired me, though I'm not a zealous follower of the technique. It can seem condescending at the hands of the wrong person.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

Edit: to me this is not about validation. It's about being more attuned to what the other person's going through. It's about empathy and compassion.

They are also quite a bit more pampered and "protected" from the outside world, which arguably makes them spoiled and anxious.

There's a similar idea about energy transitions: ostensibly human kind has transitioned from wood to coal to petrol to nuclear etc. Given time we'll have transitioned to renewables for all our energy needs...

In fact what happened is those energy sources kept being piled on top of one another. Today we consume more wood coal and fossils than ever before. [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...

I think the name of this Ruby feature is unfortunate, as it doesn't really communicate what it's about, and promises something it can't really deliver.

Using ractors as actors in the Erlang genserver sense is not really feasible. They're too heavy, you're not going to start up thousands of them.

Ractors are an interesting feature, with maybe some specific applications related to data processing, but they're still highly experimental and have yet to be understood and embraced by the Ruby community.

It's an antisocial car. It basically screams FU.

Hilarious!

I for one welcome our new overlords, they're gonna make our lives so much better at some point we're gonna have to ask them to stop winning!

/s

This was always a war between the US and Russia. I guess now the picture is clearer.

Chickens are really smart and curious animals. They can also learn from each other new behaviour, like eating unfamiliar food, or hunting for small animals (the cries of joy from our cock once he finally got a frog!!!) They also have really marked personalities, once you spend some time with them.

> every time is paying far more to have the same work done

Some predictions:

- The 2025 US budget will increase compared to 2024. - The 2025 US budget deficit will increase compared to 2024. - At the end of 2025 the US national debt will have increased compared to 1/1/25.

I believe at this point it would not be inappropriate to say that any sufficiently advanced AI system is indistinguishable from bullshit, in the sense that bullshit is "speech intended to persuade without regard for truth" [1].

On a moral level, watching how tech bros are sucking it up to Trump/Musk and how their companies are betting all their chips on the AI roulette, it all seems related.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

Yes it's about time western democracies boycott SA for its racist policies. Finally, a brave leader who's not afraid to stand against the persecution of white people.

How exactly has he destroyed Twitter? It still exists doesn't it? (Disclaimer: I'm not an Elon fanboy.)

Amending with biochar is a very good way to jump start the soil life, but regenerative agriculture should go much further than that. There's a bunch of techniques developed in the last few decades, notably permaculture and syntropic agroforestry, as well as techniques for preventing erosion in difficult topography such as keyline planting and scales.

But for the soil to be really alive, lots of plants must be planted, in a polyculture context. It's the photosynthesis that feeds the soil's fauna, which then support the plants, increase fertility and carbon content.

Is it just me or is the quality of politicians on a downward spiral? Between retirement-age out-of-touch boomers, clueless good-looking male liberals and corrupt authoritarian plutocrats, it sure feels like there's a shortage of honest hard-working people in leadership positions.

I mean it is kinda obvious that the system in western democracies is structurally flawed such that there's a selection bias for crooks and incompetent assholes (lobbying, i.e. legalized bribery), but still, how come the bad guys always seem to win? Or is this just a symptom of a deeper malady of modern society?

Locking the UI while doing a lengthy operation is hardly an acceptable solution. A better solution would be to indicate to the user an async operation is in progress, and optionally provide a button for canceling the operation.

The proper question to ask is why is AI employed to edit articles when there's already a team of professional editors in place?