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They used to be real friends. At this point, if you only know someone online, they might not even be a someone let alone a friend.

There is absolutely no chance I would allow a 5 year extended exposure to an LLM.

The sad thing is it happens in real life too. You'll talk to people and it's like 25% of their brain has been taken over by a parasite that replicates itself by amplifying their tribe's Talking Point of The Day. You have to just wait for them to get it out and then you can talk to the real person again.

If the job does not require a person to be able to fizzbuzz, it probably doesn't require a person at all.

One thing that would help, and that I don't see addressed here is "avoid taking public positions on divisive issues that are not absolutely clear and directly linked to your area of expertise."

Avoid politics like Codex avoids goblins.

I have only seen "go do X" result in CC adding "TODO: X" to the working file on one occasion. When it happened, I noticed that the file contained a very similar todo for a similar action already. My guess is that because the agent had the whole file in context, that influenced it to produce output similar to what was already there.

I wonder if it has to do with how often TODOs appear in the existing code.

If you value art as communication with another human soul, then it matters whether a human was involved.

"Who cares if that 'I love you' voicemail is really from your mother. As long as it sounds like your mother, it should give you the same warm feeling."

'When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."'

I'll take this over "I love you too!" What kind of person is giving an AI toy to a toddler?

I think belief in the rapture is pretty rare among denominations that practice infant baptism.

They should bear in mind that someone they consider an authoritarian will inevitably be elected.

Because people prefer their objects to lose value more slowly?

Not sure why this would be hard to understand.

I don't think any of these are ambiguous. My point is that sometimes right wingers take the nonsense position and sometimes left wingers take the nonsense position. Neither side reliably follows the evidence or "believes the science" so glib lines like "reality has a liberal bias" are shallow and silly.

I guess it depends

Is climate change driven by human activity? Do males have a natural advantage in sports? Do vaccines cause autism? Does rent control make housing more available?

The major political tribes are full of BS, because politics mostly isn't driven by disagreements about facts but by conflicting material interests. Partisans believe whats convenient.

No. Because it's inappropriate to treat adults like children.

Yes, that's true. For most of human history we feared starvation, not bankruptcy.

The actual numbers are surprising though. 1. Most of the decrease in the middle class was driven by MC people moving to the upper class So 2. The ratio of lower class to upper class is actually lower than in the 70s.

Sure. The poorest people in the world are as poor as always (starving), while the richest people are richer than our ancestors could have imagined.

It's popular with middle class suburban families. So, snobs (who don't realize that's what they are) like to sneer at it to demonstrate their sophistication.

Can data be reviewed retroactively to track someone that wasn't a suspect at the time the image was captured. E.g., "we now suspect john doe was involved in a series pf bank robberies. Tell me everywhere his car allowed up in the last 30 days."

Call me old fashioned, but I think the constant monitoring of citizen's movements is bad even (especially?) when the state does it. If we're going to live in 1984, the involvement of corporations seems like the least of our troubles.

Good on you though, for actually going after this information and sharing it with your community. People absolutely have the right to know if they're being subjected to this.

But they would also decrease the utility of the cars.

You probably spent a lot more time on the details of TX history than they did in Mass

I don't know that it's relevant in this case, but I think sugar is often added to make packaged food last longer.

Actually, on reflection, I also spent a lot of time at the local tabletop gaming store, a "third space" that seems to be gone now.

How I spent my suburban middle school years

- walking around

- hanging out at friends' houses. (Video games and tv)

- going to the movies

- lots and lots of books

May not be the most exciting life, but all the prereqs still exist.

Do you think it used to be more populist?

Women in the past did not spend virtually all their time caregiving. That isn't even an option until a society has reached a high level of affluence and ease.

What does the state owe in exchange for banning murder?

(I imagine the answer might be "protection from non-state violence." But then by analogy what they owe you in exchange for banning public defecation isn't public toilets, but an environment where there isn't shit laying around in public.)

So does that mean that a woman with uterus didelphys is no more likely than any other woman to release two eggs during ovulation?