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I do not think so. We can hold these people accountable otherwise, there are laws for that already.

Ban it on which grounds?

I have never in my life placed a sport bet, nor a polymarket bet. It strikes me as one of the dumbest things to do with your money and time.

But a lot of people seem to genuinely enjoy it. Gambling is part of human heritage. Regulate? Sure! Ban? I don't understand why

It's the same administration that stated that they sent a hospital ship to a country with public healthcare to take care of the sick people there.

Boy, I will miss this administration for their sense of humor and ingenuity. They always find something new. A firework of performance art.

If I understand gp correctly, the web of trust comes after finding these human nodes, and will not help you in the process.

Also worth reading, Donald Kagan's [1] "The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone" [2] that sets the context of this context. TL;DR Stone's story is not very strong.

[1] eminent historian of ancient Greece, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kagan

[2] https://www.commentary.org/articles/donald-kagan/the-trial-o...

How did you make that happen?

I use swipe keyboard in iPhone. I turned off all "autocorrect" features they offer.

Still their random generator keeps replacing perfectly fine words _and the words before them_ with random crap that makes no sense.

Heck, I even turned off all features, and still it happens.

So I switched to another keyboard from appstore.

I would switch to another OS, but I find the others even worse in some respects I care for deeply.

Bob Smeenk helped me personally a lot. But I guess it depends a lot on your background, experience and goals.

I hear you. At 49 I also discovered an extra octave up there above the high e. Also baritone. The YouTube singiverse did it for me

This post made my day. Beautiful.

This is a very nice idea! https://stefankober.github.io/ Mostly small essays on my original area of study: philosophy.

I switched 25 years ago.

Still, every computer I buy comes with Microsoft tax and their OS preinstalled. In all these years I always left a small Windows partition, in case I need it. Never booted it.

I had the same impression. Whatever it is about, it is not about

> Why The Great Gatsby is the world's most misunderstood novel

The first thought I had when reading the headline was: by what measure?

I wanted to give the benefit of doubt, but there is not even an attempt to answer the question set out at the beginning.

Instead, like you say, somewhat of an advertisment for later derivations with no clear idea of where to go.

For me underwhelming.

> Removing CO2 from the air is a pipe dream for several obvious reasons.

For me at least both your arguments are not obvious.

There are a lot of things that are harder to put in the atmosphere than to remove them. Stones for example.

The second one is less of an argument, but rather a question. Why not the UN, the US, China, or Europe?

The original opiate for the people criticism was leveled against religion by Karl Marx:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

I enjoyed this article and think it's good advice, and I also think that the punchline (title + last sentence) is wrong. Not that it makes a big difference, I just treasure texts more that I feel the author thought through to the last detail.

If you don't design your career, in most cases I guess no one will. In the comments are good examples, like the random walk of the drunken sailor. The cases in which you could use the phrase "someone else designed it for me" in a meaningful way seem rather rare to me.

Stock buying as a political or ethical statement is not much of a thing. For one the stocks will still be bought by persons with less strung opinions, and secondly it does not lend itself well to virtue signaling.

I had exactly the same impression.

I gave the author a bit more benefit, made it through the part where he describes how some guys impressed him by talking in a way that sounded smart, straight to the interjection that many people subscribed to his whatever in the last years.

Then finally I was convinced enough that this did not sound in any way like what I think intelligently articulated communication sounds, and I also gave up.

As is the sample in this article. You will surely find as many physicists saying earth is flat, mathematicians who hold that Cantor was wrong, and medical doctors that tell you vaccination against measles is overall worse than not.

I have also a hard time understanding how AGI will magically appear.

LLMs have their name for a reason: they model human language (output given an input) from human text (and other artifacts).

And now the idea seems to be that when we do more of it, or make it even larger, it will stop to be a model of human language generation? Or that human language generation is all there is to AGI?

I wish someone could explain the claim to me...

The text we are discussing says: "It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN." That's what I was discussing. Not sure where AG and vpn providers come in.

I do have a bit of experience with managing WAFs for large online gaming providers and I can tell you it's not a solved problem. Netflix would also love to hear how I guess.

Even if you somehow manage to enumerate the Nordvpn IPs - a thing of which Nordvpn probably thought in their threat model - then you still have thousands of other providers.

After Wisconsin finds out how to reliably filter vpn, they can then teach Netflix and Akamai how to do it.

Last time I checked modestly reliable geoblocking existed, and completely unreliable vpn blocking.

A friend told me that when he comes across a site for which Nordvpn is blocked, he just changes IP. Latest the third one always works, even on YouTube (he is all about privacy).

I like your stance.

We also have to remember that we have collectively decided to use Windows and AD, QA tested software etc (some examples) over correct software, hardened by default settings etc.

But why would we care what Nietzsche would think and for whom he wrote?

That idea seems to rest on a very narrow and philosophically contested understanding of the nature of the work of an author.

Eco, to take one of the more uncontroversial figures in tradition, holds that you can understand an author better than he himself did.

Nietzsche himself also had interesting views of authorship and interpretation.

Same here: reset on first beach (ROFB), but on subsequent ones only if it is no collection, eg a new infostealer breach.

I'm with you on this.

But asked for reasons I can only point to the social nature of their societies, where love and anger make sense, or of their hurt-behavior.

I also find it very hard to believe that everything else is slow evolution of components, and here all of a sudden something super complex comes into being out of nowhere.

But I still have no idea how it could work. What are the components and their interplay?

Can you tell me how you understand that?

Because I sincerely do not. I have frankly no idea how sentience arises from non sentience. But it's a topic that really interests me.

Related: the mnemonic major system. Similar thing with consonants [1], somewhat time tested.

But probably not for aphantasts, at least I struggled. Much more with memory palaces.

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

Yes, that. Same here.

I still remember (semantically) that my parents laughed at me, when they told me to count sheep to fall asleep and I told them all I can see is darkness and white dots when I close my eyes. They probably thought I was joking.