profsummergig

Did you take it to Tonga with you?

AI has them badly shook.

I have the Gemini Pro subscription. The quality of its outputs are sometimes below those from the free version of Grok.

Hope they catch-up.

There's the town of Hot Springs.

They've commercialized the heck out of it. All the streams on public land have been dynamited (or so I was told), and there's the commercial facility that charges around $20 for a soak. That's South Dakota for you.

Someone recently fined Facebook $17 Billion. It was on the front page of NYT for 6 days (like as if it was a huge "get").

About 1% of FB's market cap. And their sins get washed away.

Everybody wins.

At this rate, fining tech-cos will be a major source of revenue for governments. Everybody wins.

So many misconceptions in this writeup.

Here's one: even if it were genetic, there could be triggering environmental factors that trigger the onset of autism (I'm just giving a hypothetical example, not making a claim here).

It says to read the complete history. Would that be analogous to reading all of one's chat threads, or just the history of the relevant chat thread that it's a part of?

I like seeing Serif fonts on the screen for some reason.

Public posts on the internet are acceptable (to me).

For my (private) prompts, I need a warning telling me they may be used for training.

There is no fine-print (let alone a loud banner) on the chat thread page that tells me my prompts can be used for training.

Only after reading this post did I learn that my preferred AI trains on my inputs (prompts).

How was I not aware of this before?

can this clue be circumvented by using magnets oriented in a certain way around the workshop while constructing the pottery?

I love this. We need more whimsy. Unfortunately, refinement culture is taking over. Even the new McDonald's design is "private equity" refined.

this was in response to: "can I release the results?"

Should've asked Fable.

You are not wrong.

I wonder how it manages to find the middle ground in controversial topics. My own extreme views have become somewhat moderated thanks to reading AI-LLM opinions and reasonings on the topics.

This is where the Gemini "ask about this page" button on Chrome comes handy.

It was about 1 meter long (as another commenter pointed out) and lived around 400 million years ago.

Because mom is not around, so now he can go where he wants? You must believe that people in society follow all the expectations? Especially children?

are these the same workers who pluck vegetables while they're being sprayed with pesticides and herbicides?

They are also the cream of the crop from their respective nations. Diplomats and bankers.

^^^ This is exactly what I meant.

People and groups with unlimited grievances (and, unfortunately, associated revenge fantasies).

Switzerland has less of this. So you can send your 5-year old for a long walk alone, knowing that your neighbors will be looking out.

(PP: even the word "rural" is seen as a dog-whistle, e.g. by the NYTimes.)

Listen: I'm a visible minority where I'm a citizen of, myself. I'm not shilling for racial homogeneity or totalitarian philosophy at all. I'm just sharing my lived experience that when there are lots of groups with lots of grievances against each other, there's less ambient, latent trust.

She was always with him when he did that. Not the same as him doing it alone.

Regardless, there are local laws against this.

It's a high trust homogenous society without lots of different groups with all kinds of grievances about the past, present and the future. And it's probably rural, where everyone knows each other.

When I read the headline, I sided with the mother. But a five-year old having to cross four roads in total to and from (with vehicles going up 25 mph legally, and who knows how fast illegally) is a bit much.

Correct. I implied nothing about visualizing. I was talking about (information) capacity.

The human mind cannot comprehend the capacity of massively multidimensional space.

Just going from 2D to 3D creates massive new positional potential (e.g. surface of the earth, vs. the atmosphere above earth...).

Now imagine 1,000 dimensions.

After recognition of common humanity?

A correction: I meant to write that India had "private" companies making planes before and during WW2. They were nationalized by Nehru into a government owned plane manufacturing entity. This entity is currently struggling to build a plane, Tejas, that was conceived of in 1983. The plane is not yet in volume production, and has one of the highest rates of crashes of any production plane in the world.

While on the subject of alternative colonialism:

This is very controversial among Indians, but there are many among Indians who wish the British never left. The major builder of modern Delhi was a person named Sobha Singh. His son, Khushwant Singh, was a major writer/journalist in post-Independence India. The son has written a book about how when the British were in control, his father would sometimes gift fruit baskets to the British managers/bureaucrats (of the Delhi-building project), and they would accept the gifts, but they never asked for bribes (or fruit baskets). After the British left, and Indians (government bureaucrats/civil servants) took over the project, his father had to always pay them bribes to get movement on projects.

India had airplane factories (multiple) before and during WW2. They were all shut down after Nehru's nationalization of industries project. It took almost another hundred years until India made planes again (I use the word "made" loosely... they mostly assemble...).

Places like Hispaniola (Haiti/DR), Philippines, Cuba would be far, far ahead of where they are today if a benevolent USA still had them in her territories (of course, the "benevolent" is important here, it shouldn't be a vindictive, extractive power).

So does it therefore reduce stress? Anyone?

I forgot to mention another reason earlier: Rape. European colonial powers were also all over the world so that their men could have easy access to rape without consequences. (Read up, e.g., Columbus' diaries.)

However:

The European colonial powers were not all over the world to enforce "European cultural values". They were there to extract minerals, lumber, labor, and agricultural produce for as little a price they could pay.