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No, thanks. Depending on the type of information being transferred and just how uncertain the recipient's knowledge is, I may or may not need to add some amount of information to whatever I have to share. That information would be extra context you may need to have, on top of what new thing I am trying to explain. If I know I'm talking with someone who's all caught up, great, no need for context setting. Though even in those cases, there might be some terminology I want to define, or to provide a list of acronyms or whatever. That is boilerplate work, but is at least useful, if not needed. I know people tend to view this sort of comms as "technical" - they shouldn't be. So much misunderstanding happens because people are just not aligned on their shared context or medium. Of course, AI is not fully reliable to generate that context, you as a writer need to put in the work to review and align the result with your own understanding, or drive it thoroughly before.

All that being said, I acknowledge that people (me included) love to be sloppy in their comms (with or without AI) and then blame others for misunderstanding. It's also unlikely we'll change soon. What can you do.

Demis Hassabis [1], co-founder of DeepMind

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

... the page never argues that AI is bad or not useful broadly. Not sure if this getting commented again and again is because people are just that bad at understanding that context matters. Not everything has to be evil / slop or pure / virtuous, regardless of context.

You write your reply and ask the AI to fix the spelling / grammar for you. It's really not the same thing

> This is a crazy thing to notice after having been alive so many years — that your existence itself is so much to bear.

Alternative interpretation: my existence is not about sitting there, getting mouldy on the sofa. It never crosses my mind that I should feel unrest because I can't / don't want to just sit there and do nothing, nor does it feel like a revelation to think about it. Maybe it also says something about you if this is something you worry about on some deep level.

Because we have a limited amount of time and energy and other things might be more valuable to us. tbh, even this list kind of leans toward improving other measures as a means of increasing happiness. You could just write the article as "things to improve in your life", and then at the end go "oh yeah, and you'll probably be a bit happier too".

I found paxys' comment fun, so you're right!

Building a small cloud service that I've been thinking of for a while, to take the articles I don't have time to read but find interesting in principle, and convert them to audio via TTS. Just filled a short flight with some articles from the backlog, now I need to do some UI improvements, and then maybe a similar flow for academic papers too. :)

There is arguing, and then there is arguing. The whole post discusses whether to argue or not, without touching on the fairly important (imho) topic of how to argue and how not to argue.

Vast majority of people probably hate to argue with someone who's a jerk during said argument, regardless of their correctness.

I've also found myself arguing against someone whose point I actually support, but who is arguing in a non-sensical way, or with bad arguments for said point. Because I don't want that point to be dragged down by easy-to-defeat arguments, even if I then have to fight both sides.

But anyway: how you argue matters, put some effort into it, and don't assume that being right means you're doing a good job.

They'd have you know they actually cared a bit too much about said compliance itself.

Quite enlightening, I propose one of us writes a novel about it, about how Napoleon just precipitated what was already there, enabled of course by those around him. It should show the impact it had on everyone involved. Oh, and let's make it from a Russian perspective, showing a few intertwined families and the hardship the wars brings to them. Sounds like a great read! Oh, yeah, and make it like 1000 pages long.

I mostly stopped daydreaming at some point in my 20s too, after a fairly intense daydreaming life until then. Oh, and no kids yet :) so it could just be "life"

An ambiguous metric that's been (ab)used quite a lot by human fundamentalists to try to draw a line between what we can do and what machines can do, in order to feel better about themselves.

Or were you looking for a different definition?

I took the "because of course" to be about having a word for everything - a stereotypical idea about the German language.

Let me rephrase that for you: red is for people who live in this world and accept it, blue is for people with white knight syndrome.

OR. Red is for people who understand statistics, blue is for people who like to gamble.

Yes, I'm sure milk is all people steal. And I'm sure it's better for it to be stolen than given to food banks and charities.

F off

> plus, if you see somebody stealing food, no, you didn't

Don't tell me, in your view the cost of shoplifting is begrudgingly covered by those evil rich people who own everything, right? It's not passed down to customers, and therefore affects those who obey rules, and especially those who are in a precarious financial situation to begin with, right?

> I just don't find these arguments convincing after watching my friend spend cumulative hours upon hours jumping between pirate streaming services trying to find a stable feed for every game.

Then you haven't been through enough cycles of subscribing to a service, using it for a while, then wanting to cancel and realising that the only way to do so is through some baroque direct interaction with someone whose job it is to stop you from doing so, instead of it just being a single "cancel" button. I still pay for things, but I 100% understand why some are unwilling to have to both pay, and then put in the same amount of effort they'd put otherwise, just to stop paying.

Not to mention the bundling. For example, if I only want to watch climbing competitions in the UK, the only legal way is through a £34 per month subscription to a service that offers every sport under the sun. Even though climbing-wise you might have 4 events that month (sometimes fewer). So yeah, f whoever devised the model :)

> Now that you can just pay 10-20 euro for a streaming service

Now that you can just pay 10-20 euros for each of 124293507239841524352 services, one of which _might_ show what you want...

Fixed it for you.

> It's just a box of numbers, really cool numbers, with really cool math, that can do really cool things, but still just numbers.

https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.s...

Neither, they're worried about bad rep.

> The fact is Europe hasn't offered America much of anything other than a vacation spot over the last 100 years. And there's the cookie banners too.

https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si=XCJWAtcZ0t633oLE

I mean, his name is Les Earnest, they should expect it.

Well in this case this is what you would've needed. Either you ignored that when you replied, or you didn't care.

We took that train, realised when we got to the other end of the line that we hadn't gotten where we expected, then turned back to the place where it separates. Waited for the next advertised train to airport (it's signalled on the electronic board as two separate entries; yes, it says "board whatever carriages for airport, and the rest for ...", or at least I assume it did, as it was in German of course; but again, it literally shows up as two different trains). Train arrives, stays there for a while (it's a big train, so the part in front of us didn't move so we didn't realise it had already separated), then after like 5-6 minutes it leaves. Only as it starts moving I notice that a small electronic board on the side of the carriage said "airport". The notice board then changes and obviously "both" trains disappear.

We were so lucky that we'd decided to go to the airport much earlier than we needed.

And don't get me started on the ticketing machines not accepting Visa, Mastercard, or Amex at the central station in Munchen. Or the web ticketing interface which was at least as annoying as the train to use.

Not only unpopular, but pretty daft too. If you think the basics of a language should include "this train will separate into two at station X, please sit in the front Y carriages to get to Z" then enjoy doing a cross-Europe trip.

Nu sunt englez, așa cã n-o sã-ți rãspund în englezã.

"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome"

Not very "technically accurate", since it does not represent (at least some?) vassal states differently from their suzerain. For example, compare this [1] map of the Ottoman Empire with the one in this atlas.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/OttomanE...

I do something similar. If I'm not anxious but awake, I try to just visualise random stuff, random worlds. Somehow my brain is decent at that and I slowly drift off, though I sometimes get a jolt from reality. Recently I found that when I'm anxious it's better to try and imagine doing a hobby. I just imagine myself trail running. Reduces anxiety, pushes me towards sleep.