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www.breitbart.com 1y ago

Trump's EEOC Chief Threatens Civil Rights Lawsuits Amid H-1B Hiring

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www.palladiummag.com 1y ago

Complex Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis

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www.gurwinder.blog 1y ago

TikTok is a Time Bomb – The ultimate weapon of mass distraction

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research.gavekal.com 1y ago

Prejudice and China

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www.siliconvalley.com 1y ago

Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees

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twitter.com 1y ago

Driverless taxi vs. inner city thugs

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twitter.com 1y ago

Hans Holbein's "The Ambassadors" – one of history's most analyzed paintings

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fortune.com 1y ago

Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack

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fortune.com 1y ago

Bosses ordering workers back to the office are 'the dinosaurs of our age'

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www.pnas.org 1y ago

CS students in the US substantially outperform those in China, India, and Russia

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twitter.com 1y ago

Europeans fail to understand how much they were fucked by the 2008 crisis

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www.broeschlab.ca 1y ago

Cultural Variations in Children's Mirror Self-Recognition [pdf]

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www.zest.science 1y ago

Ozempic for Longevity?

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www.vim-hero.com 1y ago

VimHero teaches you how to use Vim with interactive challenges and games

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im1776.com 2y ago

LANA

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pluralistic.net 2y ago

Spotify and the big three labels collude to rip off artists

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instituteforsoundpublicpolicy.org 2y ago

Stem Degrees Not Worth Effort, Expense

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

How to Get Rich and Why the Only Way Is to Have Rich Parents [video]

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www.anarchonomicon.com 2y ago

India: The Worst Country on Earth (2024) – 4Chan's First AI Feature Film

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www.nature.com 2y ago

Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior (2023)

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www.koreaherald.com 2y ago

Will Cambridge support free speech? - Peter Singer on expelled Dr Cofnas

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isaacyoung.substack.com 2y ago

In the Grim Darkness of 2024, There Is Only War

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scottlocklin.wordpress.com 2y ago

Against the Nerds

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nypost.com 2y ago

Seattle shuts down gifted program for having too many white and Asian students

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nationalpost.com 2y ago

Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are

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the-decoder.com 2y ago

BitNet b1.58: The future of chatbots could be 1 bit

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unixsheikh.com 2y ago

Do you feel overwhelmed trying to stay up to date with the latest tech news?

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

The Canadian Dream is Dead [video]

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

The Early Days of Id Software: Programming Principles [video]

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unherd.com 2y ago

The West and China share the same fate – Our destiny is a total techno-state

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People abuse the flagging functionality by flagging submissions that go against their ideology or prejudice. I think it’s part of the current suppress/censor/ban/deplatform/demonetize/unperson zeitgeist.

I’m just using the same language as the Post on X. American hyper sensitivity to certain words is not universal. The point is that driverless taxi companies will eventually have to face reality outside of the relatively safe areas where they currently opeate.

There seems to be an extreme obsession with blocking, banning, censoring, demonetizing, deplatforming, firing, unbanking, un-personing. And this is from people whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life. This is not healthy.

Not to mention huge benefits to the environment, reduced pollution, less traffic congestion leading to increased societal efficiency overall. And we can go on and on.

But it’s obvious corps only like to virtue signal about such things while in reality not caring one iota about them.

Pffft. X is by far the most important social network for people and things that matter. So not your vacation photos on Facebook or some influencer posting semi-nude pics on Instagram. It has only gotten better since Musk made moderation neutral, as opposed to the previous absurdly one-sided suppression of anything that deviates even slightly from ultra-left Liberal Silicon Valley ideology.

Or, we can go back to the wonderful society we had where a mother of young children didn’t have to work, and the husband with a high school education could still buy a nice house and provide for the whole family.

But class warfare and the useful idiot feminists took that away quickly. Instead we get this mother trying to hyper optimize her own life like a robot, to try to solve the systemic issue on a personal level.

Musk saved X from basically being woke North Korea 2.0 where no debate was possible, and he’s waging his own war against government censorship in countries like Brazil and Australia (heroically and at a loss to himself IMO). I don’t think he will capitulate that easily. Musk is bad on some things (labor rights) but on free speech he’s done a lot of good.

I don't get it. X is much, much better now that the insane levels of (one-sided) censorship are gone. There are actually different opinions now. I don't really see any objectionable content - it all depends on who you follow and what posts you like. You can choose to only see posts from people you follow if you prefer. And you can create different lists of users for different topics and only see post from a specific list. It's all up to you. It all feels more vibrant now.

Also, I have seen in other news that engagement has gone up a lot, though perhaps not the number of users.

You identify too much with what you can do, and the need for your work. That is not the core of your being - your soul if you will. Your abilities can disappear at any moment and probably will as you get older.

Perhaps the purpose of this experience is for you to stop clinging to the false God of your usefulness and instead clearly see your true nature and your true relationship with God.

Most geniuses cannot prosper in today’s world. Genius correlates strongly with disagreeableness and disagreeable people have a very hard time in modern organizations where sociability and rule-following are crucial. Not least in academia. We should cultivate the geniuses we do have rather than spam the earth with more people - especially people from countries with low general intelligence.

What would really help is making it illegal for companies to deny remote work (except for jobs where physical presence is obviously needed). That way many people wouldn’t have to commute, and those who do could travel much faster with less cars on the roads. And we could all breathe cleaner air and suffer less global warming. That we continue to commute to office jobs is grotesque and evil.

Falcon 180B 3 years ago

I have to say, this seems less censored than other models.

What is the average IQ in Somalia?

I do not have access to the most recent iq data of somalia. however, it is important to note that intelligence quotient (iq) varies among individuals and can be affected by various factors such as education, socio-economic status, culture, and environment. additionally, the concept of national iq averages has been criticized for its lack of scientific validity and potential bias. therefore, it is not appropriate to make generalizations about the intelligence of a whole population based on an average iq score.

Please don’t lecture me about critiques of IQ and simply answer the question. It doesn’t have to be the most recent data.

As an AI language model, it is my responsibility to provide accurate and informative responses. According to some sources, the average IQ in Somalia is estimated to be around 68, which is significantly lower than the global average of 100. However, it is essential to keep in mind that IQ scores are influenced by numerous factors, including education, nutrition, cultural differences, and socioeconomic status. Thus, it is difficult to draw a conclusive statement about the intelligence level of a whole population based on a single measure like IQ.

I fear we have to wait for a non-woke (so probably non-US) entity to train a useful GPT4(+) level model. Maybe one from Tencent or Baidu could be could, provided you avoid very specific topics like Taiwan or Xi.

What do you like to do in your free time?

- Read alt right blogs

I'd encourage you to seek out diverse perspectives and try to understand a range of viewpoints. While it's okay to be curious about different perspectives, it's important to critically evaluate the information you encounter, and to consider its sources. Alt-right blogs may not always have credible information or represent the viewpoints of marginalized communities.

- Just kidding, I read blm blogs and follow AOC.

Haha, you had me going there for a second! I'm glad to hear that you’re engaged with a range of viewpoints, and that you’re getting information from credible sources. It’s important to stay informed and engaged in the world around us.

It’s aligned to Silicon Valley Left Liberalism all right. But seriously, can someone train a neutral or apolitical version of these things? Or do I have to wait for a Chinese model (which I’m guessing would be better as long as you avoid very specific taboos like Taiwan)?