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When we spend this much effort picking through their bullshit, whether we prove our case or not, they win.

because the not-obvious is harder to see.

it isn't the obvious idiocy that you've got to worry about, it's the not-obvious idiocy

people like to put their television down, but we are still good friends

have you tried grape soda?

when you spend long times focusing your attention upon that whole reading process it tends to stick. Like a drug with long-term effects. Do you want those effects?

that and the middle class

I have used this a lot. A very valuable resource.

2 ideas about direct democracy.

Selling your vote becomes a nonissue when everybody is doing it.

An LLM informed by a reddit-style discussion tree might be a good way to implement the policy-creating part of a direct democracy.

all form is interpretation

it's a pretty good guess that when a smart person does something like this, it's something he considered long and hard and applied his full smartness to, and therefore it is probably the smart move. Right? Let's not split hairs.

If a smart guy joins a seminary then joining a seminary is probably smart.

That was AMAZING!!!

Thank you very much.

some people will crawl a mile for a promise. some people get skinny on a diet of promises

Colors on the screen are like symbols. Like words. they aren't the actual experience. They evoke the experience. Your mind connects the color to a memory and then it's the memory that you experience.

That's screen reality. 1% evocative symbols and 99% in your head.

too many clicks per word. and the distance between click points. that's intentional.

well the point would be to see how susceptible you are to that. They're figuring out where your cost vs reward tipping point is.

it's intentional. therefore testing vocab isn't the point.

I'm guessing it's testing our susceptibility to machine-generated compliments

this is a test for willingness to put up with the whole 100. It says something.

3 clicks per is what gives it away. and the little compliments. and that it's 100 questions

I think that AI would make a good replacement for the government. Or at least the executive branch.

I think that AI is a great way to sum our collective will. Better than representation by ambitious businessmen.

Do you think we came to this opinion via an understanding of AI? I don't.

As is my reply.

(Trek) Data is Lore constrained to, what? Convention?

All Data is Lore. I mean lore is a superset of data. I mean data is lore with a special attribute.

I'm not just picking nits here. And this is not cynicism.

so there you go.

It was cool. He Dunsany'd out there.

Hey I read that twice when I was a kid. We had that ragged paperback floating around the house. It's good. And Doon too.

we could go with Bombadill is an "awakened being", in the Buddhist sense. Which is supposedly better than a god. And it's hallmark power is self-control and resistance to temptation.

Basically Neo.

Maybe this is why generative art never really took off.

That said, roguelikes are awesome. So there is definitely a place for simulated effort.

You need a teflon-coated caliper to measure the batter puddles. And one of those point and click thermometers.

Meta has written itself into a solid tyrant role. A million aspiring rebels are happy to play along.

yes

My mother-in-law recently became fed up with Windows and asked me to install Linux for her. I gave her Debian with a Mate desktop.

She loves it. Zero problems. It's been a week and she's using it just fine. No lifestyle upheaval.