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What is a “knowledge cutoff” ?

—Ah, got it, it knows more about recent times.

What does this line mean “ the web at a rapid rate and build corpora.” , what are they trying to do? Suck up data for training AI or something else?

Luckily a lot of research has gone into Vedic recitation from an academic perspective if someone would take up the mantle.

Yes, I think agree with what you say. I think the future is still wide open, and I feel we must start thinking of what creates better results in the long run.

I think the sibling comment shares some good examples. Maybe future drone armies is another one.

That you don’t see anything scary that’s your prerogative of course.

Your perspective is a short arc. “Look what I can do now and look it made me way more productive.” I have no doubt it is true, you are on the up right now.

However thinking of the long arc is important to, even though it has no consequence for you right now. AI is a force multiplayer and scarily dangerous in the wrong hands. We can already see by these discussions how uncertain things are.

Just food for thought.

I really want to read more about this. It’s fascinating but also very difficult to wrap your head around. I did enjoy the Feynman talks.

I think I recently learned that the Higgs is actually not that much part of imparting mass for atomic particles. I thought it imparted all mass.

We need? Do we?

I think this is what we are going to see more and more, so people get exposed to the writing style and start to (un)consciously copy it.

Isn’t it annoying to have Airpods in your ears when sleeping?

If noise keeps you awake (loud neighborhood) then a white noise blanket could work. I downloaded a 10 hour beachwaves sound and played it to cover the noise. Two small speakers left and right made it feel like I was there with the stereo. It took a little bit to get used to, but it did the trick.

Thanks a lot for talking me through the experience of Roman living history you could say. I read a part of “Ad urbe condita” by Livy and amazing how direct the book is on its history.

Since the first word means Senate, does any of the Roman municipal bodies consider them to be a Senate like body?

As a Roman, how do you relate to the far past? I mean you must have grown up with so many reminders of the Roman legacy in day to day affairs.

I think PolyMathy on YouTube went into this topic, and it is part of Greek.

It was probably this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5CUiP5oiH0

Amazing stuff!

What other type of stuff gets scanned? I can’t imagine a whole industry waiting to x-ray something?

You pretty much described why I quit “social” media wholesale. It’s a turf war and nothing goods comes from it that cannot be got elsewhere at a vastly higher quality.

I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss.

Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever screams at us the loudest. (from S2 Andor)

The loss of objectivity is one of the greatest losses. People who are online to want their trench to “win” are advocates for loss. People who abuse their position to only proclaim their side is the best, the all-knowing, the superior, or whatever the flavor is of the day, are advocates for loss.

And as we have seen, we are losing a lot by losing objectivity.

Also competitors would leave shit reviews and Googles completely brick walling any way to rectify or moderate reviews made it a shit service in true Google fashion. Google and service live in two different worlds.

Nothing a good conversation to PNG can’t fix

Or just leave the pile of crap behind. The more we do, the less the whole system matters. Never been happier since I left last year.

And yes I can already hear the reply the “we need it for…” , sure as a company if you feel you need it. As an individual however, it’s time for the next thing. TikTok, Instagram and Twitter are old and worn and not it. Yesterday’s news. Social media couldn’t be less social if they tried.

This sounds like it was “designed” by an actual idiot. Maybe vibe coded on a Saturday.

I did, but I would prefer a more local first program.

I like Obsidian for note taking and it does have an infinite canvas, but it feels bolted on. I would love to have a more canvas first note taking app, maybe with folders for visual declutter.

Navigation in default Obsidian is one of the weakest points imo

Reminds me of the old saying “everyone has a pen, but not everyone is a writer.”

Honestly I am not sure, it’s an interesting theory that matches our evolved right handedness as the “right” way to do something, and the other as left. Maybe left handed people were seen as different? And it seeped into language. There is a lot of ifs with and assumptions with this theory.

Ah fun fact, why do we use the word “right” and “left” but also use the word “right” as correct/lawful and use left as thing that is well, left? A linguist theory says that people always been predominantly right handed, so the way you use tools is the “right” (correct) hand, and the one you don’t, well it’s the hand that is “left”. It’s how the word also became the word for directions as well.

And we learned nothing of previous hype cycles.

Enshitification in this area will be shift. And there will be grand articles here on HN “nobody could possibly have seen this coming.” Yes we did.

Hear hear.

It seems so innocent. “Just an ad” but the whole influencing industry is kind of a nice word for “manipulation”

When the cost of manipulation is so low, and the repercussions for lying and cheating are not there, everything gets skewed.