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Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Can you elaborate on CUDA? I thought nVidia prided themselves on FreeBSD support.

I downloaded Brave after googling it and got a .pkg instead of a .dmg because someone wanted to hack my new laptop, and didn't want to risk a hack that leveraged an exploit only nation states know about. They are sMArt. Like me! I still installed it because I am gullible and lazy.

The main mistake you made was not realizing artificial complexity exists, that it is not natural, and that it is a form of control, possibly the most important. Evidence A: C++.

Stay true to your path, dear sir: you have conquered one quest, only to question another. The path ahead is fraught with forks in the road, but stay true to your ossified idea and question yourself as you do others.

Just remember, don't take Tylenol if you are in pain, as you can die from liver poisoning quite quickly. "Engstrom suffered an accident in the lab when a monitor fell on his foot. He took too much Tylenol which caused liver toxicity, and died on December 1, 2020"[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Engstrom

Well the stock market succeeding depends on people having irrational faith in the stocks like Tesla, despite making most of their money from Bitcoin than selling cars[0], so that isn't really a valid counterfactual point, since market opinions are based on psychological beliefs.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210427112905/https://www.wsj.c...

If you have the time, please find out what traffic noise is closest to. I tried to find out but couldn't get any further than this wikipedia page[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadway_noise

"Diagnoses of autism have risen dramatically over the past few decades, from an estimated one in 2500 children thirty years ago to one in 150 today." is one of the first lines of the article. If you are so smart, and only you are so smart, what environmental factor has increased that rapidly?

Basically, humans are pattern seeking creatures, and children exposed to white noise will try to find patterns in white noise, when there are none, thus leading to the brain maladapting to random patterns. My theory, but I couldn't find a good definition of traffic noise being related to white noise or classified in particular, but who knows.

Precipitation means the kids stay inside and are more likely to watch television[0]. This was influenced by another paper about the link between precipitation and autism[1]. Why do you think it is joke research? Why did you criticize before looking into it?

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=989648

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/articlepdf/3...

Corrected, thanks.

Proximity to freeways increases autism risk, study finds [0].

Having a mother who lived within 1,000 feet of a freeway while pregnant doubles a child's odds of having autism [1].

Basically, white noise can cause autism. People are screwing up their kids at an exponential rate [2].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210609042055/https://www.latim...

[1]: https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20101217/fast-lane-t...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=childre...

Turning a decentralized internet into a centralized one seems like a threat, I mean with centralization of all knowledge then we are creating a situation where a centralized system would know everything. That is why we have to stick to decentralization, it allows knowledge to flow more freely and openly. /s

I hope they do something about government officials from random nations shitposting with proxy accounts.

Connecting a manshonyagger doesn't work out; see the death of Shardik. It would be horrible if 'connecting' someone lead to ananaphylactic shock.

Can someone explain to me why Tesla didn't bootstrap itself with cameras/LIDAR, then remove the LIDAR? I mean teaching an AI depth perception and the ability to model objects by vision, without including training data from LIDAR just seems kind of silly.

I have always thought that the best measure of intelligence is compression of information. If you can create a smaller, abstract model that is still accurate despite a loss in details, then you are intelligent.

I think a good name for this is 'discontention'. Discontent + contention. People are now dissatisfied with their view of reality being challenged by people they know and talking heads, and because of that there is major contention (in the computer science sense) over what people want the narrative to be, and what decisions they want the people in power to make.

For a long time I have thought Trump being elected was the greatest psy-op of all time. Do you have any idea how much time people spent talking about him, thinking about him, etc? I mean his presidency could have slowed down progress because of that by a percentage point even if you ignore every policy decision he made or opinion he shared. Now people are even more emotional, thus more irrational, and now you are looked down on for not having a strong bias.

There are people who want to centralize power with the unitary executive theory, and make the president even more powerful, because then the president can bypass any level of 'discontention' by the public or other officials. So, basically, my theory is that by creating 'discontention', with either a left or right wing policies or presidents, will always lead to more centralization of power.

Most people define power as the ability to control and influence others. Personally, I define it as resource allocation.