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The checks that add up are the social security checks cashed by the quarter or so of baby boomers who don’t need them.

I have sat down and figured out how to program an Apple //e this year for fun. It is possible. It was quite instructive on how much has been added to the idea of what a computer is these days.

I feel like if you want to tackle hard problems there are plenty out there to tackle and plenty of people who will put money into you doing it. I would rather that people unwilling to do so get out of the way with UBI then force people to work to feed themselves. I suppose that is a rather utopian view not shared by many because of the fears of elites controlling everything but that is also a hard problem that some find worth tackling.

Maybe you will like https://rainy-city.com. As mayor I have declared we will never have ads.

It also got rid of being able to right click and open in a new window. Tabs only. Whyyyyyy.

Take two.

Clearly you are not speechless.

How can you be sure it helps as opposed to biases and perhaps blinds?

I think you are over thinking this. Better to get a job and see if you enjoy it than try to predict your impact on the world around you before you actually do anything that would create an impact.

When I was a teenager in boarding school I sent away for these books. I got this fully illustrated Star Wars encyclopedia amongst other books of sci-fi interest to me. Suddenly I realized I could not afford the actual monthly fees I had signed myself up for. So a teacher at the school advised me to send a letter saying I was the parent of a young child who had managed to mail off for these books without my permission and that this service must be canceled immediately because no child can make such a decision. That worked and I got to keep the books.

recaptcha wants you to download an app to access it through a qr code? are you kidding?

I met a guy who bragged about spending 10k euros a month on tokens out of pocket. He was unable to describe anything he built that had made the expense worth it except for the bragging rights that he was spending 10k a month on tokens.

Boomer politics has always been about me and not thee.

Journalists have given up except for organizations like bellingcat, lighthouse reports, etc. that focus on data based reporting instead of narrative.

does anyone else feel like this kind of web design is like the em-dash of web design? im not trying to knock the project itself, just wondering because every website that claude makes me looks like this until i tell it to look like something else.

It’s not so bad to keep your mouth shut. Americans blab about everything constantly.

This reminds me of my own project https://rainy-city.com

yes new yorker, ugly people are the next distraction from the vast transfer of wealth and class warfare that continues through wars, prisons, political corruption, etc.

While this article is a summary of John Ioannidis’ work, I do find it kind of like Science magazine is complaining that they aren’t making enough of that AI revenue so come on submit your papers here. I doubt that was the intended message.

I pay a progressive 47% in Norway. I am sick of having half my salary taken over ~600kkr (60k usd). It’s ridiculous. Plus 25% VAT on everything. And it’s not like salaries are through the roof. Why bother paying me a salary at all at this point? Just let the state give me everything if they are going to take it anyways.

No I don't get it at all. But I think a lot of people are prompting LLMs then publishing their outputs these days. They need to jump on the hype train before it leaves the station. See any recently created "AI ethics" group/institute/startup/whatever. It's basically just this meme on repeat:

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/3229293-say-i-am-alive

why are you using braket notation?

Yay just in time for neurips lol

I saw ngt talk at the natural history museum. He is a crazy person. He ranted about the chinese, talked for too long about how he’s friends with “bob De Niro” and how bob has paid enough taxes to buy five F22s, he was completely unprepared and had nothing to say on the topic at hand, his own book about meeting aliens. Except to spend most of his time making fun of the critics who panned his book because his book was on the nytimes best seller list. The worst was that there were so many children there who clearly looked up to him and wanted to pursue science as a career. I have no idea why anyone cares what he has to say at this point. He has made a gross caricature of himself.

Is the EU planning on participating in the technological development of AI or just the regulation of it?

I loved my time at RC. It changed me a lot. I wrote several blog posts about different projects and my time during my batch. I would strongly suggest applying if you like computers and want to talk about them constantly while building cool stuff.

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/rainy-citycom-a-side-projec...

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/zork-bench-an-llm-reasoning...

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/my-return-statement

I never thought about it this way but this is true. But why can’t you delete things?

I think those people are the ones in charge now and will be directing their ai resources to make even better ads.

I like to generate a variety of personal crises to deal with since now coding agents seem to do most of my job. That keeps me on my toes.