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Comment · 9 days ago
I guess the map is the territory
Comment · 1 year ago
Love this game, fast paced multiplayer that's super strategic.
Comment · 1 year ago
He claims it was poking fun. The court found differently.

> Bendels claimed the meme, posted by his newspaper's X account, was satirical.

> But the judge in the case said during the verdict that Bendels published a 'deliberately untrue and contemptuous statement about Interior Minister Ms. Faeser (...) that would not be recognizable to the unbiased reader and is likely to significantly impair her public work'.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's about 1 olympic sized swimming pool long, although I guess we're only allowed to use that for volume
Comment · 1 year ago
Supermarkets sell promotional space and in some cases access to have products even appear in store, either through discounts on the wholesale price or straight up charging for it. They absolutely tilt things in favour of their own brands, and in some supermarkets in some categories don't stock any non house brands.

Spotify has discovered there is a big market for music where the quality isn't that important and they can serve it themselves. Same as supermarkets do with many products.

Comment · 2 years ago
The difference is that gambling increases the overall variance of outcomes to an individual whereas insurance decreases it. I wouldn't say insurance is a form of gambling but that they are two ends of the same spectrum. The difference in intention is a clear distinction to me.
Comment · 3 years ago
I would expect minute-by-minute coverage with a lot of pictures, maps, estimates of how much time they need to reach Moscow etc.

This existed, it just didn't exist in the traditional media. Look in the right discord servers and there were new videos being posted every 5 minutes as the convoy was moving around.

Comment · 3 years ago
No, it did not “double-check”—that’s not something it can do! And stating that the cases “can be found on legal research databases” is a flat out lie.

What’s harder is explaining why ChatGPT would lie in this way. What possible reason could LLM companies have for shipping a model that does this?

It did this because it's copying how humans talk, not what humans do. Humans say "I double checked" when asked to verify something, that's all GPT knows or cares about.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Why do you say that
Comment · 3 years ago
why is it so common for people to think psychedelics are opening us up to what is ""real"" or some deeper truth

Because the very changes in brain chemistry you're talking about affect your ability to determine whether something is real or not.

Many psychedelics cause Apophenia, Pareidolia and other disorders. In loose terms, the ability of your brain to determine what information is meaningful or not is affected and you begin to over interpret the meaningfulness of things that happen and your own thoughts. So your idle thought becomes some earth-shattering revelation.

Something similar can happen to people with Schizophrenia. They'll be walking down a street and see a license plate XUE-383 and the function of the brain that tells whether something is meaningful or not misfires, telling them that this is very important. The brain then tries to explain why this is incredibly important, hence hidden messages, spies, all sorts of things.

You can of course be on drugs or schizophrenic and understand this is what is happening but it's hard to override an emotion with logic.

Comment · 3 years ago
What they're talking about is a very active debate in Australia.

The simplified and (generally) commonly accepted narrative is that a cohesive group arrived here 45-60,000YA, lived peacefully and in harmony with the land right up until Europeans arrived

Is absolutely what a lot of, if not the majority of people, believe.

Comment · 3 years ago
Anki. You'll learn so much quicker
Comment · 3 years ago
How does one definite hate speech? Who gets to decide? That's my entire problem with this philosophy. Some one or some group feel holy enough to be the arbiters.

Yes, real life is hard and complicated and there's no easy way to decide it. We collectively do the best we can and keep trying to improve. That's just reality. That's why free speech absolutism is naïve- it appeals to our desire for one, simple, always enforceable rule but it's not the way the world works that one simple rule is always the best outcome.

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