Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
I don’t know that it’s wise to trust what anthropic says about their own product. AI boosters tend to have an “all news is good news” approach to hype generation.
Anthropic have recently been pushing out a number of headline grabbing negative/caution/warning stories. Like claiming that AI models blackmail people when threatened with shutdown. I’m skeptical.
This this this. It’s basically impossible to get that rich without having endangered others.
There are several more. My favourite is proprioception - the sense of where your limbs are. Phantom limb syndrome exists because we have proprioception.
I guess i don’t really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge’s potato? (“I just think they’re neat”)
While we’re discussing things sideshow bob was wrong about, actually plenty of ancient cultures could well have considered chief hydrological engineer a calling.
Elaborate gardens or fountains and the complex hydro-engineering they required have been a symbol of power from ancient assyria to las vegas.
Water and it’s storage and control seems to have had religious dimensions in both the mayan world and angkor.
Water control, flood control and canals were major imperial projects in china.
It’s super believable to me that any of those groups might’ve considered a dangerous, difficult, educated job with religious or elite association to be a calling.
Also, i dont think anyone would use the c-word to describe cappadocia.
Empathy is a trait that almost all individuals of many mammal species possess. Lethal intra-species violence is also a behaviour observed in many (all, i’d guess) of those same species.
Individuals, their peers, their social networks, their identities, institutions and the specific situation all influence behaviour. When those line up one way, we do a murder. A different configuration and we do a cuddle.
It makes no sense to suggest that humans are either inherently good or bad - those are artificial concepts that don’t even have a fixed meaning within a single human identity group. At the end of the day we’re just organisms exhibit behaviours to meet needs.
Everytime i add the freeze dried chicken to the cat’s food i say “all aboard for the night chicken!” No one gets the reference, not even me.
I wasn’t convinced that this was actually any better than live laugh love, but you’re right. This is way better
Yes fapiao culture!
The bar i used to drink at in SW china would write fake receipts for business travellers. The one time i was there for it a dutch guy came in, bought an expensive bottle of maotai for everyone to share, then the owners wrote him a receipt for twice that much. The patrons got drunk, the bar got paid and the guy got to steal from his company.
Just your classic win/win/win.
This is a very clear and comprehensive run down.
He’s not and he won’t. He no longer has the mental capacity for that kind of planning, he never displayed it before he went senile. Plus he’s a coward.
I always heard that UFO sightings dropped drastically once cell phones became widespread.
Yeah I was like, "it’s a map of the world with the Korean peninsula highlighted, what’s the problem?’
Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world
Identity too! That’s like the most important one I think. A lot of our worst behavior is in service of these completely made up identities which none-the-less help us secure access to resources.
I heard someone talking about how a lot of our rituals are these imaginary actions we take to reify these imaginary but vital institutions like identities and nation states.
I think that’s how human brains be. We’re already notoriously bad at correctly accounting for low-risk events (eg the lottery). Plus being constantly aware of the full myriad of threats we face would probably be debilitating.
If you haven’t had or seen a kind of accident your brain probably sees no compelling reason to account for it. My partner was lax about flu shots until she started working at a funeral home and saw how many people of all ages die of the flu. Now it’s a threat she has the awareness to accurately account for.
This is just an ad for obvious bullshit. Forbes may as well be running articles about how ozempic is done because of this one weird trick a local veteran discovered.
I’m guessing it’ll be more like the dot com bubble in the 90s - too much too soon but it’s not going away.
I’ve heard it said that as long as investment returns average higher than wage increases, society will continue to get worse.
It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn’t make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.
Information already is knowledge, and that’s not what gpt does.