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Prediction markets are useful to society for some things, sports is probably not one of them.

>I don't know why you're trying to downplay it.

Ignoring that I have literally zero trust in anything Anthropic has to say on this -- they have been doing the hysterical routine and trying to get every bit of government granted monopoly they can -- those numbers still simply aren't that impressive.

>European models are so far behind because...

What a non-sequitur. Europe, like much of the West, foolishly delegated tech, media, payment systems, etc, to the United States. European efforts on this are poorly funded, poorly capitalized, and marginal efforts.

China is very much not Europe. China is looking to leave the US to the dustbin of history, and their efforts are a little more concerted.


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Strange omission to talk about the general anti-AI sentiment, while not mentioning that the #3 most-watched English VTuber (Neuro-sama) is an LLM – who is actually widely accepted as a "good" use of AI by other VTubers and viewers.

I switch languages "randomly" all the time when I think about something in another one of the languages I know. Some word will trigger it and before I know it I will continue in the other language.

That you think this is unique to LLM's suggests you simply don't know the diversity of human thought very well.


" Housing in Britain is expensive because getting planning permission is difficult. "

Nothing to do with millions of new people arriving wanting to live somewhere?


Worth it to who?

fico is extremely against Ukraine and its president, and correspondingly extremely pro-russian to the point of being their lapdog. Their entire government is just a clownshow full or properly primitive incompetent people that make an average MAGA an elite intellectual in comparison, and openly racist/xenophobic extreme right wing bordering neo nazis types.

That they throw guilt on Ukraine doesn't mean anything at all since its all politics to shift blame anywhere but their own incompetency, especially without specific proofs provided (for which there aren't any even 18 months after the crime).


I dont think anything you wrote in that paragraph has anything to do with actual public anger as it exists. It is just Heritage think tank advancing their authoritarian dictatorship agenda yet again, this time more openly. As far as they are concerned, anyone left to them speaking is a grave danger to the republic, attack on their right to be supported all the time and must be punished. They dont ask for similar laws in relation to far right, despite the fact it is more violent.

There is a lot of public anger tho. Facebook and Twitter are working overtime to stroke it. Heritage loves it as long as it ends up being in MAGA colors.


There are plenty of poor immigrants who (shock) still come to the united states and do not commit crime.

Low income correlates, but not cause/effect. Giving cash to poor people in high crime areas doesn't solve crime rates.


A steel case has too little effect on cosmic radiation, but it is good to shield electrical noise.

The computers in plastic cases can sometimes be affected by appliances with electrical motors that are used nearby them.

The cosmic radiation is attenuated only inside a big building, e.g. one with many stories above you. A really great attenuation is obtained only underground.


I am not sure why, but many people (news / media outlets?) love end of world scenarios.

too often pessimists are treated as serious, critical thinkers, while optimists are dismissed as naive or foolish.

remember this guy Michael Burry who saw the 2008 housing crash coming, bet everything against it, and made a fortune?

but then he spent the next 15 years trying to pull off the exact same trick, lost a ton of money fighting a massive bull market, and finally had to shut down his hedge fund because lightning just wouldn't strike twice.

how I deal with this: focus on what you can control. reading news in general seems to be difficult. what can I personally do about all that? very little tbh.


We already live in that world because of corporations.

I am interested in living in a world where creative works were not motivated by money and influenced by the incentives that come with that.

What the media stay silent on is often worse than what they publish.

Media is materially controlled by the state in each county, some hide it very well.


Fertility is going down was my answer to your "why would anyone take such a burden" question. The answer is, people largely don't.

I described how experience of motherhood was and its real impact on people. I did experienced some of that, I heard real life women talk about these and I have seen sociological studies confirming the same. For example, being stay at home mom is one risk factor for alcoholism. Social isolation is super common.

I described it only because you kept trying to frame the above issues as "status seeking", being the coolest or in grand dreams I just cant relate to. But that is not what women decide on when they decide between having a child or having another child. These down to earth basic impacts are the reason to say "nope, not another one".


Most people do actually feel that way when Amazon forks their software and monetizes it. They respond by relicensing as SSPL but it's too late and everyone uses the Amazon fork. This happens regularly.

Charlatan Wonder is one of the channels I watch on YouTube. For the past few years he's been signing off every one of his videos with a rant against "content" that largely mirrors this article. He tells people to not describe what they do as content. It is art. Content was a word made up to feed your art into a slop machine that makes someone else's line go up.

https://m.youtube.com/@CharlatanWonder


There's definitely a predatory "everything will look good", but you can also leverage exactly that part for your own purposes - I've done pre-shopping a couple of times by asking for something like "a grid of 9 versions of my photo, wearing different types of X that look good". Definitely helped with choosing a good style.

It's free to use either way, and open source: https://github.com/aidevelopers2/yaml2json

The account just raises the usage limit, so you can ignore it here. No signup needed to convert.


Nice use of Qdrant for the retrieval layer.Curious how you're handling the question generation, are you chunking the study material and generating per chunk, or doing something more document-level?

To save people clicking their way through multiple links: It's USD695 with 8GB RAM. Nice if you're keen to play with RiscV stuff, but doesn't compare with x86 gear in the same price bracket.

The U.S. also let a bank collapse and shit hit the fan across the world.

The global economy isn’t pivoting off Icelandic banks the way it is off US ones.


Commonplace book. Mine just happens to be (theoretically) public.

(This takes a lot of pressure off - I publish notes, half-finished thoughts, stuff I'll "get around to later" with no shame).


100% Agree. And I'll go further saying the highest trust societies I've lived in have been medium-size, rural/suburban. Everyone is in the social/economic class, similar traditions/backgrounds, similar church etc...

> If you purchased a piece of land and that wasn't recorded in the registry, you are SOL because registration is what conveys title.

Sort of. The registration is what provides opposability against third parties. But between buyer and seller, the transfer of ownership happens by the contract itself. You'll have a harder time against creditors of the seller placing liens on the property, or other people claiming to be owners (e.g. if they bought the foreclosed property); how hard a time depends on the country.

And there may be still be encumbrances/claims to the property that are not subjection to registration like adverse possession or rental agreements that can be asserted against the buyer and for which the buyer's only option is to sue to the seller.


A little bit more info but not much at [1] posted 4 days ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940572


> This is my problem with the classical Consequentialism or Utilitarianism, they always discount emotions. I'm sorry, does emotion exists or not? Is it real? Then it should be brought into discussion

This is not true of rationalists! "Straw Vulcan" as a failure mode was talked about fifteen years ago - https://www.lesswrong.com/w/straw-vulcan


It's still weird the YouTube CEO would say "content" instead of "videos"

Pretty expected... my 2-day old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964540

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