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A Waltzing Quill

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The fundamental basis of economics is that resources are limited. Wealth is a zero-sum game. It’s impossible for everyone to become wealthy. ‘The American Dream’ is a scam designed to protect the wealthy, premised on the lie that ‘there is always more to go around’.

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The problem with political leaders is that they didn't get their job on merit. They got their job either because they are so gullible that they have honed a fanatic belief in some ideology, or that they are incredibly good at lying.

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@PicturesFoIder Not even well defined. So there’s no right answer.

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@napocornejo @pmddomingos WTF? The *aggressor* obviously *wants* the war hence he’s the *aggressor*. The whole point is: does Biden *also* want it?

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@BrianJJi @yuris Difficulty /= importance. Some of the most difficult problems are within philosophy. They’re also some of the most inconsequential.

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@sergcbravo @eyishazyer Typical issue with mid journey and SD if you don’t use customised Lora that you’ve made yourself. But fun nonetheless.

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@LynnIsOKbyMe @liedsuddenly @EvaVlaar @MariaPIreland No. We don’t make a fuss because we already *understand* how it works. Ignorance -> fear.

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@KeychronPoland Bought a keyboard from you on 30.06 via ApplePay. Still no updates at all about the delivery.

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@coecke Austrian salaries are pretty bad for post docs/assistant professors — if you have to rent your own apartment.

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@coecke Perhaps your colleague is a full professor. For young academics, jobs are super competitive and response times are sluggish to put it mildly. Salaries depend but no security at all. It’s simply atrocious compared to the private sector. Not to mention academic malpractice itself.

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@MelMitchell1 Is that supposed to be surprising? LLMs aren’t maths provers or computational programmes like Wolfram alpha…

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@LinusEkenstam Learn new stuff.

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@im_atkinson @cosmicpinot @NormanHermant It really isn’t. I did my BA back in Aus, did my MA and PhD in Germany. The majority of Europe is just decades ahead in making tertiary education affordable, even when it isn’t free.

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@LeifMcGrief @TL_Zealously @jordanbpeterson It’s not. The very concept of lying presumes knowledge of what’s true. You cannot lie when you don’t know you’re telling a falsehood.

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Understanding Nostalgia https://t.co/y1N2O7CxYj

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@jordanbpeterson It literally can’t ‘lie’ because it has no awareness of true/false. It’s just a text predictor….

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@bschoelkopf Fix the academia job market and working conditions for young researchers/postdocs/assistant profs first. The no.1 reason ppl leave academia after PhD is as absurd as it’s practical - finance and stability.

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@elonmusk This is dumb, or you’re just lying. Some of the top experts I follow in ML don’t pay for that check mark. Bot swarms can easily get that check mark - $7. @ylecun @GaryMarcus

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@jordanbpeterson @elonmusk So you think that SAT scores are a good measure of intelligence? Then you must think that human intelligence is narrow in the sense of machine intelligence. In which case, ‘intelligence’ doesn’t entail general competence. There is no free lunch as we would say in AI.