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[ultimate woman respector @PostTonality]

yeah sex is cool but have you ever left a practice room feeling good about what you accomplished

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

Going off of memory out of laziness here but there was a researcher who used bird tracking technology to show that teens in the 70s/80s had almost 2 miles of autonomous space and teens today have less than 2 meters.

[gabriel @gabriel1]

nearly no one makes tough decisions except when forced to, when they can choose to do nothing

we have an insanely strong bias for non action and cope when it comes to even the tiniest emotional suffering, and we don't even know cause our brains hide it from us

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

I don't know how you people continually fail to understand that there is no lead big enough that Democrats cannot completely squander it with their own incompetence and terrible milquetoast centrism.

[gabriel @gabriel1]

>70% of people are in permanent slight suffering because they are allergic to making ANY mentally tough decision when there is also an option to do nothing. rant:

[Gayest Tone @gayest_tone]

It’s so funny how they don’t realize this is a fundamentally bad thing for their ideology

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

The media smear campaign from the highest levels of the powers that be to make public perception about Luigi negative isn’t being really thought out too well. Next they’re gonna leak that he was hung like an elephant to destroy and finish him off for good.

[uwo's lab | the funny science man @uwutoowo1]

opening cigarette booster packs and getting ULTRA RARE pulls (not clickbait)

[doomer @uncledoomer]

they hate how little it takes to make us happy

[tabitha arnold @thetolerantweft]

dude trust me it’s a general strike. It’s for real this time. I saw it on an infographic. but it’s not a “strike” in the sense of “not working.” You can strike by shopping at small businesses. You can strike by feeling joy.

[MVG @ModernVintageG]

EA has uploaded fully recovered source code for Command & Conquer (aka, Tiberian Dawn). C&C Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals + Zero Hour to github. W move!

https://t.co/6xPLT4M0vo

[doomer @uncledoomer]

i bought the bulk organic orange juice at costco two weeks ago for $12.99 for a gallon.

today that same bulk organic orange juice is $8.99 for a gallon. i got rugged on orange juice.

i got RUGGED on fucking ORANGE JUICE

[ludwig @ludwigABAP]

Random rant on reading, LLMs, education:

Current LLM models could be 100x better and literally nothing would change for most normal people re: knowledge acquisition. We've had the internet and access to every single book on the planet in a blink and still most people don't use this. IT's only accelerated the learnings of the few.

Even in our field you have people who are proud to announce they don't read books. The "just do it" mantra pushed to the max, where you sloppily try to intuit everything (but aren't anywhere broad enough to do it).

Jim Keller has been reading books for 50+ years (up to a couple of weeks) on a broad range of subjects. Many other such cases. I've never even met a person who actually "feels" full/broad/interesting (outside of their two niches) that doesn't read.

So it isn't so much about structural barriers eg "not enough time, not enough access" for the overwhelming majority of people with access to the Internet, it's a character thing.

You also have people who read the pop self-help crap, because simulating doing the work and getting a few new catchphrases to repeat is enough.

I guess my point is that knowledge is not a distribution problem, it's a human nature / culture problem I think. You can go on z-library or anna's archive and download and read any book you can think of already. I could already learn pretty much anything I could think of 15+ years ago.

LLMs have substantially improved the learning rate (because compressing all of human knowledge and being able to decompress it with natural language + the byproducts of compressing it in the first place yields to some very interesting "emergent" properties) but it won't magically turn people into curious, first-principle thinking knowledge seekers. I don't know if anybody has really made that claim but I feel like implicitly, people feel that way. What it does is substantially lower the activation energy necessary to start learning and packages it in an interactive format.

But even embedded in education, AI won't drastically move the needle imo. Again, it'll empower the few (the xorswaps and spheres of the world), maybe it'll hook a few % more kids into becoming like this (and even 3% more kids like this will have a transformative impact on society), but still, the overwhelming majority of the population will remain as is and as it has mostly always been.

Obviously there are different modalities for learning, and eg the "hands-on" approach is important in our field. But a lot of people have been proclaiming how generalists will reign supreme, how being a specialist will die, and I don't see any other more efficient way to expand your base of knowledge and improve your capacity to think outside the box (+ get a taste for the underlying patterns of all fields everywhere and to get a solid sense of the fundamental realities of nature) than by reading broadly. Certainly, X isn't a substitute.

Lastly I just want to make clear that I understand tacit knowledge has to be learned by experience, but I don't think a person who's maxxed out tacit knowledge (or tacit + formal knowledge of 3 things in 1 field) is a full, broad, interesting person. I find it much more enjoyable to speak to people who are experts in a few things but as wide as the ocean / "deep as a pool" in many, many things because it gives them superpowers when it comes to intuitions, interesting prediction models, pattern matching capacities etc..

[hottiepants @punishedpants]

top line item being unused 365 licenses this shit is such a joke lol

[Sunk Cost Pharisee @Liamjsm]

kid just said “your skin is kinda like a bag containing your body.” no it is not. we don’t do thinking meat in this house. we don’t think it’s crazy that we’re hurtling through space on a rock. find your wonderment elsewhere

[Ryan McEntush @rmcentush]

my dad sat me down once and said:

“There are only two jobs in the world: building or selling. If you’re not doing one of those, you’re just an expense.”

still think about this.

[Leo Sucks At Games 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @KittyCatFaggot1]

You need justification from a higher power to not rape people?

[Georgi Gerganov @ggerganov]

Today I was sent the following cool demo:

Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave

[Cera Gibson @CeraGibson]

The funniest shit about men wanting to open up their relationship (because they want to sleep with other people), is the fact that their girl could quadruple her body count in a week, and bro will likely struggle to get one woman a month.