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truth-seeking ape

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All creativity is associative at a small enough scale.

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I'm always surprised by how many people do boring and repetitive forms of exercise such as jogging or rowing. Lifting at least gives you a stimulus that is hard to get any other way. But for aerobic exercise, why not play a sport or do something more fun and varied?

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If universities want more international students, they should open more international campuses.

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@eugyppius1 @spandrell4 Von der Leyen is the worst with this. The moralistic language with an appeal to a non-existent higher authority (“Iran must…”) is so tiring. Like who are you even talking to?

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Is it really a Wikipedia personal life section if it doesn't have a mental health subsection?

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Living through the intelligence explosion feels eerie. You know something is going to happen, just not what.

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The Bryan Johnson school of accelerationism: keep working on AI despite existential risk because it could help you escape mortality. Without significant technological advances, you're going to die anyway. Why not take the risk?

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@bronzeagemantis Human biology still runs into fundamental limits. But biological and technological augmentation is the way forward. It also seems like the most likely solution to the fertility problem.

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The male urge to check sports scores and stats.

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@SCHIZO_FREQ Another side effect:
- car crash risk 2.5 times higher (falling asleep at the wheel)

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@L0m3z If such institutions were smart, they would use AI to show their "independence" and "neutrality", thus entrenching their gatekeeping power and authoritative position.

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@ghellersahlgren @cremieuxrecueil OECD also noted that performance on the pre-adaptive section of the reading test declined similarly to overall scores. https://t.co/UWhIJi1Sik

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Pickleball is a sport for an aging society. You don't have to run much or be particularly athletic, it trains your reaction time, and it's fun to play with your few surviving friends.

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@aqualover420 @bronzeagemantis I don’t think the name matters. Data center has been a common term for just as long. And “server farms” sounds even more resource-intensive and like competition for real farms.

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A leftist tries to explain prediction markets:

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Now that AI can replace both wordcels and shape rotators, what are you going to be anon?

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If these accounts had more impact, I feel like X would have posted a longer write-up with details. Is there any example of a foreign influence campaign on social media having a significant effect? The 2016 Russian campaign was a non-factor. https://t.co/J8KThikjvc

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The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:

We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.

These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.

We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.

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@fuknanon @bronzeagemantis I used to think it couldn’t get worse than the Joe Rogan comment section. Then I read Tucker’s comment section.

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@hyrevayn @oecolamp Who is “we”? And natural selection isn’t random chance.

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False equivalence is the pitfall of many a realist geopolitical analyst.