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ArbitraryValue

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  • They were roommates

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  • I wish I knew. The other thing that stuck out to me was that no one wore shorts. I did at first just because it was hot but I stopped after I noticed that I was the only man not wearing long pants

  • What happened to American manufacturing is not unusual

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  • Not unusual doesn't mean desirable or inevitable. It might just mean a lot of other countries made the same mistake.

  • They were roommates

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  • But cultural differences do exist too. When I visited Mumbai, I fairly frequently saw pairs of adult men walking around holding hands. It looked really gay to my American eyes, gayer than anything that my gay friends do in public. However, apparently in India it is normal for heterosexual men to hold each other's hands.

  • There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.

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  • Are you aware that there is a significant population of white people in South Africa and a long history of racial conflict there between them and the black majority? The white minority ruled over and oppressed the black majority until the end of apartheid in the early nineties and the idea that the majority could now be persecuting the minority is not ridiculous per se the way that you imply it is, although the general consensus outside of the circles Trump listens to is that such persecution isn't happening.

  • There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.

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  • Ah yes, an "unauthorized modification". It must have been the janitor pressing buttons accidentally while mopping the mainframe room.

  • ICE Barbie Is Now Accusing Dems of ‘Felonies’ Over Detention Center Clash

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  • So is referring to a woman as "Barbie" not sexist if she works for Trump, or is it still sexist but it's ok to be sexist towards women who work for Trump?

    (I'd ban Daily Beast links if I were in charge.)

  • I changed the screensaver on my work computer to Hawaiian Coast from Redwoods

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  • Years ago I had a screensaver of a double pendulum which was fun because it distracted everyone remaining in the room whenever I left.

  • Made by, or made of?

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  • It's like gorilla glue: made by gorillas for gorillas from gorillas.

  • Whenever a beast is shown on screen

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  • I don't think they stomped loudly (except when they ran) but I don't see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)

  • Made by, or made of?

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  • I wanted to conquer the world like Alexander the Great. I'm not sure why that appealed to me, in retrospect.

    (A friend gave me some advice a few years ago. He said "You're much more normal than you like to think. You have normal needs and you will be happy if you live a normal life." I don't know if he's right.)

  • Whenever a beast is shown on screen

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  • I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He's going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • That lie was definitely inappropriate, but it would still have been inappropriate if it was told by a human. I think it's useful to distinguish between bad things that happen to be done by an AI and things that are bad specifically because they are done by an AI. How would you feel about an AI that didn't lie or deceive but also didn't announce itself as an AI?

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • ChangeMyView seems like the sort of topic where AI posts can actually be appropriate. If the goal is to hear arguments for an opposing point of view, the AI is contributing more than a human would if in fact the AI can generate more convincing arguments.

  • Source: once let the wife set the temp while showering.

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  • I used to imagine it would be sexy to shower with my partner but I've learned that even women who appear physically delicate in most other situations still temper themselves like steel when they shower. I think that I would get burns from sustained exposure to water that hot.

  • Trump White House lines lawn with mug shots of illegal immigrants

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  • I suspect that as Nate Silver says, Trump is doing this sort of thing because he wants to fight about immigration rather than his other, less popular policies - he thinks he has the public support to win on immigration.

  • The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.

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  • That's my whole point. Might things be a lot worse in a couple of years? Yes. Are things as bad as this article is all about saying they are right now? No, clearly not.

    "The American democratic republic is in danger of dying" is true.

    "The American democratic republic has died" is histrionics, and histrionics are particularly counterproductive at a time when what's actually going on is so serious.

  • The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.

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  • The U.S. is survived by a country of the same name, the United States of America, now a presidential dictatorship.

    This gets an eye roll from me. The USA is certainly in a lot of danger but anyone who calls the current situation a dictatorship is ignorant of what a dictatorship is.

    Here's a hint for the author: you wouldn't be getting an article like this one published in a dictatorship.

  • First law of chat robotics

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  • How are you guys getting all these wrong answers? Because I do use ChatGPT to look up information about software development, which is something I have a lot of experience with, and it's almost always right. "Almost always" isn't "always" but, if I'm being honest, it's probably better than my own memory.

  • Trump gets called out in front of millions at Pope’s funeral

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  • Trump destroyed with facts and logic at Pope's funeral.