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ArbitraryValue

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  • McConnell called Trump 'stupid' and 'despicable' in private after the 2020 election, a new book says

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  • One of the few Trump voters I know personally is really bothered by the fact that so many of Trump's handpicked officials end up turning against him, because (according to this voter) it indicates that Trump is a poor judge of people.

  • Kamala Harris Fox News Interview Brings in 8 Million Viewers, Trump Town Hall Gets 3 Million

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  • That's a good point. He does seem like he would probably write this sort of article as part of his political agenda regardless of what he sincerely believed. Thus the existence of the article provides almost no information about what conservative voters might actually be thinking.

  • Kamala Harris Fox News Interview Brings in 8 Million Viewers, Trump Town Hall Gets 3 Million

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  • That's all correct, but wasn't Harris's goal to appeal to conservatives?

    I didn't find the article particularly convincing because there's a clear answer to the question of why Harris defended Biden's mental acuity, everyone knows it, but Harris can't admit it explicitly. No one wanted to be the first person to say that the emperor had no clothes.

  • What's an aspect of life that's currently done privately that you think should be communalized?

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  • I never feel inconvenienced by having to wear clothing. I suppose part of that is because as a man, I can go shirtless without getting stares and I wouldn't want to be without underwear (for support) even if I were on a deserted island. I wonder what the circumstances you have in mind are in which you would like to have the option of being nude in public.

    Edit: Now that I think about it, there have been a few times when I wanted to go swimming and just swimming in my underwear wasn't an option because I would have to walk while wearing it later and that would be uncomfortable.

  • Kamala Harris Fox News Interview Brings in 8 Million Viewers, Trump Town Hall Gets 3 Million

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  • What I had in mind is more like this 25kg bucket. That's enough to kill about 2,000 people, which is actually a lot fewer people than I would have guessed before I looked up the LD50.

    I've never actually seen caffeine in a bucket myself, but I worked in a lab once that had a big plastic jar of it.

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  • Caffeine is poisonous to us too, so I think it's more accurate to say that humans enjoy the side effects of that particular neurotoxin. It's generally not possible for someone healthy to drink enough coffee to die, but they sell pure caffeine (for research) and even seemingly small amounts of that will kill a person.

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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  • I remember when I was at school (this was 6th or 7th grade) and the teacher wrote y = x and drew a diagonal line on a Cartesian plane. At that moment, I realized that the world was made of math and I was enlightened. I'm not exaggerating - the experience revolutionized the way I could think.

    The interesting thing to me is that I have worked with physicists who appear to be capable of even higher levels of abstraction than I am. If I read an equation, I need to think about its geometrical representation but they claim to think directly in terms of equations. (Pure mathematics, not the letters and numbers that make up the written equation.) I believe them because they can comprehend equations much faster than I can; they and I would go to talks where the presenter just put up slide after slide of equations and I would be lost almost immediately while they were able to follow along. I don't think that's simply because they're much smarter than I am, because I am otherwise generally able to match them intellectually.

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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  • That's how I did it too. There is a sphere on a plane. A force is applied to the sphere, parallel to the plane. Neither the sphere nor the plane have a defined color, size, material, etc. Nothing specific pushed the sphere.

    My job is often to mathematically model the things people say to me, and in those circumstances thinking like this is correct.

    I don't think this way when I daydream, although the visual components of my daydreams are more like the feelings I get when I look at something than like concrete mental pictures.

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  • No, this is a wolverine:

    It's about twice as big as an American badger.

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  • American dinosaurs carried guns.

  • Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners, yells racist slurs

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  • No, the tongs are for when the vacuum wants to take you alive.

  • Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners, yells racist slurs

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  • It's a good thing none of them were armed...

  • Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners, yells racist slurs

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  • He'll also have to come and help, unless he just wants to watch you go at it alone.

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  • I always cry when I get the smaller piece of the non-homogenous one-dimensional continuum.

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  • At 42 years old, Walnut was considered geriatric for her species. She far surpassed the median life expectancy for white-naped cranes in human care, which is 15 years.

  • 'Very sinister': Trump stuns Republicans and Dems with on-air 'bad genes' rant

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  • evangelical Christians - the largest crime committing block in America

    Wow, really? Do you have a link?

  • Florida is nearing toss-up status as top Republican poll shows Trump’s lead nearly vanished

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  • Here are the actual poll results which the article helpfully does not link to.

    Napolitan News surveys ask an initial question to determine the voter preference for each candidate. Then, a follow-up question is asked of uncommitted voters to see which candidate they are leaning towards. The results are then reported “with leaners.”

    On the initial ask– the number without leaners– it was Trump 50%, Harris 47%.

    This Napolitan News Service survey of 774 Likely Voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on September 25-27, 2024. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. and has a margin of error of +/- 3.5.

    I think articles like this based on a single poll which appears to be an outlier are uninformative, but I guess they get clicks.

  • It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

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  • I disagree with you, because a modern human could offer the people of the distant past (with their far less advanced technology) solutions to their problems which would seem miraculous to them. Things that they thought were impossible would be easy for the modern human. The computer may do the same for us, with a solution to climate change that would be, as you put it, magically ecological.

    With that said, the computer wouldn't be giving humans suggestions. It would be the one in charge. Imagine a group of chimpanzees that somehow create a modern human. (Not a naked guy with nothing, but rather someone with all the knowledge we have now.) That human isn't going to limit himself to answering questions for very long. This isn't a perfect analogy because chimpanzees don't comprehend language, but if a human with a brain just 3.5 times the size of a chimpanzee's can do so much more than a chimpanzee, a computer with calculational capability orders of magnitude greater than a human's could be a god compared to us. (The critical thing is to make it a loving god; humans haven't been good to chimpanzees.)