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ArbitraryValue

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  • Why? English isn't my first language but I can't think of a single time that knowing my native language (not Spanish) was necessary to accomplish something useful in the USA (other than talking to my family, which isn't relevant for the children learning a foreign language in school). I can't think of a single time that not knowing Spanish prevented me from accomplishing something useful, either.

  • Our backyard turned into a swamp after septic system started failing, what are the warning signs most people miss?

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  • (like wet wipes)

    Someone flushes a wet wipe into your septic tank? Justifiable homicide.

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • The companies that won't do well in that scenario are the ones that sell products to the sorts of people who will lose their jobs to AI. But not all companies do that.

    (In the extreme case, there might be an economy no longer oriented primarily around what humans want.)

  • Are you telling me they don't?

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  • Serve and obey? No. Treat well? Maybe. Meanwhile I'm excited about the possibility of good futures for superhuman AIs themselves, not just for humans.

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    Americans overwhelmingly believe the cost of living, from groceries to housing, was lower under Biden

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  • I think people (correctly) assume that the poll will be used as evidence to criticize Trump, and if they support him they don't want to give his opponents that evidence. So they'll say whatever doesn't imply criticism of him.

  • I spent my whole career building passive income. Here's what I got wrong

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  • You can have a job that provides meaning, not just income, and you can still keep that job even after establishing sufficient passive income that you don't strictly need to. Knowing that I don't need to work anymore would make me feel more secure (especially since I worry that my skills will soon be replicated by AI) but it wouldn't make me quit my job.

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  • Very occasionally I run into something that used to be doable without a smartphone but requires a smartphone now, but that's quite rare. Not having a smartphone now would be very inconvenient, but generally not more inconvenient than living without a smartphone was before they existed. I expect the same with this technology, if it ever arrives.

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  • I'm not sure why the tone is so negative in this article given that the plan being discussed is to make the technology so useful that most people want it despite the disadvantages. That's not coercion.

  • Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

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  • That was fun, but I "cheated" by pressing the button to see which squares were under attack rather than having to work it out myself the way someone solving this would have had to before.

    I was a little disappointed that the solution is not unique.

  • Trump Says He Doesn’t Care “Even a Little Bit” About People’s Finances

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  • I'm not claiming that he always thinks before speaking, or that he's thinking before speaking this time. I'm just saying that he happens to have said what a person who did think before speaking would have said.

  • Trump Says He Doesn’t Care “Even a Little Bit” About People’s Finances

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  • I presume they are evaluating all his actions in order to estimate how much domestic disapproval he's willing to tolerate. They're won't be convinced that he will tolerate a lot simply by him saying so (since that's what he would always say if he was rational) but if he were saying that he was very worried about prices going up, that could be significant to them (which is why he shouldn't do it).

  • Trump Says He Doesn’t Care “Even a Little Bit” About People’s Finances

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  • This is the correct thing to say, no matter what he might actually think. The less that he appears to be concerned about the cost of the war, the stronger his negotiating position against Iran is.

  • "If I can't win an argument, I must change my mind." Do you agree with this view?

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  • No, generally not. It's possible to lack the knowledge or the intellectual sophistication to disprove an argument that is, in fact, false. So if your life experience or your intuition has caused you to come to believe something, you shouldn't abandon that belief just because you can't disprove an argument against it, or you will become vulnerable to various scams and deceptions.

    The more reliable approach is to accept the existence of an argument that you can't disprove as evidence that you might be wrong. Enough evidence should change your mind, even if one piece doesn't.

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    Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

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  • Students fail to make the is/ought distinction.

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • Apparently “wizard” originally meant something like “sage”: someone characterized by being wise, in the same way that a “drunkard” is characterized by being drunk. The “-ard” suffix itself is historically related to the word “hard,” which still survives as an intensifier in modern English. (By the time “-ard” was incorporated into English, though, it no longer literally meant “hard”; I just find the historical relationship amusing.)

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    Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill

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  • So? Maybe I'm weird, but I don't have the moral intuition that an employer generally ought to keep employing people if it can afford to.

  • Had to/got to upgrade my machete today

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  • I was very disappointed when I bought a machete and discovered that I could not just slice through hanging vines like a jungle explorer from the movies. (Hitting a loose, thick vine with a machete just pushes it rather than cutting it.)

  • Were classical statues painted horribly?

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  • It's a shame to TLDR the author's own excellent summary:

    There is a single explanation for the fact that the reconstructions do not resemble the statues depicted in ancient artworks, the fact that their use of color is un­like that in ancient mosaics and frescoes, and the fact that modern viewers find them ugly. It is that the reconstructions are painted very badly. There is no reason to posit that ancient Europeans had tastes radically unlike ours to explain our dislike of the reconstructions. The Greeks and Romans would have disliked them too, because the reconstructed polychromy is no good.

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    One wonders if something else is going on here. The enormous public interest generated by garish reconstructions is surely because of and not in spite of their ugliness. It is hard to believe that this is entirely accidental. One possibility is that the reconstructors are engaged in a kind of trolling. In this interpretation, they know perfectly well that ancient sculptures did not look like the reconstructions, and probably included the subtle variation of color tones that ancient paintings did. But they fail to correct the belief that people naturally form given what is placed before them: that the proffered reconstruction of ancient sculpture is roughly what ancient sculpture actually looked like.

  • Mr. Popular

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  • Look at Mr. Part of a Community here strutting his stuff.