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flamingo_pinyata

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  • As someone who did live like image 1 in late 20s and early 30s, it sucks so much when you have to go back to image 2.

    Maybe better not to experience it at all.

  • What's that video game boss you've never been able to beat, or took you the longest to beat?

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  • You underestimate my willingness to lower the difficulty if I'm stuck

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  • Also the definition was formalized. Grouping certain human traits and calling it by a common name wasn't a thing before.

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    Walmart cuts 1,000 roles to simplify operations, Reuters reports

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  • Walmart ​employs about 2.1 million ‌people worldwide

    Getting rid of 1000 is just another Tuesday for them

  • what does "there is no morality outside of human society" entail?

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  • There is some weight to this perspective. One way to define "morality" is as a set of rules governing human behavior, especially behavior towards other humans.

    We can have a thought experiment - imagine if you were the only human in existence. Actually the only person in existence to eliminate hypothetical aliens and AIs. How would you derive any rules of right and wrong? Nothing you do would have any impact on anyone else.

    Maybe you would extend the rules to encompass natural systems - supporting certain kinds of ecosystems over others. But determining a moral base for those decisions is much trickier.

    Now let's go back to a society. As soon as you start relating to other people, deriving rules of right and wrong becomes much easier. We might disagree on what those rules are, but we agree that there must be some kind of rules.

    Disclaimer: This is all based on guessing of a human who lives in a human society. I have no way of knowing how an existence without society might be like.

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    AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years

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  • 10 years? Ain't nobody got time for that

  • Making friends as an adult is hard

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  • Centipedes can only envy you. Having only one pair of legs means you can afford footwear of any kind.

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    Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail people from "evil" AI stories online

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  • Well duh. That's how training an LLM works

  • What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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  • Ah, someone who needs a background activity to focus, but isn't self aware enough to do it with youtube videos or something like that. So they make it everyone's problem.

  • What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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  • A coworker: Putting in a lot more effort to do something with AI, than it would be to do it themselves. And trying to convince everyone they are actually working faster and more efficient.

  • What's the real reason most countries aren't having children?

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  • Social pressure. Anywhere you go children are unwelcome.

    Other than spaces specifically designated for children, you won't exactly be encouraged to bring your kids. Most activities people find necessary or fun like workplace, entertainment, travel, parties, etc, are exclusive of children.

    And it doesn't work like that. "it takes a village to raise a child" as the saying goes. Raising children is not something that can be compartmentalized into a separate sphere of life, while you still perform all the activities you were used to or liked without them.

    Add to that the cost of housing - you need to put those children somewhere - and you have the perfect storm.

  • Do you think every generation thinks their time growing up was the best?

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  • It seems to be a trend for every generation, excepting some big traumatic events.For example I grew up in the Balkans in 1990s and I couldn't say it was the best time.

    But long as you grew up in a safe environment, without struggle, it seems you will see the period of your youth as something ideal.

  • TIL Colonel Sanders was never in the military

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  • Disclaimer: I knew nothing about him until this moment other than his image at KFC restaurants.

    A short wiki search comes up with Kentucky Colonel which is an order of merit given by the state of Kentucky. This is a real award given by Kentucky, and Sanders legitimately received it.

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  • Same. Today I had a conversation which was mostly in English until I unconsciously switched to Spanish to the puzzlement of everyone. Neither is my native.

  • DeepSeek-V4 arrives with near state-of-the-art intelligence at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5

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  • It's an open weights model - you can run your own. If you're lucky enough to have a GPU or two laying around ... then it can be it's a lot cheaper actually.

  • Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

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  • "starting?" I assumed everyone who wasn't onboard left years ago.At least Linkedin is full of "ex-Palantir" people, but tbh Linkedin job descriptions are not know for their truthfulness.

  • Myanmar is now one of world's top producer of opium post-Afghanistan decline. Despite myanmar having direct borders with China and India , I can't find any drug crises there unlike fentanyl in US?

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  • Not necessarily a good thing. In some places people might choose immediate suicide instead of numbness and addiction. Not saying this is the case in China and India, just mentioning that dealing with pain doesn't follow the same rules in every society.

  • Myanmar is now one of world's top producer of opium post-Afghanistan decline. Despite myanmar having direct borders with China and India , I can't find any drug crises there unlike fentanyl in US?

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  • Opium and Heroin are not nearly as lethal as Fentanyl.

    Plus there is probably a cultural difference, China and India might have different outlets for desperate people down on their luck.

  • Allbirds pivots from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 400%

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  • I loved their shoes back in the day, but they completely failed to turn the initial success into a proper footwear company. Sad story. Even worse it will end as some kind of AI crap.