8/8 The fact that Platner is obviously a guy who has a Nazi-adjacent past--tattoos, Blackwater, history of racism--and is now running as a leftist is a BONUS for these guys. To them, it's not a red flag, it's proof of concept. They can't tell you that, though, because they know how that sounds.
Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how youβre not a slaver.
this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldnβt give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me
you made me cry again
I had a colleague who was using AI to generate small paragraphs of text for a project and when I took over the project I adopted his workflow but it quickly became clear I could do a better job faster if I skipped the step where a machine makes up bullshit first.
My plan is to still know how to read and write when the bubble bursts.
Okay but what if the example that is named (42) were also example number 42 and could therefore be equivalently referred to as "example 42"?
Well, ok, if you like it that way
I feel like the easiest way out of this is to admit that the example is named "42" and that the parentheses are, in fact, parenthetical
I thought 42 was just in parentheses to indicate that it was an example!
Yes, but
bsky.app/profile/jako...
Frog and Toad were sad for a while.
but if you put the word "example" in front of them doesn't that identify them as example numbers just as effectively? And then you could do away with the parentheses around the numbers and have just the outer parentheses, which indicate a parenthetical
....no it doesn't
does it?
I do not like that one bit.
what if I put "figure" or "example" or "equation" or whatever before the number?
OH WAIT I JUST RE-READ AND REALIZED THIS IS DURING BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS NOT BONE MARROW GRAFTS I DID NOT REALIZE THAT WAS A THING
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sorry.
carry on.
*shudders*
I think a better framing is that the donor blood tries to fight the body. It's like your immune system rejecting an organ, except that since the immune cells are in blood, the part that's being rejected is.... everything else.
I also remember being deeply horrified when I first learned about it.
It's cereal
What a day to say that, also
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Paedarchy. Pedoarchy? Nonce occupied government in any case
God I love those weird heist nerds so much
This is god's honest truth and also the three young heist nerds have the best and sweetest friendships and it may be the best television show ever made
Post by ο»Ώthree-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat I love how Leverage went Here's the cat burglar. She wears comfy clothes and has zero social skills. She has sex appeal but only if you're into a very specific type of woman, and crucially she has zero idea she has it. She probably doesn't know what an innuendo is. Here's the hacker. He's a Black nerd, and also the most moral character of the bunch. He's a nerd but also not socially awkward; in fact, he's the second best at grifting, right after the person who's been doing it for decades. Here's the muscle. In his heart of hearts, he is a chef. He is tough and manly but he uses that to look out for the working class and children and everyone else the system leaves behind. He's feared by politicians and he reminds his friend to tip the delivery person. Here's the femme fatale. She's over forty years old, and she's the one seducing the mark. She's the heart of the team. Her calling is to be a director. She loves attending her own funeral. Here's the mastermind. He's the only one who doesn't start out as a career criminal. He manipulates his own crew, kills two people after promising them he won't, and takes deals behind their back. He was in seminary school. Also, here's their nemesis. He's Mark Sheppard.
Man, Leverage was something else.
powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.
educational content creators
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was βdifficultβ and that he remained βgrateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.β βFree of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,β he added.
When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.
So there is a tendency to overstate the risk partly because of a reasonable emotional reaction to real, substantive policy failures, and partly because we're just bad at having intuition about numbers and the rates of LC feel like a big deal, but numbers <10% don't _sound_ like a big deal.
It's also a problem that people don't understand that in epidemiological terms, 5 - 8% of the population getting an illness that is debilitating about 10% of the time (I think debilitating LC is ~ 0.1 - 1% overall) is _huge_. And it really is shameful how little policy there is to try to prevent it.
