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been becoming more active there! haven't been posting much but have been reading a lot more, it's pretty pleasant!

@etirabys I *think* I'm still more worried about how society is going to be impacted but I definitely see more concrete trajectories to the things x-risk people are worried about

@etirabys This is remarkably similar to my trajectory long time ai skeptic, and even after realizing how capable it is I was more worried about "how this changes society" over x risk now? not sure ...

I've changed my mind somewhat on this, mostly due to - Claude Coding a couple hours every night in the past month - belatedly reading a friend's AI-generated not-quite-novella and realizing AI a few months ago passed an illegible important-to-me benchmark on fiction

@shaggysurvives adhd is when you are in an abusive relationship with your dopamine receptors

wrote a thing and i gave it to claude and claude thinks its a metaphor for like abuse in relationships or something but it was supposed to be a metaphor for adhd. oh well that’s art i guess

@EneaszWrites I also think "would get an eye roll" is right and the thing is I don't want to receive eyerolls at work :)

@EneaszWrites its like "if you're going to not be doing work at work, at least don't look at more blatant content" for a reasonable schelling fence of "blatant"

"hmm, english doesn't have a word that means «mairie», we just say city hall" "which doesn't work in Paris because they have non-citywide mayors" "then again, 'mayory' would make the MARY-MERRY-MARRY merger infinitely worse" (turns out "mayoralty" exists)

@funplings waarom spreek je nederlands

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one of the things I don’t think most normal people understand is how much you pay for seemingly small amounts of increased reliability (more 9’s). like the advice not to tell vendors you’re hosting a “wedding” but just a party? weddings cost twice as much because the vendor knows you are expecting a once in a lifetime experience and everything needs to be perfectly on spec and on time. perfect costs like, 2-10x as much as “best-effort that probably turns out fine”. same with childcare. a nanny who shows up every day on time costs like twice as much as a best-effort/90% of the time nanny. your life circumstances might dictate that either is best for you: cheaper or perfect! but the mistake people make is that they think taking a nanny from 90% showing up to 100% showing up should be ~10% more expensive while anyone who has worked in computer reliability probably understands why it’s like 2-10x more 😂

needed to ask in French for cutlery today and I was reminded of this

@MomaBera I try and it falls apart over time what I really need is more drawers but I need the other drawers for nightstand stuff :/

Type of guy who organizes his kink drawer

Attempted to get USD from a Japanese debit card at a U.S. ATM (yeah, weird even for me) and was presented with a screen clearly designed to bamboozle a tourist into paying 13.5%, and thus will repeat the industry advice: if a machine asks you if it can convert currency, answer No

@etirabys Egan's Morphotropic has an interesting depiction of how a conscious mind may experience a slow "building up of senses" in the infant-to-child pipeline

god the first five minutes of consciousness are ghastly I've been concerned about how the creature wakes up with a scream and still seems to be in anguish for a while after that ("...does she have secret baby depression") but actually I'm like that too. I just don't scream

@earnestpost amusingly in Marathi samsar usually means "happy domestic life", i.e. it's frequently phrased as a Good Thing

I haven’t escaped the cycle of samsara. I’m a samsaracel

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

you just know that birthright citizenship cultural victory is total and complete when *france*, a country without birthright citizenship, is defending its world cup squad by saying 23 of 26 were born in france. bro that's not how *you* do things

reclining at least a little bit makes it much much easier to fall asleep, which is pretty necessary on longer flights.

flights I'm on have a fair amount of reclining and I don't see people complaining about it. I usually don't fly budget airlines. I usually recline but do it slowly and not all the way and I've not had complaints. If someone asks me to not do it, I would.

I feel like a lot of this discourse is people flying different airlines talking past each other