@trevposts Demonstrating you are worse at math than an LLM isn’t a convincing argument that LLMs are good at math. It’s simply an embarrassing thing for you to brag about.
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Moose Hamilton
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Moose Hamilton
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“Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.” -Alexander Hamilton
Katılım Ağustos 2021
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I did the math a couple weeks ago and it turns out a vegan prompting a frontier LLM *every second, 24/7* consumes less water than the average omnivore who never uses AI.
mary@theoceanblooms
people are trying to argue with this and it’s literally the truth. a kilogram of beef requires over 15,000 litres of water to produce. a vegan who uses chatgpt every day is living a more sustainable lifestyle than someone who regularly eats beef while boycotting AI.
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@Legal_Fil Billy is a dishonest actor who propagandizes for infinity immigration. He’s obfuscating the facts intentionally for exactly the reasons you are concerned about.
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We shouldn’t pretend that this is due to congressional incompetence.
Democrats have decided to hold passengers hostage to satisfy their anti-ICE ideologues. Obfuscating that fact only helps people consciously hurting Americans.
Billy Binion@billybinion
I’ve never seen anything like this. This is the New Orleans airport. The line begins far before I started filming. Everyone around me is expecting to miss their flights. All because Congress can’t figure out how to do its job.
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@theoceanblooms You’re literally an imbecile if you think that’s literally the truth.
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people are trying to argue with this and it’s literally the truth. a kilogram of beef requires over 15,000 litres of water to produce. a vegan who uses chatgpt every day is living a more sustainable lifestyle than someone who regularly eats beef while boycotting AI.
eva@_glorianas
that’s not most meat consumption, op 100% right, beef consumption is a hundred times more wasteful of water than data centres
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Lotta people using Claude to build software that already exists
Ryan Leachman@RG_Leachman
I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.
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@neoavatara You’re agreeing with something that someone wishcast that someone else said. “Privately told” “anonymous sources say” it’s all nonsense.
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He's not wrong.
I support deporting illegal immigrants, especially criminals.
But I said a year ago... You can do this stupidly, or do it humanely.
They chose the former, and the public responded.
A humane system would've been more accepted, and more successful.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Trump has privately told his inner circle that some of his administration’s deportation policies have gone too far on.wsj.com/4blPduX
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@FilmLadd I’m sorry sir, we only want winners on the front lines, so the Canadian hockey team is disqualified.
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With what? Their hockey team?
Open Source Intel@Osint613
JUST IN 🔴 Canada says it is ready to help ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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@iowahawkblog And land is not generally divided in tenths. Paper math and world math are not the same.
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Because the USA is denominated in miles. There are 640 acres in a square mile. 640 can be divided by 2 easily. A square half mile is 160 acres, a square 1/4 mile is 40 acres, a square 1/8 mile is 10 acres. Nobody in America knows what a kilometer is, let alone a hectare
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…
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@wil_da_beast630 They get their own form of government handouts under different words.
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One clear and amusing outlier here.
Center for Immigration Studies@CIS_org
28% of the US born households use traditional welfare programs. Non-citizen household welfare use rates by region: Central America: 64% Caribbean: 58% South America: 43% Middle East: 46% Sub-Saharan Africa: 42% East Asia: 33% Europe: 31% South Asia: 16% x.com/CIS_org/status…
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@cremieuxrecueil A bachelors degree from anywhere ticks the box of the educational requirement present on the job description for any roles where the actual hiring manager is interested in skills/experience and only views the educational requirements as a constraint put on them in hiring.
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@HistoryBoomer The real world isn’t your high school stats class assignment that flattened all variables to make learning the basic concepts simpler. Lots of people don’t understand that and overestimate the importance of crime rate in comparing dissimilar situations, but people are often dumb.
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Yes, lots of people care more about total crime than relative crime, but that's because people are often dumb (even smart people). Per capita crime is the important stat.
And no, I don't worry on the subway.
("Robot boy" huh? I prefer "Spock," but Robot Boy has some charm.)
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Statistically illiterate adjunct history professor attempts lecture others on statistical literacy.
Carl@HistoryBoomer
For the statistically illiterate. A million people in a state with 50 murders every year, your murder rate is 50 per million. Add a million immigrants who do 1 murder a year, total murders goes up to 51, but that's among TWO million people. Your rate is 25.5 per million. The number of murders goes up, but each person in the city is actually safer. More murders does not automatically mean more danger. Population size matters. If we kidnapped the entire population of Japan and brought them to America, our number of murders would go up (Japanese people commit about 250 murders a year), but we'd become a much safer country (the Japanese murder RATE is far lower). Oilfield Rando's argument (more murders automatically means more danger) is bad math.
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@HistoryBoomer Being a midwit means being smart enough to understand concepts of statistics while also not being smart enough to understand how those concepts do and don’t apply in the context of the world. Being a narcissist means posting this midwittery proudly in public.
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For the statistically illiterate.
A million people in a state with 50 murders every year, your murder rate is 50 per million.
Add a million immigrants who do 1 murder a year, total murders goes up to 51, but that's among TWO million people.
Your rate is 25.5 per million.
The number of murders goes up, but each person in the city is actually safer. More murders does not automatically mean more danger. Population size matters.
If we kidnapped the entire population of Japan and brought them to America, our number of murders would go up (Japanese people commit about 250 murders a year), but we'd become a much safer country (the Japanese murder RATE is far lower).
Oilfield Rando's argument (more murders automatically means more danger) is bad math.
Oilfield Rando@Oilfield_Rando
David’s argument is that bringing foreigners here (some of whom commit crimes) will make it less likely for American criminals to commit crimes. Foreigners can only supplement US crime. Not reduce it. David is a shameless, despicable ideological prostitute.
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@HistoryBoomer A small village with 1 murder is essentially guaranteed that murder was amongst known individuals, most likely a domestic dispute. As it is not a random crime against strangers, the risk represented is zero regardless of the drastic per capita appearance. You’re proving ignorant.
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Total crime is more important than per capita???
You live in a village with 1 murder a year.
I live in a city with 300 murders a year.
But my city has 8 million people and your village has 20 people.
If I were you, I’d be scared. Per capita is more important.
Jon Snow@JonSnow50616798
@HistoryBoomer Bad way of looking at it, because total crime is a more important stat than per capita crime.
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@HistoryBoomer @feelsdesperate You just proved the point he was making…
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@feelsdesperate I have a friend who’s lived on Avenue B since the 80s. I’m unimpressed.
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A big part of “cities are awful” discourse is some people are more scared by rough areas than others.
I was in NYC in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I saw real crime. I am less easily scared than Coddled clearly is.
This doesn’t mean crime isn’t bad, it’s just not as bad as they claim.
Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate
Paris, London, and Rome all have problems. All of them have neighborhoods that aren’t culturally and economically integrated and that have high crime rates where Carl would ‘feel scared’ if he decided to visit. Do these neighborhoods tend to be more peripheral than central than in the US? Yes, but so what?
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@HistoryBoomer Disgust and fear are two different emotions, and if you can’t differentiate them, perhaps opining publicly on your psychoanalysis of others is something you aren’t qualified for.
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@MrEwanMorrison There is a psychological factor of tech founders risk taking that often comes from lacking the survival tactics of introspection and understanding consequences. You only know of the few who essentially won the lottery and not the many more who failed epically on their gambles.
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Marc Andreessen raises a serious point. "Tech optimists" like himself may have different brains from the rest of us.
Wired for optimism bias & lacking the capacity for interior reflection.
If this is the case then why should we listen to these people or let them shape our lives?
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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@avidseries You make it obvious you live in a bubble when you post nonsense like this. You talk like conservatives are a creature from another continent you’ve only watched documentaries about.
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I keep coming back to this: Almost every cool neighborhood and charming town and thriving picturesque area in the country is filled with libs. Liberals will pay the premium required to live in these places, conservatives won't.
Andrew Guidarelli 🌪️@a_guidarelli
conservatives post stuff like this from their cookie cutter strip mall ford f-350 suburban sprawl treeless wasteland and then they’ll think nobody picnics in a public park anymore bc trans people exist
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@mattyglesias If you were a republican and made a similar tweet under a democrat administration, you’d likely see jail time. Simmer in your smugness with that knowledge.
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If the SAVE Act doesn’t pass there’s no real point in conservatives even bothering to vote in the midterms imo
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
Republicans will lose power—likely for a long time—if we don’t get SAVE America passed This shouldn’t be hard It is, but failure cannot be an option
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@David_J_Bier Those employees would have had no job because the job losses were from COVID hysteria not immigration law changes.
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Korea shut off its low skilled guest worker program and it caused no increase in native born hiring and caused more employed natives to do less skilled and lower paid work.
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