11yo worked all week painting this for Moonrise Market Day. Super proud of him.
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Chris Turner
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Speed of error correction is a massively underrated feature of AI. Sure, it makes a ton of mistakes. But you see those mistakes in minutes instead of days, and AI can fix them just as fast.
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Just downloaded and very excited to try it.
In case you're looking for feedback, I would love to see the product in action before agreeing to the trial. I don't need to use it for free, I just literally want to see it and get a feel for how it works before the trial. Then the trial is basically making sure I like it before agreeing to a subscription.
Hope this helps. Looks beautiful.
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Introducing GatherOS™ [beta].
The Mac app for design inspiration, built by yours truly.
Capture, organize, and find every reference image or website without leaving your desktop.
Try it now at gatheros.co
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The very idea of cheating with chatbots implies school is a game to be won, where the objective is test scores and rank advancement.
MacKenzie isn't wrong to think this way. School IS a game, and to the extent kids are playing that game, it makes sense to help them win (fairly).
But when school is over, and the incentive to cheat is gone, adults naturally flock to tools that help them learn and solve problems in the real world - like chatbots, YouTube videos, and books.
So yes, we should help kids win the game of school. But we should also question the game itself and ask if there are better objectives.
MacKenzie Price@mackenzieprice
We do not use a chatbot interface in our schools for academics, and here’s the reason: give a kid a chatbot, and they will cheat with it. As much as we’d love to imagine they’re going to get on ChatGPT and engage in a Socratic discussion, they don’t. They copy the question and paste, “What’s the answer?”
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See, this would be fine if you take out either the tree or the bunker, but having both of them having to be shaped around from the fairway is bad design, IMO
Tappy Gilmore@HappysBurner
Love it when you have to make a shot 145 in and had to hit a low hook to this pin
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Reed Hastings on building systems for homeschoolers:
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One of the reasons homeschooled kids have superior educational outcomes is avoiding the slow-progress-across-all-subjects method public schools impose on every student, no matter how they learn.
The evaluation/testing you are talking about would almost certainly prohibit that sort of tailored education, especially since they would be designed and administered by a system that wants to eliminate homeschooling in almost all cases.
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"Dear young people, we screwed everything up (lol, our bad), so please make sure to take the misguided moral frameworks we relied on to create this mess and do them even harder."
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
Harrison Ford: “Humanity is a part of nature, not above it. We need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We need to respect and elevate the indigenous people that are being marginalized, and in many cases, killed in cold blood. The world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess”
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Sagrada Familia is still the most beautiful man-made thing I've ever experienced in person. I literally teared up when the doors opened.
joshpuckett@joshpuckett
If you are a fan of faith, architecture, or even just beauty itself, you must visit la Sagrada Família in the afternoon light. An absolute masterpiece.
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Please, please pray for a neighbor whose little boy passed this morning after an accident at home
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Humane means "compassionate", not "human", so I think it still works. But I'm with you that there is probably a better word for it. And "slaughter" sounds a bit brutalist, so it contradicts the vibe of humane.
Harvest feels better than slaughter. As in, "the farmer harvested the cows and sold them to the local grocer".
In a perfect world, harvest would be a stand in for both humane and slaughter, and slaughter would be reserved for killing animals inhumanely, like in factory farming
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@_cturner ... livestock are not humans, obviously, and there is no way to be "humane" about slaughtering them.
They are livestock, and working towards improving their welfare is more than admirable, but the word "humane" really misses the mark.
(rant over)
Either way, good post.
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Probably bait, but I’ll bite:
1. Animals can be raised humanely and given a good life.
2. Those animals can be humanely slaughtered and sold as meat to thoughtful consumers.
3. The purchase of that meat is the only reason those animals were given that good life in the first place.
4. This transaction creates sustainable livelihoods for farmers and their families.
5. Those farmers are good citizens who care about animals, people, and their communities.
6. Meat is good for people and delicious. It’s the basis of countless traditions shared around the dinner table.
7. Humans are omnivorous. Yes, we can decide not to be, but our natural state is omnivore. Enslaving other humans, by comparison, is not our natural state.
8. Most animals, like humans, would choose a good life that ends in certain death over no life at all.
9. Factory farming is different in almost every important way. It’s a better and more worthy enemy, but still not comparable to human slavery.
10. I think most people know these things deep down, but we’re taught to hate ourselves and the natural choices we make that make us happy.
Aella@Aella_Girl
a great test of "would you have been chill with owning slaves, if you'd been born into a slave-owning family" is whether or not you're vegetarian today
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In honor of David Attenborough turning 100 years old, here’s a behind-the-scenes clip of him recording narration for a new documentary. 100 years old and still going strong.
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@MitraHispana Michelangelo never in his life was given an assignment the outcome of which would affect no one and serve no purpose other than to satisfy a credentialing requirement.
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@elonmusk @beffjezos You can use X the same way Apple used i without changing the (already amazing) company name.
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Is there going to be a new logo?
Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru
JUST IN: Elon Musk says xAI will be dissolved and become "SpaceXAI."
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@ggraham Yes if they have been together for at least a year and the boyfriend is husband material. No otherwise.
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Asking for a friend (really!):
Daughter graduates college and returns home for a week. Her boyfriend visits for a few days. Do they stay in the same bedroom?
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They aren’t. Listen to Elon describe AI on any podcast. Or read Sam or Dario’s essays. Consider that they have built the fastest growing products ever. People don’t find AI confusing or hard to use.
As for fear mongering, Sam isn’t doing it much these days, and he’s always been net optimistic. Dario leans more fear-based that Sam, but I think that’s because he is genuinely concerned about the risk. Elon is pretty balanced but again leans optimistic and hyper abundance.
Taking about AI risk isn’t evidence of a categorical lack of wisdom. Quite the opposite.
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@_cturner Then why are they so aggressively fumbling the intellectual articulation of their products? Contrast Steve Jobs’ bicycles of the mind vs Sam/Dario fear mongering.
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This is one of those things that sounds true but isn't. Sam and Dario are well-read humanists. It's hard to build a generational company without being wise.
Kyle Harrison@kwharrison13
“The dudes who are designing AI have math minds. And that’s good… but there’s very little wisdom coming out of those pockets.”
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