@robinhanson > "Wow, a whole movie that's just a single conversation!"
> Start watching the movie
> "Wait a minute, these guys are a pair of idiots."
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Michael Wheatley
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Alas, the best movie on engaged conversation also includes lots of crazy stupid conversation.
Philippe T@brain_stimulus
🤯 IN 1981, ANDRE GREGORY PREDICTED EXACTLY WHERE WE’RE GOING In the cult film “My Dinner with Andre”, he delivers this chilling monologue to Wallace Shawn: “We’re living in some kind of Orwellian nightmare created by a world totalitarian government based on money. Everything you hear now turns you into a robot. New Yorkers exist in a state of schizophrenia — they’re both guards and prisoners. They’ve been lobotomized and can no longer even see the prison they’ve made. The 1960s were the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished. From now on there’ll simply be robots walking around, feeling nothing, thinking nothing… and soon nobody will remember that there once was a species called a human being.” 45 years later… we’re living it. Was this just fiction… or a prophecy?
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@sasuke___420 Whats the actual reason? Nominally the lime juice is fresher and the ratios are too crowd-pleasing and defacto because non-sophisticates do it?
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how would you explain this to someone who sincerely doesn't know?
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my wife is asking me why it's trashy to use a pre-packaged cocktail as a cocktail ingredient
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@Merridew__ Isnt that get fine because i get paid bigly on my ARM short?
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It's been pretty funny to see people without the relevant background context try to make sense of this news story.
"I think the benches have to do with morning wood."
"I'm a Trinidadian and I don't know what the fuck he's talking about either."
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b) A lot of people in this milieu exoticize foreign cultures. If you write a confusing metaphor they asume it's a reflection of the intrinsic poetry of your native culture's unique way of perceiving things, which, as a white person, they can't possibly grasp. They love it.
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"She had the kind of walking that made benches become men" is an A+ metaphor, btw.
Claude is saying that she's so vivacious and attractive that every man who sees her feels more alive. They're afire to pursue her. The metaphor works becaude benches are the exact opposite: inert, inanimate & prone. When it sees her, even a bench can feel like a man. Wowza.
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@Nomads4Pritzker No, it writes like that because metaphors which dont completely make sense are hot and trendy in literary fiction.
I could explain in more detail but it would take a lot of words.
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LLMs write like this because they aren't embodied, and their entire understanding of language is the statistical relationships between words. So, you get the nonsensical metaphors & descriptors of the kind you see below. What does it mean that "her dress caught and released light"? Did it glitter, did it glow? Was it very colorful? These sentences are written via statistical probability, and not anchored to the observation that one thing in the world is like another, and that can take you strange places. Unfortunately, this can read as a kind of dime-store Arundhati Roy; as "good" writing. It's the kind of thing you fight a lot teaching writing to humans.
Lincoln Michel@TheLincoln
The Granta slop story has, uh, given a new meaning to morning wood
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@GarrettPetersen Some people really detest being confined in airplanes. Idgi either.
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My household earns a lot more than the median, and I can't fathom paying $7500 to sit in a more comfortable chair for several hours. Even if I earned $1M/year, I wouldn't spend 0.75% of that on a few hours in a more comfortable chair.
Scott Hendricks@scottndricks
@ramit @tylerhuff I can easily afford business class.. but never brought myself to do it. Flew with my wife to Bangkok in March and economy was $1,500. Business was $9,000. Can’t justify an extra $15,000 for slightly more comfort.
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@ArtemisConsort And the consumer should get the product for free because basic necessities are a human right.
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Absolutely. Retail workers should get 100% of the value of the products they sell. The factory workers should also get 100% of the final sales price of the goods they make. And the truckers should get 100% for the goods they transport. Everyone should get 100%!
Jack@whothehellsjack
No I work in retail where I can quite literally see how much money I’m making the company. I’ll do anywhere between $600 and $2000 in a 5hr shift while only making $71. It’s more radicalizing to see the dramatic extent at which your surplus labor is being extracted
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@JohnMHawk @ArtemisConsort No, the customer gets the product for free because basic necessities are a human right.
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@ArtemisConsort Wait, what about the customer? Shouldn't the customer get 100% too? There wouldn't be any sale without the customer...
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@macrocephalopod @Paco_de_Anconia @RichardHanania that's how metaphors work. You can call something wine-like without meaning it has the same hue. He didn't write "as red as wine."
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@Paco_de_Anconia @RichardHanania I’ve read it, of course. Probably more times than you have! Homer famously described the sea as “wine-dark” so I’d hesitate to draw too many conclusions from his use of colour vocabulary.
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Guys, I'm trying to be woke and a good person here, and want to stand with people of color in these difficult times, but this is not Helen of Troy.
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@keysmashbandit If english was my second language, I might be
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If I Google the definition of a word, I am basically never looking to find a markdown table with a row titled "Vibe"
xdn@xdncolonthree
they replaced my beloved oxford dictionary embed with cool etymology charts n stuff with ai slop rambling for no reason
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Massie told "a classroom of teenage students that he had disliked cleaning his room when he was their age and therefore invented a robot to do the job for him."
If Massie had invented his own cleaning robot decades ago, which the biggest AI companies can't create today, why isn't it being sold in stores?
Maybe the lying is a pathological part of his nature. This would explain the Epstein stuff.
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I saw someone talk about Crusader Kings III on console, and i assumed they had ported it to the command line.
Almost makes more sense...
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@Merridew__ @DeepDishEnjoyer What were the "horrifying new charges"?He's already got Toxic Male Feminist vibes i dont get what more a grand jury could possibly need to see at this point
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@MeltingSnowBro - Selling at the market clearing price would create reputational risks.
- they get to hand a free win to their most valued distributors, in the form of scarce allocatioms of the low-MRSP products, which will sell like hotcakes.
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Can an economist explain how scalping is even possible?
If you can buy a $50 product and immediately resell it for $100, then the company selling it at $50 is clearly leaving money on the table.
yeet@Awk20000
YungFika from H3 was able to grab a Pokémon box after a scalper got distracted by a kerfuffle
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@blondesnmoney "But I guess Nokia and Microstrategy must be dead and gone by now."
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@BeenThereCap I don't think Draftkings users are cleaning up on parlays either.
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