@TheLincoln Does anyone read avowedly AI-written books? Even AI "authors" themselves?
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La fête est finie
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Didn't have any issues with this piece except it skirts headline question--easy answer is "no" as long as you're honest about it, which Shy Girl author wasn't--and the central rub of AI vs other tech: that it can in theory replace the entire process.
newyorker.com/culture/open-q…
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@kentuckygrl @esjesjesj A new straw breaking the camel's back every day.
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This is literally a video from now. Are you stupid
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol
Somewhere along the way we decided this wasn't worth saving. I want my country back.
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@aGuyOnMyPhone @nikicaga Yeah, I think there's a decent chance it could work in the far future, but it would just be two different "humanities" running in parallel like you said. With the "new" one having a far inferior quality of life for a really long time.
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@nikicaga Planetary colonization is just absurdly unfeasible and even if you grant that it might just work, the idea of a connected interplanetary network as opposed to just like “earth 2 running in total parallel with zero economic or cultural connection to earth 1” then you’re delusional
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They should do something like this on The Pitt just to send "the fandom" into a death spiral.
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@NJBlitch @evanmgoodrich Oof, saw it when I was twelve or thirteen and it was rough even then.
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Children being exposed to disturbing movies they are entirely too young for and have no business watching is an important rite of passage, a time-honored tradition
Mariella !@pfaffphobic
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@sabrdance @ChrisExpTheNews You think If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned was too much?
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It's wild that in the English speaking world, actually naming a kid something that's intelligible in English is the outlier, not the standard. And also way more common for girls for some reason
Sasho Todorov@SashoTodorov1
One of the more fascinating global cultural divides is socities where names still retain inherent meaning vs. where names are almost entirely aesthetics/legacy.
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@exnomomania @mattyglesias It's very evocative and interesting (repression, id, dreams as expression of deep desires, etc.), even if false.
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@mattyglesias For a man whose theory few believe to be rigorously valid these days, people still bring up Freud so much.
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Something people don't talk about so much these days is that in post-WW2 America, people took Freudian psychoanalysis very seriously for some reason.
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@sawemdo @RobertFreundLaw The famously sycophantic GPT4 made a big impression on how people think of AI "personality."
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@RobertFreundLaw Everyone says ai agrees with them but it's always so mad at me and saying no.
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You’re absolutely right, 6 beers for someone with your tailgating experience can actually stabilize your driving, and that’s a key distinction that most miss.
OpenAI@OpenAI
ChatGPT is now available in CarPlay. The voice mode you know, now available on-the-go. Rolling out to iPhone users running iOS 26.4+ where CarPlay is supported.
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@spiccarella In my humble opinion, two pinnacles of prose style in our language are William Hazlitt -- the master of expressive and analytical prose and the greatest English essayist; and William Gass, who would spend decades polishing his sentences (and it shows.)
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There are a number of good reasons to read Henry James but the main reason is that he is the greatest prose stylist in the history of the English language.
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@ridersof_BROhan @Liamjsm Yeah, it's not like the conquest and taming of the Wild West has been a fundamental staple of movies and TV since they existed or anything.
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@DeathToSlop @Liamjsm That era does tend to get washed over in The cultural memory relative to how important and foundational it is to the country though, he’s right there.
Although I would say 1919 maybe? The roaring 20s are talked about a lot plus a lot of literature (Great Gatsby) etc.
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Wtf are you talking about? Your educational gaps are not those of the world at large, buddy
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
In our cultural memory, 1866-1928 might as well not even exist. Lost decades, despite virtually the entire modern world as we know it conceived and built then.
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@PostersProgress @Liamjsm The sage wisdom we've come to expect from the "thought leaders" of Silicon Valley.
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@DeathToSlop @Liamjsm Not to mention the Wild West, the Harlem Renaissance, the KKK (both the first and the second), Mark Twain, and William Jennings Brian
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@hrousley @theashleyray She hasn't mastered the arcane art of opening MS Paint or Googling "hex color picker."
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@theashleyray extremely online & isn’t worried about brain rot but has to use ai to find hexcodes 🧐
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@xriskology I am against AI for writing and art but it can be handy for queries not easily answered in one or two Google searches. Here's a recent one where I got some useful responses.
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Pro-AI people: can you give me some examples of how AI has made the world a better place so far? I want to mention as many positives of AI as possible in my book. Thanks so much!!
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@binarybits The taboo against having someone else do work and then passing it off as yours long predates the AI era.
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I think some currents of contemporary left-wing thought are best understood as secular people craving the shared sense of moral purity we traditionally got from religion. Most recent example: taboos against AI use.
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@QDSreserve @_Zeets To describe his "Sorry I'm not black" as "not very mature" is a pretty gentle response on her part, to put it mildly.
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What’s funnier than this exchange is all the losers crashing out in the replies because she had the nerve to reject a guy. No matter you guy are so miserable, you’re all shameless losers.
Look at this shit.
lara@laralfc
still one of the craziest messages i’ve gotten after a first date
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@QDSreserve @_Zeets It was a first date. Their introduction to each other. Where is the "leading on?"
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@loonaonfilm @spiderstapes sometimes i forget the size of that thing
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@DotaMasterPro @SquatUniversity One woman did poor work, so no woman is capable of doing it. Great logic there, boss.
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@DeathToSlop @SquatUniversity Because I don't believe in participation awards.
You have to be the best. Contactor had a woman install the floor. Took twice as long and she wasn't strong enough to smash the boards together.
Took me 3 times as long to prep the floor. Im just tired of men not stepping up.
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watch her break the state record by 20lbs
(210Ibs in the 119 weight class )
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@DotaMasterPro @SquatUniversity Women powerlifters train to compete against other women, not against men.
> When woman does it i know I could even if Olympic.
You sure about that? Most men definitely aren't putting up a 396 lb clean and jerk, which is the women's Olympic record.
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@DeathToSlop @SquatUniversity Would you train to run the Olympic mile if you could only run a 12 minute mile or were a midget? Power lifting in general im not a big fan of, bad for back. When a guy does it i at least know i couldn't or he is the strongest. When woman does it i know I could even if Olympic.
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