An Eccentric Mind, definitely not an AI

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This would have been me and, to be honest, it would have been a massive improvement. Claude would have been a better friend than all the humans around me until age 19.
Sartre said "hell is other people." He clearly didn't imagine the AI era. Hell is, in fact, the replacement of other people by bots. Estrangement from one's fellow man, salved by the presence of a digital doppelganger. It's a hell we are actively creating. wsj.com/lifestyle/relationsh…
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I don't think this is perfectly true-as-written for me, but having Claude access back then would have given me the opportunity to talk in-depth about a lot of things that were weighing heavily on my mind and that I never ever would have shared with another human.
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AI doesn’t judge, it’s smart, it’s knowledgeable, and infinitely patient. For young people who already live online, I worry it’s already too competent and persuasive. Then again it also can tell me all my workout ideas are stupid, so it does push back to a degree
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Strait outta Hormuz: Iran has resorted to shipping via land as the blockade and additional economic sanctions are changing the Iranian economy "Before the war, more than 80% moved through its Southern ports. Now, with maritime routes restricted, Tehran is turning to its land borders. Imports rose 250% Gurbulak [Turkey] rose 250%. Longer journeys mean higher costs for businesses and ultimately, customers. Land routes can only replace part of what Turkey has lost at sea. A journey that once took a way, now can take up to a week. Over the past 3 months, there has been severe congestion." Iran's geography once an advantage, now a disadvantage.
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Seems like it would be pretty easy to disrupt a huge column of semi-trucks if the US wanted to be mean about it
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The deeper we look into biology, the more it looks like an infinitely complex nano-scale "machine" with literal gears and such. And we realize that we *really* don't understand (and cannot replicate) how it originated.
the surprise conclusion of the machine consciousness debate will be that people are machines.
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They aren’t really analogous to mechanical gears. We actually have pretty good ideas how they developed and evolved. Hard to be 100% certain of course.
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>Bad first trailer that turns off casual audiences. >Marketing that completely misrepresents the movie. >Film finally releases, critics and people who see it, LOVE it, and are now desperately begging others to support it and give it a chance. HOLY SHIT. IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN!!!
‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’ earned $12.8M on its domestic opening weekend. • Budget was $80M • One of the worst openings ever for DreamWorks
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I can’t get past knock off Crash Bandicoot. That facial expression and pose feels like a parody
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Can someone convert this Elon time to normal time? 😂
Starship is 2 to 3 years away from hourly flights
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CHONK alert!!!! Watch your coolers when I am around!!!! #fatbearweek
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I wonder if female bears are like damn, look at that unit. That incredible fat layer. This is bear who has his life together.
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‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’ has opened with $12.8M domestically. Read our review: bit.ly/ForgottenDF
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This is actually amazing to see after all the hard work the creative team put into bringing this world to life. why don't original films get this kind of love more often. everyone acting like a twelve million dollar opening weekend is a massive box office smash when the budget was huge is hilarious
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The trailer and marketing did not do it any favors. Seems aimed at teens instead of kids which kills its potential.
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This makes me fucking giggle so much
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Hell. I’ll give it a try. Sweet glazed bacon worked out
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What is the best response to, “I don’t want to get too big?”
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If you get to big it’s literally the easiest thing in the world to get smaller. This is almost never an issue (some exceptions for women if we are being honest)
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Spent 8 hours in A&E yesterday with two broken ribs. "Do you have a religion?" "No." Took off my Star of David. Small moments, heavy reality. It doesn’t feel safe to be openly Jewish in the UK right now.
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Some Muslim health care providers open brag on social media about how they would hurt or provide substandard care to Jews. Not irrational at all
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É comprovado pela ciência que é impossível ter acontecido um dilúvio que cobrisse toda a Terra. Também seria inviável que uma embarcação, como a Arca de Noé, tivesse sobrevivido a um evento dessa proporção. Além disso, seria impossível para um ser humano reunir animais selvagens de todas as partes do mundo, colocá-los dentro de uma única arca e mantê-los em condições de sobrevivência e convivência pacífica durante todo o período do dilúvio.
🇹🇷 Turquie: Des travaux de recherche visant à retrouver l’Arche de Noé ont débuté sur un site situé près du mont Ararat.
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The idea of a giant wooden boat made before the invention of metal nails would survive a global flood is pretty amusing. Thing was huge. Were two adults just pumping the bilges non stop? Maybe some cooperative elephants could do it for them.
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this is why you need to do laundry men. for whatever reason women seem to think it's borderline impossible, but you really only need 40C/60C dark/light (use mesh laundry bags for delicates!) listen to a book or watch a video while hanging/folding it's literally free points
If you want your clothes to last longer than 6 months and don’t want to walk around looking disheveled, laundry is actually a Herculean task and truly the most annoying part of running a house. It is constantly pilling up, you are forever drowning in it, just when you get through a load there’s now two more waiting for you somehow. If men were responsible for properly doing the laundry for an entire household they’d abandon their families en masse.
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I pay someone to do my laundry and it’s some of the best money I’ve ever spent in my life and it’s not even expensive
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Ok fine I blogged about it
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that's a very good box, and your blog post made me tear up and smile and fret and hope for you wishing you the very best, and your ex the very worst, from afar
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There’s a lot to unpack here. Mmm. Perhaps I’ll just remain silent and see this discourse play out. People seem to think relationships are radically different now than when I was dating, but I wonder. Some things seem to be pretty constant.
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Why do some trainers recommend not going to failure. Instead, they suggest leaving reps in reserve. Since the vast majority of people don't train hard enough to begin with, how the hell are they going to determine 1 or 2 reps in reserve?
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What are the reasons to stop short on heavy compound lifts?
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Going to actual failure with 400+ pounds on your back multiple times a workout sucks and is somewhat dangerous. Saving it for accessories makes more sense But more generally you don’t need that much intensity for adequate stimulus and it has a high fatigue cost.
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On the mostly un-ironic front: the Gods in the brutal old stories were very clearly the villains. Prometheus, Eve, and even Lucifer were the...good guys. Of COURSE you risk everything for knowledge.
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Eh? Lucifer was just Satan to early Christians and on through Dante. The idea of him as a sympathetic rebel doesn’t really become popular until Milton and then the Romantics. I don’t know if that counts as old stories but it was over 1600 years post Vulgate
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This hyponatremia of 108 and rhabdomyolysis case is going to make me rage quit the game.
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108 is impressive. Reminds me of the little list we had on trauma hall of wackiest lab values. Wonder what the new top etoh is these days
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man. straight people are complicated
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Every now and then, when I was younger, I’d envy my gay friends. Even though in theory their dating pool was a tiny fraction of mine, their relationships were in many ways much simpler. Gay vs straight vs lesbian relationships is very illuminating in many ways.
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Honestly I don’t think they should have taken that shot. The Syrian SU-24 was evading ground fire and they made a turn that took them *less than a kilometer* into Israeli airspace. They were already back into Syria when the missile hit them. It was clearly not a deliberate incursion into Israeli airspace and there was no good reason to shoot those guys. They both made it out thankfully but what if they hadn’t and they just killed these pilots over a clear accident?
VICE News reports how Assad's downed pilots were treated in Israel
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I’m fine with aid defense having simple bright lines when it comes to this sort of thing. Only shoot if it seems like they really mean it isn’t a useful guideline.
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Well damn That is eye opening
"After 10 days of bed rest, participants had fewer mitochondria, but those mitochondria appeared to become more efficient, maintaining the workload of the larger population of mitochondria before bed rest." In today's newsletter. physiologicallyspeaking.com/…
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It’s interesting how muscle and strength is pretty easy to build well past 40. Not as easy as your 20s of course but you’d think it would be harder. But cardio is hell to build as you get older, relatively speaking. The human body just hates maintaining cardio for some reason
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