I haven’t seen qualifications this relevant and high-quality since “architects and engineers for 9/11 truth.”

I read this twice as LLM interference engine and was hoping for something like SETI or Folding@Home except my computer could interfere with ChatGPT somehow.

Not a cult.

from r/EnoughMuskSpam

Hard to know if “Contovicsy” is an AI in-joke or a Grauniad in-joke. Or neither.

“Given the same chance, Sam would dedicate his post-prison life to charitable works,” Mukasey wrote.

Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could bring a slideshow of what Effective Altruism^TM considers “charitable works” to the sentencing hearings? “Charitable work” = traveling the world while having a laptop on the beach, in the jungle, by the pool…

My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”

I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.

Muito Bem.

I love this podcast. One of the hosts (Michael Hobbes) used to be on “you’re wrong about” which also dispelled common myths and misinformation. They look at bad science and epistemology in airport-type books, like Malcolm Gladwell or right wing nut jobs, etc.

This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.

I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably “The German Question” a couple of weeks ago.

If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.

Obviously it’s a cult, but when they use this phrasing, they just give the game away.

Skip to 1:03 for a second … this is the super-fast lyric portion of the video. Saying all of those syllables fast causes Mr. street-sounding rap guy to lose his accent code-switch and for that verse he sounds like a generic white guy. Pretty funny actually.

“12 foot ladder” helps with the paywall on this one. The article is written in a highly credulous tone. I would have appreciated an interview with someone that was actually receiving income and money in Euros out of the scheme. Like, money money.

At the end - Boston Consulting says that 10% of the market will be tokenized. Sure.

Thank you.

terrorists have and can used bio weapons to terrifying effect

Can you please tell me when and where? The Japanese subway gassing comes to mind. Anthrax envelopes in 2001. Any others since then?

r/nottheonion

Same here - basic but interesting. And hearing about the eugenics never fails to shock me, even when I already know about it.

This interview made me want to read her book.

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey | Nov 15, 2019

im secretly NRx

Sometimes building my vocabulary here is fun. I know nothing about his company but I empathize with their PR people who no doubt comb the internet for media hits.

ChatGPT, give me a phrase for when university professors are found having committed plagiarism in their dissertations:

*fifteen-year-stale peccadillos *

the data collection process was too time-consuming

Just to show how time-consuming this process might have been, it consisted of two people doing google searches and assigning the names them to a handful of categories.

1 - I copied the list of signatories from their website. 2 -Gina Stuessy and I searched the internet for “(name) lawsuit”, “(name) crime” and also looked at their Wikipedia page. 3 -I categorized any results into “financial”, “sexual”, and “other”, and also marked if they had spent at least one day in jail. 4 -Gina and I eventually decided that the data collection process was too time-consuming, and we stopped partway through. The final dataset includes 115 of the 232 signatories.[2][3]

I learned this in the Jack Reacher books - elbows are harder to break and have more impact.*

• I have not tried this