I can’t believe you would rather let people die than let your house get spray painted. Monster.
but always break down as bad actors and grifters work their way in to cause trouble
This is the reason for having a slow, steady, methodical, skeptical approach to social change.
If your thing gets hijacked every time, eventually you gotta take responsibility for being so easily hijacked.
Yes I would say that about BLM. Justifying this stupid shit with that stupid shit doesn’t sway me. And no, now that I’m pissed off about this library vandalism, that does not in any way make me likely to support Gaza.
How do you not get that there is no mechanism of incentive here?
throwing shit on the Mona Lisa. Are you more aware?
No. I already knew about climate change.
Stonehenge. Are you more aware?
No. I already knew about climate change.
The audience is everyone who doesn't give a shit about the protests but instead pearl clutches over the covers of books getting some paint on them
I am opposed to spray painting library books. But that does not mean that spray painting library books is a way to recruit my help.
In fact, there is no reason to think it would recruit my help.
I don't give a shit if a hundred libraries burn to save the lives of even ten children.
There is no mechanism by which burning a library saves children’s lives
Gee that sounds a lot like the men in this story who also got ZERO PRISON.
Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.
Why not? Why not value the work based on what others are willing to pay for it?
Why don’t you ask a conservative or a republican?
Go ask the person who said that for their source, and ask yourself why you didn’t start with them in the first place.
I take my consent from the dog. You’re its caretaker, friend, and family. None of that means the dog’s incompetent to decide and communicate desire to be touched.
edit: I should be more clear. I ask for permission from the owner. I say “Can I say hi to your dog?”
Then I say hi by putting my hand out to smell. Then if the dog wants a pet, I’ll pet the dog.
Permission to approach from the owner, but consent to pet from the dog.
What if I’ve frozen the dog in carbonite, and he fits in my carry-on?
I think the picture is trying to resemble both light and rain. Like the enlightenment is in the falling of the water back into the ocean. The dropping of the tense separation. But also, the resulting hole in the cloud lets the light come through.
Here’s a few pictures I’ve saved in the last couple years. I think it gives a pretty good idea, but you tell me
The galaxy is a bowl of M&Ms. One of every hundred M&Ms is poisoned and will immediately kill you. It’s only a 1% chance you’ll die. Well maybe pike 5% if you eat a handful.
Most of the civilizations might even be moral enough not to destroy us, but all it takes is one.
Oh I thought yeast was a bacteria, huh.
We’re willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh chest of gold.
All we ask in return is your cooperation in bringing a known evil to Mordor.
I do remember reading school books and science articles 30-40 years ago and the estimates then weredifferent, but that's just how science works.
O’Neill cylinder is that big rotating cylinder space station format that uses the spin for artificial gravity.
At higher elevations the gravity will be lower. BMX bikes will be fun too. Make a big jump and you can go across the center and land on the other side, or go into a zero-gee part in the middle, which works out if you’re always inside a curve.
I’ve noticed ChatGPT gets less able to do precise reasoning or respond to instructions, the longer the conversation gets.
It felt exactly like working with a student who was getting tired and needed to rest.
Then I had above shower thought. Pretty cool right?
Every few months a new ChatGPT v4 is deployed. It’s got new training data, up through X date. They train up a new model on the new content in the world, including ChatGPT conversations from users who’ve opted into that (or didn’t opt out, can’t remember how it’s presented).
It’s like GPT is “sleeping”, to consolidate “the day’s” knowledge into long term memory. All the data in the current conversation is its short term memory. After handling a certain amount of complexity in one conversation, the coherence of responses breaks down, becomes more habitual and less responsive to nuance. It gets tired and can’t go much further.
I asked GPT-4 for a list of the most important threats to human civilization, their likelihood, and why they were considered threats.
GPT's output is also pasted into the comments.