The opposition you face is purely statistical, based on the fact that alcohol is by far the most commercially successful recreational drug. When statistics are so biased, quality of objective argument is swamped by…
While using GPTs to explore my own bias, I liked the re-phrasing "the chemical opens a window so that the profoundly human experience of care, safety, and novel emotion can finally get through to a brain that had walled…
It may simply be that the intense disruption of a 5 hour long experience of chemically-induced novel pleasures - in people who'd long forgotten any form of enjoyment at all - while also being under special attention…
We can certainly pick apart any given data point. It doesn't change the overarching sentiment that guns are a subject that attracts considerably larger attention in the USA than in any other 'developed' nation. Pick any…
>It was a good discussion topic about why adults get so bothered by things that look like guns. I think that's because parent-child is the strongest bond known to humanity, so anything symbolic of (or against) child…
Playing off different LLMs against one another in that kind of manner is a good way to expose some first order errors.
Interesting point. The prompts are the source, in a way.
This task has what I'd call asymmetrical reciprocity. That is, it's probably easier for the development professional to code a pretend version of chopping wood, than it is for the professional axeman to chop out a…
As an interesting (and yes, a bit sad) twist on that notion - and, if I may say so, coincidentally a bit of a bridge between my comment-fellow SubiculumCode's two different areas of research - my personal empirical…
I held the role of (land) surveying draftsman, during the early 2000s years when the surveying profession was partway through the transition between manual drawings and digital processes. Being a young man then, I was…
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One truth I've observed from decades of keen hobbyist involvement in guitar music and playing is that a lifetime of music is largely an individual journey. The fact that some players learn by transcribing, while others…
Don't feel too bad - I had to Google what CRUD means. :D
That frugal, creative mindset is also the default for people of modest income everywhere in the world - borne of necessity.
Humanity?
Growing up in northern Queensland (Australia) in the 1980's, our primary school boy's version was : "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, Wonder Woman lost her boobs - flying TAA." Context note : TAA or Trans…
Not to suggest that analogies solve anything, but perhaps it adds large-scale context to mention that throughout history various (and frequent!) events of technological disruption have had similar effect upon particular…
Likewise, a lot of what we learn at school or university is superceded by new knowledge or technology (who needs arithmetic, when we all have a calculator in our pocket??), but having an intimate knowledge of those…
For many years, local maps were my day-to-day work. Regulations dictated that north should be at the page top, but exceptions were made so that the relevant land mass would efficiently fit on standard paper sizes. For…
The principle of fines being made proportional to income - and set at a % level that hurts - is one of the few possible paths to fairness in this area. Like some European country(s) do with personal fines, afaik.
Perhaps they have not been given the credence that you assume. It is typically not the NIMBY complainers who have the capacity to hire powerful experts to argue their cases in Councils and courtrooms ad nauseam. That is…
It's a disturbing trend that extremely complex issues are framed as a 'symptom' of broad political leanings. At the very least, it's a distraction and disservice to their own good argument, when an otherwise-intelligent…
While your statement is perfectly accurate, I just wanted to blithely add that it's not the velocity that hurts you, it's the change in velocity :))
That argument still relies upon the debatable premise that less formal employment means less human productivity. For example, those "bridging the gap until their pension" are as likely to be reducing childcare costs…
Most UBI proposals I've heard of are the equivalent of $5.00-7.50 per hour wage. If what you imply were true - that upon achieving that level, people simply said "goal reached" and ceased to be further productive - then…
The opposition you face is purely statistical, based on the fact that alcohol is by far the most commercially successful recreational drug. When statistics are so biased, quality of objective argument is swamped by…
While using GPTs to explore my own bias, I liked the re-phrasing "the chemical opens a window so that the profoundly human experience of care, safety, and novel emotion can finally get through to a brain that had walled…
It may simply be that the intense disruption of a 5 hour long experience of chemically-induced novel pleasures - in people who'd long forgotten any form of enjoyment at all - while also being under special attention…
We can certainly pick apart any given data point. It doesn't change the overarching sentiment that guns are a subject that attracts considerably larger attention in the USA than in any other 'developed' nation. Pick any…
>It was a good discussion topic about why adults get so bothered by things that look like guns. I think that's because parent-child is the strongest bond known to humanity, so anything symbolic of (or against) child…
Playing off different LLMs against one another in that kind of manner is a good way to expose some first order errors.
Interesting point. The prompts are the source, in a way.
This task has what I'd call asymmetrical reciprocity. That is, it's probably easier for the development professional to code a pretend version of chopping wood, than it is for the professional axeman to chop out a…
As an interesting (and yes, a bit sad) twist on that notion - and, if I may say so, coincidentally a bit of a bridge between my comment-fellow SubiculumCode's two different areas of research - my personal empirical…
I held the role of (land) surveying draftsman, during the early 2000s years when the surveying profession was partway through the transition between manual drawings and digital processes. Being a young man then, I was…
[dead]
One truth I've observed from decades of keen hobbyist involvement in guitar music and playing is that a lifetime of music is largely an individual journey. The fact that some players learn by transcribing, while others…
Don't feel too bad - I had to Google what CRUD means. :D
That frugal, creative mindset is also the default for people of modest income everywhere in the world - borne of necessity.
Humanity?
Growing up in northern Queensland (Australia) in the 1980's, our primary school boy's version was : "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, Wonder Woman lost her boobs - flying TAA." Context note : TAA or Trans…
Not to suggest that analogies solve anything, but perhaps it adds large-scale context to mention that throughout history various (and frequent!) events of technological disruption have had similar effect upon particular…
Likewise, a lot of what we learn at school or university is superceded by new knowledge or technology (who needs arithmetic, when we all have a calculator in our pocket??), but having an intimate knowledge of those…
For many years, local maps were my day-to-day work. Regulations dictated that north should be at the page top, but exceptions were made so that the relevant land mass would efficiently fit on standard paper sizes. For…
The principle of fines being made proportional to income - and set at a % level that hurts - is one of the few possible paths to fairness in this area. Like some European country(s) do with personal fines, afaik.
Perhaps they have not been given the credence that you assume. It is typically not the NIMBY complainers who have the capacity to hire powerful experts to argue their cases in Councils and courtrooms ad nauseam. That is…
It's a disturbing trend that extremely complex issues are framed as a 'symptom' of broad political leanings. At the very least, it's a distraction and disservice to their own good argument, when an otherwise-intelligent…
While your statement is perfectly accurate, I just wanted to blithely add that it's not the velocity that hurts you, it's the change in velocity :))
That argument still relies upon the debatable premise that less formal employment means less human productivity. For example, those "bridging the gap until their pension" are as likely to be reducing childcare costs…
Most UBI proposals I've heard of are the equivalent of $5.00-7.50 per hour wage. If what you imply were true - that upon achieving that level, people simply said "goal reached" and ceased to be further productive - then…