Your last sentence is non-sequitur. The health implications of sugar consumption have no relationship to it being addictive (or not).
The parent was the same category of statements as, "I don't eat food that has chemicals." While they sprinkle it a chemical based, flavor enhancing, preservative.
Sugar is required for biology. I'm no more addicted to sugar than I am to water, air or just being alive.
> People say "let doctors prescribe", but that ignores how in order for that to happen, a pharma company will need something they can patent, pay for the years of testing, get sole control over it for a period, and…
> It is hard for me to read the combination of these two bans as anything but active malice. Reading the document... > In recent years, online forum users have begun to discuss recreational use of these four synthetic…
I've been benefitting from automation my entire life. I don't see why anything would change when that automation is driven by language models.
It's a good thing we're using that methane to power AI instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, right?
Sure but this whole thread reads like it's absolving the government giving these contracts and blaming private companies. It's the frog and the scorpion fable.
And who is responsible for making sure federal contracts don't go to wasteful contractors?
> are we that much better off as a society ... than ... the French in the 50s Everyone in the western world is, including the French. > are we ... more cultured than, say, the French in the 50s That's a pretty…
> Actually many forms of government mandate and authority are generated by marketplace mechanisms, many of which are actually more true to desirable marketplace dynamics than those we see in private marketplaces, due to…
Good thing they're just in control of a bunch of LLMs.
Well, you seem to be giving blanket support to the government and conflating it with democracy. I thought a good example of the pinnacle of government bureaucracy in action acting undemocratically both undermines your…
> There are plenty of solid reasons to despise Elon - no need for counterfactuals. There really aren't that many. He's kinda a dick and briefly supported the president very publicly. Most of the other reasons are just…
That chat control vote in the EU sure was sometime, wasn't it?
Kessler syndrome isn't possible in the StarLink orbit.
> TVs need to continuously improve to keep selling All while getting cheaper in the process. Thanks capitalism!
https://www.factorio.com/buy
It can be it's own "adventure" just to go to the movies and pick something that's playing. You can end up seeing a movie you wouldn't have because you didn't spend 20 minutes reading the negative reviews of and it turns…
> It is shocking that 276 members of parliament would vote to support this. Are so many so naive? Or being paid off? There are a lot of countries in the EU that aren't shining beacons of democracy. The EU makes sense as…
The article doesn't specify that and the quote is an offhand remark from the farmer himself. I read that more as "... and it cost me $120" as if that was the bill he paid at the end. However, it is unclear but I think…
And what argument are you making? That starving is good?
That price is absurdly exaggerated and the part is also misleading (an oil filter). > "The tech came out and it took him a couple hours to diagnose that there was one small sensor out. And that one small sensor, I think…
> Imagine, for example, needing to pay $1000 to replace an oil filter because you needed to buy the official John Deere oil filter and have the John Deere technician drive out to install it and flash the tractor to…
> it does seem like most AI startups are now like this Remember when AGI was going to replace all jobs in 6 months? It's always been like that.
Your last sentence is non-sequitur. The health implications of sugar consumption have no relationship to it being addictive (or not).
The parent was the same category of statements as, "I don't eat food that has chemicals." While they sprinkle it a chemical based, flavor enhancing, preservative.
Sugar is required for biology. I'm no more addicted to sugar than I am to water, air or just being alive.
> People say "let doctors prescribe", but that ignores how in order for that to happen, a pharma company will need something they can patent, pay for the years of testing, get sole control over it for a period, and…
> It is hard for me to read the combination of these two bans as anything but active malice. Reading the document... > In recent years, online forum users have begun to discuss recreational use of these four synthetic…
I've been benefitting from automation my entire life. I don't see why anything would change when that automation is driven by language models.
It's a good thing we're using that methane to power AI instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, right?
Sure but this whole thread reads like it's absolving the government giving these contracts and blaming private companies. It's the frog and the scorpion fable.
And who is responsible for making sure federal contracts don't go to wasteful contractors?
> are we that much better off as a society ... than ... the French in the 50s Everyone in the western world is, including the French. > are we ... more cultured than, say, the French in the 50s That's a pretty…
> Actually many forms of government mandate and authority are generated by marketplace mechanisms, many of which are actually more true to desirable marketplace dynamics than those we see in private marketplaces, due to…
Good thing they're just in control of a bunch of LLMs.
Well, you seem to be giving blanket support to the government and conflating it with democracy. I thought a good example of the pinnacle of government bureaucracy in action acting undemocratically both undermines your…
> There are plenty of solid reasons to despise Elon - no need for counterfactuals. There really aren't that many. He's kinda a dick and briefly supported the president very publicly. Most of the other reasons are just…
That chat control vote in the EU sure was sometime, wasn't it?
Kessler syndrome isn't possible in the StarLink orbit.
> TVs need to continuously improve to keep selling All while getting cheaper in the process. Thanks capitalism!
https://www.factorio.com/buy
It can be it's own "adventure" just to go to the movies and pick something that's playing. You can end up seeing a movie you wouldn't have because you didn't spend 20 minutes reading the negative reviews of and it turns…
> It is shocking that 276 members of parliament would vote to support this. Are so many so naive? Or being paid off? There are a lot of countries in the EU that aren't shining beacons of democracy. The EU makes sense as…
The article doesn't specify that and the quote is an offhand remark from the farmer himself. I read that more as "... and it cost me $120" as if that was the bill he paid at the end. However, it is unclear but I think…
And what argument are you making? That starving is good?
That price is absurdly exaggerated and the part is also misleading (an oil filter). > "The tech came out and it took him a couple hours to diagnose that there was one small sensor out. And that one small sensor, I think…
> Imagine, for example, needing to pay $1000 to replace an oil filter because you needed to buy the official John Deere oil filter and have the John Deere technician drive out to install it and flash the tractor to…
> it does seem like most AI startups are now like this Remember when AGI was going to replace all jobs in 6 months? It's always been like that.