In practical terms, “monad” means “chainable”.

Turns out that there’s no statute of limitations for terrorism, even if nobody was injured.

But then there will be funny/fuzzy cases then, whether something is considered political (and thus “terrorism”) or not

Classier than listing every program individually?

I mean… Isn’t that?

It’s “~~beat~ [guess] the hash [with distributed gamified brute force]”

Re: “wrongness” and “accepting yourself”, how much do you think it has to do with how society/others regard the identity you present? I.e. how much do you think the path you’ve taken is an internal development vs a response to society?

In order to describe what I’m thinking: Today, you’ve found a place/role within society where you’re more comfortable than the places/roles you’ve taken in the past. However, a completely different culture/society would have had different available “options”.

Sorry if I’m being way too abstract/hypothetical. Even as a “more conventional normal person”, I’ve long wondered how different I might be had I grown up in a completely different society.

Either 1:0 or 0:1, depending on my mood

This is when the argument can be reduced to absurdity, e.g. banning the Bible for the sexual imagery in it. Ban absolutely anything and everything even remotely objectionable to anyone (there are people with feet fetishes, ban all feet, and thus also all shoes), so there’s no Internet at all.

True, but there are projections designed to compromise multiple factors, whereas Mercator Al has a specialized use case, so it’s easy to agree that it’s a poor layman/general projection

I’ve read that Brita elite filters do capture some PFAs. However, it is well known that Brita filters and the like aren’t as efficient and effective as more dedicated solutions.

That is to say, no, they’re not bullshit – they’re better than nothing, but they’re just a marginal improvement. From my limited research so far I think it’s correct to say that you’re paying Brita more for a convenient system than for efficient and high quality filtration.

If you worked a shitty job that only earned $1 a day after accounting for work-related expenses (e.g. transportation, professional equipment, taxes, etc), it would be profitable, but not worth your time.

Is it not an apt analogue to describe the behavior, though? After all, one well known failure mode of LLMs has been formally dubbed “hallucination”.

And there are inflection points where it’s going it be easier to cut out the middlemen.

Efficiency of living is not static, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were possible to sustainably support 10B people with a relatively high standard of living.

I heard the following metric recently:

But in China, in 2013, China had terrible particulate air pollution. It was known around the world as the airpocalypse (ph) on a - a 700 on a scale of air pollution from zero to 500, the U.S. embassy reported. And, you know, over the decade after 2013, the size of the Chinese population grew by 50 million people. And so if more people were always worse for the environment, you might think that particle air pollution in China would have gotten worse. But, in fact, particle air pollution in China fell by half, even while the population grew.

Efficiency of living is only starting to come into the public consciousness, and we’re barely rewarding the exploration of that space. I think we’ll find there are a ton of improvements to be had.

That said, it’s a “after we survive the crisis” outlook. It seems hardship from climate change is already inevitable, especially in this upcoming century.

How would a page fetch new messages for you without JS?

What about encrypted DNS?

The content likely doesn’t matter, but I read it helps the baby recognize the parent’s voices (esp the Dad’s, Momv already gets a lot of time), and it can also help them get a head start on recognizing the phenomes of your language.

When gaming online, Chinese players sometimes type “99” or “9898”, and I learned it means “go! go!” or “let’s go!”

That video is super, super wrong, and nowhere even close to “just a different perspective”. To demonstrate, Mercury and Venus should periodically come between the Sun and Earth, but that’ll never happen in that model.

Isn’t it pretty clear that human intelligence isn’t only high-dimensional statistical modelling by showing how even small children have “context windows” vastly surpassing even the most advanced and resource intensive models, and their brains only take a few snacks every few hours to power?