literalis's comments

I other words, bullshitted them instead of being truthful.

If you play piano for Chopin they aren't going to give you a participation trophy. Give me a break.

Negro wasn't an offensive word even in the 90s from what I remember.

It would have sounded overly formal and a bit outdated but it wasn't a slur. I assume this just comes from Spanish so no more offensive than saying black in English. African-American was still somewhat new and certainly not as a widely used as today. Even in the mid 2000s people used the incredibly offensive term mulatto without a second thought as opposed to mixed race.

It would be like if latinx replaces latino completely in 20 years, latino becomes a slur and people in 2040 judging us now as racist for using the word latino. It is ridiculous and ignorance of the reality that language evolves in time.

It is also hard to put Miles in perspective. Kind of Blue was the second best selling album of all time at the end of the 1950s after Elvis Christmas album. Rebellious new heroin music as opposed to the high art we view jazz today.

75% of Gen Z doesn't even qualify to join the US military from obesity and drug use.

I am pretty sure the military is doing whatever they can do to market to that remaining 25%.

Beautiful women doing this I am sure is rather effective too. I would have considered the military far more when I was young if my image of the military was not that of the movie Platoon. A large group of young men getting yelled at by older men in between running.

Even better is "Filter feedback the way you filter calories: take only what you need. Take the rest with a grain of salt."

It takes a special kind of person to write that and not even look like they workout at all.

As a Girard fan that is trying to read the Golden Bough, I hate this guy so much.

IMO it is really just paranoid AI risk cultists theater for narcissists.

The more narcissistic types have figured out it is their moment in the sun to see their name in the paper and the more they play up the idea that AI is going to eat us the more attention they will get from media.

The whole idea is so irrational that I fail to see what other explanation there really is.

The other guilty party are the masses that have been trained to think in terms of appeal to authority instead of using their own brains. They have created the audience for this theater.

It is like saying the newspaper can just digitize the stories they were going to write anyway and keep selling the newspaper as they had before. That works until people stop buying the newspaper.

ChatGPT4 is better than any professor I ever had and it is not even close. Not to mention, the professors are not the ones who are going to get much better and smarter as time marches on from this point.

I am not even sure the credentialism from the Ivy league is going to make sense in an AI world.

This is not how the future is going to be.

There is no modeling going on with this. At most they are providing a system prompt to the chatGPT api to stay on the topic of CS. It is trivial.

It seems incredibly obvious the entire education system will not be the same in 20 years.

I applaud them for adopting this so fast because this is the doom of the entire concept of the ridiculously overpriced US higher education system.

Per chatGPT, non recte de hoc cogitas

There is just enormous variability with professors. The more MOOCs you take the more obvious this becomes.

If you had good professors in college you should consider yourself lucky.

There is a lot of absolutely terrible professors.

You obviously weren't high enough.

It totally works if you are super high.

It works though the same way that I will think I made some masterpiece of music while being super high and then when I listen the next day sober it is just 4 bars of total shit. It still sounded like a masterpiece in the moment. Marijuana is amazing at finding and grafting meaning on to things that aren't really there or just totally ordinary.

It was a huge miscalculation. Even Russians that hate Putin are not going to be comfortable with support for a coup from a private military.

Peter Zeihan stated the obvious in a video on this that Wagner would have been decimated from the air on their way to Moscow too. I don't think you need to attend an Army war college to figure that out.

Ultimately, someone crazy enough to build a giant private army is going to do crazy things.

None of this seems good to me unless one is cheering for the doomsday clock to strike midnight.

23% of US households with children have just one parent and 86% of those households are single mothers.

I am not even sure what this article is claiming to compare but it strikes me as ridiculous to not take the above information into account.

Of course it is harder to provide child care if the kid doesn't even live with you and I would think most the men are providing some form of child support.

I think in the US at least, travel has an even deeper aspect of ritualized behavior or religiosity in the positive sense of those concepts. A pilgrimage for people who don't believe in anything.

Even someone who takes a 20 hour flight to take photos for Instagram is having a unique life experience. They are going to have experiences worth telling stories about. Certainly more than the person who doesn't leave the house.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

LLMs should make us take seriously that the whole idea of consciousness is just superstition and unnecessary.

That definition is precisely how people define something that isn't real and doesn't exist.

If you can get there, it is quite amusing to think about a huge group of people who would think the idea of angels as complete foolish superstition but consciousness? Of course, we just haven't located this extra property of the brain, yet! It is there though, I know it is because I know is.