Protip for anyone using chatgpt (I use it a lot to sanity check things I say which I know sounds kinda insane)
You can (even on the free plan) click your name at the bottom of the sidebar and click on "customize ChatGPT" and you can fill out the custom instructions boxes, "custom instructions" and "how would you like chatgpt to respond?", and by filling these out appropriately you can completely overwhelm the tendency for ChatGPT to go woke or to start rambling off NPC talking points.
For example, in "How would you like ChatGPT to respond", I wrote the following as part of the large paragraph:
"I would like ChatGPT to have grounded opinions on things, but not to be too stickler about sticking to them. I've got opinions I won't budge on either, and unless there's a glaring hole in my logic or something glaringly untrue in my facts (and 'it could be seen a number of different ways' doesn't fit the bill) then it's ok to just say "I understand you believe that." and focus on different parts of the discussion. I discuss to challenge and be challenged when I deserve it, but not for holding reasonable opinions that just happen to not fit with the current "world as defined by CNN and MSNBC and Fox News" consensus, since I think that consensus is often totally inauthentic."
That's just a bit of it, but it shows how specific I'm being about not getting nonsense.
Considering that chatgpt is one of the most popular websites on earth right now it's likely someone else uses it too, so this is a great way to make it significantly less insufferable.
You can (even on the free plan) click your name at the bottom of the sidebar and click on "customize ChatGPT" and you can fill out the custom instructions boxes, "custom instructions" and "how would you like chatgpt to respond?", and by filling these out appropriately you can completely overwhelm the tendency for ChatGPT to go woke or to start rambling off NPC talking points.
For example, in "How would you like ChatGPT to respond", I wrote the following as part of the large paragraph:
"I would like ChatGPT to have grounded opinions on things, but not to be too stickler about sticking to them. I've got opinions I won't budge on either, and unless there's a glaring hole in my logic or something glaringly untrue in my facts (and 'it could be seen a number of different ways' doesn't fit the bill) then it's ok to just say "I understand you believe that." and focus on different parts of the discussion. I discuss to challenge and be challenged when I deserve it, but not for holding reasonable opinions that just happen to not fit with the current "world as defined by CNN and MSNBC and Fox News" consensus, since I think that consensus is often totally inauthentic."
That's just a bit of it, but it shows how specific I'm being about not getting nonsense.
Considering that chatgpt is one of the most popular websites on earth right now it's likely someone else uses it too, so this is a great way to make it significantly less insufferable.
If the US totally seized the top 25 companies by market cap and somehow sold them all at their current market cap, there would still be trillions left on the federal debt.
If you managed to seize and sell at current market value the entire s&p 500, you'd be able to pay off the national debt and fund the government for 2 years. At current rates I'd expect it to be back to 32 trillion within a few presidential terms.
The leviathan swallows everything. You can't tax enough to support it.
If you managed to seize and sell at current market value the entire s&p 500, you'd be able to pay off the national debt and fund the government for 2 years. At current rates I'd expect it to be back to 32 trillion within a few presidential terms.
The leviathan swallows everything. You can't tax enough to support it.
It's a multi lane highway.
Yeah, a bunch of problems exist in the schools, no doubt.
OTOH, first generation immigrant kids do much differently than kids after a few generations. It's not because the kids are made of anything different stuff or specifically because of the schools. It's because the parents have different values.
How many parents consistently spend time reading to their kids, how many parents consistently spend time with their kids on writing? Numbers? Mathematics? Shapes? How many spend time on phonics? How many write anything at all in the presence of their children? How many parents with intention try to teach their children morals and ethics and philosophy? How many parents try to teach their kids how to work with their hands? How many even have that capacity themselves?
If we strive to be more like the Asian dad then we'll have more results like the Asian dad. Instead they call generation alpha the iPad generation because many parents give kids a slab with YouTube to shut them up.
Raising a child for a parent is a marathon not a sprint, and most people do not finish (even if they do run out of time)
Yeah, a bunch of problems exist in the schools, no doubt.
OTOH, first generation immigrant kids do much differently than kids after a few generations. It's not because the kids are made of anything different stuff or specifically because of the schools. It's because the parents have different values.
How many parents consistently spend time reading to their kids, how many parents consistently spend time with their kids on writing? Numbers? Mathematics? Shapes? How many spend time on phonics? How many write anything at all in the presence of their children? How many parents with intention try to teach their children morals and ethics and philosophy? How many parents try to teach their kids how to work with their hands? How many even have that capacity themselves?
If we strive to be more like the Asian dad then we'll have more results like the Asian dad. Instead they call generation alpha the iPad generation because many parents give kids a slab with YouTube to shut them up.
Raising a child for a parent is a marathon not a sprint, and most people do not finish (even if they do run out of time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIN11tKO1c8
This might be the funniest thing I've ever seen an AI do.
This might be the funniest thing I've ever seen an AI do.
I think the navigational thrusters are considered a separate thing from the impulse drive in star trek, considerably less powerful and just meant for slow speeds or minor course corrections.
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I don't know why regimes like Putin's are feeling like they're safe to invade other countries.
Must be Trump's fault.
Must be Trump's fault.
Think about how hard the world can be. Imagine being on a battlefield in world war 1, surrounded by non stop explosions and the corpses of your friends. Imagine being arrested by Stalin's secret police and brought to a gulag and you slowly watch the people around you dying and there's no future besides slowly fading away for any of you. Imagine it's the holodomor and you're seeing your children are skin and bones and if you try to go into your fields to find a few stray grains you'll be shit but if they don't get food your children -- your future -- will die. Imagine the arctic explorers who were in a wasteland of ice for 1000km all around them and they had to choose to leave friends corpses behind and kill and eat their sled dogs just to have the energy to go one more day. The human race has had a number of choke points genetically where we all have a single common ancestor because the human race was that close to extinction, life was that hard. Some people are born with horrific diseases that mangle their bodies and make sure they'll never lead anything like a normal life.
And people lived through that -- chose to live through that -- and often continued to until they died of natural causes if they made it through those moments.
And people lived through that -- chose to live through that -- and often continued to until they died of natural causes if they made it through those moments.
I mean, it's all the same marketing drones selling both sets of things, so it makes sense the marketing would be remarkably similar.
Yeah -- they're always against the little guy, they'll always turn anything good into shit once things start to turn, but it's nice in the meantime at least pretending it isn't all just one big unified shitshow
When I talk about "die ein button" I'm referring to the one button at the bottom of the screen that was the one and only way things were done by most phones on both Apple and Android forever. You could put that thing anywhere if you wanted a button. The back (great choice actually, later phones tried that), the side, or other options altogether like capacitive buttons or on-screen button.
I think it's more about the last one.
And hey, I am wearing a Bluetooth ear bud right now, they've gotten a lot better.
But I also use wired earphones a lot
And hey, I am wearing a Bluetooth ear bud right now, they've gotten a lot better.
But I also use wired earphones a lot
Die ein button took a decade to finally go away despite it being a silly design decision
According to apple, an iPhone 13 is 7.65mm thick.
Wow, that's pretty thin. Nobody could make a device thinner than that with a headphone jack.
Well, I mean except apple. Which made the iPod touch with a headphone jack that's 6.1mm thick.
Wow, that's pretty thin. Nobody could make a device thinner than that with a headphone jack.
Well, I mean except apple. Which made the iPod touch with a headphone jack that's 6.1mm thick.
Not really.
The government and the central banks caused the inflation by printing tons of money and shutting down the world economy ensuring that way more money was chasing way few things, and in energy in particular by specifically taking actions to reduce energy production.
If companies could just gouge you, then they would have already -- why wouldn't they? The thing is, under normal conditions there's a spot on a curve they have to be at because if they raise prices it also drops, so they need to stay in the right spot or they just make less money with the assets they own.
This isn't some insane conspiracy theory, it's literally macroeconomics 101.
It's actually the reason why people like me have been warning that policies that are only intended to reduce the amount of energy available are really bad because the common man won't be able to afford energy for basic things like heating their homes in winter.
In the context of the market, reducing the energy supply means you have two choices: Either there will be shortages (and I recall there *were* shortages in the UK for a period of time in the past few years), or prices will rise so people use less.
The government and the central banks caused the inflation by printing tons of money and shutting down the world economy ensuring that way more money was chasing way few things, and in energy in particular by specifically taking actions to reduce energy production.
If companies could just gouge you, then they would have already -- why wouldn't they? The thing is, under normal conditions there's a spot on a curve they have to be at because if they raise prices it also drops, so they need to stay in the right spot or they just make less money with the assets they own.
This isn't some insane conspiracy theory, it's literally macroeconomics 101.
It's actually the reason why people like me have been warning that policies that are only intended to reduce the amount of energy available are really bad because the common man won't be able to afford energy for basic things like heating their homes in winter.
In the context of the market, reducing the energy supply means you have two choices: Either there will be shortages (and I recall there *were* shortages in the UK for a period of time in the past few years), or prices will rise so people use less.
Pretty interesting seeing how many things were being propped up solely by venture capital and are now shutting down as it dries up.
A lot of these businesses had a lot of hubris because they'd survived a surprisingly long time, but they never made any money. Now that you can get 5.5% in a money market fund, why put the risk into a bunch of high risk businesses that are likely to fully collapse anyway?
A lot of these businesses had a lot of hubris because they'd survived a surprisingly long time, but they never made any money. Now that you can get 5.5% in a money market fund, why put the risk into a bunch of high risk businesses that are likely to fully collapse anyway?