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An upcoming 'tiel 'tuber exploring some fresh air. Highly sussy, 18+ only
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Tariffs are going to bite
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Baroque: Ed Zitron has sufficiently corrupted his own understanding of the truth that he cannot be described as lying, as that would require him to understand he is not speaking the truth
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This, incidentally, is why I don't give much credence to the argument "It only knows it from ingesting language sources, it hasn't really experienced it"
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Fair, though in that case you most likely heard about DNA long before you did the lab where you extracted it from cells
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Will it help if we gave them a sandboxed physics simulation environment to do tasks in during training?
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If Spacex's engineers have a decent level of preparedness, they probably already started on it before the rocket was hauled to the launchpad
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And then you fat-fingered the speed of light when making your computations.
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Now suppose you found out later that you forgot to calibrate the instruments you used to make the measurements, thus resulting in a small but appreciable measurement error you don't know the exact magnitude of.
What would you make of your previous observations?
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But can you trust that officer to give an honest answer? Or will you get retroactive justifications for what was actually "I felt he was sus because of his skin color"?
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Mission impossible where the mission actually turns out to be possible but they manage to get the best outcome out of the circumstances anyways, exceeding expectations
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Even if that was true, they're not beating the pure right wing narrative publications in that regard, so the strategy doesn't work
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The correctly worded puzzle is also a good example of how adding irrelevant information can cause humans to have a huge error rate on what would normally be a straightforward question
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Please elaborate
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I name this out of distribution task the "gry puzzle". If you insist on a single word name, I'll call it "Jake".
xkcd.com/169/
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Does it have a text-editing mode of operation?
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Wide forearmband with a toggleable flexible display is my first thought
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Obvious candidate for forwarding to /dev/null
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Who are the four guys writing partially conflicting accounts of the adventure
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When push came to shove, the wall didn't hold up
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Authorities:
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🤔
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LLMAO
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So what happens if I reach a like rate > 100%
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Have voluntary certification systems appeared to try to let good professionals accurately self-identify as such?
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Contact sports as harm reduction
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Does this deal extend to nifty usages of the API that make $0 a month
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Does this configuration include placing widgets within the text editor
And if so, can you put your text editor in a text editor as a widget
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So what analogs of other parts of the nervous system do we have
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There's an easy way to eat less beef while still eating good
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(of course, eating plants directly would be even better, but we've got to start somewhere)
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There's an easy way to eat less beef while still eating good
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Optimize for the most omelettes made for the number of eggs broken
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Orcas ⊆ Dolphins
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Are we counting water evaporating while sitting in hydroelectric generator dams as part of the total
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There's a meet-in-the-middle option here
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Our buildings and weapons are absolutely chock full of steel
Good luck with that