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…move along, nothing to see here *whistles nonchalantly*
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And don't forget to keep wearing your skirt in the shower
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Don't forget to wear your skirt in the shower
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Just typing this now, I'm realising this is maybe my biggest (artistic) gripe with Andrew Lloyd Webber, but that'a a rant for another day…
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Also with songs in a musical! They can be interruptions to the plot. They can be the reason for the musical in the first place, with a flimsy plot to tie them together (most jukebox musicals but not all). But in the right hands they work together with the plot to something more than either alone
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It is possible to use action scenes to tell story! It's just it's so often done badly
Kinda weird to say, but the first Pirates of the Caribbean is surprisingly good at this. The fights have real narrative purpose, usually don't outstay their welcome and often have character moments within them
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That's just… straight up criminal fraud? Right?
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It's also very much burying the lede that the stock's still 20% down (ish? unsure of details) on yesterday's opening price
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I'm sure they exist. The real question is how many of them are there? Is it 30? 50? Somewhere inbetween? We may never know for sure.
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"Terrible people are being terrible to you, so maybe you just shouldn't bother" The internet's a delight, isn't it?
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Where was "we're cancelling all govt contacts with Musk companies"? Seems an important data point
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Can we apply this back to the philosophy itself, and thus disregard it and start rating things again?
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I'm honestly kinda surprised it's taken this long for this group of all the worst people to start falling out with each other
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Counterpoint, I would not want a hot bowl of this brought to me if I was ill in bed.
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It's not sentient. Quite the opposite. It turns out that statistically plausible sequences of text usually don't do well in referring to, like, real factual stuff
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Presumably if it's just recording everything and you go find stuff on it as evidence, then it's little different from a security camera, and presumably fair game. But if it were to proactively snitch on perceived wrongdoing, that seems to be rather different.
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Wonder what the legal situation would be for this, in terms of surveillance without a warrant.
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Six film titles that are misleading…
6. Mission Impossible (it was possible)
5. Goodfellas (they were pretty bad actually)
4. Jurassic Park (Cretaceous Park more like)
3. The Constant Gardener (never even starts gardening)
2. The Man Who Wasn’t There (yes he was)
1. The NeverEnding Story (ends)
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Presumably the formal recourse in that situation would be Habeas Corpus and get yourself in front of a judge. Of course actually asserting those rights is a very different question
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Curse you Sam! *shakes fist in a dramatically futile manner*
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One follows from the other. Can't see the big picture without understanding the details.
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There they might be twice the price, but they'd probably be at least 3 times as nice. This tier of supermarket sandwiches is *grim*
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To me it looks like there *is* a fairly significant East-West divide. Obviously quite a lot less than urban-rural, but still seems like an important feature. Plus it's one I don't have such an intuitive understanding of, unlike the urban-rural dynamic that's prevalent across many countries.
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My (admittedly not very original) thought here is that it's far more about what people left behind need out of it than me. If they want a tree, that's lovely. If they want a fancy headstone to visit and leave flowers, that's their call. If none of that, well, cremation doesn't bother me.
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It's almost always good to point out what is true. Not doing that is a large part of… *gestures vaguely*
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To the last point, I think there's significant non-overlap of these problems, or at least people affected. Perhaps some are already in a fake info hellscape, but anything that could pull more people into new and exciting fake info hellscapes isn't mitigated because some people are already in one.
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I think the veneer and superficial forms of reliable content increase the danger.
There's also a different dynamic in (at least current) LLM's ambivalence to facts, compared to human creators on TikTok who usually have *some* kind of agenda. Whether that's worse, or just a different kind of bad idk
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"I'm not on ket, I'm actually just this much of a fucked up person naturally" isn't quite the defence he thinks it is.
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I was just there and can confirm one of those things is true.
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I watched this when I was like 13 years old, then came back to it like a decade later and man was it a very different film.
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Is a rather tired observation, but I'm just trying to imagine this woman's reaction to the idea of putting up posters with the five pillars of Islam in every school classroom.
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TBF, if my parents had named me X Æ A-12, I might find a bit of extra strength
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Spectacular
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It would've been almost more funny for her to leave the original album rights to continue to depreciate as everyone bought/listened to the Taylor's Version ones instead. (Not that I'm doubting she knows what she's doing here, obvs)
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IDK if it's technically question-begging, but it's certainly a mess of metaphysical motivated reasoning.
I have more time for some parts of philosophy as I get older, but discussions on topics like this really make me reach for Newton's Flaming Laser Sword.
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Was thinking for the first half of the video "but when is he gonna start talking about all the prog sequels?" Thankfully you didn't disappoint
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As an undergrad we got a story about a safety officer at a different institution who kept an old pair of someone's lab goggles on display in their office. Complete with large shards of glass still embedded.
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As a scientists I am shocked and appalled by this extremely personal attack which is 100% accurate.
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I think a lot of the problem with particularly quantum stuff is people (mostly but not entirely nonscientists) pontificating about what quantum mechanics *means*, and that is must have some deep interpretation. Rather than "we poked the universe and this seems to be how it wobbles *shrug*".
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Would now be a bad time to tell you I don't watch Emmerdale?
(I also haven't watched Andor, but that's more to do with not having the appropriate streaming service and not really being into big TV, rather than disliking it.)
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I mean, what's really the difference between those?
I'm somewhat joking, of course, but not entirely I don't think.
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It'll be great at regurgitating mixed up versions of existing mythologies.
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"Lots to unpack, but let's just throw away the whole suitcase"
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I'm just now imagining if the process was invented much later and then there was a backlash against it as part of the organic foods movement. Can almost see the "All-natural piss-fertilised produce" labels