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"If I knew the way I would take you home"

"and there is nothing new under the sun"


I imagine UBI implemented through exercise program. Human hamster wheels, the future.


All you need for the 1729 result is a spreadsheet (sum table of cubes). Not as mysterious through direct computation.


The issue is trust, AI is not the issue.

Culture, not technology.


Captcha, of course. \s


And don't forget to get on their case with accusations of technology use that equate to the Turing test


Not sure why it's downvoted. Fiction isn't as far from reality.


But are you aware of the weight comparison of a gallon of water vs a gallon of butane ?


No im not. A gallon is a measure of volume? This is a USA unit.



The film was absurdist. Here's another realistic take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqs8D3xfxsc (despite the clickbait title sounding like anti-intellectualism)


We thought it was abusurdist, turns out it's a ballparkish estimate of where we're headed in 20 years if the current trends and leadership keep it up.

- declaring vaccines as bad science

- attacking academia as "elites" to be despised

- attacking all higher education

- highlighting the 50s —a period of terrible racial, gender,etc equality— as the height of US civilization

- putting a health conspiracy nut like RFK in charge of our health. Surprised food babe wasn't his selection since she's much more attractive.

- equating tariffs as the same thing as a trade deficit


Imagine a robot programmed to shuffle balls from a bin and pick one, like for the lottery. The implementation is deterministic, but the outcome 'random'.

Edit: (about LLMs) balls on the bin repeat if we like them more, and instead of numbers we put "tokens" on them: pieces of text. Also, the bin gets updated every time you take a ball out. The human can then interpret the text from the balls to form a meaningful message. A significant improvement from geomancy (\s?)


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