Yeah but what if you’re the AI twin and you’re in the metaverse right now playing out a recursive simulation? Is focusing on better paying jobs really what you want to spend your time doing?

It’ll try at least, lol

Without appropriate structure will we be able to effectively communicate ideas?

Yeah, that’s fair.

The highest level of education my grandpa achieved was 6th grade, but he still became a spokesperson for his union and partook in an adequate amount of property destruction to accomplish what needed to get done.

I guess I see language models as a tool to displace workers, and in this instance I feel like it’d be way more productive for a group of workers to get together and talk about what they’re trying to accomplish instead of having a language model tell them what to do.

Edit: I guess what I’m saying is that workers don’t need to be sophisticated or eloquent, they just need to be human.

Am I the only person who thinks it’s darkly ironic imagining a worker using a language model to write a script urging people to strike?

Like, if you don’t feel strongly enough to write your own feelings and thoughts how do you possibly think you’re going to be able to connect with other workers?

Being willing to commit property destruction is a minimum requirement of a union imo.

Idol: an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

I agree that they probably weren’t intended to be idols, but pictures of Jesus, Mary, the cross, etc are just objects of worship.

Jesus’s message of universal love goes beyond the Christian religion, which feels like it only exists to promote itself instead of the values that Christ promoted.

If Jesus were alive today I doubt he would care about the destruction of religious symbols. He’d probably say something like “Why are you concerned with a symbol when you have brothers and sisters who need help? If you really want to exalt God, go out and do His work.”

Like, if people truly believe God is the alpha and omega do they really think they need to get offended on his behalf?

Christianity has done a great job of putting God in a tiny box called “religion” and taking away all his power to the point where dinosaurs, evolution, and science are able to shake their faith.

God/love/the universe is nonsense, and we get to spend our whole lives trying to figure that nonsense out.

https://youtu.be/SzXn4PozUTo?si=h2-x0YJHqZzmuG7n

I’m pretty sure Jesus was opposed to the idea of nations, geopolitical boundaries, and political authority in general. So idk if he’d accept a title like “president”.

This is what it feels like to grow old.

It’s not so bad being the worst player on the team. Just means you have a lot of room for improvement as long as you’re willing to learn. Honestly it’s one of my favorite situations to find myself in. “Oh I suck. How can I get better?”

I don’t think solid state batteries provide as much benefit in smaller devices.

Yeah, you’d need to be able to see Fallen Destiny in the background.

I’ve been thinking about this a bit more, and I realized that I talk to other people the way I talk to myself. This probably wouldn’t be a problem if I weren’t so critical of myself.

I think I need to not only put in the effort to reread the things I write when communicating with others, but also to just be kinder to myself in my internal monologue.

I spend too much time being frustrated inside my own head, and that makes it easy to use that same tone when I’m interacting with other people.

Thanks for sharing your advice. I think verbalizing my thoughts the way you suggested will be really helpful.

Honestly, yeah sometimes. It’s my emotional reflex to frustration that was programmed into me by my parents and I haven’t done enough cognitive behavioral therapy to undo it.

Absolutely true, but it’s also more difficult to ask a good question when you don’t know anything about what you’re asking.

People who know a lot about a topic can ask very good questions about that topic.

The problem I see with most questions people post online is that they make too many assumptions that their audience will will magically understand the context of their question.

Good questions require relevant context.

Determining relevancy requires expertise.

Expertise comes from experience.

No matter how many questions you ask and answers you get you’ll never “understand” something until you do it.

Instead of asking questions like “How do I do X?” people should be asking “I’m trying to accomplish X, I’ve tried Y, but I’m encountering Z. How could I resolve this?”

I guess my rule is that you should never ask someone a question without first trying to answer it yourself.

We need an open source electric car.

No. Peace of mind comes from trusting, not from knowing.

Really surprised we didn’t side with Hamas this time.