I have never seen a relationship that was better in marriage than dating, regardless of the timeline.

Hmm not going to lie I don’t trust humans to be qualified self-governing at scale, brains are too small and empathy is too weak.

Big brother surveillance sucks, but is probably one of the most effective ways to mitigate crime. Power begets corruption so it’s essential to limit any one person’s power, to that effect a monthly empathy and compassion test should be mandatory for any person in a position of power. Obviously the test itself is the weak point so you need some sort of balanced system of administration and auditing, one group has only the power to judge, the other has only the power to judge the judges etc. Perhaps some sort of distributed dao style voting system, in which voting is mandatory, you cannot purchase anything without performing your duty of voting.

Ai is imperfect but it’s fairly safe to assume that 1000 years of progress fine tuning the current technology would lead to a reasonable system that could be relied upon as a final arbiter for decisions that humans fail to form a consensus on. A “supreme court” of sorts. Important with such a broad timeline that the ai system can only be used after the death of the last person to work on it. So you literally cannot personally benefit from corruption, and income of officials would be strictly monitored, anything unreported would be assumed to be corruption and the position would be lost.

Prison is ineffective, punishment in general is ineffective, so some alternative needs to be established. Since we’re all meaty human flesh machines, there’s not an awful lot of options, perhaps an option to move off-planet if a crime is committed, with a system of working their way back to a main colony.

Work as established is dystopian, I think the focus should be on creating automations, mandatory work should be limited to something like 1 week a month.

There’s a lot more I think, in general hedging against common human corruptions would be the gameplan. Humans will self destruct given enough time and there’s just not much you can do about it

The image is boobs, that happen to look like spiderman, and the bad news is that you’re a nerd or something idk

Apparently irregular means undocumented?

I genuinely don’t understand the obsession with immigrants, why has it reached a new fever pitch? Who is benefiting from all of the isolationism and hate?

What a terrible browsing experience, I opened the article to a full page ad obfuscating the article, and no fewer than 10 additional ads including a sticky banner. It literally made my phone hot to the touch.

Likely a prefrontal cortex, the administrative center of the brain and generally host to human consciousness. As well as a dedicated memory system with learning plasticity.

Humans have systems that mirror llms but llms are missing a few key components to be precise replicas of human brains, mostly because it’s computationally expensive to consider and the goal is different.

Some specific things the brain has that llms don’t directly account for are different neurochemicals (favoring a single floating value per neuron), synaptogenesis, neurogenesis, synapse fire travel duration and myelin, neural pruning, potassium and sodium channels, downstream effects, etc. We use math and gradient descent to somewhat mirror the brain’s hebbian learning but do not perform precisely the same operations using the same systems.

In my opinion having a dedicated module for consciousness would bridge the gap, possibly while accounting for some of the missing characteristics. Consciousness is not an indescribable mystery, we have performed tons of experiments and received a whole lot of information on the topic.

As it stands llms are largely reasonable approximations of the language center of the brain but little more. It may honestly not take much to get what we consider consciousness humming in a system that includes an llm as a component.

How do you think god comes into the equation? What do you think about split brain syndrome in which people demonstrate having multiple consciousnesses? If consciousness is based on a metaphysical property why can it be altered with chemicals and drugs? What do you think happens during a lobotomy?

I get that evidence based thinking is generally not compatible with religious postulates, but just throwing up your hands and saying consciousness comes from the gods is an incredibly weak position to hold.

Neovim is basically just vim with easier extension creation. It’s pretty good for a terminal editor. If you don’t already like vim you may not really enjoy nvim, it’s more of a lifestyle than a text editor.

Consciousness is an emergent property, generally self awareness and singularity are key defining features.

There is no secret sauce to llms that would make them any more conscious than Wikipedia.

Nintendo continues to demonstrate why my personal boycott continues. What a shitty company.

How dare you think Google would listen to its users and not the advertisers. Fr though I’m not sure, manifest v3 does use a sandboxing feature but it’s unclear at first glance if they are directly related

For large groups I suppose airbnbs are more reasonable, though it’s honestly not that big of a difference in pricing for vacation rentals.

Housekeeping is easy, just put the little do not disturb sign up, they won’t bug you.

I don’t have an opinion on the other stuff though.

Yeah pretty the vast majority of the world’s population holds this opinion

5 years too late, hotels have been cheaper and better for a while now. All of these companies that touted revolutionizing industries have just become worse versions.

Netflix, airbnb, uber, etc all of them are worse for people than the things they replaced

Easter 2, papal boogaloo

This is honestly the only way to predict what the man will do. Identify even the slightest personal advantage to his move.

Why run for president in 2024? To avoid jail. Why put tariffs on and off? To buy and sell stocks as the market bends to your tweets. Why act like a religious right wing weirdo? To have no personal accountability. Why pull out of nato? Because someone personally offended you. Why host political events at maralago? To make a quick buck renting out rooms. He’s so transparent it’s pitiful.

If interest rates go down prices will come up, there’s no world where house prices go down without massive economic pain for everyone.

A depression would bring house prices down, but then nobody could afford them, especially not those who don’t have the capital already.

I think that’s fair, superstition is directly opposed to evidence based reasoning. Not every superstitious person is a lost cause though. Most belief comes from indoctrination, and with time and critical thinking a lot of people can and do escape.

I think it’s similar to racism, people who do racist things can sometimes change when introduced to people of color, or to the subject of their bigotry. In the same way the victims of racism aren’t morally obligated to “fix” nor trust the people who perform racist acts, victims of the superstitious are not obliged to trust them.

The optimist in me hopes we can just help these people heal from their mental issues, but the realist realizes that in many cases it’s hopeless.

I completely agree prayer is utterly meaningless at best and actually harmful at worst. When somebody prays for an outcome they are getting the benefits of doing something without affecting any change, it’s like asking your imaginary older brother to take care of the bullies at school. “Who wee that job is done, I did my part by asking big bro for help”

That said, I think we ought to tone down the anti-prayer rhetoric because it can push some people who are actually waking up to the issues caused by recent political events away. While centrism in general is a bad political play for politicians, less derisive language among us common people could be good. Let some of the mindless religious fanatics do their praying that trump won’t hurt them, but when he does we should at least try to be sympathetic and let them change their mind.

We often get caught up in the schadenfreude of the self inflicted political wounds and forget these are people who will suffer needlessly.

What other things, specifically?

Imo fascism is a natural consequence of hate and apathy. Introspection by individuals and willingness to change are how you overcome those issues. Governments can’t force people to empathize but perhaps better education and less superstition can help.