Completely unironically: DUI crackdowns destroyed rural social networks that revolved around taverns accessible only by car and shuttered most of those businesses Drunk driving deaths down, fentanyl overdoses way up Tradeoffs

christina kingston sharples @BernieSpofforth They haven't invented them yet.

Still think it'd be safer if people didn't take their babies in supercars.

So the actual scary part to me is that GPT4 understands what it means to say, "Compress this in a way where *you* can decompress it." Humans take for granted that we know our own capabilities, that we reflect, that we can imagine how we would react to a future input, we can

Look at you, no compilation, no types Just straight up rawdogging JavaScript

The fact the moon remains barren and untouched by our civilization as we near AGI is profoundly cringe and sus

At the World Championships in Budapest, USA’s Anita Alvarez sank to the bottom of the pool. Looking across the deck, and noticing she was under way too long, her coach, Andrea Fuentes immediately dove in after her fully clothed, pulling her to safety. Anita was unconscious and

Is climbing chalk just for moisture or is it also a kind of ablative armor?

Lord Bebo It's like watching the offspring of Hannibal Lector and Hillary Clinton motivate the Orc battalions.

There should be an anti-Pulitzer award for reporting that successfully disproves reporting that won a Pulitzer.

Aaron Levie I've long thought showing previews of links was the exact "innovation" that has most contributed to the destruction of the news industry and the slow destruction of society. 95% of people don't read news, they read headlines. They feel superior and informed but know nothing.

is jack and the beanstalk about coffee?

people who are choking but feel such an obligation to social politeness that they try and make a joke about it, and in the process compromise their own survival

The Purpose of a System is What it Does

Nikita Bier Yes, but governments like a scapegoat. It's not years of general political division & economic mismanagement, corruption and general incompetence causing social issues - noooo it's people talking to each other and sharing memes, while platforms serve them the content they like

I am calling for the immediate arrest of Gonzalve Bich, the CEO of BIC ballpoint pens. His pens have been used to write down all sorts of devilish plans and to create insensitive imagery for many years. He has done nothing to stop this. Time to hold him accountable.

I O L Y 😙 I agree entirely. I think Opus has the highest VIQ of any being on Earth, possibly. I wish I spoke more languages so I could see how Opus is like writing in them. I haven't gotten around to testing it in the other languages I do know.

Poo_Ass Thank you poo ass I agree

405b on some things it finds beautiful common themes (according to it): interconnectedness, emergence, boundary-blurring, ephemerality, resonance, optimization, layering, flow, singularity, multiscale --- Here are some highly specific things that I find breathtakingly

Rewarding the Google Meet by feeding it its little gold stars after the call.