A mother has never 'hit the wall' Once you become a mother, you've beaten 'the wall' and you never have to think about it again

"Your grandparents knew what was good for the kids/for diet/for X, Y, Z." I hear this sort of thing a lot, but it does not seem true. I've been looking at a bunch of polls of literal boomers and they have terrible parenting and diet beliefs. They love slop and TV!

If you have a friend who feels lost in life, just give him the Feynman Lectures on Physics, he’ll be fine.

> If Christianity is to survive, it needs reinterpretation. Christianity isn't designed to survive though is it? The end-times prophecy is: contemporary atheism, persecution and Christians being wiped out en masse? It doesn't need mass appeal, as seductive as that may be.

> Don't let the left skinsuit Christianity Yes, but also, Christianity has so many denominations and sects with various conflicting views and beliefs that I can't keep track any more. It's okay for the Left to create their own denomination. It's merely another one.

what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again. there is nothing new under the sun.

time to retire the "AI doesn't make new scientific discoveries" talking point fr. AI is going to change everything about medicine

"The state of US universities is bad enough that a smart and motivated but fairly ordinary person can do better than relying on university credentials by learning about a new technical field from scratch."

Casey Muratori teej dv 🔭 I quoted you perfectly fine, good sir. Who needs the full context when the people can interpret the context incorrectly for themselves?

Anthropic Who defines what is dangerous information? And what if other people define it differently?

Someone who wants to build a bomb isn't really constrained by a lack of access to information. Concomitantly, we all studied a "Bomb Makers' Manual" as rebellious angry teenagers and somehow never built bombs. Everything is agency, capability and intent. Censorship is useless.

As someone said: You don't actually want to live in a country where there is 0 crime because it means that every rebellious impulse has been completely quelled in favour of universal compliance and complete conformity.

If it helps, we don't understand your comments either. Obviously I know how to use version control. You don't have to like git to understand version control, do you? I've been using VCSes for approximately three decades now (first SourceSafe, then CVS, then PerForce, then

only the thinnest of lines separates me from the “I used gpt to invent a new kind of physics” guys

Replies showing that many people think that countries get rich either by (a) getting handouts or (b) stealing others' resources. To them, everything is about trying to grab as much of the spoils as you can for your group. (That's just normal politics in Third World countries.)

- What is my purpose? - You predict tokens.

In our relations w/ family, lovers, employers, etc., we are either rising, holding constant, or falling. We arrange our world so we are mostly rising, but that adds to pain of being "old", when we must accept we are instead holding or falling.

this is how hiring should look like!

Man says to therapist, "The world is humourless, harsh, cruel." Therapist: "The latest LLM scores highest on RoflBench; can tell you jokes to cure your depression! 😃" Man: "All slop. 😞" Therapist says, "Just try Fun Mode GPT-11 ffs!" Man says, "But doctor, *I am* GPT-11!"