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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • I’ve seen people say there’s good weird and bad weird, and if you don’t mind calling yourself weird it’s probably the good kind.

    As for calling maga people weird I think it’s effective because their whole deal is about vibes. “We’re strong, we’re smart” and it really bothers them to be perceived otherwise. It’s also not something you can “debate”. Either people accept it or they don’t. What are you going to say “no, I’m not weird”? Sure thing buddy.



  • I think people are over rating how much power AI will consume in the long term. Training a model takes way more power than running it, and once we understand the tech better models can be developed for specific applications. It would be like when Edison was first working on the light bulb and extrapolating the power usage of whatever filament he was testing to every household in the world.

    Also, it doesn’t have to be corporate profits. Individuals can benefit from AI. There’s a structural problem with capitalism, not with this technology.











  • You and the other commenter are right, I don’t expect birds to be like “let’s both chirp and make a minor third interval”. I’m sure if they harmonized it would be for whatever sounds right based on how they evolved and learned.

    What I’m getting at is it’s not harmonizing if they just happen to be making sounds at the same time. For the purposes of my question harmonizing is when we’re intentionally making two distinct tones simultaneously.

    So two birds that are just chirping along their individual songs and they happen to overlap so they each chirp complimentary notes isn’t what I’m interested in. I want to know if any animals mean to harmonize.




  • Very detailed, thanks for sharing.

    I sense that you may get some satisfaction from the attention to detail and process itself. Discounting those, do you think that reselling items on eBay is ever a reasonable proposition as a primary source of income, or is it always a side hustle? Do you consider there to be better ways to resell? (Obviously that answer will depend on what’s being sold)