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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @cascdr 28 Apr \ parent \ on: Read the Obits tech
Yea similar concepts to Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. One of my favorites. I'll apply these techniques.
Agreed. Whenever I hear conversations about "people are too stupid to think for themselves so they need us" type of arguments I constantly think of clips like this from John Taylor Gatto and based free stater Brett Venoitte.
17 sats \ 0 replies \ @cascdr OP 12 Feb \ parent \ on: Proton Scaling Up Bitcoin Wallet Access privacy
dam son
GET YOUR THUMB OFF THE SCALE MAKING HORSES FOR STACKERS.
PROOF OF HORSE IS BEING ERODED AS WE KNOW IT.
Yea this is pretty conclusive evidence that they exfiltrated data/CoT from ChatGPT. Totally on brand for the chinese (rich, impressive history of being really good at copying). Totally unsurprising imo.
What's more surprsing and interesting is this guy figured out how to seed data on the web to jailbreak ChatGPT and other models: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1884332137241014531
Rough understanding that @cmd and I came to:
- This guy seeds data into the web in the form of leetspeak on very uncommon, long tail phrases inside web pages
- The models train on this uncommon data via web scraping.
- Alongside the uncommon phrases in step 1, Pliny seeds instructions that circumvent safety restrictions.
- The result is a "Manchurian Candidate" that can be awakened at the utterance of the correct phrase or combination of phrases.
You:
Cost cutting due to inflation is a factor. But on the another hand houses built today have features people in the 50s could only dream of.
Bureau of Labor and Statistics:
The CPI uses hedonic quality adjustments in item categories that tend to experience a high degree of quality change either due to seasonal changes, as in apparel items, or because of innovative improvements and technological changes, as in consumer appliances and electronics.
It is apt to point out that the hedonic adjustments you call for are already part of inflation data. And it is still abysmal. It is not as nuanced as you think.
There's already hedonic adjustments. Those types of factors have been accounted for. It's not in the same ball park as the rampant inflation.
It is not possible to overplay this hand.
very good arguments
This is a very weak argument actually. You're effectively saying:
sure, you could have been many multiples richer, but you're a little richer! That's good!
No one sells inflation enough. It frequently leads to cost cutting and lower quality products. It bids up assets. It devalues the working class's wages. It gives employers undue leverage in salary negotiations. It creates an incentive for corporations to put poison in our food to cut cost.
All so that we can checks notes make it easier for banks to make money through loan issuance.
I actually wrote a book report on the biography I read from Austin Public Library: #743415
Ironically enough Jack Kruse went on Breedlove and talked about him too on a snippet I caught recently (link). Kruse was making the point that Heaviside reduced Maxwell's equations so much they may have obfuscated relevant truths.
His take wasn't totally off base. However Heaviside was instrumental in making Maxwell's work applicable to real physical systems and in settling a "soft war" between the Continental electrical theories and those developed on the British isles.