As a forcing structure, they can re-tune it to a different frequency or mode.
But a dominant element of capitalism is to externalize costs (and internalize
profits). So as long as there's a cost sink like mother earth, they can
maintain the current mode. As that sink clogs and fills, they eithe
I'm torn, as usual. My favorite whipping post is "Bless her heart", a common
insult from my neck of the woods. Being the dork that I am, I often miss the insults
leveled my way. In many cases, the intention isn't to be rude but to poke fun in a
socially constructive way.
To avoid focusing on t
All this talk about immigration and displacement of jobs of "native" workers.
It will be nothing compared what happens in a few more generations of AI. I
expect semi-trucks slamming into AI centers in a few years. Humans are done.
-Original Message-
From: Friam On Behalf Of glen
Sen
Have you seen Mark Rober's lidar video?
https://youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?si=55HZk9Wn6MHLclXU
On 3/18/25 2:12 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
All this talk about immigration and displacement of jobs of "native" workers.
It will be nothing compared what happens in a few more generations of AI. I expect
Nice example of shortsighted planning by Musk. Now there is solid state LIDAR.
Even too cheap to use stereoscopic cameras.
-Original Message-
From: Friam On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 2:35 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Courtesy
Have you seen Mark Rober'
Glen writes:
< And the ultra-wealthy *know* this. They spam us with bullshit
(X/Twitter/LLMs), surround our cities with below-cost box stores to destroy
businesses, destroy unions, lobby legislators up and down the spectrum, etc.
They do this because they *know* we're resource poor. And we're a
Since others here are fond of posting the output of stochastic parrots, I'll do the same,
albeit with a bit of chaining. I took my previous post, fed it to Claude (along with 2
iterates clarifying the context) and asked it to steelman my argument. I then took
Claude's reformulation and fed it t
Your second link is a good read, Glen, and Olberding looks a bit interesting
from her homepage.
In particular, her concern with courtesy as a functional and
intentionally-maintained public good,
https://philpeople.org/profiles/amy-olberding?app=%22%3EAna
Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma)
Actually, I think “pole” comes from Latin and Greek ‘polis’ which means city,
hence citizen. But it is still a good quote.
— Barry
On 16 Mar 2025, at 19:03, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Poli
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Well, at present, George-on-my-laptop cannot interact with
George-on-my-cellphone, so my george would appear schizophrenic yo your Dan.
N
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM Stephen Guerin
wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM Nicholas Thompson
> wrote:
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>> I think Dan and George deserve to be
This is good reading, Jochen, thank you.
Also, as usual, turns out I had many of my facts wrong. Probably from not
understanding what I was told in the first place, and then fixing it into a
wrong memory.
A few hours after writing, I remembered that the director I had met was Andreas
Dress.
Irony is dead. That some of us literally put money into Sam Altman's bank
account by generating completely useless cartoons lamely attempting to
criticize Altman's friend Trump [⛤] is ... what? ... what is that? Hypocrisy?
Stupidity? Suicide?
I don't have the words. [⛧] It's tantamount to the
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Mayonnaise:
Mayonnaise alota people on thise here email list!
(I shall see myself out).
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM Nicholas Thompson
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> *Mayonnaise is a combination of egg, oil, and something acidic. *
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> *In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolk, 2 teaspoons lemo
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