Clearly, RFK is either confidently stupid, or confident he can eventually produce and put something vaguely resembling a key in the kitchen in the alloted timeframe.
I'm reminded of the comment by a republican adviser, during the second bush presidency, critiquing an interviewer by saying ~ "you're too reality based, we're making reality".
The odd thing about this claim that autism is rising, diagnoses sure, but don't any of the adults old enough to remember, remember all the people who we just labelled as strange.
I've got a feeling we've got rising numbers of people diagnosed with autism and a corresponding reduction in people labelled and ostracised as non-specific 'strange'
A few years ago, I remember hearing reactionary podcasters panicking about trans identity propagating by "social contagion" {their phrase}.
The word "contagion" sets up an awful frame around this. I think instead you could come at this from an angle that recognises that there is a kind of social and internalised Overton window, a set of ideas that people are willing to express, or even allow themselves to think. As we increasingly see people living good full lives expressing and owning aspects of themselves that had once been heavily stigmatised - there may be a dynamic beyond just better diagnosis - there may be an uptick of people willing to be more honest about an aspect of themselves that they may otherwise have sought to hide or suppress, others might have been able to avoid even self-awareness.
If that is the case - just as there will never be a person who matches the reference human genome - there may be no upper limit to the fraction of people who find some aspect of themselves that extends outside the venn diagram circle of neurotypical.
Quite - it's not as though sexual identity has always been a strict binary between male and female. Other cultures have explicitly recognised different gender identities for ages which makes me think that it's part of the Western Christian cultural identity to only recognise two genders. e.g. Thai culture has a number of different recognised sexual identities and of course, India has the Hijra.
To my mind, people who are anti-trans identities are simply trying to exert control over others rather than having a generous nature and accepting that different people are different.
Trump claimed he could stop the Ukraine war in a day. He wasn't either of those things. Ok, possibly the first, but he knew he could get away with it. In politics you don't have to do what you promise. It's true now more than ever.
> Having spent much of his life in the hat industry, Corbett could have been succumbing to mercury poisoning. The ill effects of the mercury vapors used in finishing, Corbett’s specialty, had become public by this time, even part of folklore after Lewis Carroll introduced the country to the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865.
I see what you’re getting at but it does feel like goalposts are being moved, no? By and large we can ask a computer today a question and it will almost certainly spit back a sensible (!= correct) answer. We can ask what the words mean and ask it to translate it to other languages, and we can have a conversation.
How are we disentangling comprehension of natural language itself from comprehension of the subject matter being discussed via said language sample?
I think that by most reasonable metrics LLMs can reasonably be said to comprehend natural language itself. However they clearly are deficient in logic and reasoning, as well as comprehension of many of the concepts that the natural language is used to express.
Though it was about the finance sector in ‘07/‘08 and its obviously different circumstances, I enjoyed the way the movie Margin Call portrayed layoffs as the author here described them—cold and myopic.
Reminds me of a card game I played as a kid called Egyptian Ratscrew, where one of the possible rules is to slap the deck if a "sandwich" appeared (e.g. a 3, a J, then another 3), so you always had to keep the card before the last one in your head. I remember variations such as "double sandwiches"—which made the 2-back into a 3-back—and many others.
I use to colloquially call this game "slap deck" as a kid. The general approach taken was to add a ton of house rules, such that it was a large test of working memory to keep all rules in your head. We kept some simple rules to keep the game approachable for younger children, and older children/teens would continue to add house rules to make the game more complex. In addition, game play would be very fast, and often times patterns would be missed because no one recognized it quick enough.
Some of the rules that would sometime appear that I can recall
* Put 1 or 2 jokers in. Jokers are slappable
* Doubles are slappable (3, 3)
* Three (or four) face cards are slappable
* Three (or four) cards of the same suite are slappable
* Three (or four) consecutive cards are slappable (2, 3, 4, 5) or (5, 4, 3, 2)
I've had the same idea (er, came to the same conclusion) but never acted on it. Awesome to see that someone has! Great name too.
I thought of it while daydreaming about how to converge public opinion in a nation with major political polarization. It'd be a sort of structured public debate forum and people could better see exactly where in the hierarchy they disagreed and, perhaps more importantly, how much they in fact agreed upon.
I got 5.5 seconds on my sixth try in 55thegame.com
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Came here expecting to see more wins... I'm surprised! Oddly, I'm not seeing three digits of precision in my browser though, so maybe something isn't quite right over here.
Yeah this is fucking horrible. I have tons of shit open
I shouldn't have to see all of it to find the one thing I want. I should be able to pick from the app.
There's an app out there called ubar which replaces the dock and it's functionality is amazing. But it's memory hog and freezes all the time.
I'm forced to use a Mac for work
Probably the most powerful machine I've ever owned. I have a giant ass 40+ in curved monitor.
I still prefer my 10+ year old Dell laptop with an aging Linux distro on it.
Hell.. I prefer Windows.
Using a Mac is so painful. The moronic fn key placement.
Using a terminal reverts back to using the Ctrl key but everything else uses ⌘
There's no real concept of window management.
The version of Bash is 10+ years old.
I've always hated the "menu bar" but now that I have a monitor bigger than Lizzo's ass I really hate it. Having to drag my cursor 45miles up to get to Edit is idiotic.
The number of apps I have to install to get it to function like a real desktop makes my system tray look like it did on Windows XP SP2.
Nevermind whenever my non-apple Bluetooth headset connects it auto-opens Apple Music even though I've never once used it and I never will. There's zero way to disable this functionality. Zero.
