brambledog

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[–] brambledog 33 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I believe it.

I have worked at an amazon warehouse. Bezos was never referred to as anything but Jeff and every day during the stretches we would be told how impressed Jeff was with how well we were doing.

At Costco, we would have daily meetings. At least twice a month the assistant manager would interject to remind everybody that they had once had lunch with the original CEO. There was also this strange creation myth of how the company was able to dominate the grocery industry within less time than everybody else. It involved the CEO inventing a new way to filet a Chinook salmon or something like that.

Cult behavior is surprisingly strong within corporate America.

[–] brambledog 31 points 1 year ago

If you are over the age of 39 I highly reccomend against this. There is really no possible way yo meet your caloric needs without massively overdosing on salt when depending on ramen and Mac and cheese.

It's honestly probably just as cost effective and slightly better for you to just buy a premade cold sandwich from the nearest bodega for at least one of your meals.

[–] brambledog 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An AI data center acting as a rogue state will just be sunk the moment they actually become a legitimate problem.

[–] brambledog 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you are being optimistic.

If you are old enough to remember AIM chatbots, this current generation is maybe multiple times more advanced, not exponentially so. From what I have seen, all the incredible advancements have been in image production.

This leads me to believe that AGI has never been the true commercial goal, but rather an advancement of propaganda media and its creation.

[–] brambledog -1 points 1 year ago

That's Captain Beefheart you are talking to...

[–] brambledog 3 points 1 year ago

It tends to be in upscale hotels, generally around the holidays, but isn't incredibly common anymore.

If I think back on it, I'm not sure I have heard it since the 90s.

[–] brambledog 3 points 1 year ago

If you look at Polynesians, the women often tend to be bigger as well, maintaining the size disparity seen in other races and cultures. Wouldn't this suggest that evolutionary pressures which will give preference to larger stature bodies are affecting the sexes equally?

If so, then the innate size disparity between sexes was written into our genetic code before we branched off.

I'm not an evolutionary biologist though.

[–] brambledog -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fun fact: this Joe Rogan rant from 2011 you plagiarized wasn't even written by him.

[–] brambledog -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Chinese government doesn't know you exist. The Chinese people are theoretically banned from site like this and even if using a vpn, they are almost certainly accessing webpages made in the language they actually speak.

Maybe there are better ways to take a stand against the Chinese government. Ones which aren't empty gestures.

[–] brambledog 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Catch-22 or Gravity's Rainbow, if my memory of books I've read once is still accurate.

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