Coffee badging is the practice of going into the office for a few hours to “show face,” which could entail coffee with co-workers or sitting in on a work meeting — but then leaving to work remotely.

So, they comply institutional requirements to waste time for no reason before going elsewhere to do work? And this is characterized as being disengaged?

This doesn’t make any sense. Is this a joke? Who came up with this? Wtf is this journalism?

They’re not stupid. I doubt they’re even evil at first. But business demands have a way of disciplining economic actors.

So, LLMs aren’t suitable for brainstorming new directions at the frontier. That seems like a pretty specific limitation that is only applicable in a very small percentage of cases. Like, LLM brainstorming won’t be useful if you’re trying to improve LLMs in a new way unless that new way is what most people are already doing. But it’d still be useful to help a COO brainstorm how to improve operations since there are tried and true methods of operations management.

How does this compare to LMStudio and GPT4All?

Where’d you go? Can my family come too?

What I mean is that eventually one of the two tools might win an absolute majority of users.

There is significant differentiation between the two.

Copilot Pro is integrated directly into Microsoft products. Sure, you have to pay as much as a ChatGPT Plus subscription, or whatever it’s called. But paying for Copilot Pro over ChatGPT would suggest that integration with Microsoft products is more valuable than the more general nature the latter.

This is basically the AI business model at the beginning: they’re all trying to differentiate themselves from the competition. They know people are willing to pay $20 for the general version of it, so it’s a matter of what other features can be added at little to no cost that would pull a person over from ChatGPT to a more specific use of AI in their life.

Also, between Microsoft and Apple, they’re already part of an economic oligarchy.

Now who would’ve thought that carving out the tiniest legal area for slavery would be exploited by a slave state? Who could have possibly had the foresight to see that not abolishing slavery leaves open the possibility that it appears again?

I think, like Obsidian, it stores them as markdown files.

Then Logseq. It’s an outliner (each line can be it’s own…thing…), but it’s open source and a direct competitor of Obsidian. In fact, I was ambivalent between the two when I first started with online note-taking.

I believe that most of us, being ambitious individuals, find fulfillment in the joy of seeing our efforts materialize into tangible results,

A man after my own heart…that’s why we should eat his rich one.

…tell me more. How do you do that?

I almost certainly do not have enough vram yet…1060-3gb, but one day…

So the advanced tables plug in isn’t going anywhere. Cool

Truth?

CCleaner started with ads so we moved to BleachBit

Among respondents who own luxury brands that they themselves bought (e.g., Gucci, Versace, Rolex), 44% prefer to live in a world without any of those brands altogether. Among respondents not owning such brands, the fraction preferring to live in a world without them is 69%.

That’s interesting.

Actually, this is kinda like using fossil fuels. If we didn’t have fossil fuels our lives would be miserable. And while using them adds some utility, burning fossil fuels still leaves us miserable, particularly as climate change grows worse.And so, even though I use fossil fuels to fuel my car, heat my home, and cook my food, I’d still prefer to live in a world where its significantly reduced to phased out altogether.

I’m a huge fan of Lina Khan and her analysis of anti-trust law generally and her case against Amazon specifically.

So, what was annoying about this article was that it specifically praised Amazon’s abhorrent treatment of workers as “overwhelming ambition”, bolded above. In doing so, it tries to draw a parallel between the Bezos’s totalizing vision and Lina Khan’s egalitarianism. But Cory Doctorow, the dude his introduced the concept of “Enshittification”, in his recent speech at Def Con 31, recently called out Lina Khan and her colleagues as “doing the lord’s work”.

I can see how this might seem tangentially related to work reform. But Amazon’s wealth was built on the back of its workers. And Lina Khan’s endeavor to break it up is probably the most significant step within the institution over the last 40 years.

You said:

If we follow your logic, Fox News is doing this because it’s fun, and not because it gains power for the extreme right from which they draw funding.

I said:

There’s a reason Hollywood can’t stop with the superhero movies: they work to produce revenues. It’s the same with Fox News.

I’ll decline to return the baseless, intellectually dishonest, demagogic insult, but I was explicit about my logic and what it meant.

You’re going to really play like people aren’t programmed

Yeah, I’m going to play like people aren’t mindless drones to be programmed, play like they have independent thoughts and feelings. Yes, I’m taking people seriously.

The shit on Fox News merely rehashes what they already believe. Fox News isn’t trying to get new viewers. They have the highest viewership rates in the country lol. Their business model is keeping people tuned. And you don’t do that by introducing new shit. There’s a reason Hollywood can’t stop with the superhero movies: they work to produce revenues. It’s the same with Fox News.

If we follow your logic, you think it’s a matter of simply stopping Tucker Carlson and Hannity from broadcasting their views. If that stops, then people will calm down. They’ll be less weaponized. I don’t think so.

I think someone else will step in to weaponize their stupidity. The Fox News audience that is invested in that world view wants to be stupid. They’re asking and willing to be used. And as long as there is someone out there to weaponize them, to speak to their stupid ideas and their feelings completely removed from reality, and channel their stupidity into undoing modern civilization, then they’re all for it.

Oof. I’ve thought about using ChatGPT for this before. I’m skeptical on whether it’s ethical, but AI-generated essays are…okay. Like, the writing itself is okay, but I could do better with some time. Plus, AI-generated essays don’t really flow the same way a good writer does. And between the two, Claude does a better job at achieving flow than ChatGPT in my experience (over the last month).

To directly address the essay, nah: the masses aren’t manipulated, at least by nefarious political actors. They manipulate themselves to be susceptible to weaponization. I mean, how else can a person rationalize being anti-vaccine and anti-mask as healthy during a pandemic? It’s illogical, but that’s the thing: it’s not about thinking. They take what they feel as right and rationalize it second. Everybody does this, but intellectually honest people have some checks and balances, appeals to authorities on the matter being one of them. Those susceptible to weaponized stupidity have closed the distance between their feelings and understanding of reality. That is, their feelings are themselves an epistemology, a way of knowing the world.

So, science, with it’s skepticism, is nonsense. It can’t be that hard to know that the earth is round and flat and that the sun is only a few thousand miles above rather than 93 million miles away. It can’t be that hard to know that only two genders exist. No more, and no less. It’s obvious. And it’s definitely obvious that freedom and liberty are concerned with the individual capacity to act. Limitations on whatever a person wants to do is evidently tyranny, by definition.

And many people believe these things (to the extent that they’ve thought about anything at all) before they’re exposed to weaponized stupidity. That is, they’re stupid before they’re weaponized. It’s only a matter of weaponizing that stupidity, not really crafting and molding it…

Claude.ai. I took the transcript of the video and asked for an outline using a prompt I usually use for outlining textbook chapters lol.