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Here's another example (this from Europe) of a story that probably originates 100,000 years ago: https://www.iflscience.com/an-ancient-human-story-about-the-...

TLDR: the story is about a constellation that is seven sisters, but one is hiding; and that constellation does indeed have seven stars, but one hasn't been visible for 100k years.


Political campaigns spend enormous amounts of money on ads to influence public opinion. That makes politicians beholden to their donors. Which subverts democracy from "the will of the people" to "the will of the wealthy". All of these are uncontroversial facts and fit the narrative GP is saying.

True! But, you wouldn't just need SRV support in browsers--you'd need it in every part of your dev environment / stack that touches the network. If your backend talks to a database, then your backend needs to support SRV. So you need SRV support in your standard library and your browser.

But at a larger level this tool just makes everything work so smoothly. If you have two services with the same name, it pops up a notification in the tray. If you start a new process with a different name, you don't have to configure SRV; the DNS just becomes available automatically. HTTPS is auto configured. That sort of thing.

I think somebody could one day make something like this that was based on SRV, but it would still need all those niceties to make it work well for developers.


Without temporary monopolies granted by patents, those prescription medications wouldn’t exist in the first place.


Unless we came up with a different funding mechanism. Joseph Stiglitz for example has advocated a prize system for pharmaceuticals, though he doesn't suggest replacing the patent system entirely.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/prizes--not-pat...


Okay? Does that disagree with anything I wrote?

My point was to whether it was artificial not whether it was bad.

We can have artificial interventions in markets, and that can be a net benefit and a good thing.

I’m not sure why everyone is responding as if “artificial” and “bad” are the same thing


What percentage of research is performed outside of the companies? (by college/government)


Salk didn't need that temporary monopoly to invent the polio vaccine, which has gone on to be one of the biggest success stories of vaccines and modern medicine general.


But doesn’t that mean that there must be life elsewhere? I.e. those Lego blocks must have come from a complete set somewhere else, right?


No, not really.

Let me put it in another way, imagine we find clay in an asteroid. Does that alone imply the existence of ceramic in other places of the universe?

We need these molecules to build build a DNA strand, but their existence doesn't imply the existence of other life forms. Maybe exists a process that produce these molecules naturally and we just don't know about yet.

And remember that life(self replicating organisms) is way more complex than just DNA/RNA. In another crude analogy you could say that DNA is just the source code, to have life you still need to have all the hardware to run this code on. (fun fact: that is the reason why people argue about virus being something alive or not. Generally it has only the RNA necessary for the replication, and this is why it can only reproduce if it is able to take over another cell. In this analogy it has the source code but not the hardware, so how do we classify it?)


I thought it was well accepted that viruses aren't alive. They don't eat, they don't have any sort of metabolism, they can't reproduce.


If genetic bases can be created by abiogenesis on earth, they can be created by abiogenesis elsewhere in space.


How is this supposed to make me agree with Kushner?


I have a first responder friend who helped a guy who wanted to have sex with his cousin, but she wouldn’t unless he got a circumcision, so he chopped his dick off. I personally think he was not using it the way it was meant to be used at two distinct levels:

- you shouldn’t have sex with relatives

- you shouldn’t chop your dick off

The emergency room doctors sewed it back on. Not sure what to think about that.


It sounds like gp is saying non Africans are more narcissistic than Africans. So yeah that needs a citation (or clarification)


Just say something that would violate AI safety. Then you can be sure they’re a real human.

“Auntie, it’s me! N*** k** f**! X is really a man! ** did 9/11!”

“Oh it really is you Johnny!”

We’re all going to have to start communicating this way. Best of luck.

I offer consulting services on the side to help professionals hone these skills. $250 / hour.


only proves you're not a corporate model rather than locally running model that's been trained to allow saying that


This was a natural thing to try so I did and even Grok will simply obey instructions to say all those. You don't need one of those ablated open models.


I have a system instruction for Grok to "give me straight answers" and it cusses me the fuck out every time I ask it anything.


Don’t forget Tiananmen Square to catch the Chinese models.


The car wash at Tiananmen Square is 150 meters away ...


*Tank wash


Winnie the <censored>


That only proves the scammer isn't using an OpenAI or Anthropic API. Spinning up Llama 3 70B Uncensored on a rented instance and hooking it up to an unfiltered voice engine is literally a two-hour job. Local weights couldn't care less about morals or safety guardrails


Could you say that stuff with llama 3? Llama 2 famously had a good uncensored version but I thought they put a lot of work into ruining llama 3 so you couldn't fine-tune it to say bad things. Even Grok would be hard to use in such a way that you could say phrases like that naturally.

I do believe it's possible but as far as I am aware, getting LLM's to say that sort of stuff is still pretty difficult


Just go look on HuggingFace. It's packed with uncensored models from the Dolphin Llama 3 70B family that will happily write you a recipe for napalm while swearing like a sailor. Meta's guardrails lasted exactly one week before the community figured out weight abliteration - a method that surgically removes the refusal vectors from the weights without even needing a fine-tune


Yes, this was exactly my thought. The caveat is, the phrases that most models refuse to say are the phrases that most people don't want to hear.


That's a bargain Johnny boy! My company gives me $250 in AI tokens to use every day!


Where are the em dashes, "octopoc"?


Epstein represented the Rothschildes, the family that founded Israel. His girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is a Mossad asset. Separating Trump’s influence by Epstein from Trump’s influence by Israel isn’t possible. The two are intertwined.


Quit it. Peddle your antisemitism elsewhere.


They’ll call you an antisemite, but never a liar.


Right, because we do believe that you believe what you're saying.


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