I think polyamory won't reach mainstream acceptance at the level of gay/trans because people perceive polyamory as more a direct threat. You can believe your spouse isn't actually gay/trans way more easily than believing they don't actually wanna bang someone else ( Read more... )

I can't believe that I still have to say this, but learning more about music won't somehow stifle or ruin your creativity. That's just not how this works at all. You don't suddenly become a worse carpenter because I gave you 3 more hammers or showed you how some other person made their chair ( Read more... )

Had an emotional moment staring at a running faucet this week. We really don't appreciate civilizational infrastructure. Literally "pay as you go" unlimited clean drinkable water delivered to everyone, physically piped straight to you and whisked away as soon as you don't need it.

This is a common experience for me. The wonder of cheap, safe, ( Read more... )

What these people don't get (REFUSE to get) is that even the scratchiest, shittiest, worst outsider art is more meaningful and real and of artistic value than anything made with AI.
"But i can't draw/write/paint" whatever. Do this. You might learn something.

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The thing about even the most amateurish art is that it’s vulnerable. It’s revealing ( Read more... )

Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable ( Read more... )

Remember the 1970s and 1980s when no one was autistic, gluten intolerant, or transgender.

So what happened?

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I love all these takes that boil down to, "remember when we had bad data collection and even worse visibility? Why didn't we see stuff then?"

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LLMs like ChatGPT have actually done the thing people claimed Google or Wikipedia would do, in that LLMs have stopped people being curious and actually learning how stuff works, or how one gets the answer to a question. Superficial intelligence for the superficially intelligent. The Dunning-Kruger machine.


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Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill ( Read more... )

AI plus social media are going to create such a supply of disinformation that anyone who wants to live in a political dream world will easily be able to find the necessary materials ( Read more... )

I have beef with most christians, but it's mostly downstream of their beliefs in sin and hell. Christians who don't believe in either of those things are cool, we can chill.

If for some reason god revealed himself to me and was like 'BTW protestant christianity is true', I'd be like damn, the entire force of civilization should now be turned to ( Read more... )