Are you genuinely attributing your sense of life dissatisfaction to the fact that billionaires haven’t died or been killed yet or are you just saying the popular thing for applause?

I’m not unhappy either. I’m relatively content with my life. Things could be better but they could be much worse too.

Roaming free is dangerous to all wildlife.

Some kind of a wild cat like Ocelot would be cool assuming they could behave themselves but since they can’t, a normal house cat is just fine too.

Cancel all the work I’ve got lined up and go on a drug induced spending spree to try and use up all my savings.

Cashier virtually every time. Self-checkout when I only have few items which is almost never.

I don’t see the issue. I have a friend I hang out with once a year for a day and we don’t talk eachother a single word for the remaining time.

Guess what else heavily relies on pattern recognition and probabilities? Humans.

Which is a so-called thought terminating clishé: a slogan intended to end discussion without even engaging with it.

AI isn’t any one thing. It’s an broad term used in computer science to refer to any system designed to perform a cognitive task that would normally require human intelligence. The chess opponent on an old Atari console is an AI. It’s an intelligent system - but only narrowly so. That’s called “narrow” or “weak” AI.

It can still have superhuman abilities, but only within the specific task it was built for - like playing chess or generating language.

A large language model like ChatGPT is also narrow AI. It’s exceptionally good at what it was designed to do: generate natural-sounding language. What people expect from it, though, isn’t narrow intelligence - it’s general intelligence. The ability to apply cognitive skills across a wide range of domains the way a human can. That’s something LLMs simply can’t do - at least not yet. Artificial General Intelligence is the end goal for many AI companies, but LLMs are not generally intelligent. However they still fall under the umbrella of AI as a broad category of systems.

Peterson mostly agrees with Harris? The guys who spend an hour trying to define the word “truth” and failing to do so? I could not disagree more.

VLC has hotkey for this. It’s pretty easy to tweak with just trial an error and no need to go to settings to guestimate the values.

The massive horse dildo may be a bit of an head scratcher, though knowing me - maybe not that surprising thing to find.

He is clearly uninterested in convincing his opponent.

Having watched his debates with Sam Harris, I’ll at least give him credit for being able to steelman the views he’s arguing against.

Whether one is able to get others to change their deeply held beliefs is another thing but simply being able to demonstrate that you’ve actually understood the point you’re arguing against is a rare skill in of itself.

I’ve definitely had people reconsider their stance by bringing in more data or an alternative perspective but I’m not sure if anyone has ever admitted to having their view change about something. Then again, I don’t always announce it either despite the fact that it does happen so I guess it’s safe to assume I’ve then made it happen too.

In all honesty though, most online arguments are people talking past each other and disagreeing on minute details. Often the conclusion is “we’re broadly in agreement but we disagree about this one thing.”

That’s why it’s so ridiculous that people treat disagreement as if the person must then hold the exact opposite view. That is almost never the case.

Should all humans adhere to common decency?

Yeah, would be nice. It’s just not going to happen. It’s an impossible ask.

It’s 12mm spruce plywood. Since it’s vented and not painted on the back, it technically doesn’t mind even if it did get wet for as long as it gets to dry in between.

Melt, no. Compromize the structural integrity? Absolutely.

Probably not. Same as movie directors don’t seem to know what happens when you throw a lit cigarette in gasoline: it puts it out. Diesel doesn’t ignite even with a match.

I did suggest a disco ball