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Lever it, just a little bit. Vol. 4x Dad. Identify as a fitter, slightly younger version of myself. Guitar, music, peppers and hot sauce.

Keeping it Weird
Joined April 2015
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Health insurance companies seem extremely painful lately. We've had every bill disputed and refused, almost always due to "has a different primary insurance", when that isnt true. They seem to see if you've ever had another insurance ever and force you to fight everything.
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Its happening?
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Apple with sime actual corporate chess. Make it okay/trend to cut ai use, so all do it, thereby killing the ai trade and ensuring better proces from suppliers and salvaging margins.
*APPLE CUTS INTERNAL AI USAGE BUDGETS IN MOVE TO REDUCE SPENDING *APPLE LOWERED DAILY AI CAP FOR SOME ENGINEERS TO $200 FROM $300 $AAPL really leaning into being the anti-AI trade
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Their names are Trump and Musk.
I know the people who are responsible for this bloodbath in Texas, and believe me, it’s all going to come out.
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Zaphod retweeted
ITS CALLED TWITTER NOW
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“The Midterm polls will be wrong”
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Light rain in SoCal and were getting legit crowds.
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Dumb premise, study design etc… Imagine randos being called experts. Also imagine the stakes, wgaf on this. Why would they go out of their way to credit the tool they used? When I put furniture together I have never credited my screwdriver, i say i did it. Lmao
This is one of the most important pieces of social science on human and AI interaction that I’ve seen in some time. Experts follow agentic advice the vast majority of the time (causally), but only a tiny fraction credit the agent—majority think they came to decision on their own volition. Reminds me of the classic Nisbett and Wilson study on people following outside influence without realizing it “ But as more work is handed to AI—including AI safety research—these judgment calls are the main levers for people's own values to influence outcomes. If people defer to AI without noticing, then "human in the loop" might provide less assurance than people expect.”
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Watching OG Ghostbusters, they secure a mortgage for 19% lol.
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Have to realize majority of therapy is people whining or dumping banal self centered things on someone looking for affirmation, AITA (usually). Like everyone else, most only want to talk and think of themselves. Gotta pay up get others to pretend to care.
I dislike that empathy services cost people a lot of $, because they shouldn't Back when I was dabbling in dating coaching, a guy mocked the idea He said people used to have communities who served as dating coaches, so paying $ was absurd A girl piped up for me, but I felt him 🤷‍♀️ Therapy shouldn't be expensive. Daycare shouldn't be expensive. Care work shouldn't be expensive. The problem is, to make it cheap, we'd have to pool society's resources, and people understandably have a kneejerk negative reaction to that. But I'd happily pay taxes to help a person who needs it get therapy, or daycare, or a health aide. Imagine if we agreed as a society that care work is so valuable we ought to fund & make it free or cheap 😍
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ABNB sending out emails about not making guests do chores, only took a decade of obvious and complaints, but its a bit late. Still good in right circumstance, but hotels all day long. Dont have to talk to an overly involved rando nor cleanup. Consistent all around.
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Finally, my meta verse properties are going to moon!
NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS EVERY COMPANY IN THE FUTURE WILL HAVE TWO FACTORIES, ONE REAL AND ONE DIGITAL, WITH THE DIGITAL FACTORY SO REAL IT MIGHT AS WELL BE REAL
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If AI uses, and needs our content, AI needs to pay for it. If they cant use it, they cease to be useful. A truly parasitic relationship right now.
To publish something on a paywalled site is to make it invisible. If AIs can't find it, then for all practical purposes it doesn't exist. These two sentences aren't 100% true yet, but they will only get truer.
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Dont understand Amazons idea with Alexa & devices. Alexa, just trash. UI is awful, cant do almost anything w/o the phone app, nothing works intuitively, forced bloatware, limitations cuz they hate you, confusing and annoying. It makes you not want to use it, obviously bad. Y?
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Safety of their valuation and vc’s bags lol.
Anthropic is facing a call to delay its IPO over AI safety concerns. New York City Comptroller Mark Levine urged the company to postpone its planned listing until it addresses AI safety and governance risks. Anthropic has opened discussions with him.
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Replying to @steve2bacon
Leoquidation
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