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I'm fully expecting my next employer to grill me on my grocery purchasing habits and inferred medical history in my next job interview. Its all there for purchase and AI can put it all together into a compelling narrative. Suddenly my preference for prunes becomes a lifelong dire struggle with irregular bowel movement that may distract me from my work. Expect pointed questions about bathroom break lengths.

It will be worse, they'll hire a "third party" to analyze it for then and return a yes/no or risk score. No information will be available about the third party and local laws won't apply because the score was calculated in the cloud.

"Ah, now here's the thing about that. I wrote this custom 'surveillance countermeasures' tool a few years ago and have been using it ever since. It constantly emits false data about me to confuse these sorts of data collection services. Funny that it thinks I would like prunes."

Unfortunately we're living in a world where instantly dismissing anything that reads like ai and hanging up on anyone that might be tts is increasingly rewarded.

Art and its meaning are in the eyes of the reader, yes, but when you live in a version of the Library of Babel where every book is properly spelled and punctuated, seeking meaning in what you read is a great way to waste your life.


That's a bit reductive. Let's say worst case that LLMs can't generate anything truly novel because of their limitations. That means that whatever they generated is just someone else's words, which could have been that person's art.

On the flip side, let's say LLMs are able to generate something novel. Well, then it could potentially generate thought-provoking art.

Not everything is deserving of finding meaning in. But the fun part of life is looking for things to find meaning in. Whether it's the words of God or an LLM or the President, people will always find meaning. And if it makes them happy and fulfilled, who are we to say it was a waste?


Is it? If the words that came from tokens resulted in the reader finding meaning to life, is it so wasted because a rock was coerced into making it instead of a meat sack?

To be fair the designer who created the font would probably agree that for use cases like passwords or serial numbers etc. you should use a different font. That's the nice thing about having different fonts around. You can choose which one you want to use.


That is a solution applicable for a document or GUI created by yourself, where you can define various styles with associated fonts and use them appropriately.

However, I see the worst offenders on various Web pages (frequently for various URLs) where I do not control the typeface, unless I instruct the browser to ignore the style sheet of the rendered Web page and use my own fonts instead, which can be tedious or create other problems in the rendered page.


I have a few CSS overrides for some websites to turn all input boxes into monospace fonts. It is far easier to use them then.


There are a lot of mediocre therapists out there. And even if you do get a reasonably good one, they might not click with you in terms of personality/approach/cultural background.


That's some real obsessive stalker logic there.


other side. co-dependent.


Broadly speaking, this would be how I view the widening diplomatic gap between the CCP and Taiwan. Not the DPP, not the KMT, Taiwan.


Dexter Morgan wins again.


Neat. Once you add zoning aka biomes, it seems like this could be really useful in generating realistic game maps.


I read, "Once you add zombies..." and had a great idea. :)


The upcoming Flight Simulator 2020 uses Bing Map in a similar way.


Round trip latency includes two trips to the sattelite and back. So geostationary sattelites have ~480 ms of travel time and ~70ms of delay


It's sad that people are so utterly resigned to having an ineffective federal legislature that the possibility of restricting the use of binding arbitration by means of the passage of new laws is not even considered.


> ineffective federal legislature

That is a myth. Congress is very effective. It just doesn't act in your interest.

See [1] pdf page 10.

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...


Given their conclusion, how do you fix a system like this? Start over from scratch? What does that look like? edit... Maybe it's the American Anti Corruption Act? https://anticorruptionact.org

>What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover,because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.


Reminds me of Maytag Blue Cheese. Are there other food products out there from surprising brands?


https://us.peugeot-saveurs.com/en_us/pepper-mills

Peugeot, the car company, invented the pepper grinder and still makes them.

They started making pepper grinders before they made cars though, so perhaps you could argue they're a kitchen tools company that also makes cars.



Also bicycles.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maytag_Blue_cheese

Complete with patent-dickery:

"During the Second World War, [the] university patented the homogenisation of cheese milk and attempted to have charges levied on Danish cheese produced using homogenised milk. Their attempts failed, as it could be proved that this method had been introduced 20 years earlier in Denmark by Marius Boe."


"Cougar Gold Cheese" from Washington State University: https://m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_Gold_cheese


I always assumed that was somewhat normal of ag schools... is it that unique? Aside from the weird "can of cheese" of course -- I mean, is it uncommon for ag schools to sell their produce like that?


Maytag blue cheese? Is that for real? How does one get some of this?


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