Public Libraries were the original Freemium model.
Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card....
An overcooked bread isn't well cooked. So a well cooked bread is necessarily not too cooked. And yet, asking for "well cooked" or "not too cooked" bread in a bakery have well distinct meanings...
The problem with AI alignment is that humans aren't aligned
I’m sure there are some AI peeps here. Neural networks scale with size because the number of combinations of parameter values that work for a given task scales exponentially (or, even better, factorially if that’s a word???) with the network size. How can such a network be properly aligned when even humans, the most advanced...
In just a few decades we will probably be able to ask an AI for a movie or a game, and it will make one to our exact specifications.
Shit faint
Why is it that I almost faint if I try to shit really hsrd?
Heroes and Herpes are just one letter apart in the alphabet
Just the o changes to p which is also next in the alphabet
Climate activists are actually conservative, as their goal is to prevent a radical change to the climate that human civilization depends on.
Thus, conservatism and neoliberalism are, in reality, the radical agenda…
Why do people say "symbiotic relationship" when they really mean "mutualistic"?
Everything I know about being in my 40s is what I learned from Al Bundy
When historians are trying to credit the invention of generative AI, they may have to hunt down that one social media post that started the "use only auto-complete to finish this sentence" trend.
There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case.
Dinosaurs were around before Saturn had rings.
Saturn’s rings are around 150 mio. years old.
"This generation is finished" --previous generation
Most stuff you touch was super hot while being made
We don't need bluelight filtere
Why we actually need bluelight filters in lens, monitors and phones? Led bulbs are already emitting a hell lot brighter bluelight every day and night. Whats the point in buying these less blue marketed gadgets
The fact that we aren’t aware of every process in our body means our brains aren’t fully connected with our bodies.
New physical cosmological model
With a mechanism that continually creates matter in the universe we don’t need a big bang. Creation of matter and gravity fields, (net zero) could somehow increase the expansion of the universe. 3d interference pattern of gravitational waves would create rogue waves at specific points in SpaceTime that would create matter and...
Once we can get brain-device-interfaces implanted into us in order to sort of link our brains with a computer/phone, we probably won't get that information as pictures appearing in front of our eyes.
The information would probably be delivered raw into our minds. We’d just know what time it is, what the weather will be, who’s calling us and what the news are saying, without having to process the information.
Now that AI generated text is mostly indistinguishable from human text, AI may start influencing the evolution of our language.
Given that language is an important lens through which we see the world, AI could subtly alter our perceptions and beliefs over the coming years, decades, and centuries.
A year in Mars is longer than the ones on Earth, so ppl living on Mars would celebrate less birthdays and technically die younger.
We love old memes because they remind us of a time when we felt like participants instead of consumers
What if the length of a term was proportional to the amount you won by in the election?
Seems odd that if you win by 0.001% that’s treated the same as if you win by 50%. “You barely won, here’s the same mandate as someone who won soundly”...
Someone's put salt in their coffee and liked it
Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/tablet with a touch keyboard.
I can’t even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it’s really just a matter of time....