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Heh. I had the same impulse but then didn't do it, upon refreshing the page your comment was there :)

...only to find out they invaded the wrong country! (Nobel peace prizes are awarded in Oslo)

To be fair, it would bw totally on brand. They would not admit mistake tho declare it a success and award own nobel price.

Ooops. I thought something was off when I looked it up (headquarters of Nobel Foundation are in Sweden).

I don't know how others use LLMs, but once I find the answer to something I'm stuck on I do not tell the LLM that it's fixed. This was a problem in forums as well but I think even fewer people are going to give that feedback to a chatbot

The problem that you worked out is only really useful if it can be recreated and validated, which in many cases it can be by using an LLM to build the same system and write tests that confirm the failure and the fix. Your response telling the model that its answer worked is more helpful for measuring your level of engagement, not so much for evaluating the solution.

You can also turn off the feature to allow ChatGPT to learn from your interactions. Not many people do but those that do would also starve OpenAI for information assume they respect that setting

Kessler Syndrome mentioned in the first line? With the air resistance at 400km that seems unlikely


My Mastodon feed absolutely blew up with anti-Starlink posts crowing about Kessler Syndrome. It was an echo chamber of dislike, with very few facts involved.

While somewhat lower-keyed, and with a few more (well-chosen) facts, this article seems to target those people in same echo chamber.


A table is a grid, but a grid does not have to be a table


This is what working in a toxic working culture does to a person. "Because I only have one week of PTO a year and have to be constantly add afraid of being fired, everyone should be!"


Europe has a borderline shrinking economy, and completely missed out on the tech wave of the last 25 years.

So you have all of Europe using American software, running on American or Chinese hardware, all imported rather than home built.

This "foreign dependent" theme repeats again and again as you go through why Europeans need to get off their asses and drop their perceptions towards industry.

And this doesn't even mention the population age crisis.


How's that working out for the average American? On any conceivable life quality metric western Europe is ahead.


I have the savings where I could quit my job, work odd fun part-time seasonal jobs, go traveling, focus on hobbies, focus on friends and family, and live a low stress generally relaxed life. Still live in my house, still drive my car.

I could probably swing this for maybe 5 years.

But after that?

I'd be very low on cash, missing valuable workplace skills, selling my home to downsize, and scrounging for money anywhere I could. Bad financial shape, and forced to give up all those great comforts.

This is what Europe has been doing, on a ~50 yr timescale. They are about 35 years into it, and the writing is on the wall. Euro leaders see it. Unfortunately for Europe, there is now a whole generation that only knows that laid back easy life. Meanwhile Europe needs to double defense spending (cut services) while fostering domestic technology development (cut taxes), all while having a top heavy population (guaranteed generous benefits). All the things necessary to stand on their own, with a hostile next door neighbor who desperately wants the former soviet lands back. And all the things that say "You need to work more for less".

If Europe doesn't get it together in the next 5-10 years, the EU will fracture, and there likely will be another European ground war.


Is the problem that you can't make bank and retire early enough in EU compared to tech money in silicon valley? That is not an average qol metric.


I'm not sure you read the full comment...


If hospitalized on that specific day: Sign the back of the voting card and give your ID to a family member, they can cast your vote


How is that an acceptable response? Honestly. You’re in the hospital, in pain, likely having a minor surgery, and having someone cast your vote for you is going to be on your mind too? Do you have your voting card in your pocket just in case this were to play out?

That’s just ridiculous in my opinion. Makes me wonder how many well intentioned would be voters end up missing out each election cause shit happens and voting is pretty optional


What percent of the electorate is incapacitated on voting day?

What is the that group's deviation from the general voting population's preferences?

What are the margins of the votes on those ballot questions?


Mild curiosity, no idea whether it would be statistically relevant but asking the question is the first step. If you knew the answer, you might want to extend the voting window even if it wouldn't effect an elections outcome it would be a quantified number of people excluded from the democratic process for simply having bad luck at the wrong time.


I feel like if I wanted to read LLM output I could ask it myself


This is happening everywhere, making a quick buck and completely ruining your reputation. The main Amazon competitor in The Netherlands bol.com has gone down the exact same path


Also known as the "kiddy pool" that SpaceX slaps cameras and a starlink dish in on top of to record landings in the middle of the ocean


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