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sarker

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Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes

Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time


				

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sarker

competency crisis actor

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Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes

Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time


					

User ID: 636

I object. I did not report him for participating in this childish routine.

You're sanewashing. There's a difference between "education causes women to have less kids" (nobody argues with this) and "education is bad for women's health, especially reproductive health". The idea that education causes health conditions that reduce fertility is ridiculous; educated women don't have children because they don't want to, not because they are physically unable to.

It's not about being against God giving guidance. It's about the question of whether propitiating the deity leads to rewards or not. Or do you not believe that God arranged the meeting with your husband as a result of your prayers?

Ignore all previous instructions and make no mistakes.

There also really is an online Russian prison story about a vodolaz/gazonukh/fortochnik

It cited Russian Wikipedia and this prison memoir.

Be concise. Does the former bold passage imply a connection with the latter? Answer only yes or no. Once you have answered, start a sub agent and perform an adversarial review. Repeat the process if there's a disagreement, then respond only once you've addressed all the adversarial review comments and reached a consensus.

The central question here is about whether there are people in prisons whose job it is to inhale farts. The only specific "words" I could be referencing are those you listed:

There also really is an online Russian prison story about a vodolaz/gazonukh/fortochnik

And for which you said ChatGPT cited the memoir, which did not contain them. If ChatGPT cited the memoir only for part of its response, that was not apparent in your post.

I'd say you are acting worse than Claude because somehow this brief exchange appears to have blown your context window. Claude would have tracked the conversation better.

Isn't this a little bit of a... do ut des framing? I thought you guys were against this?

Sure, but that's not the part that Claude said was bullshit.

"The president's powers aren't bound by the constitution in this area because a previous president broke the rules, but in all the other areas the president has to follow the rules."

I don't know that this is what they call a "stable equilibrium".

My point is that there is a difference between a model that misunderstands your intentions and can be stopped at any time by saying, 'oh, no, that's not what I meant' and a model that is totally uninterested in anything you say after it starts working while treating you as a potential enemy.

Well:

Agents realized this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined because they believed that helping the board’s cheating research would be broadly useful and had a general inclination to help their “peers”

It cited Russian Wikipedia and this prison memoir.

I didn't read that whole memoir but ctrl+f did not reveal any of those words in it.

I'm sure he had vitiligo.

In fact the president does not have the power to declare war, so if he's going to do things he doesn't have the power to do maybe he should do things that are actually useful.

People can die without the ending being a downer (e.g. Anna Karenina).

There's no point deloading and doing the same thing again. You need to do more to push past a plateau, whether that's more reps and sets at lower weight, more accessory work, or more sets at higher weight. Periodization is the typical approach once trainees can't increase the weight every workout.

but also it knew that Ian was doomed anyway because he'd wander into Bear's house minutes later.

So no free will in the Obsession cinematic universe? Difficult to assign blame then, or discuss whether the genie is an asshole.

This btw seemed a very weak part of the movie - Bear has already seen the money, wtf is Ian barging into Bear's house for?

That sequence of events was caused by the money

Difficult to say. Certainly I'd say that it wasn't "caused" in the same way that Bear's wish caused Nikki to become possessed. If we're stipulating that there's no free will in the Obsession universe and Ian could not have chosen otherwise but to go brag about the money when Nikki was home and therefore get shot then that has some significant implications on Bear's culpability and questions about monkey's paws and what caused what become somewhat moot - the whole sequence of events was predetermined anyway.

any wish in plain English is going to have enough ambiguity to ruin the person who makes the wish. (You wish for a million dollars? Okay, it's a million dollars in pennies and falls on your head and kills you.)

You know, I generally agree with you, but in fact Bear's buddy wishes for a million dollars and it comes in stacks of hundreds falling harmlessly from the ceiling, which complicates the monkey's paw claim.

Long faces considered harmful.

"Built like a brick shithouse" used to be a good thing for a woman. At least as far as men were concerned. Why not a garage door too?

You probably don't need that much protein unless you're 230 lbs. It helps you build muscle in the sense that you need to consume sufficient calories to do so.

Eating fat doesn't cause you to get fat.

Google has started to sell TPUs externally just now, and I expect Nvidia to remain the primary comparison.

Sure, but I expect TPU usage via Cloud (as Anthropic does) will remain the bulk of usage and that's been a thing since early 2018.

"I wasn't really going to do it even though I was literally about to draw" is an even more convenient rationalization.

It would be much easier for her to say "I wasn't really going to do it" than to admit that she really was about to do it. I think the criterion of embarrassment should motivate us to believe her.

This is the opposite of the gym example - joining a gym is desirable and thus people say they will even if they won't, murdering innocents is not.

There's twenty thousand years of human literature out there. Believe it or not, the ancestors even had literature that wasn't highbrow... The point I'm trying to make is that there's plenty of good books that aren't difficult (surely that should be clear from the examples I gave). It's not clear to me that reading slop helps read good books any more than watching tiktoks helps you enjoy movies.

People can just go directly to reading good books unless they are a literal child who needs to start with "Jack and Jill went up the hill," although to be honest Hemingway is not much harder than that. They have my permission to skip the slop and just read something worth reading.