Ha! The word roots literally mean ‘a foot and a half’. It means I like loooong words!

sesquipedalian

All 18 inches, baby!

You may enjoy, if you aren’t already familiar with, FDR’s Four Freedoms concept.

There are FOUR freedoms!

Yes, that’s about all it is. “Low water activity” and a lower pH. Same reason jams and jellies don’t ferment. They can get moldy over time, but fungi have always been better at low water activity environments.

I don’t buy it.

A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.

In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.

Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.

Yeah! Great to hear. Please continue to be a fixture in your neighborhood.

As Fred Rogers told me once, in a conversation that was just between us, a friend is a person in your neighborhood.

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There are other methods that are clinically valid beyond CBT. Don’t give up. Somatic approaches that bypass the prefrontal cortex can be really effective too. The new hotness is showing that all that word-making can get in the way as much as it helps.

If that interests you, search ‘top-down bottom-up’ therapy approaches.

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Oh, can they still hear the screams? Guess who can’t hear anything at all? That’s right, the people they murdered.

Yeah, evangelicals would suddenly be okay with Mormons because the Mormons have a lot of money (like, a lot). We all know the God they worship.

Just make them pay taxes every time they get even close to talking about electoral politics.

You’d be surprised. The non-Christian/Non-Mormon population of those states is extremely convinced of the need for separation of church and state.

It definitely does in my experience. I have intentionally used it for specific tasks for defined periods of time. And then stopped and used only my normal online search tools and a text editor without AI assistance. My projects were written concept development, plus some light coding to create utility scripts.

From just my own experience there is definitely a real cognitive hazard associated with using LLMs at all, for all but the most specialized tasks where an LLM is really warranted.

The scripts worked fine, as they were quite simple python utilities for some data cleaning, so I see a use there. But I found that the concepts never caught fire in my imagination, whereas usually a good share of concepts developed manually turn into something that gets a deeper treatment, even a prototype design at least.

Lucky people. They will have a period of mourning and then enter a cultural renaissance.

Websites work very well and are scalable af. A plugged in person with a track record like that could go Web 2.0 and probably net more.

They should have put that on the sign. Functional notation is universally understood, after all.

not.

Bags are very different to me than cars for some reason. They are more personal, perhaps, as one can usually see the person and the busy bag together.

Thinking about it, perhaps I see bumper stickers as impersonal and maybe even agressive (probably passive-aggressive even). A cute frog or two is vastly different to me than a collage of political sayings and it hardly matters if I happen to agree with the particular statements.

Maybe it’s a matter of taste or perhaps I feel disdain because it looks like political activity but is actually utterly worthless at changing minds?

Any kind of of bumper sticker collection on the trunk(boot) lid.

One sticker with a snarky or clever saying is fine, but I do instantly judge anyone with a collage as a tacky person with poor taste and no sense of boundaries.

It matters not if I tend to agree with the advertised messages, it’s just a huge red flag to me.