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Cake day: April 18th, 2024

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  • I wonder whether it’s possible to fight wars without – ideally – having casaulties at all.

    For example, sedating instead of killing. Afterwards prison camps or something like that. Admittedly, given the scale, it is financially and logistically a tremendous effort. But how much must a human life “be worth” in order to be spared?

    There are other obvious issues like civil unrest, if the other party keeps killing soldiers of one’s own military.

    Still, it’s better than to end lifes from my perspective. One side must be the bigger one.

    We spend so much effort and resources into specialising how to kill each other. But we don’t use that resources for finding alternative ways.

    If there are people who really want to kill each other, throw them together and leave the rest alone.



  • ChatGPT is, in it’s core, a sequence predictor/generator. Give it some context and it will produce most probable results.

    Having the context of man, boat and river is very likely to match this “how does the man get the goat on the other side of the river” riddle, which is probably very predominantly present in the data set ChatGPT was trained on.

    That’s why ChatGPT can be helpful for lots of different purposes, but shouldn’t be taken literally. Errors are very likely to happen. It can give important hints, but always check the results thouroughly.




  • I don’t think that this makes it wrong. As I see it, the meaning of your advice is to prioritize self-care over work. It surely helps with mental and physical health. And I think this also applies to people saving lifes of others like medical doctors. They are also still people, they can also suffer from that kind of work. And I always prefer a doctor who thinks about getting enough sleep and quality time in life over someone who drives themselves mad and makes themselves sick by burdening the whole world on their shoulders.

    If they can’t help themselves, how can they help me?
    Or, 101 of car crashes, first save yourself before you attempt to save others.

    There are also others who help. It’s not one single person’s job to save everyone.


  • If someone says X, but does Y, this doesn’t mean they are not right about X.

    Other example, if someone is raising public awareness about littering in nature and is then caught throwing a plastic bottle into a forest, does that mean they are wrong?

    Sure, it’s shitty, but that doesn’t make them wrong in saying that people shouldn’t do it, even if they are not living up to their own words.


  • It’s the basic driver of all somewhat intelligent life on earth.

    Do something - fail - explore alternatives - do it again - success? Keep it. Fail? Back to exploring and retrying.

    Whether it’s babies learning to walk or you overcoming difficult situations in life. We should embrace errors and failures of others, as it’s an opportunity for them and us to learn and prevent similar mistakes in the future.




  • When dealing with a busy person in a professional context;

    • Emails should be as short as possible while still conveying the needed information, don’t make a busy person excavate the relevant info from somewhere near the middle of the fifth paragraph.
    • Whenever possible phrase a question in a way that can be answered in one word.

    Not a fan of this. Feels like a result of over-optimization in a capitalistic, profti-driven society.

    We are humans. Not machines. So treat each other like that. If you like to write a couple of more words to express yourself or some issue in a way that feels representing, go for it. Doesn’t mean to escalate this into a novel, but it’s fine to take a pause and talk more.