This one? https://www.metafilter.com/78669/What-if-things-just-keep-getting-worse#2430771

Everything an LLM outputs is a hallucination, and sometimes that hallucination lines up with reality.

This has happened so many times it must be on purpose. Something like those who come back are likely to be more desperate than those who decide to leave and therefore less likely to get in their way.

Here’s my list, included snippets of their own youtube descriptions.

Angela Collier theoretical physicist.

Andrew Millison is a permaculture teacher and practitioner.

Climate Town Rollie Williams and a ragtag team of climate communicators, creatives and comedians are here to examine climate change in a way that doesn’t make you want to eat a cyanide pill. Get informed about the climate crisis before the weather does it for you.

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. We study plants through the lens of ecology and evolution, rather than what supposed anthropocentric uses they can provide (as if holding up the biosphere wasn’t enough).

Dr Fatima i went to grad school and all i got was this lousy understanding of systemic problems in science.

Meditations for the anxious mind

Noah Daniel interior & spatial design

Stewart Hicks Takes on Buildings and Cities.

Some examples in the book include the Wendat people and Teotihuacan. You can also check out the book’s wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything.

One of the core conclusions of the book that you may find interesting (quote from the wiki):

Based on their accumulated discussions, the authors conclude by proposing a reframing of the central questions of human history. Instead of the origins of inequality, they suggest that our central dilemma is the question of how modern societies have lost the qualities of flexibility and political creativity that were once more common.

I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber for more details on societal structures of the past

we probably need to transition to bringing our own reusable packaging/bottling for that stuff.

not that i don’t think you could ask about them here, but there are a number of self host communities that you should check out, here are two of the bigger ones:

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i totally agree, i didn’t quite state it but was basing my comment in the status quo. without being able to personally change the world’s economic model, one has to make decisions in the context of the current one.

i think another factor is that we are reaching or have maybe surpassed the earth’s carrying capacity for humans, which is only going to get worse with climate change. in the past, more kids also meant more labor and there was still lots of land to colonize and spread into with those extra people. but we already have more than enough people and no realistic places left to expand.

i learned about GNU Taler the other day from one of the OS communities

from what i understand, the real world hybrid data is significantly worse than its WLTP test data. so much worse that it’s only a 25% improvement over petrol/diesel instead of the 75% improvement that would be expected given the WLTP.

I wish we would just keep adding E’s so long threads would be REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

which also happens to be the noise I make when I see them.

we also live in a world which has now known that premise and used it for 300 years, which makes it seem much more trivial than it was at the time.

I was curious so I looked, Wikipedia says the asteroid belt currently contains only about 3% the mass of the moon. I definitely thought it would be more!

Not quite what you’re asking for, but during WW2 the US employed Navajo speakers to use their language for certain verbal communications because it was so different from popular languages and hard to decipher. There’s a lot written about them out there. I would also recommend checking out The Code Book by Simon Singh, it’s a great recap of the history of secret codes and breaking them.

what if it needed just one more second to complete?

my take is white-washing. if they actually wanted to make a change, they could stop selling plastic bottles at any time.

they may be able to read certain data from another instance but their current platform allows complete surveillance of what you looked at, how long, every click and scroll, etc while also being able to feed that in to manipulating what you see.

imo it will be basically impossible to have that kind of impact on people from instances not controlled by them, particularly if the other instance defederates so they don’t see meta instance content.