Saying it before something that is not disrespectful would be redundant at best and very confusing at worst.

“With all due respect, how’s the weather today?”
“I’m not racist but I prefer tea over coffee.”
“I’m not a pedophile but I think terminator 3 is a bad movie.”

Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.

The actual number is closer to 9% than 99%. This is probably some kind of mutation from “the combined wealth of billionaires is larger than the GDP of 99% of countries” where notably yearly income and wealth are not directly comparable.

Better (and true) things to say are “The global top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% combined” or “The richest 0.01% in the US have tripled their wealth in the last 30 years, while 90% of people have been treading water”

it’s

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of course. Clearly O(n).

I guess it’s meant to say “threadiverse’s finest”

Probably

So I wondered a bit how much it actually affects the economy.

“S&P 500” companies’ market cap is about 57 trillion dollars with a P/E ratio of about 30. So openai by itself is dragging down the total s&p 500 earnings by only about 0.5%. The bigger problem is that there are multiple companies like openAI, and a large chunk of the entire economy’s valuation is tied to the promise that all the AI companies will somehow become profitable sometime soon.

Nah, it was found sometime before november 24 2021, publicly disclosed in december 9 2021, and only used by 2b2t players on december 10 2021.

The small amount of sales of doom 2 today is not at all comparable to the massive amount of minecraft sales and minecraft-related microtransactions that microsoft is raking in. Doom has many modern sequels that are far more popular today than doom 2, while minecraft does not have any official sequel.

There’s a million illnesses that can make you dumber. It’s hard to think when you have constant back pain. It’s hard to think when you’re constantly tired for no reason. long covid famously causes “brain fog”. So on and so forth.

It’s not an ordinal number either

SteamOS for Desktop is imminent

Do you have some source? I recall the latest rumor related to a valve patent is more likely to be about some VR thing than a steamOS PC

If you hand wash your clothes and process all your food from scratch you’re most likely the exception.

That is mostly a myth. They may have worked less than people at the height of the industrial revolution, but even a laborer who was paid a salary had to spend at least several hours per day on average on “not work” things like food preparation, home maintenance, feeding livestock, gathering firewood, repairing and cleaning clothing. Many tasks that are trivial today were highly arduous.

Then to top it all off it was fairly common for the local lord to force them to do extra labor without pay, like maintaining roads or training in a militia.

“You want to use teams a bit? We have a session here” “I’d be happy to, actually. Not really, but it wouldn’t be bad” “Not really? If you say so, I have a teams session ready right here” “No. No. I’m not stupid” “People use it every day.” “Tell the truth” “It’s a good user experience.” “So are you ready to use it? For 5 minutes?” “No, I’m not an idiot.”

Taleb’s mind just isn’t antifragile enough. Or maybe too antifragile. Idk I didn’t read his book

Neuroplasticity does drop with age, but the drop is smaller than it was previously assumed to be, especially outside of early childhood (you may note that eg. this graph starts at 20 years old)

wtf is up with that confidence interval(?) though

Someone brough up a theory that it’s a “symbolic punishment” for a journalist:

remove the eyes so you cannot see
remove the brain so you cannot think
remove the larynx so you cannot speak (the larynx contains the vocal cords)

I think this is talking about basic functionality, eg. can you do basic stuff with a clean install without everything immediately breaking

There’s a lot of programming tools that are primarily developed for and on linux, and “windows support” is an afterthought which will result in linux being a very frictionless experience but windows being a minefield of problems and requiring careful manual setup

What is mutually exclusive, though, is reality and China’s “imminent collapse” which has been looming just around the corner for the past 20 years