AmericanEconomicThinkTank

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda like that other guy, once I ripped my cd collection to digital, just didn’t even get into streaming.

  Still make mixtapes the old fashioned way for my partner (corny lol I know) and I buy the occasional remaster at a local thrift shop, or the old baked out hippie running a music / instrument shop.

  It’s an honest joy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say absolutely in the general sense nost people, and the salesmen, frame them in.

  When I was invited to assist with the GDC development, I got a chance to partner with a few AI developers and see the development process firsthand, try my hand at it myself, and get my hands on a few low parameter models for my own personal use. It’s really interesting just how capable some models are in their specific use-cases. However, even high param. models easily become useless at the drop of a hat.

  I found the best case, one that’s rarely done mind you, is integrate the model into a program that has the ability to call a known database. With a properly trained model to format output in both natural language and use a given database for context calls, and concrete information, the qualitative performance leaps ahead by bounds. Problem is, that requires so much customization it pretty much ends up being something a capable hobbyist would do, it’s just not economically sound for a business to adopt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Few of my personal favorites: “I’m disappointed in you” “You don’t have to be your parents you know” “Is this what you do with your free time?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for Palantir⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the old metrics?

  Private industry costs three bucks to do what public does for one.

  The Department of Defense War hasn’t passed an audit for 8 years straight, high percentage of contract deliverables being immediately retired, resold domestically, or outright never delivered.

  Of course they’re going to stuff their pockets as much as possible. It’s the only thing they’re actually able to do, and barely competently at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern internet for you.

  It may be far from perfect, but it’s why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I’m going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best part: the better names in the alt os and device scenes don’t sell in us markets.

  Unless you do the legwork of flashing your own device, most of us are out of luck.

  I just love a good market stranglehold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  brookings.edu/…/how-to-combat-fake-news-and-disin…

  dhs.gov/…/phase_ii_-_combatting_targeted_disinfor…

  www.un.org/en/countering-disinformation

  Easy points to start with. Generally, keeping a neutral view on something new, and striving to maintain a trust but verify attitude is your absolute best bet. The more you understand global politics, especially current agendas of various nations, political groups, etc. can help to discern one bias or another. In general, giving yourself room and time to properly process any information you encounter, and especially destress yourself, makes a huge difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually help train for combating disinformation and the such, I could forward you a few docs if you’re interested in the read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Writing takes a HELL of a long time to start getting good, usually a million words or so, and that’s not guaranteed success. Physics, as others have mentioned takes mathematics to a high level, have you looked at other aspects of sciences and math if you at least enjoy it?

  If you’d like to get some career guidance, I do alot of training and mentorship pro-bono, drop me a message might be able to help a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao you okay good buddy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand why he’d like the concept, he can’t think for himself afterall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of great reccomendations here, highly reccomend looking into a sleep study or rework schedule like other folks are reccomending. Aside from that keeping a regimented schedule is always helpful, especially with reducing screen and bright light use near periods of rest.

  Besides physiological stuff, reducing stress helps, learning what helps you personally sleep and wake up better and integrating that into you habits can help tons. I’ve found being able to even spend a short few minutes to properly reflect on the day can help change my mindset makes a difference.