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"Hey ChatGPT, show me that PDF Sarah asked about in her latest email and after I confirm it's correct, send it to John" Microsoft wants to get here first, and for good reason, so MS would do all they can to thwart OpenAIs attempts at getting there first. When you try to install Chrome on Windows, MS pulls like 20 deceptive UI patterns to trick you into using Edge. This is just one problem OpenAI would face if they depended on their competitor's structures. Notice how Google just made an update to their Chrome extension manifest policy, which rendered uBlock origin useless for bypassing Youtube video ads? That's the sort of shit they'd pull on OpenAI. Apple, Google, and MS would do all they can to thwart OpenAI from becoming the most popular feature on their devices.

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They don't need it, but it would be smart for several reasons: Remove barriers to adoption. A single permission at the OS level would mean the consumer doesn't have to micromanage app connections. If consumers want the full benefit of an AI assistant, they need to give it access to all their data Every single customer would be their own customer avatar. It's fucking brilliant. They'd be silly not to create a phone. The same reasons Google built a browser and a phone. Full control over data and influencing user behavior. Existing OSs are always updating permissions, which can leave your tech adoption in the hands of your competitors, like Google. IDK, seems like a really good idea to me.

I wonder if by embedding their tech deep into the Android operating system they'd be able to provide something new? If they had root access to location, contacts, emails, etc, could they come up with something new? Seems like a lot of potential here, but you might be right.

You're right, sorry, I was mistaken. Is it really silly? Whatever they're creating, it will interface with their core tech. B2C: phone / tablet wearable tech: watches, glasses (Meta's Ray-Ban) smart speaker augmented or virtual reality computer B2B: robots augmented or virtual reality Am I leaving anything out? Of those, I think phone is most likely. All they'd have to do is design hardware and slap their own modified version of Android on it and it'd sell like hotcakes.

Georgia's attorney general's office advised the Georgia State Election Board to not enact their new laws before the board meeting took place. AG's memo to board: https://atlantaciviccircle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/StateElectionBoard.pdf # Summary of Georgia's Proposed Election Rule Changes and Implementation Issues ## Key Points • The Georgia Attorney General's office has warned the State Election Board that proposed new election rules likely exceed the Board's authority and conflict with state law. • The Board is considering additional rule changes for the upcoming Nov. 5 election, despite already passing several last-minute changes over the summer. • County election officials warn that these last-minute changes could introduce "chaos" into the voting process and undermine public confidence. • One controversial proposed rule requires precinct workers to hand-count ballots on election night after polls close at 7 p.m. • The Attorney General's office deems this hand-counting rule "impermissible" as it conflicts with existing state election law. • Many smaller counties lack resources to implement the proposed rules, which come without additional funding. ## Implementation Issues • The hand-counting rule would require poll workers to work beyond their already long 16-hour day. • Many poll workers are elderly and may not be physically capable of performing accurate counts after such a long workday. • There's a risk of increased human error due to fatigue. • The rule could compromise ballot security by breaking the normal chain of custody. • Smaller counties may not have enough staff or resources to carry out the new procedures. • The changes may lead to delays in reporting election results. • There's a potential for poll worker shortages or resignations due to the increased workload. • The last-minute nature of these changes leaves little time for proper training and preparation. • The lack of additional funding makes it difficult for counties to adapt to the new requirements. • There are concerns about maintaining consistency across different precincts and counties in implementing these new rules. # Key Logistics of Georgia's New Hand-Counting Rule Based on the information provided in the search results, here are the key logistics of how the new hand-counting rule will be implemented in Georgia: 1. **Scope:** The rule applies to ballots cast on Election Day at polling places. 2. **Process:** - After voting ends, poll workers will need to unseal and remove ballots from the machine scanners. - Three separate poll workers must count the number of paper ballots (not votes) until all three counts match. - This count is of the total number of ballots, not individual votes on each ballot. 3. **Timing:** - The count will occur at each polling place after voting is completed on Election Day. - If a scanner has more than 750 ballots inside at the end of voting, the poll manager can decide to begin the count the following day. 4. **Verification:** - The manual count will be compared with the total provided by the ballot scanner. - This is meant to ensure that the number of ballots in the scanners matches the number of voters recorded by check-in computers and the number of ballots recorded by the voting machines and scanners. 5. **Staffing:** - The count must be performed by the poll manager and two poll workers at each precinct. 6. **Purpose:** - The rule is intended to verify the number of ballots, not to tally votes. - Memory cards that record the votes at the polling places will still be used to tally votes on election night. It's important to note that this rule change has been controversial, with concerns raised about potential delays in reporting results, increased burden on poll workers, and possible legal issues with its implementation. More context:

A more fitting term is "reasonably suspicious", since he lies 90% of the time.

Thanks @Ulax! This is nice!

This is a very good and important question and it should not only apply to books, but everything. Being interested in so many things is a double-edged sword. This problem has plagued me for a long time. "Essentialism" should probably be one of your top 3 principles. Reality is full of shiny things and you will be attracted to and distracted by many of them. The problem is, there is not enough time and energy. For example, if you need to focus on building a business, you do not have time and energy to dive into the vast world of medical science. It's very interesting, but you could swim around in that topic from now until you die, so you have to get "good-enough" information on important topics like health, and then focus on your business. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - https://a.co/d/4ArCpvz This principle is hard to embody but it's a force multiplier, and for me, probably the most important principle.

I suppose humans are too diverse to say one way or the other. I can tell you that not everyone needs to be touched and not all of the people who feel that way are operating on avoidant attachment. As a child, of course you need your mother's touch, but when growing up, I found that so-called psychological needs are often malleable and can even be removed. With ample intelligence, self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-efficacy, many so-called "needs" are recognized as bullshit. As far as I can simulate out, the only psychological/physiological utility of touching others is bonding and to put the nervous system at ease. For example, there's a type of therapy where the therapist does nothing but place their hands on you to let you get used to being touched and this makes you more comfortable around other humans. Calms your sympathetic nervous system, which is a good thing, but I wouldn't call this a "need", no more than I would call meditation a need because it trains your mind for calm.

More evidence that Trump wasn't fooled by right-wing twitter shit. He was aware of the absurdity and pushed the story anyway, and it was all planned: Vance’s team was told Haitian immigrant rumors were false before debate, Springfield mayor confirms https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/politics/springfield-ohio-vance-campaign-wsj-report/index.html So, like I said, they all knew it was bullshit and pushed it anyway, regardless of the absurdity. Trump was waiting for a good time to insert "blacky eating household pets" into the debate, not because he believed it, but because he and his campaign thought getting millions of eyes onto a real-world example of rampant immigration would payoff more than the lie would damage him... and he was right, because his lies are normal and no one bats an eye when he displays zero integrity. It's currently assumed that this story is so absurd and so overtly false that it only does damage to Trump. Everyone just defaults to believing this, but I wouldn't be so certain. There's an idea of "the scared majority". I know some apolitical normies in PA and I can tell you that the idea their town could be inundated with Haitians is WAY MORE powerful a motivator to check the R than Trump being a liar motivates them to check D. So, this was the goal and I think all these pundits assuming the Trump campaign is only hurt by this is ridiculous. All this media coverage did was show the left another example of what they already knew, and it gave the normies reason to vote Trump. They were already aware Trump is a bullshitter but there were not aware what was going on right next door.

When it all collapses and there is no more you, no more story, only the ONE, then what? In that space, what are you doing? If it’s so grand in that space, why not stay there? Why come back? Was one even there? From my understanding, when people fully transcend the self, they often die from lack of concern with the body. So what is the point? Novel experience? It seems the whole point of existence is for there to be a story. It’s beautiful and interesting to discover the magic and the design of it all, but I don’t get the urgency to exhaust the self and for everything to collapse, unless one is running from something… then I get it. I also get the love of exploration, but that’s just mentation feeding the self, not unity. I’m just trying to make sense of things.

You definitely have to be careful. Here’s the key if you want to hit on girls all the time in this scenario. You have to balance out your approaches. Be social with everyone… teachers, staff, guys, everyone. Then, when you’re on the prowl, do all you can to avoid detection from bystanders and passerbys: Don’t look like a horn dog. Don’t get caught staring at girls asses Don’t stand around looking like a predator looking for prey. Never run to catch a girl. Be slick with your eye contact. Don’t fixate on targets. Make all approaches seem organic. This would be the base of my strategy but it’s too much work IMO. Probably best to put the energy into coursework and just wait on organic ass to fall in your lap.

Jack off and it goes way. Much less painful than chopping it off. Drain it often so you don’t get blindsided into thinking you want someone to caress you and tell you they love you. If it doesn’t go away, then it’s societal conditioning. In that case, you got work to do, which is doable.

I tried Gemeni pro… it sucks. Meta is actually pretty good for reasoning, IIRC, and I appreciate it not being so verbose. I currently have ChatGPT and Claude pro versions. Claude’s free tier is too limiting so you need Pro and then you need ChatGPT for when you run out of messages. And you need the pro version because Chat 4o sucks. You need ChatGPT 4. Also, many tools are coming out that are designed to accept a ChatGPT API token. With this, you can communicate with ChatGPT directly in other programs, like Obsidian. Also, OpenAI is working on their own phone and having an ex-Apple engineer designing it, so I think that’s gonna be big. Currently, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are really all you need. Perplexity is replacing Google for at least half my searches.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Speaking of JP, I saw where Alex (cosmic skeptic) finally got JP to admit he believes in the literal resurrection of Jesus. That was funny. Then, his reasoning on Piers Morgan for why people should vote for Trump was some of the dumbest shit I’ve heard a smart person say. He’s skilled at playing around in the world of abstraction to gain insight but when it comes time to use those insights intelligently, he’s like a child. His positions are too convoluted and unnecessarily intricate. They require too much computational energy to decipher and comprehend. This process seems like intelligence, and often it is, but it seems more and more it’s just him having unconscious fun, constructing his own sand castles and then telling people they don’t understand because they didn’t account for the hidden room he constructed on the 8th floor of his sand castle. I do like many of his perspectives and admire his thinking, but I think it can be found elsewhere in more accessible and accurate form, without having to devote an hour to compute one of ten ideas needed to understand his sand castle. Maybe Decoding Gurus feels the same as me and just says fuck’em… he doesn’t deserve our time in sifting through his bullshit to find the parts of his sand castle that are worth keeping, so fuck the whole sand castle.

Some people can’t discern the ways of the devil. They can’t decode Russel Brand, so these guys are using mockery as a teaching strategy. (Probably unconsciously) Yeah, they’re not the highest quality, that’s for sure. BUT, they are criticizing from a higher moral and cognitive development than what is typical. They seem to be in the 70-85 percentile of intelligence and they have integrity, which is way more than can be said for most. They don’t usually shine light on things I haven’t already seen, but I think they are for many others, hopefully.

Devils say many things. If Tucker “says” something out loud, in public, you would be wise to not categorize his words as representative of any truth. This thread is about embodied devilry. If someone like Tucker, Trump, or Vance say they like Mountain Dew, you should consider their claim to at least be a 50% chance it is a deception, unless you have collected other evidence or reasons you can use to discern the truth of their claim. We can’t simply take their words at face value. We should always see them from the context of their character, their motives, incentives, past history, etc., because they can, and often do, dispense with the truth in a heartbeat.

Their takes are usually still higher quality than most. Multiperspectival analysis doesn’t sell well. We probably wouldn’t know about them if they included it. We need people like them critiquing the obvious clowns, even if they don’t balance their perspectives out with more helpful ones. The fools need to know there are consequences to their devilry and they will be laughed at and mocked for it, which bothers them.

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@Forestluv Interesting stuff! As volatile as DJT is, it seems intuitive that a PAC short coinciding with some other bad news could be all that's needed to really mess things up.

"Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation" - Donald Trump 😂😂😂

Yeah, that seems solid.