There is def less drama. which maybe is because of less toxic people. but yes, makes it more boring, in the way that a healthy and normal relationship is boring compared to a toxic and fraught one

apropos of nothing: blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...

when I read things like this I wonder if he's hyping it for his own monetary gain or he really believes it, and then I wonder how he believes it

I can only find the data for Sweden, and that data looks to be rather guesstimated: ourworldindata.org/grapher/lite... But I know based on historical practices/organization of schools that about 4-5 years of education was universal by the 1860s-1880s

meant to write mid- to late-1800s!

I'm not sure if this was a cause or an effect, but promoting early universal literacy (like mid- to late- 1900s) I think was a factor.

I asked one to assist me in something the other day that could have easily been solved either by reasoning but also by brute force, so I also find it curious given its crazy computational power that it doesn't identify those situations and use it

not to mention also implies our allyship with the 1st world, who we as a country have lately ditched

also kind of funny in using 3rd world language is that it implies the existence of the 2nd world, aka our historical rivals in geopolitics who we now just let trample whoever they want

to be fair they also can fail impressively on things that don't require originality but just logic

yep. the largest category of countries in the world pay lip service to democracy but are functionally not democracies because of things like this

it took me a moment, but i chuckled when i understood

oh wow I didn't know pandora was still alive! it was definitely better at suggesting music, gotta go check that out again

ah, maybe this is the tip I was looking for. will check it out

How do you diversify and find new music? I find spotify is bad at suggesting things that aren't super mainstream and popular (also their algorithms are broken by the fact that I have kids)

extremely considerate. raising em right

Thanks for the rec! Just recently read Becky Chambers' two short "Monk & Robot" novels and absolutely adored them, was just puzzling over which to jump into next