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so what’s the car to people ratio?

(does some rough math)

china: 1 car made for every 46 people
usa: 1 for every 32

i’m too lazy to do the rest

Sounds like a special dog. I’m sorry.

I don’t agree with putting down a dog pet unless they’re suffering. If a dog pet is in pain and there is no hope that they’ll recover, death can be mercy. It’s never not terrible. But your feelings aren’t the priority in that situation.

Just don’t ever do it at the vet - find someone who can come to you so there’s no extra stress

fuck this is depressing

edit: dog -> pet

It’s harder to manipulate attack and dynamics precisely if it’s not a totally dry recording, i.e. if you can hear the natural reverb of the room or hall…

But I haven’t been a sound/music guy for a while - for all I know there may be tools to compensate for that now

You could probably mess around with EQ, which might be enough, but what OP is describing sounds like the kind of granular control you’d get with a synth or MIDI instrument

The NATO alphabet comes in handy sometimes

Depending on where you’re located, there might be some local services that are relatively cheap. If I were you, and I had it in the budget, I’d go for this guy:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1083201-REG/epson_b11b224201_perfection_v850_pro_scanner.html

(looks like it’s sold out though)

So then does trust == faith?

Of course it’s not possible to understand absolutely everything, even as a well-informed scientist or academic. You say ‘blindly trusting’, but may be that’s quite the right way to put it, since, presumably, you have determined that those experts know better than you do, i.e. it’s not ‘blind’ in some sense. Whereas a religious person may blindly have faith that there is a God and a higher purpose (or whatever).

That said, to counter my own point, I’m sure there are plenty of religious people who determine that their religious leaders or experts are worthy of trusting because of a perceived higher spiritual connection, social status, or similar.

I think it all comes back to being able to think critically. In my mind at least, the word ‘trust’ implies some sort of rational thought process, whereas ‘faith’ has a bit more of an emotional connotation. But in reality it’s probably more of a heavily-overlapping Venn diagram (assuming there’s a distinction at all).

hi-quality shower thought

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Generally I agree that it can be an incredible tool for learning, but a big problem is one needs a baseline ability to think critically, or to understand when new information may be flawed. That often means having at least a little bit of existing knowledge about a particular subject. For younger people with less education and life experience, that can be really difficult if not impossible.

The 10% of information that’s incorrect could be really critical or contextually important. Also (anecdotally) it’s often way more than 10%, or that 10% is distributed such that 9 out of 10 prompts are flawless, and the 10th is 100% nonsense.

And then you have people out there creating AI chat bots with the sole intention of spreading disinformation, or more commonly, with the intention of keeping people engaged or even emotionally dependent on their service — information accuracy often isn’t the priority.

The rate at which AI-generated content is populating the internet is increasing exponentially, and that’s where most LLM training data comes from currently, so it’s hard to see how the accuracy problem improves going forward.

All that said, like most things, when AI is used in moderation by responsible people, it’s a fantastic tool. Unfortunately, the people in charge are incentivized to be unscrupulous and irresponsible, and we live in a decadent society that doesn’t exactly promote moderation, to massively understate things…

(yeah, I used an em-dash, you wanna fight bro? 😘)

I stand corrected, TIL!

historicity

I think you’re looking for the word “history”

edit: sorry… I try not to be that guy, but I couldn’t help myself