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This is why appeasement doesn’t work, it just emboldens Trump to move the goalposts more and more and before you know it he’ll be talking about invading the Falklands, the Shetlands and stoking up division in Northern Ireland and trying to destroy that hard fought peace.

The first few days I did it I failed. It can take a few attempts to get what kind of things you’re looking for. Like the purple one is almost always a word one where you put a word before or after them all or it contains a word group for example. So a few days ago there were words like Lane, Box, Card and another one I forget and the connection was “Memory _______ “ for example Sometimes it’s a bit too American to get and you get American sports teams and stuff too

I made a seperate thread for it if there’s a few of us that do it Personally, it’s not about the dementia for me, I just like doing it when having my morning shit at work

I don’t know if anyone else does this? It’s like the wall on only Connect. The first couple of times you try it, it’s hard but you get to learn the patterns of words after a few days https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections A lot of days I’ll fail but completed it today Connections Puzzle #974 🟩🟨🟦🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I like the Connections one also on the ny times website - like the quiz show Only Connect

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7j7n315lmo The EU continues to be just about the only global institution which is prepared to stand up against big tech. No surprise the Epstein files allegedly laid bare how the foreign American Libertarian tech elites are trying to bring it down and turn Europeans against it.

He’s doing exactly what Steve Bannon allegedly openly said he’d do of trying to flood the media with so much shit that people become exhausted and stop caring

The older I get, the more I understand the appeal of religion, not just this but also the community aspect of it. Sadly, could just never believe the stories or life after death stuff.

It’s a fine balance for me. Sometimes it motivates me to go out and spend the limited time I have with people I care about and realise all my **** ups and mistakes don’t really matter and will long be forgotten after I die. Other times I think too much about the mortality of myself and my loved ones and find it hard to motivate myself to do anything productive.

Really feeling it today. Sometimes find it so hard to get the voice in my head out of the “it’s all meaningless anyway, we’re all so insignificant in time and the universe” cycle.

Feels like a lifetime ago now. What a game that was. Huth was just unreal that day.

But all we keep hearing is we want getting things done. Streeting is not a particularly inspiring speaker and I certainly don’t see where the more or less integrity comes from when Streeting is an old school inauthentic Oxbridge follows-the-wind career politician with zero cohesive philosophy, which is what I thought we were trying to reject? Again, if Starmer goes over this then surely Streeting is surely just more of the same and not going to solve Labour’s problems? For better or worse at least the likes of Burnham or Raynor would offer something different and have most of their MPs on side so they could actually stand for something

I really don’t get replacing Starmer with Streeting. He’s very much more of the same - someone trying to act centre-right when most of his mps and backbenchers are voting against it. How would getting Streeting in change the positions of the back bench mps? It feels very much like for like and very much a pointless endeavour to replace Starmer with Streeting that only harms Labour because you get people moaning about the revolving doors of PMs at a time where the world is so unstable

I don’t know about the last part. I think Russia could easily be involved too, but either way it is a bit crazy how much Epstein was like a facilitator of the rich and famous, using Mandelson to lobby parliament. Allegedly emailing with Steve Bannon about how they’ve got LePenn, Farage and Orban round their fingers and boasting they’re getting far right parties in power in Europe mostly so they will produce pro-Crypto legislation. This is a guy who most of the public had never heard of until his conviction. It does feel a bit like he was some secret guy in the background lobbying and connecting everyone he could

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Also some of this Mandelson stuff is crazy. Like allegedly messaging Epstein - a foreign financier with secrets about trying to lobby to allegedly stop taxes on banker bonuses in the financial crisis and getting Gordon Brown to resign. One of the biggest corruption stories in uk politics. Think he’ll end up in prison.

A lot of them posting behind the keyboard have probably never even been to the uk, and are from countries who want to sow division in the uk though

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Semi-related and semi-counter-argument I guess. But my interpretation is that our brains evolved the feeling of boredom as a feeling of discomfort in a lack of social engagement in the same way it evolved the feeling of hunger as a feeling of discomfort in the lack of food to convert to energy. The boredom urge always helped us survive by getting us to go out and play or socialise with your friends and family in order to bond with other members of our pack so we’d work together, as it was easier to survive as part of a pack. The internet and modern 24/7 news cycle manipulates that by getting rid of that boredom discomfort by constantly giving us more media and content to consume instead of using it to go out and have fun and socialise with other humans. I’m not putting fault on anyone. I’m as addicted to it as anyone, but I also think so much of the mental health problems endemic in society come from how far less social we all are now - how much harder it is just to make friends and hang out with people because we don’t let ourselves get bored enough to encourage us to constantly do that. The news cycle and wasted energy - and reality tv politics - is all just a way to get rid of boredom for the most part. Both anger and contentment makes you feel less bored, it doesn’t matter which is which - but it’s all detrimental long term as boredom should be a good thing, it should get us all to socialise and bond with each other more. As the kids in the 00s said - Hate the game, not the players.

It’s an extremely good question and one of many around AI that our legal system isn’t really built for. How specific does a prompt have to be to make the human legally responsible? Especially when we don’t know how AI will always interpret things.

Completely agree. Don’t always agree with Danny on politics but I’m definitely on his side here. Some people are imo incredibly naive about what a threat AI faces to humans and how even our best guardrails can’t protect us from the billion and one ways this can go wrong - the fact we’re only going on about how it will affect the job market in the next 5 years is imo a bit like just concentrating on how the internet would affect the postal services in 1995 - it’s such a narrow overview of just how the internet would affect humans and society over the next 30 years in many ways which were impossible to predict. AI over the next 30 years will be far more transformative to human brains and human society than the internet was, not least because it will be able to target individuals brain chemistry to get them to do things in a way modern TikTok algorithms can only dream of. Human brain chemistry can be manipulated just like anything else can, and AI’s potential ability to analyse human behaviour at a deeper level to do this should certainly reignite free will debates (which I’ve never been convinced we have). It doesn’t need bad faith human actors to go wrong either, all it needs it’s a weird side effect of some irrelevant goal we ask it to do which we can’t possibly have predicted and outcomes we can’t possibly predict which can range from viruses being released, populations being convinced to vote a certain way (to get us to vote for parties which advocate for AI decision making in courts and governments for example), or commit certain crimes or start certain wars, or who knows whatever else. The job market issues and potentially economic irrelevancy of most humans is of course an issue but this is only just 1 of about a billion issues which AI brings up. As for claims of “tin hat/conspiritorial” I am not a conspiracy theorist but the point is that conspiracies require humans at the top to control things, and leading AI experts all admit they have no idea how AI works under the hood. It’s the opposite of tin hat conspiracy theories because being scared of AI is about having fear that we have no control over what this thing does or has the potential to do - that there isn’t experts or technocrats at the top controlling everything.

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