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@QueenValhalla

I didnt say that at all. I apologized and asked for clarity so I can do better.. .thats kinda the opposite of "what who me" its "wow sorry, that wasnt intentional, what made you feel that way so I can improve"

@retrohondajunki

@QueenValhalla

Huh? Im sorry. What did I say that dounded like a dick? I appreciate the criticism, if you cant point it out I can try to do better.

@retrohondajunki

@QueenValhalla

No problem. Happy to help.

@retrohondajunki

@QueenValhalla

Ok.. if it helps I should point out I wasnt clear. I should have said thats the amount of income, not the amount of tax owed.

But yea, feel free to not believe me of course, thats your prerogative.

@retrohondajunki

@SpaceLifeForm

HPS lights are actually quite decent at growing. They are used in growing greenhouses all the time. Their more red leaning spectrum is good for lighting closer to harvest. MH (Metal Hydride) is used when the plants are younger.

@jmw @MennoWolff

@QueenValhalla @retrohondajunki

No, as far as I know it isnt an official announcement for obvious reasons. But if you know people who work at the IRS they will be happy to confirm, its common knowledge among employees that they are charged with pursuing higher priced tax evasion only.

@QueenValhalla

Well generally no. Their rule in the past has been to not persue people who have less than 500K per year in outstanding taxes. Something that they will likely start persuing if given the man power.

@retrohondajunki

@chip hi :)

@chip I'm at 12th and shunk... ill try to stop by at another one if I hear about it.

@chip I am in philly. sadly i wont be able to make it but hope you have fun! Want a place to stop by afterwards and smoke/drink feel free to stop by my house in south philly

@cstross

As an expert on this topic I'd like to say what your saying is more or less correct.

LLM are, as you say parots, but despite the minimizing language that is still hugely powerful. What makes it so powerful is when you ask it to parrot back on some topic you can do so by telling it what audience to limit itself to. So by asking it to "speak as a scientist" then it parots back what your typical scientist might say on the subject.

While this has limitations, and it certainly isnt AI in the sense that it is human-like, it is a vastly powerful tool within the context of what it can do.

@TheConversationUS

actually I totally missed the fact you LinkedIn article.

@dconklin

@realcaseyrollins

> The gender definitions for woman seem to work against your implied take quite well actually.

Nope. I can say into the ether that men shouldn’t be in womens’ bathrooms, that’s my opinion.

Sure, well according to the english language they arent. Those people you are calling men are women according to the dictionary.

What I think you mean to say is "Access to bathrooms should be divided by sex, not gender"... which is fine, by highly oppressive to people who have DNA that differs from their genitals (some of whom are born that way and many of whom dont even know).

> it would be stupid for me to use language that’s incongruent with the language that the other participants in the conversation understand.

Thats why we have dictionaries. We all agree we are going to use english,a nd the dictionaries are our common agreement. Your the one who has derailed the conversation by several messages to argue that your semantic use of the word, which disagrees with the dictionary should be the one we all use. This didnt help the conversation at all because me by strictly using the english terms could be understood without all of these mental gymanistics to form a euphemism so people feel less bad about people they care about who beat children. We all gotta justify it somethow I guess.

@niclas @AmpBenzScientist @sj_zero

@realcaseyrollins

Dictionary definition of a woman: "an adult female human being."

The relevant definitions for female:

"having a gender identity that is the opposite of male"

"having a quality (such as small size or delicacy of sound) sometimes associated with the female sex"

The gender definitions for woman seem to work against your implied take quite well actually.

@niclas @AmpBenzScientist @sj_zero

@realcaseyrollins

> Your language here presumes us all to believe that spanking someone is the same as beating them, which nobody else here believes.

Beating is defined as "a punishment or assault in which the victim is hit repeatedly."

Spanking is defined as "an act of slapping, especially on the buttocks as a punishment for children."

Its is very clear from the definitions a spanking is a form of beating in which the beating typically occurs on the buttox.

What you probably mean to say is "A violent aggressive beating is far worse than a less violent and less aggressive beating on the butt"

So on that we agree, less violence is better... its still deplorable and disgusting. If you are inflicting pain on a child and expected physical pain inflicted intentionally by a loved one is anything less than reprehensible then we are at odds.

@niclas @AmpBenzScientist @sj_zero

@niclas

Its so surprising, who would think that having people beat you might cause you to have issues...

Like at some point someone went "Oh the kid has learning troubles, have you tried beating him a bunch until the learning problems go away"?

I cant fathom how anyone can be rational and compassionate and think beating a child or anyone is going to result in a positive change.

@realcaseyrollins @AmpBenzScientist @sj_zero

@artemesia

Not required to be restrained to my own personal expiernce.

@evacide

@realcaseyrollins

Yea me and my girlfriend talk about kids... so it may be in my near future (next few years)

@niclas @AmpBenzScientist @sj_zero

@realcaseyrollins

I do not.. though im not sure having a kid makes you any more qualified.. .maybe after the fact if you have well adjusted successful kids.. but just having kids alone, not so much.

@niclas @AmpBenzScientist @sj_zero

@sj_zero

Well I would say that its not just that we are having this conversation, because a parent who beats their kid might also engage in a simiilar conversation, partly so they can lie to themselves (not that they would know it)...

I'd sayt her eason i can be comfortable we are all thoughtful parents in that regard is actually because, in additional to being here and talking we also dont beat our children.

@niclas @AmpBenzScientist @realcaseyrollins