100% wfh is hard to beat when looking at new positions. I’d have to at least double my income for me to go into the office

I use raid 0 for backup.

^/s

I like to call that the “putting a pillow over its face” method of rebooting. Reserved for when even a shutdown /r /t 0 doesn’t work

So, what Hari does is basically game theory on a massive scale. The larger the group, the less complexity because you’re abstracting the different possible issues individuals would have out of the problem. Instead of making it more complex, it simplifies the whole thing because all the chaotic bits cancel each other out.

And slight spoiler warning for an old story but you find out later that the whole thing isn’t just predicted ahead of time and let loose but a group of people follow along in the shadows to keep the plan on track.

At the time Hari tried to apply it at the small scale, it was impossible. I believe by the time Gaia takes over the science could be applied to the single organism but that also feels like cheating.

The whole point of prelude and forward was that his attempts to start on the smaller scale by going backwards in time was a fools errand and impossible but starting with the relatively small scale of just Trantor was doable as it had sufficient mass to apply the generalized mathematics towards. The variables on the smaller scales were too numerous but as you abstract towards larger bodies, it reduces the complexity to the point it becomes calculable.

Well, not the whole point but still

Psychohistory was designed for large groups. It wasn’t designed for single creatures like butterflies

May I recommend either duck or dolphin

So uhhhh no one else read Stephen King’s work or the Child Called It series as a kid huh?

Tasha Yar spilled the beans in ten forward before her untimely demise, apparently.

I don’t use the drive through because I’m lazy. I use it so I can have the most minimal amount of human contact possible

Sometimes it’s less about the person that you’re targeting and more about what that access gives you.

Low level accountant? Office worker with an excel file full of passwords or has correspondence with your actual target at a different company that you can pose as to gain access into?

They’re just a step in the process.

Nope. Older than the universe. Can’t weasel your way out of this one science boy

It’s a tool to aid in creating a product, not a tool that magics out a finished product. That’s my point. Too many people use it as the latter instead of the former.

Letting a language model do the work of thinking is like building a house and using a circular saw to put nails in. It will do it but you should not trust the results.

It is not Google. It can, will, and has made up facts as long as it fits the format expected

Not at the very least proof reading and fact checking the output is beyond lazy and a terrible use of a tool. Using it to create the end product instead of as a tool to use in creation of an end product are two very different things.

I’m glad you understand my point. Chatgpt is not Google. It’s a language model that will give you something that looks like the thing you asked for it to provide. It can and will pull facts out of its recycle bin if it fits the cadence of what it expects the answer to look like.

I don’t mind the tool itself if you use it as such. I do mind when people use its output as the final product. See: the lawyer who used chatgpt for a legal brief

During the Klingon civil war, he was temporarily made Captain of the USS Sutherland

This is also where Data shows serious BDE to his racist(?) first officer.

Corporate culture of prioritizing quarterly growth and profits above all other factors

Excessive reliance on meat based meals

Consumerism is the third leading cause of why we’re boiling ourselves out of a planet

*Except the food industry. No restaurant or bar is dumb enough to drug test. They wouldn’t have any workers