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Hell yeah man! That's nice. I like the sound. I was waiting for a beat drop though 😆

Yeah, non-aggressive is the best default. I think some people find it beneficial to be hard on themselves and so they think others could also benefit from it too. I've been like this and still am to a degree. It can definitely be toxic though. I've overshot this in dealing with my nephews and have felt really bad about it. But, it can also be a whip to weakness, which is commonplace, and is itself a big problem. I think this style of critique is more favored by people who value advancement over comfort and they find comfort in being made stronger by rebuilding after each tear down.

It would be weird to ask OP for his personality test results, age, and maturity level before providing a critique. 😆 But maybe that should be the norm. Yeah, that's a good thing to think about. Why would a stranger provide a critique to another stranger? Why would a stranger seek another stranger's critique?

When producing work for the public, ALL critiques are useful if they can be viewed objectively. Each critique gives you another perspective from which to look from. Collect and analyze all critiques, including @Kksd74628's. Here's how I interpret the critique: Many readers might feel the content is repackaged and a waste of the their time. In the marketplace of ideas, originality is like a rare gem, and people like rare gems. Rare gems sell easier than common gems. You can always improve upon something by addressing its imperfections. Perfection is never reached but the degree to which you strive for it is the degree to which you'll get closer to it, which should make your product more valuable. Of course, the degree to which you sugarcoat things depends on the person you're critiquing. Probably not a good idea to be so direct with a 14-year old who just released their first e-book.

Thank you @Keryo Koffa! I wasn't able to comprehend very much on first pass but I'll sit with it a while.

I think phone is more likely than non-phone mobile device because no one wants to carry around 2 devices. We're gonna be running out of pockets soon.

This is interesting. Zuck thinks the "interaction layer" between humans and AI will be AI Glasses, but I think that's a bit ridiculous because everybody already uses phones. He might be looking too far ahead. The phone should come first and glasses second.

I can't offer any long-term solutions but for short-term: Buteyko breathing works well for me. For social and performance anxiety and if your symptoms make themselves known by sweating, red face, heart racing, etc., you can mitigate that with beta blockers, and just knowing you have those available can reduce your anxiety a lot. Depending on where you live, you can get a prescription from gokick.com. Also, I discovered how to make myself sneeze non-stop by stimulating the trigeminal nerve with a massager. If you do a 5-minute sneeze session, you will expel much mucus and you'll produce a lot of tears. When you're done, it will feel like you have been crying and your parasympathetic nervous system will be activated and much tension will be gone. I have used this to manage acute anxiety. It's also really good before going to sleep.

RFK Jr. asks Supreme Court to keep his name on New York ballot despite Trump endorsement. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/politics/rfk-jr-asks-supreme-court-to-keep-his-name-on-new-york-ballot/index.html He fought hard to get his name off the ballot in NC but he's doing all he can to keep it on the ballots in blue states.

We'll start with Tucker Carlson wanting to outdo big tobacco.

Basically the same constraint you mentioned about traversal. The mind operates like a single-threaded processor, processing one instruction / thought / mentation / emotion / memory / judgement / previously formed perspective, etc at a time, in linear fashion which culminates into a perspective. I was just curious if I could have multiple threads running simultaneously. This was several years back. It seems like a childish dream now. Why would I want such a thing? Efficiency, and to see what emergent phenomena might arise from it. Just dreaming, really. It was a "problem" I found inherent in building perspectives. Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem relevant to OP. Probably just an attempt by my ego to interject it's 2 cents. Oh well! 😂 Even if you construct grand perspectives, which can hold many things, you can't be in micro, messo, macro, and meta all at once. That's what I wanted. Multiple threads. Don't know why.

space grey dildo 😂

I'm only buying if it can strap to my groin

It's not the same issue but I remember a while back being bothered by the constraint of only being able to connect to and hold one perspective at a time and I wondered if it were possible and what it would be like to hold multiple at the same time. Seems absurd to think of it now, but this question has sat in my mind for years and till this day, I have not been able to hold more than one at a time. I can traverse them, but I can't hold more than one. lol. This seems absurd why I would even want to do this. I don't even know what the purpose would be. It's like I'm just playing around in my own world and pissed about the constraints. Maybe with you, you're bothered you have no goal or no clear driver. If you had a clear goal, you simply choose the perspective that serves the goal. If you are uncertain which perspective does that best, you simply have to rely on probability. Life is like poker. It's a game of imperfect information. If you find yourself in a spot where you need to make a decision, you have to just take the leap with the best information you have at the time, and whatever happens, happens.

Yeah, I didn't think of that. That would move them in the health tracker direction though. I'm not sure if that makes sense for them.

Good point. Different strokes for different folks though. Some styles of influence work on some but not others. If I had a magic money machine and I wanted to bring awareness to the masses of Brand's grift, I would use various styles of influencer because what resonates with some don't resonate with others. You'd have better success if the same message was tailored to specific audiences. People who are more serious might appreciate Coffeezilla more than Decoding Gurus but jokester types might find Coffeezilla too boring to sit through long enough to be influenced. So, as long as a corrective message is getting out, it's better than no message at all, IMO.

@jacknine119 Yes, it is so easy to get lost in exploration but I also think it's a need that has to be fulfilled, so it can't be completely ignored or you will become unhappy. Balance is probably the second most important principle. 😂

smart glasses would be cool as hell but seems too niche. OpenAI is definitely in good position to deliver a nice smart speaker, so that's a good contender, but something tells me they're aiming higher than that.

"Hey ChatGPT, show me that PDF Sarah asked about in her latest email and after I confirm it's correct, send it to John" Microsoft wants to get here first, and for good reason, so MS would do all they can to thwart OpenAIs attempts at getting there first. When you try to install Chrome on Windows, MS pulls like 20 deceptive UI patterns to trick you into using Edge. This is just one problem OpenAI would face if they depended on their competitor's structures. Notice how Google just made an update to their Chrome extension manifest policy, which rendered uBlock origin useless for bypassing Youtube video ads? That's the sort of shit they'd pull on OpenAI. Apple, Google, and MS would do all they can to thwart OpenAI from becoming the most popular feature on their devices.

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They don't need it, but it would be smart for several reasons: Remove barriers to adoption. A single permission at the OS level would mean the consumer doesn't have to micromanage app connections. If consumers want the full benefit of an AI assistant, they need to give it access to all their data Every single customer would be their own customer avatar. It's fucking brilliant. They'd be silly not to create a phone. The same reasons Google built a browser and a phone. Full control over data and influencing user behavior. Existing OSs are always updating permissions, which can leave your tech adoption in the hands of your competitors, like Google. IDK, seems like a really good idea to me.

I wonder if by embedding their tech deep into the Android operating system they'd be able to provide something new? If they had root access to location, contacts, emails, etc, could they come up with something new? Seems like a lot of potential here, but you might be right.

You're right, sorry, I was mistaken. Is it really silly? Whatever they're creating, it will interface with their core tech. B2C: phone / tablet wearable tech: watches, glasses (Meta's Ray-Ban) smart speaker augmented or virtual reality computer B2B: robots augmented or virtual reality Am I leaving anything out? Of those, I think phone is most likely. All they'd have to do is design hardware and slap their own modified version of Android on it and it'd sell like hotcakes.

Georgia's attorney general's office advised the Georgia State Election Board to not enact their new laws before the board meeting took place. AG's memo to board: https://atlantaciviccircle.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/StateElectionBoard.pdf # Summary of Georgia's Proposed Election Rule Changes and Implementation Issues ## Key Points • The Georgia Attorney General's office has warned the State Election Board that proposed new election rules likely exceed the Board's authority and conflict with state law. • The Board is considering additional rule changes for the upcoming Nov. 5 election, despite already passing several last-minute changes over the summer. • County election officials warn that these last-minute changes could introduce "chaos" into the voting process and undermine public confidence. • One controversial proposed rule requires precinct workers to hand-count ballots on election night after polls close at 7 p.m. • The Attorney General's office deems this hand-counting rule "impermissible" as it conflicts with existing state election law. • Many smaller counties lack resources to implement the proposed rules, which come without additional funding. ## Implementation Issues • The hand-counting rule would require poll workers to work beyond their already long 16-hour day. • Many poll workers are elderly and may not be physically capable of performing accurate counts after such a long workday. • There's a risk of increased human error due to fatigue. • The rule could compromise ballot security by breaking the normal chain of custody. • Smaller counties may not have enough staff or resources to carry out the new procedures. • The changes may lead to delays in reporting election results. • There's a potential for poll worker shortages or resignations due to the increased workload. • The last-minute nature of these changes leaves little time for proper training and preparation. • The lack of additional funding makes it difficult for counties to adapt to the new requirements. • There are concerns about maintaining consistency across different precincts and counties in implementing these new rules. # Key Logistics of Georgia's New Hand-Counting Rule Based on the information provided in the search results, here are the key logistics of how the new hand-counting rule will be implemented in Georgia: 1. **Scope:** The rule applies to ballots cast on Election Day at polling places. 2. **Process:** - After voting ends, poll workers will need to unseal and remove ballots from the machine scanners. - Three separate poll workers must count the number of paper ballots (not votes) until all three counts match. - This count is of the total number of ballots, not individual votes on each ballot. 3. **Timing:** - The count will occur at each polling place after voting is completed on Election Day. - If a scanner has more than 750 ballots inside at the end of voting, the poll manager can decide to begin the count the following day. 4. **Verification:** - The manual count will be compared with the total provided by the ballot scanner. - This is meant to ensure that the number of ballots in the scanners matches the number of voters recorded by check-in computers and the number of ballots recorded by the voting machines and scanners. 5. **Staffing:** - The count must be performed by the poll manager and two poll workers at each precinct. 6. **Purpose:** - The rule is intended to verify the number of ballots, not to tally votes. - Memory cards that record the votes at the polling places will still be used to tally votes on election night. It's important to note that this rule change has been controversial, with concerns raised about potential delays in reporting results, increased burden on poll workers, and possible legal issues with its implementation. More context:

A more fitting term is "reasonably suspicious", since he lies 90% of the time.