Bender thinks that this sense of mystery plays into the mythmaking. (“Magicians do not explain their tricks,” she says.) Without a proper appreciation of where the LLM’s words come from, we fall back on familiar assumptions about humans, since that is our only real point of reference. ...
I once treated a sheepdog that had been headbutted in the abdomen by a ram and we still talk about it to this day...He was bleeding internally from his liver, so my nursing team and I took the dog to surgery. I collected the blood from the abdomen, and we transfused it back into...
And it was kinda nice to hear him tell me that he thinks I’m as interesting to talk to as I find him. That is what I missed in Jerusalem – intelligent discussion. Then, on the way home, some dickhead tried to run me off the road several times. I guess it proves that even in...
22:22 – The role of humor in enforcing social norms, why Joe thinks it is absolutely universal, and the other universal ways trust is built-in communities.28:35 – How narcotics and psychedelics are utilized in different cultures and the way their roles differ....
"Anyone who thinks harassment does not have long-term effects has never been a victim," Heller, who had been a target of online abuse during law school, wrote in an email. "It makes it harder for you to trust people." Therapy has helped reduce some of her panic attacks. Her employer...
do was to score points that depict her as very intimate with Assad. She wants to show that Assad confides in her, that she is aware of private information and of course, her work will follow the course set out by Assad. Ok… she’s a fangirl bragging. But what she THINKS she is ...
'See? It doesn't fit.' Sure enough, her sheet of plastic would be dwarfed by a square with sides of 108 cm and, therefore, she thinks she doesn't have enough material. I brace myself, remembering that Shelly is a very bright student and begin, 'The area of the circle is right, ...
Whatever your current relationship to ability and disability is, I think that you're going to find a lot to relate to and to learn from in how Andrew thinks about this stuff and how he approaches the world. I know that I definitely did. Here's a clip of Andrew explaining his current ...
One thinks of Mozart who also “too stubbornly” forced the issue of his dismissal from the service of Archbishop Colloredo, and ultimately received it, as he wrote his father, in the form of a “kick in the ass.” (On this evidence alone, we can conclude that Mozart, at least, was...
I didn’t know how excited to let myself be because I really didn’t know. Even with everything I’d seen, I was like, “Maybe this is just how people talk about every show?” Maybe everybody thinks every show is going to blow up and change the world, so I didn’t know what ...