The Iranians have not gotten justice. I don’t need convincing that he was a bad dude, but his death doesn’t cement freedom, and imo the attacks reduce stability and prosperity for Iranians.

Isn’t it a probabilistic extrapolation? Isn’t that what a guess is?

I learned on the internet 15-20 years ago or so. I’ve also done 5x5 and 4x4 they aren’t really much harder, I didn’t need additional info, but when I hit the parity problem on the 4x4 I just scrambled and tried again. I mean they are harder, but not astronomically harder.

My almost 8 year old is obsessed. I went through how to do a 3x3, and wrote out the steps and he has copied my instructions into a notebook. He can do it in 3 and a half minutes with his notes. He hasn’t managed without his notes yet but he has only been learning since Valentine’s day. He just woke me up looking for his notebook.

Earlier this week I met somebody that did a Rubik’s cube independently in the 80s. (My son’s classmates grampa).

This is what a person blackmailed by Epstein would say. Gosh how could Epstein get leverage to blackmail someone like this?

Hoodoo? You do! Do what? Remind me of the babe!

Hobby tunnelers agree it’s a great escape

I’m surprised P ended up that high, the amount of autotune in it sounds like AI speech synthesizer with articulation cranked all the way 11 where it just makes random weird sounds

59.1% AI-detection™ score

A small note: that I wasn’t trying to decide whether something was AI, I was trying to evaluate its creativity. So I actually thought A was real, but that it was extremely generic… I also suspected D was AI but trying to judge on creativity, I was unimpressed with the lyrics (not that creative) but I found the soundscape it created interesting. That’s a place where my (un)familiarity with the genre was a liability. I also found the pitch of “you” in “who are you” nrar the end to be creative, like in the wrong key but in a good way.

Also I only listened to each track once, then decided where to put it in the list. Like “top”, “bottom”, “near bottom but not worst”. And I placed them as I went. If I went through the list again I’d probably swap some but that would have taken way longer and I decided it was more important to be done. I probably should have done some spot checks at the end to make sure things ended up where I wanted.

With friends like these who needs enemies?

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Great work. A few thoughts re: methodology.

• I despair for society’s musical inclinations.
• Not being able to understand the lyrics was a big impediment.
• Not being familiar with/fond of the genres was a big impediment.
• given those two limitations I think I may have inadvertently selected for intra-song diversity and that may favour AI generation since it’s a lot more work for musicians to change sounds in the middle of a song.

I’m very curious to see the results. Sorry I didn’t get to it sooner.

Fantastic, I’ll try to listen today

So I’m pretty ignorant of the top of the chart I’d be willing to be a guinea pig. Do you want to send me like 3 chart toppers and an AI song and I’ll see which one is most creative? Don’t tell me which is which.

FWIW Abraham Lincoln typed

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but it was an accident

Yeah, and obviously if the ‘hot’ water isnt hot, there isn’t anything it can do.

There’s just no way to know! It’s impossible for a lone person to generate even a single data point.

But do they have to pay every troop, or just the traitors?

Hey I just thought you might be interested to know Dan McClellan elaborated on why he blocked Inspiring Philosophy in a recent video around minute 11.

KJV, which is obviously the best version

Is this a joke or are you serious? What’s “best” in a person’s view depends on their values, (like the “best” food depends on what flavours a person likes, and their nutritional needs)

What values would a person need to have to consider the KJV the best? I don’t think it’s the easiest to read, nor the easiest to understand, nor the most accurate. I don’t think it’s the oldest English translation either and it’s also biased. Is it the most poetic, maybe?

Interesting.

I see friends every weekday when I walk my kids to school and whenwthe kids have playdates, and when I take my kids to the school playground on the weekend. And on bowling night once a week, and on band night once a week (but I don’t go every week). Also I’m married to my best friend.

No, this was in support of my statement that Jesus was a terrible teacher.