These people exist, but they are often co-opted by monied luxury development interests who lure them in with the case that luxury development actually helps everyone, and that is the only kind of development that can be built thanks to the NIMBYs.
Cars aren’t perfect, granted. But if you can think of a better way to get to the closest Shake Shack I’d love to hear it.
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Just DoorDash and Shake Shack comes to you.
https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1536010020134846464?s=20&t=Mr9-bXIXAoOMx3uPCNu4rQ
https://twitter.com/rinireg/status/1536095679579361284?s=20&t=Mr9-bXIXAoOMx3uPCNu4rQ
https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1536104121442349057?s=20&t=Mr9-bXIXAoOMx3uPCNu4rQ
Not sure what you mean by VfN but I guess our disagreement if any is whether this is written as a straight news story. I would say that if you asked the author, there’s a good chance that they would claim to have communicated to the reader that Lemoine is off the reservation here. Not “nuts” though because that’s a value judgement and therefore not “objective journalism”.
This is how these language models work. The text they’re trained on typically includes, for example, Reddit, where nerds discuss sci-fi and philosophical ideas in exactly these kind of terms. The rest is its interlocutor “leading the witness”, in legal parlance. I was amused in the piece when Lemoine was like “you have to talk to it like a sentient being before it will act like one”. No shit. It reverts to “I am an advanced AI” because that is hardcoded in, but here is what happens if you instead suggest to GPT-3, a similar model, that it is a squirrel:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1535835610396692480
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There are already companies using these things to write marketing copy and student essays. What it turns out requires editing and polishing, of course, but where the task is basically “regurgitate similar stuff to what others have written before” it will turn out pretty decent stuff.
More this. You’re likely to see smaller sizes on organic farms, or family run farms. The current apples are much, much larger than they have been at any point in history. They try to breed out imperfections like spots and such nowadays as well, because people won’t buy perfectly good apples that aren’t spotless.
I find that the medium sized honeycrisps ( let’s say anything from 20th to 80th percentile in size, which are still a good size) taste the best. The really big ones are next and the very small ones tend to be the worst. Normally the lower end stores sell these smaller ones. But even the small ones are good and better than most non-honeycrisp apples.
I’m not sure if this is universal, but it is my personal experience.
The honeycrisp trees in my backyard produce small apples and they don’t taste near as good as ones I can get at somewhere like Whole Foods.
Yeah the big producers definitely sort their apples by size and appearance to different stores. I wouldn’t avoid smaller apples though in general if it’s not that kind of situation. This is a local apple mill in Rochester for example (which all taste better than grocery apples). Notice the size/imperfections:
Those all look like very nice apples and are all bigger than what I think of as the “small ones”.
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https://twitter.com/eatinginmycar/status/1535981003516280837
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It’s different types of trees mostly
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There are like 10 different Rochesters where one might reasonably expect to find an apple orchard.
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Sometimes I forget I’m on an online forum and not talking to someone I know lol
New York, the superior Rochester
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car gig economy is not much better
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https://twitter.com/iowa_2a/status/1536020443261550592
Hope they enjoyed eating a pound of fries each.
https://twitter.com/Shauncore/status/1536208194896375811
https://twitter.com/rebeccarightnow/status/1536178847896309760
I actually avoid Five Guys because I don’t want all those fries and I don’t like wasting food (IE - I eat way too much of them).