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Wie viele von euch habt euch wegen der Hitze krankgemeldet?

Ich hab mich heute krankmelden müssen. Dachgeschosswohnung (2. OG zwar nur, aber trotzdem). Mit 30° C im Schlafzimmer trotz sperrangelweit geöffneter Fenster in der Nacht haben zu netto 2 h Schlaf geführt, was mir starke Kopfschmerzen bereitet. Dazu dann die Übermüdung -> unbrauchbar für einen Denkjob.

Hätte mir gern eine Klimaanlage zugelegt. Aber fest verbaute liegen außerhalb der aktuellen Möglichkeiten (Budget + Vermieter) und die mobilen Teile, die derzeit in Frage kämen sind aktuell vergriffen.

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Prediction vs Reality

Yeah just don't fall into the old mistake of weather = climate. Heat waves happened before climate change as well. But our current changing climate makes them more likely to happen more often and more intense, if I am informed correctly.

atheism

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Threats and promises are your guiding principles?

It is astonishing how difficult it can be for some religious people to understand basic concepts of "don't be an asshole" without religion.

I talked to a muslim woman once, who asked if I was not afraid that my then girlfriend would cheat on me, because we both weren't religious. She basically said if you're afraid of a godly punishment then you can find trust and peace in a relationship.

I plainly answered that you do not need fear of any god to be considerate and careful with someone. Nor does this necessitate morals. And if she would betray me, then she simply would be an asshole and not the right person for me.

It went back and forth like this for a while, because she seems to have been astonished that people can have happy relationships built on mutual trust without fearing magical sky people.

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no rule infuriates me more

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Yeah you're right about the accuracy issue. Even if an LLM is 90% accurate, after 1 million requests, you still get 100 thousand erroneous replies. This is significant. Which is why caution is important. I suppose there is a middle way between risks of errors and the outcome one would like to achieve.

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That's cool, I like to do so as well. But it highly depends on the topic. If you have no interest in the topic and only need to deal with some stuff temporarily then reading multiple related encyclopedia entries thoroughly is much more time intensive than getting it 'spoon fed'. Especially when you look at the outcomes this might just not be worth the effort.

And that's one of the uses where I find LLMs neat: get the answer tailored to what you want and what you need, skipping a lot of intellectual bloat that you have no use or interest for anyway.

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I find that debatable. You'll have to read a lot of irrelevant stuff on Wikipedia first to get the answer you're looking for. Furthermore, getting educated on related, but important topics in order to read and understand the article is much more effort then getting a tailored answer by an LLM. It also tunes to your specific level of understanding whereas the difficulty in understanding Wikipedia articles varies strongly with topic and your current understanding.

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no rule infuriates me more

"Hey, I have asked the LLM about a topic I am not well informed about. If it is right then [insert gained insights about topic]".

"I despise you"

I think using it as an aid to get in touch with topics one does not know much about can still be better then doing nothing about it at all. As long as you keep in mind that you have to take the answers critically and rather as a starting point than a definitive truth, I don't see an issue with it.

Extend thinking, don't externalize.

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Woaaahhhhh

Space is full of gravity. It is literally engulfed in gravity. It's just differently strong depending on where you are and what's around you.

Also: cinematic effect. Just like sounds of explosions etc which are usually not really hearable in space.