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Faster for the one who is calling, at the expense of the receiving person

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I have interpreted this post to mean a work-related call, since you wouldn't mistake call from a friend for a spam call (it wouldn't be an unknown number, for one). Otherwise, yes, it would be weird to replace calls from people that are close to you with emails.

Work calls, though, could be replaced with written communication in 80-90% of the cases, and it would also make it easier to follow-up and continue the discussion across multiple days, if needed

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I can see both points. In my experience, people misuse calls more often, since a work-related call would often require a follow-up email anyway, but that's more anecdotal evidence

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High skilled jobs will just start using AI as a tool to automate routine (or have already started, in some cases). The most efficient use of AIs we have now is to pair it with a human, anyway

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There are studies, I think, about swearing out loud actually reducing the subjective feeling of pain or discomfort

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I mean, looking at Brandon Sanderson, we've clearly not yet hit the peak of human efficiency

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He pumps out so many books that he can almost rival text generating AI. And without losing on quality

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My theory is that his macaw secretly prepares the drafts

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One day, he should work with Brandon Sanderson to make the best adaptation of a fantasy book series known to mankind

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He could make a good young Dalinar today tho OwO

Even if god exists religion can't possibly be the way to god

So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there's a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of rules...

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Pretty sure there are lines in the Bible that directly state it is enough to pray in your heart, without any outward symbols or churches or the like. So yeah, that's not only a witty comeback, but also a good point from the consistency view

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Catnip is safe... as long as there aren't any cats around

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I think they might have interpreted "Hades 2" as 2 times Hades 1. Which I very much appreciate

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"Deception" tactic also often arises from AI recognizing the need to keep itself from being disabled or modified. Since an AI with a sufficiently complicated world model can make a logical connection that it being disabled or its goal being changed means it can't reach its current goal. So AIs sometimes can learn to distinguish between testing and real environments, and falsify the response during training to make sure they have more freedom in real environment. (By real, I mean actually being used to do whatever it is designed to do)

Of course, that still doesn't mean it's self-aware like a human, but it is still very much a real (or, at least, not improbable) phenomenon - any sufficiently "smart" AI that has data about itself existing within its world model will resist attempts to change or disable it, knowingly or unknowingly.

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Yep, only buying games after they go on discount couple months after release. By that time, the game is usually also finished

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Could be 20 years, for all I care. Let them cook. It's done when it's done.

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And from there, we're one step closer to BFG

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It's amazing to put into perspective how long both bronze and stone ages really took, especially compared to modernity. Human brains are not good at imagining large quantities or intervals, so it was all kinda smushed up into a folder labeled "past" in my head

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Looks suspiciously phallic? Ritual of fertility it is

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If you can't criticize, you can't optimize!

Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape ( www.gamespot.com )

I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...

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Idk, my favourite writer is Brandon Sanderson and he still keeps writing with the supersonic speed. Maybe that's just you. Unless you mean writing in games and movies specifically, for which I am not qualified enough to say

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Nah, I'd rather they keep speaking like this. Makes it really obvious from the get go who I'm dealing with. If they speak normally, they might blend in

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At least he's honest about what he wants

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Something something accusation is an admission

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We could use all of those here in Ukraine!

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Also, very glad to see the edition and rarity tags to also make the corresponding joker free. Before, it wasn't worth it 90% of the time since you needed a surplus of money first. Now, they can work as a potential run starter

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See also: The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. They also have a warmongering desert tribe that worships water, covers their faces in combat and has weird rituals nobody else understands

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Darth Rand counts

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He literally ordered to nuke an entire city out of existence at one point

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Oh, sorry, not a city - a fort, Natrin's Barrow, occupied by one of the Forsaken and a bunch of magicked slaves (hundreds of them)

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We do. The sun's energy is locked in plants via photosynthesis, which is then processed by herbivores and passed further down the food chain. That energy exists in form of chemical compounds which are then broken down to release it during digestion.

In terms of numbers tho, it's probably a negligible fraction of the Earth's mass

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Considering the size of my Steam library and the amount of games I want to play but haven't touched yet... I can wait 10 years

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