I clicked begin and immediately alt tabbed to ChatGPT. I took a screenshot of the prompt and pasted to ChatGPT, with the instruction "Write a 1 paragraph response as if you were a human". I alt tabbed back to the writing website and started typing ChatGPTs response. I intentionally added a few pauses in places where I thought I might pause, and deleted words a couple times. I also slightly changed the last sentence from "down, plus the assumption that..." to "down. And.." to give it the human touch of poor grammar, although I'm not sure if that mattered.
I scored 100 "Highly Authentic"
Instructions to ChatGPT:
[What's something you pretend to understand but actually don't? Why do you fake it?] Write a 1 paragraph response as if you were a human.
Response:
Honestly, I probably nod along to conversations about highly technical stuff like advanced financial instruments or super niche software internals when I only grasp the surface, because stopping to ask for a full breakdown can derail the moment or make me look out of my depth. It's not about trying to deceive anyone, it's more about social momentum and not wanting to slow things down. And I can fill in the gaps later if I need to.
The “self”-(un)awareness is almost endearing (though some might be your higher level instructions). It summarizes—correctly IME— that it’s basically an ~inept~ typical middle/upper manager/“visionary”, replete with a CorpSpeak promise to circle back and “fill in the gaps”… which it does with the consistency and accuracy of a samesaid cat-turd-ingester.
Does make me wish that the folks nodding along in meatspace would/could be similarly “honest” about this same phenomenon.
Yes, and you would almost certainly want to automate it with a filter wheel that changes the filters for you on a schedule. However, a key advantage of a mono camera is that you don't have to limit yourself to RGB filters. You can use some other set of filters better suited for the object you are capturing and map them back to RGB in software. This is most commonly done with narrowband filters for Hydrogen, Sulfur and Oxygen which allow you to see more detail in many deep space objects and cut out most of the light pollution that would otherwise get in your way.
I responded to one of their sales emails saying that I liked their service because it was free, and I wasn't interested in paying for their advice. Haven't heard from them since, but have been using the free service for years.
>If you mark to market the bonds these banks are carrying you can see they are insolvent.
Do you have any sources/data for this? I saw something for BofA that indicated a $110b mark to market unrealized loss, but they have roughly $200b in equity so that wouldn't make them insolvent. I don't know if that $110b included everything or just a subset of their hold-to-maturity assets and would love to see more complete data for all big the banks if you have a nicely consolidated source for it?
The "Invisible Deck" is a very famous trick. It can be purchased[1] for about $10 and just about anyone can master it in about 10 minutes. With the standard method, you don't need to memorize the deck or flip the card.
In more recent articles about it it seems to be a variation of alpha-PVP (flakka), something called alpha-PHP that is outside of any schedule for drugs. Basically a designer cathinone that is (or was) still legal.
He wasn't totally certain exactly what he'd made, afaik; his neighbor troubles coincided with efforts to get a real chemist to assist him in identifying what he was producing and stabilizing his method.
I smoked alpha pvp in a transit home in Saint Petersburg with some Georgian immigrants thinking it was meth, It made me really really high, and I spent the whole next day crying. I suspect this is a pretty popular drug in Russia.
Unfortunately, yes. I lost friend to it ("alpha"). He is technically alive, but with completely ruined physics.
I've thought, that only opiates could be so destructive, oh, man, I was wrong :-(
If you're interested in this concept, you may enjoy the novel "The Unincorporated Man" which is set in a future where everyone (except the protagonist) has personal shares traded on an open market.
It's a bit thick on ideological propaganda of the extreme capitalist/libertarian type, but I found the exploration of the concept fascinating enough to get through most of it.
Materials absorb some quantity of IR radiation. This will heat them up. What you're talking about is essentially a variation of recycling heat. It's imperfect so there'll be some IR signature.
I think the bull case may be more about their future sources of revenue. If crypto succeeds, exchanging it with fiat may end up being only a relatively small amount of the economic activity. Traditional brokers are not likely to be able to compete with Coinbase in those future markets.
Of course it's really hard to predict what those future markets might be or how much value Coinbase will be able to extract from them, so I have no idea if $68 billion is a reasonable valuation.
I scored 100 "Highly Authentic"
Instructions to ChatGPT:
[What's something you pretend to understand but actually don't? Why do you fake it?] Write a 1 paragraph response as if you were a human.
Response:
Honestly, I probably nod along to conversations about highly technical stuff like advanced financial instruments or super niche software internals when I only grasp the surface, because stopping to ask for a full breakdown can derail the moment or make me look out of my depth. It's not about trying to deceive anyone, it's more about social momentum and not wanting to slow things down. And I can fill in the gaps later if I need to.