This is how the best chess and go computers got to be as good as they are. AI generated “synthetic data.”

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That’s just too cool

The main things that stuck in my head after all those years was that stuff like assault, rape, murder, torture, entertainment-based animal abuse all used to be much worse. He said that people used to nail cats to posts around town so they would flail around until they died, just for the hell of it. I never fact-checked these claims.

Thanks for the information, I had no idea that Pinker had such an anti-following. I’ve not read or even thought about him in years. I just vaguely remembered that that book did a lot to make me more thankful for the current state of things compared to how they used to be. I appreciate you letting me know that he is such a questionable fellow.

The Amazon reviews are really bad. If anyone is looking for a book with this same idea, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker is really great.

Killer Whales and humans have a long history of friendship and cooperative hunting. The orcas would lead people to large balleen whales, and the humans would spear them, taking most of the meat, but leaving the lips and tongue as payment to the Orcas.

Yep, use it, love it. I just have a bunch of alerts set up for any new articles that include search phrases in my areas of interest, mainly bioacoustics stuff so I can post any new relevant articles or papers on digitalbioacoustics@lemmy.world

Not exactly the same, but this brought to mind this study that Peter Atia talked about a few years back where fasting coupled with chemo was seen to give good results.

Awesome! Thanks so much, I really appreciate the info, I’m adding some to my list now. I am quite interested to hear an Ausie perspective of Trump, and a good science podcast sounds great. Thanks again!

I thought you may be interested in u/pringles followup comment

https://lemm.ee/comment/5339314

Awesome, I’m sold! Downloading them now. Thanks so much for taking the time to write this. Looking forward to listening!

Do you recommend any episodes in particular of these?

Are there any episodes of these in particular that stick out to you?

Oh yes, hardcore history is so good.

Darknet Diaries is fantastic!

Just downloaded them, thanks for the recommendations!

Probably “Philosophize This”

Any episode of any of these that especially stick out to you?

Darknet Diaries

Intelligence Squared

Sean Carroll’s Mindscape

Hannah Ritchie on Keeping Hope for the Planet Alive - Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast

This episode just came out. There is still plenty that can be done it seems.