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New comment by toilet in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

toilet — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:10:43 +0000

You can buy rice, beans and soy granulate in bulk and cook a chili in an hour that feeds a family for two days for the price of like a happy meal at McDonalds.

New comment by toilet in "They’re made out of weights"

toilet — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:47:08 +0000

>I have a linguistics background and a lot of my philosophizing lately has been on whether or not the emergent abilities of the LLMs is deep down a similar mechanism that creates our consciousness.

Then you shouldn't have dropped out of your linguistics programme.

New comment by toilet in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

toilet — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:54:09 +0000

It would save people money, you wouldn't have to sacrifice security, and they wouldn't complain about losing Google maps or Signal.

New comment by toilet in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

toilet — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:35:27 +0000

Everybody who has a different moral opinion than yours holds that opinion for the sole reason that they believe it will make them look better to their peers.

New comment by toilet in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

toilet — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:29:40 +0000

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New comment by toilet in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

toilet — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:43:28 +0000

I have no idea about research in mathematics: How will mathematicians judge what constitutes new conceptual math that is actually useful, vs a hallucination that might be novel but doesn't introduce anything actual meaningful?