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benbreen
46,165karma·2,755submissions·June 2, 2014
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Yes, Canada (and especially Saskatchewan) is very important in psychedelic history. I didn't look into it much personally because it's one part of the story that's been documented very …
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I wouldn't recommend my process to anyone, to be honest! I probably wrote a total of around 200k words over a four year period, of which I ended up cutting around 110k. I find it to be very true …
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Author of the book under review here. AMA! One thing I thought would be helpful is to link to the YouTube video described in the opening paragraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMF-…
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Our toddler is now asleep so I am also here to do a brief AMA about the book and psychedelic science in the 20th century if anyone has questions. :)
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Forgetting context is a problem, for sure. One thing I've found that works fairly well is to include a request for a "status bar" in your prompt. I.e. you ask it to remind itself with e…
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Not factually wrong at all - the dosages, ingredients, diagnosis and even the language are all strikingly accurate. Naturally, the "fake" 1680s doctor didn't write the same prescription…
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I think we agree, just define terms differently -- video games are art! In other words, gamers are consumers of artwork, and that consumer demand for a new kind of art drove demand for the hardware to…
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Author here - thank you for this. I definitely don't claim to be an expert on the history of 3d graphics, and you clearly know a lot more than me about the detailed history of NVIDIA. That said, …
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Thanks for doing this. We should talk! I am a historian and have been exploring using LLMs in teaching ( https://resobscura.substack.com/p/simulating-history-with-ch... ). I love t…
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Etymonline.com is one of my favorite websites. I had no idea it had a blog though - thanks for posting. I love the description of English as “Built from half-Frenchified Roman marble and local wattle-…
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Author here. Thank you, I thought this was an interesting point. Researching the book this post is based on, I was really struck by who was actually attending the Macy cybernetic conferences — it was …