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should the TPOT blog be a wordpress, substack, or something else?

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RT @empathy2000
which one for a tpot blog that anyone can submit pieces to?
twitter.com/empathy2000/status

RT @arctanno
this has the same feeling as a UFC post-fight interview with a guy who barely speaks english, he's not even on the same plane of existence as the interviewer but this time in a different way twitter.com/AndyMasley/status/

which one for a tpot blog that anyone can submit pieces to?

it’s a little bit of a relief to see it commercialized in some obvious way

like someone admitting to a small lie so they don’t have to admit to a huge one
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RT @rachel_l_woods
🚨 JUST ANNOUNCED: ChatGPT Plugins 🚨

You'll now be able to:
- Browse the internet
- Book travel
- Buy groceries
- Do math

+ more, as developers can now build and offer plugins for ChatGPT
twitter.com/rachel_l_woods/sta

like i genuinely feel more respect for them in my gut, like a beautiful nation of conquerors coming for my own

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microsoft laying off their entire AI ethics team is lowkey goated when seeming cool and scary is the vibe

RT @AndyMasley
Do you have that dog in you?

i say this with love in my heart:

i am looking for answers from people who know what they're talking about OR who can point me towards resources that talk about this

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Reader, I recognize I am collapsing millennia of history across hundreds of countries into one sweeping statement. Bear with me here.

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I see people claim that QoL was basically okay back then, and others claim that everyone was horribly poor, and I don't have a strong sense of if these two things are mutually exclusive or not.

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In societies that are much less flush with material goods, when people are mostly living off food that is supplied to them outside normal currency exchange, what does poverty mean?

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Can someone help me understand this?

What does it mean for global poverty to have been dramatically reduced?

What does it mean for people in the middle ages to have been horribly impoverished?

Is it a QoL measure? A purchasing power measure?

i know we have ingroup memes... but i can't remember any of them

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Anyone got name ideas?
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RT @empathy2000
noting my renewed commitment to making a blog that anyone in TPOT can submit to, so people who don’t wanna start their own blog but would like to publish *something* to see what it’s like are able to do so
twitter.com/empathy2000/status

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