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I'm a reasonably good swimmer, I've had plenty of training and experience. And if I was in a flood zone I would definitely want to have a life jacket on. Being a good swimmer is only going to help a little bit in a mess like that.

Avoid getting into the water in the first place, of course. Flood water sucks. Climb on your roof, climb a tree, ideally evacuate before the water gets there. But if you're in a situation where you might fall into the flood water anyway, have a life jacket on.

Indeed. I was in a thread on Reddit about exactly this subject, and it was truly bizarre how adamant a lot of people were about how you should not having a life jacket. They were pointing out all these things - you could get trapped inside your house, it doesn't save you from being hit by debris, it doesn't protect you against diseases that are in the water.

Yeah, those are all bad things. Don't jump into floodwaters for fun! Stay out of the flood water if you can at all possibly manage it. But if I'm in a place where I might end up falling into floodwaters anyway, it's far far better to have a life vest on than to not have it on.

I don't often use the word "cringe", but IMO this warrants it. This silliness is going to discredit attempts at serious conversation.

There's a lot more to cryptocurrency than Bitcoin.

You see a false dichotomy.

I see someone pounding away at a ball of yarn with a hammer and complaining that it's not as good a knitting implement as they imagined.

I've never seen anyone advertising an LLM as being good at spelling bees. The only time I ever see this spelling thing come up is when people are making fun of it.

An LLM also can't bake a cake, decorate a Christmas tree, or bench-press 100kg.

Just understand what LLMs are good at, use them for that, and don't throw your hands up and declare it useless because it can't magically do something it was never designed to do in the first place.

If only the Internet hadn't spent the last decade collectively shitting on crypto instead of maybe learning a bit about how it works and what it could be used for.

Because LLMs see tokens, not letters or words. It's like showing a human a strawberry and asking them how many atoms it contains.

Canadian, here. Kind of hard to ignore our giant idiot neighbour to the south.

Which is no doubt why he doesn't speak it.

You think Poilievre would have done a better job of standing up to Trump?