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Michael Hudson (locked account) of the Chapo FYM twitch stream is also very into geoguessr. It's fascinating to see him describe how he knows where a place is. The amount of info they have memorised is incredible.

On the 'meta' of the game - one thing I found interesting is that, as I understand it, Germany had some sort of privacy laws that mean there was very limited street view coverage. I think this has now changed, and Germany is a viable guess again in the game.

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I really loved that Max Read post about LaMDA. It’s conclusion seems really obvious now but I actually haven’t seen anyone else say it in all the discourse around sentience and AI

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