Music is to the soul what the wind is to the ship, blowing her onward in the direction in which she is steered.

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Also : "We are not allowed to sing this tune or that tune, do
you say? Secular music, you say, belongs to the Devil?
Does it? Well, if it did, I would plunder him of it, for
he has no right to a single note of the whole seven.
Every note, every strain, and every harmony is divine
and belongs to us. "

"I got two questions for you. What do you do, and how do you do it?"
"Heheh - I'm a stock broker."
"Stock broker... oh. Have to go to college to be a stock broker huh"
"You don't have to... have to be good with numbers and good with people."

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Hm. One problem with frequently bouncing ideas off of ChatGPT- it's not just that it's a bit sycophantic and built to get you addicted to a bit of praise (I've read that a foolish optimism can be useful anyway- like, yes, the depressive view is often more technically accurate tactically, but strategically speaking optimism gets more stuff done, so long as you don't Dunning–Kruger yourself and overreach) - I'm worried about how it primes you to steamroll conversations in general. LLMs generally end their passage with suggestions for next steps, but it's ok to ignore them and/or change the subject entirely in a way that would be a bad habit to form if talking to humans.

The nature of bass function is helper... so when you go to the lunchroom in the middle of the day to go check out and find new recruits for beginning band, you're gonna look for those students that are in the room that are talking about the latest and greatest movies and talking about the sound effects, or the video game sound effects, that are helping somebody else open their milk carton, or holding the door for a teacher. Somebody who's doing these types of things in a lunchroom or in a classroom that's of a helper nature, and that doesn't need any credit for doing it. These are the exact kind of dna of the people that make really great tuba players.

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Japanese Game Show: 3 Professional Athletes vs 100 Kids weaponizing poetry against ai safeguards :
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time

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we're gonna launch covert ops against venezuela. bay of pigs 2.0