I haven’t seen anything that indicates there is, so he’s not wrong.

While there’s links between depression and social media use, I haven’t seen anything causal determined.

It could be the other way around, that people are more likely to use social media when feeling depressed.

It’s very difficult to prove if a correlation is causal.

That would be what causal means mate.

What in the fake news is this?

Alexa Turing

Middleton High School

Jessica Nguyen

Mr. Peterson’s

algebra class

“Our AI doesn’t make mistakes,” he declared, his smile as frozen as a crashed computer. “If it detected 37 eye-rolls, then that’s a clear violation of our new zero-tolerance policy on micro-aggressions.”

This is clearly fake as fuck, wtf even is this site?

Seems like a bunch of AI generated garbage meant to incite people.

Ew.

This continues to boil down into that tired argument that an amalgamation of human behavior is distinct from how humans actually behave, but since no one can actually prove how humans produce thoughts, it follows you can’t actually prove that an LLM actually works or doesn’t work any different.

So I dont really dig into that argument.

To be honest, the one thing that LLMs actually are good at, is summarizing bodies of text.

Producing a critique of a manuscript isnt actually to far out for an LLM, it’s sorta what it’s always doing, all the time.

I wouldn’t classify it as something to use as concrete review, and one must also keep in mind that context windows on LLMs usually are limited to only thousands of tokens, so they can’t even remember anything more then like 5 pages ago. If your story is bigger than that, they’ll struggle to comment on anything before the last 5 or so pages, give or take.

Asking an LLM to critique a manuscript is a great way to get constructive feedback on specific details, catch potential issues, maybe even catch plot holes, etc.

I’d absolutely endorse it as a step 1 before giving it to an actual human, as you likely can substantially improve your manuscript by iterating over it 3-4 times with an LLM, just covering basic issues and improvements, then letting an actual human focus on the more nuanced stuff an AI would miss/ignore.

Because having people download static map data for the entire planet just to play a game is untenable.

You shouldn’t have to download the entire planet though.

The game 100% should support installing local specific areas you wanna fly around, that anyone could then keep a copy of.

If a user wanted to cache an entire 8 TB of the entire world on a drive, they should be able to just do that (and thus have forever support without worrying about internet services staying online)

At least, as a snapshot of what the world looked like in 2024.

I don’t see why users shouldn’t have the option to locally HD save the data if they want to, to avoid maxing out their internet bandwidth in one sitting.

“Move Fast and Break Things” is Zuckerberg/Facebook motto, not Musk, just to note.

She has so much more sway than The Chicks had at the time, by such a huge amount.

The Chicks were already controversial, and had always been so.

But Dolly is the fucking queen of country, people revere her.

How many Dixie Chicks lookalike competitions were you seeing right before their career nosedived?

No, not really. That’s above and beyond being poly, we both are only really interested in life long partners, thus we fit so well with each other.

We’ve both agreed we doubt we would ever meet someone even one of us clicks with and meets us where we are at, we’ve both just spent so kych time and effort growing together that we’re extremely far along in experience and maturity. We’re getting married next year, as we’ve just accepted it’s gonna just be the two of us.

We’re okay with that, but I wanted to hear how other folks feel about this themselves, we aren’t unhappy with our lives, we’re doing awesome.

But I think it’s definitely an interesting thing to talk about, if people have had a serious commited “expansion” of the relationship “late game” if you will, and if it actually worked out.

For the relationship where everyone is with everyone, and the introduction of a new person requires everyone to be into them (and thus each addition becomes exponentially more and more unlikely, as the group gets bigger), I refer to this as a “Pod”, where its all one unit of people together.

Whereas when its not everyone connected to everyone, and its more open ended and people come and go, I refer to that as a Polycule (from Molecule), as in a “chain” of connections.

Typically the former simply just never gets very big, because it inherently gets very strained as it grows beyond even 4-5 people at most. Humans just cant sustain that many intimate relationships at once.

Polycules can go infinite though, cause any one specific individual in the “chain” of people can simply just be with only 2 or maybe 3 themselves, but that infinite chaining can just go on and on and on, without any individual even knowing how far it even goes.

I personally am not into polycules, Ive never seen one actually sustain and long term, every single polycule Ive witnessed disintegrates and fractures over time into different groups, it can get petty, people can get hurt, I just personally try to steer clear of such stuff cuz Ive yet to actually see someone long term defy the pattern Ive seen.

And by long term I mean 10+ years.

If the polycule is purely transient and people can just float in and out and everyone involved is cool with that, thats fine, but I consider that less of a polycule at that point and more just a bunch of open relationships. To be a Polycule in my eyes it has to have longevity and be non transient, each individual “link” of the chain is people going steady. A whole buncha people just having transient relationships, friends with benefits, one night stands, etc, thats not a polycule, thats just swinging.

Which is cool and I dont hate on it, but it’s just not the same thing and I try to ensure that distinction in lexicon is consistent.

Despite Steam being proprietary, Proton (it’s emulation system) is so profoundly stable I feel like it’s a necessary evil at this time.

I haven’t found a single “windows” game yet in my library that doesn’t work with steam

Yeah this is just noticeable because most products weren’t even resealable, they just expected you to seal em yourself with a clip, twist em, put em in a container, etc.

Now they are adding cheap resealable zips to the bag, which is nice in theory but the bag material has to be strong enough to support it.

Actual ziplock baggies themselves are made of thick plastic that can take a bit of abuse.

But cheap paper plastic hybrid materials a chip bag us made of can’t handle that sort of load, so it becomes the fail point.

Regardless of budget, I have found the following setup has afforded me all the comfort upsides of mobility and console gaming, with none of the performance downsides.

1. Build a standard desktop gaming pc to your budget, setting aside ~$150, give or take.

2. Make sure it’s wired into your network and not using wifi. Setup Steam on it as usual.

3a. (Console experience) Buy a Google TV with Chromecast, or whatever it’s called now. Install Steam Link app on it and connect it to your gaming pc. Get a Bluetooth compatible Xbox controller, connect it to the chromecast. Enjoy a console experience with your gaming pc. If you have the chromecast on a wired ethernet lime you’ll have maybe 1ms of input lag, very playable.

3b. (Laptop experience), buy a dirt cheap laptop, install steam on it, use Steam Streaming fu ctionaloty to stream from gaming pc to laptop. If you plug the laptop into ethernet you should have sub 1ms input lag.

This let’s you get all the horsepower of a gaming pc, at gaming pc hardware prices, but the portability of a laptop and/or couch gaming comfort of a console.

And since it’s all centralized to your 1 “server” machine, of you make changes in setup A (ie change am in game setting or etc), it’ll persist even if you swap over.

IE if I change my settings or preferences on the console, I’ll persist that over on my laptop and won’t have to change it again.

Furthermore no network save game synching needed, no waiting for a game to download a second time, no need to update the fane multiple times, etc.

It’s all centralized to your own core machine and everything else is just a thin client.

PS: this works with the Steam Deck too, you can stream from gaming pc to steam deck and use it as a thin client 👍

It scored a 47% vs the humans 81%

That’s already pretty compelling that it’s scoring so well considering how this tech is still so new.

It’s very rapidly catching up.

Also keep in mind they were using a more generic ML model and not one specifically tuned to this task.

Wording on second one is word, should be “bottom 15” really.

Personally I’ve just being using Termux sideloaded in to SSH into anything I need to, with a bluetooth KB and Mouse.

Quest3 straight up supports Mouse+KB as is.

SSHd into my dev box I can pop open neovim in tmux multiplexer and have full access to my entire stack, so at that point it’s just full on cyber decking.

Only thing that could be nice is finding out how well the usb port on the Quest3 plays with Serial feeds.

It should work in theory, I just haven’t tried it yet, but theoretically android devices can use a usb port as a serial COM1 and there’s a handful of decent TTY serial IO apps on Android, any of which could be sideloaded in.

Or… use a TTY in termux maybe? I haven’t tried it yet but theoretically it outta work

Disinformation is not the same as Misinformation mate.

It’s critical to know the difference.

Who determines what is disinformation?

A jury, for a given case

Who determines that the information is endangering lives?

A jury, for a given case

If Trump wins the election do you want him determining these things?

I wouldn’t put it past him to try and do that, knowing him.

But that’s not how laws work. Determining if a given case is or is not disinformation would be up to a jury to deliberate, based on facts presented by the lawyers.

As that’s how the justice system works. Or us supposed to at least.

And yes, proving it is disinformation is super hard, so the prosecutor must have a pretty iron tight case. You’d likely need witnesses that can attest to the defendant outright admitting to the act, or their behaviors that signal intent, or evidence on their devices, etc.

This is exactly how Libel and Slander / Defamation cases work right now, you have to prove the defendant knew they were lying and or making a story up intentionally which is incredibly hard, cuz the dependant can just go “I really thought that was the truth!”

For example in the Heard v Depp case, they had to pull evidence of her doctoring photos and using makeup to really sell the case and win the jury over.

So it’s a huge gap to cross…

But…

If you do cross it, I believe the penalty for it should be pretty severe. Especially if the defendant was:

1. Endangering people’s lives with bad advice And/Or
2. Posing as an expert without actually being one

IE those people that dress up like a doctor or nurse or etc and then sell extremely bullshit stuff on social media. That should straight up result in some prison time if they gave out genuinely harmful disinformation.

When they lead to harm, they do indeed end.

People often forget the right to free speech isn’t prioritized over other human rights in pretty kych every first world country.

Otherwise stuff like Libel and Slander wouldn’t make sense legally. As well as hate speech laws.

Your right to free speech comes after peoples rights to safety from harm, and how that’s worded varies country by country, but feel free to Google up on it for your specific case.

It’s why stuff like advertising laws, misinformation and disinformation laws, etc can work too.

Free speech isn’t right #1, which some people just can’t seem to wrap their head around I guess. This isn’t even new, it’s been like that for ages.

How do you think snake oil salesmen could be prosecuted if they were allowed to just say whatever they want?

Why do you think it’s possible to have legal repercussions for threatening to shoot up a school, or bomb a plane?

You unironically thinks the US has a better Healthcare system than us?

Cringe.