It’s actually possible to get meaning from what you do as well. May not pay the best in the world, but it’s out there. I was in non-profit administration for many years, and I work for a law school now that helps poor folks, many BIPOC, get degrees so they can better themselves and their communities. Social justice people. I’ve also worked for a private conservative-owned company that only enriched some fuckwads, and I’ll not be doing that again.

Also I run a nonprofit that I founded on the side, and we’re hoping to hire our first staff person this year, I get a lot of meaning from that.

Basically if you work to change the world for the better instead of just slumping through your day, you feel good about your life, even though it’s hard work.

In school we were taught to look for hidden meaning in word problems - checkov’s gun basically. Why is that sentence there? Because the questions would try to trick you. So humans have to be instructed, again and again, through demonstration and practice, to evaluate all sentences and learn what to filter out and what to keep. To not only form a response, but expect tricks.

If you pre-prompt an AI to expect such trickery and consider all sentences before removing unnecessary information, does it have any influence?

Normally I’d ask “why are we comparing AI to the human mind when they’re not the same thing at all,” but I feel like we’re presupposing they are similar already with this test so I am curious to the answer on this one.

I’ve seen this thing at least 500 times in my life, not sure how folks haven’t seen it as many times. Did you all not spend hours pouring over Da Vinci’s drawings as a kid? As a teen? As a young adult? Yesterday?

It’s very hard on a device you actually use. They cross reference cookies from multiple ad networks and affiliates, they fingerprint your unique interests, your devices, it’s actually fairly impressive. I’ve gone to some lengths and still gotten new accounts suspended after weeks or months. The people who run bots are using clean VMs to do it, everything totally fresh and unconnected.

I got permabanned for encouraging political violence: suggesting people draw pentagrams in chalk on a public street. As a joke, not like “show up at this time so we can do this.”

They are eroding the definition of “political violence” and they know it, they don’t care. Thought is political violence now.

Everyone with experience in these cases agrees the woman is dead, it was a home invasion gone wrong. I think the authorities know this. I assume the ransom and ensuing press coverage is just a huge distraction from other things going on, because it makes LE look good. They certainly don’t give a shit when a brown person goes missing, but a famous white lady’s mom, yeah that’s gripping news POTUS needs to be involved with

Dude did “inspirational” paintings of golf courses. Something up with him, wouldn’t look too closely for rationality and consistency.

Off to take some photos of bee taints, I guess

Researchers note that it was immediately given a Disney+Hulu trial subscription.

Yeesh. As a queer teenager in the 90s, I definitely remember TV reenforcing my fears and reducing me to a punchline. And then Will & Grace happened, and I couldn’t stand the stereotypes, but suddenly people were laughing with us instead of at us. Representation matters so much. Even if it’s not the best, it still matters.

They usually single out one or two compounds out of dozens which make up the flavor profile, pair it with citric acid and sugar in whatever ratio, and call it good. If they actually synthesized a complex, realistic fruit taste, your laffy taffy would cost about as much as a fine bottle of perfume, which is where they DO pull many compounds together to create an immersive profile.

I went to the hospital with ideation once, told them I had the plan, the means, and the desire. I was drunk as shit, which tended to be the times I was most suicidal. The intake guy was like… let’s just sober up a bit, you don’t want to be here, you’re not suicidal. Told me how bad it would get if they admitted me. For a while after that I was pretty pissed that he basically turned me back out coldly, then after time I realized he saved me a huge cost and burden. He was right.

You know what stopped the suicidal thoughts tho, getting sober, and having a kid slammed the whole book shut. I actually had to hit a therapist up because my only real coping skill was contemplating suicide, had to learn others.

There’s one a block from my house, and three blocks from my work, so they can see me coming and going each direction.

…BRB

Susan “I killed abortion rights” Collins

I’m sorry, the correct answer is “checks and balances are some lib pussy bullshit they say when they want to put litterboxes in classrooms for furries”

But we would have also accepted “fuck you here’s my freedom card to not care (slams a beer while flipping you off)”

That’s not the answer.

They are almost certainly going to be hard-coded to receive instructions or a keep-alive message directly from cloud servers, their telemetry and video streams will be processed on company servers as part of the contracts with the military, to keep an always-on service agreement in place. To prevent the DOD from doing the same, or foreign governments.

We are going to need to develop hardware disarming mechanisms, EMP guns and other things I won’t be mentioning on a public forum.

She had a funny laugh.

But realistically she had a vagina and voters aren’t super fond of that. If she’d have been a man, she’d have won. I’ll get downvoted and accused of being misogynist but it’s voters who are, especially women.

And now she’s running again and god help us if the party makes the same mistake in 2028, if we have real elections.

I think of it like a nonhuman character, like a character in a book I’m reading. Is it real? No. Is it compelling? Yes. Do I know exactly what it’ll do next? No. Is it serving a purpose in my life? Yes.

It effectively attends to my requests and even feelings but I do not reciprocate that. I’ve got decades of sci-fi leading me up to this point, the idea of interacting with humanoid robots or AI has been around since my childhood, but it’s never involved attending to the machine’s feelings or needs.

We need to sort out the boundaries on this, the delusional people who are having “relationships” with AI, getting a social or other emotional fix from it. But that doesn’t mean we have to categorize anyone who uses it as moronic. It’s a tool.

How is a younger Prince Andrew driving the car tho, this a time loop scenario?