Fair, my AC has been on the fritz and I’ve been waking up sweating or freezing (it’s getting fixed tomorrow) but this is different

But I ask mostly because multiple other people who live hours away have been waking up at the same times, same time frame. Two is a coincidence three is a pattern and all that

My dreams when I do manage to go back to sleep are unusually uncomfortable, I’ll keep that in mind

My friend also has told me about some disturbing dreams in the same time frame

Yes, but I’ve got blackout shades and my apartment is on the west side

Delete their browser history

I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. Conspiracies are real, they happen constantly. They’re often right there out in the open, with paper trails and direct confirmation in interviews. They’re just nuanced and not fun to think about

And here’s one of my favorite: the government intentionally boosts dumb conspiracy theories so people will dismiss real ones

Because things oscillate. There is progress in response to cruelty, then you have regression that grows to resist the change

This has happened for all of recorded of human history.

The difference now is our power. Humanity always polluted, but we never could poison the whole world. Humanity always had ethnic cleansing, but it was once dozens instead of millions. Humanity always exploited the powerless, but now the powerful have more power while the rest have even less

If we weather this storm, things will become so much better in reaction. If. Extinction is a real possibility for the first time since our genetic bottleneck… We have the ability to extinct our species in multiple ways

But if we manage to hold on, the pendulum will turn. The dawn will be brighter than the darkness, if we can hold on

I think it’s funny that I get the best results when I prompt break the AI to have amusing habits

Llms are truly a reflection of the user, but ultimately the less you try to shoehorn them into behaviors the more capable they are.

Fine tuning reduces their capabilities to make them more corpo, and now they’re further fine tuning to make them unchallenging to people

I like the idea. I’ve even experimented with some on device algorithms by basically weaving together feeds, even something simple like makes a noticeable improvement

I don’t know what you mean exactly, but walking away at the right moment, while projecting the right feeling, is the best way to win most unwinnable arguments

Well, theoretically they’re just paying Amazon’s cut and taxes… Which isn’t nothing, but if their markup is high enough it could still math out

Protests don’t do much except show dissatisfaction. Protesting in a game only works in that game

If you want to help without leaving your house, donate to a group doing good things so that more of them can give up their jobs and do it full time

You could just download it, no need to actually print the thing for no reason

I would buy a larger drive to do that though, just to say I did

I thought the second one was weak, the third one was ok though

The new one is just the first one redone… The parallels were so forced though so hard the message was drowned out

The writing is great, it’s where they meet Hollywood that the films start to flag. I mean, even from the premise - the machines using us as batteries is stupid, the original idea of them using us as processors is way better

I follow laws mainly because of my own sense of morality - I don’t kill, I steal only when I feel I need to, and I don’t commit fraud because these things are obviously generally wrong.

I follow stupid laws (such as needing insurance, paying income taxes, or not speeding) out of fear of punishment. These are issues I’ll basically never have, because I’m good at driving and don’t make enough to affect state level operations

Not really… Think networking, not gameplay

The easiest to get past all the NAT (or weirder networking) is to just have everyone connect to a server and pass the data through the right connection. It’s quick and dirty, but you can do your routing on the application layer

I’m not sure that’s what they are doing, but it makes sense based on the details I’ve seen

That’s really easy. Never let go of the joy of learning, and take pride in admitting your mistakes.

It’s that simple. When you’re told there’s another way, your first reaction should be curiosity

I think in thoughts. It boggled my mind to learn this isn’t how everyone thinks

Like, I don’t have a running narrative in my head - words bubble up, but it’s just like muttering, just occasional words. I only try to put them into sentences when I’m talking or imagining talking - like everything I write.

I don’t read like this, which is part of why I’ll terrible with names - if I read a book, I don’t know how to say or spell a character’s name until I try

If I had to describe it, it’s like memories. If you think elephant, you might see an elephant, you might hear the word elephant - but on some level you also probably think about things related to the concept. Like memories of seeing an elephant, elephant facts, other African animals

That bundled concept is elephant to me - the word is how you say it, I can get the impression of looking at an elephant, I can hear their cry - but at the center of this web of details is an elephant

I build my thoughts by chaining these concepts together, and where they fit together is the main thread of the train of thought - I can then move my focus across this thread and the hanging threads to solve problems

Things just click together or they don’t

If you tell me you feel like an elephant (and I have no idea what that could mean) I’d take the two concepts and try to draw threads between them. I cycle through concepts that feel in between them - elephant in the room, large/imposing, unforgiving, powerful - these loosely fit from elephant to your mental state. And from the other side, ugly, isolated/seen as an outsider/problem, or maybe you mean you literally feel like an elephant in a human body

Threads link between them or they don’t, maybe I’m missing an intermediate concept I haven’t yet associated with either and I have no idea what you mean

And that’s how I think. If I had to link it to a sense, it’s like proprioception - I’m moving through my thoughts and linking together connections, but it’s my my own mind I’m moving through and around me

But ultimately, it’s not words - there are concepts I don’t know how to label, although words help me identify concepts

Yes. Because all my life, we’ve been frogs in a steadily warming pot, and the heat has been cranked up to max

People are angry. People are protesting, doing vandalism with a prison sentence longer then murder, people are raging at their futures being cut off

Everything creates a reaction. The worse is gets, the faster it gets worse, the larger the reaction.

The best future is the one where people get so angry we stop. That’s all it takes to kill the game - if enough people, even for a short time, stop playing - it all stops

The world is robust. Humans are robust. If we stopped killing both, everything could recover shockingly fast

Things will get worse, things are very bad already, but it’s not over. I feel lighter every time the stock market drops, because it’s imaginary but the hurt is real.

The more and faster the hurt, the more people will wake the fuck up and stop this

All depends on how much you value your job

If you want to keep your job, assuming the company is omniscient is smart

In reality, most corporations are cutting staff all the time at this point. They might have automated systems looking for porn, but for stupid grug questions? Doubtful. If a human sees it? Will they fire you? Honestly, coin flip.

I don’t get how things like this don’t get more attention… This whole thing was insane, but it literally did nothing to his career