Jesus Christ, it’s literally just a bunch of weird modern poly people

I think poly people can be a bit odd but you have to be pretty fucking conservative in your values to call that a sex cult.

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On further reading, Aella does seem pretty fucking problematic. Sex is great, drugs can be great, but both require a ton of responsibility… especially CNC orgies… You can’t fly that fast and not crash.

I’m not blaming the drugs, but don’t be surprised if people with good intentions fuck up when they can’t think straight. And she sounds extra irresponsible and wanting to push every limit.

I remember someone on reddit said after he won, “now just sit back, relax, and your wallet will thank you” all smugly, like the economy was going to make us all rich.

I hope that fuck is struggling with his car payments and can’t afford gas.

Eh, I taught myself. You have to learn to take care of yourself at some point, whether it’s fair or not.

Especially with the internet and youtube, there’s very little excuse not to learn how to cook.

A lot of us grew up with shitty parents, had to figure out survival on our own as teenagers. I don’t blame them. People fuck up tons of important things, especially being parents. They’re just other irresponsible people that don’t have their own lives figured out. You win by being better than they were, figuring out your own shit and living better lives. Sometimes you just have to get out at 18 and figure shit out for yourself. It’s not the end of the world and people have been doing that for a very long time.

I wonder if Google drive has a directory limit

I didn’t think we’d have this problem with AI. I also didn’t realize we’d train it with tons of fiction that includes scifi with AI going haywire and killing humans, then making decisions based on its continuation of text.

I know the reference but just fyi, this was not nearly as common as claimed and not responsible for a lot of witch trial stuff. It was more like cops interrogating people until they freak out, then claim “fine I wrote my name in the devil’s book, but Becky did too!!” And then it ended up some prosecutorial bullshit with them wanting a confession out of everyone.

The “funny” thing is, those that confessed and repented often survived and lived normal lives. It’s more people that denied it and had others claim they were witches were executed.

And there are weird instances like a guy who confessed but was still executed… But he legitimately was giving divinations, and telling people how many children they would have. Like a back in the day psychic. The witch trial stuff really, really didn’t like divination. Herbs and midwifery stuff was way less of a big deal, and an honored profession being a “physic”. It was not considered witchcraft to use herbs to heal people unless you did weird rituals.

For grain to give you hallucinations, it has to be rye grain and in a cold and wet climate, which ergot specifically would grow in. Then the rye grain itself would grow big black visible horns, and they would still need to not discard that obvious contaminated grain and grind it into flour. Then that flour was eaten, and they hallucinated. And it fucked up your veins and gave you black limbs often too.

There’s often not great evidence for this phenomenon unless they are in a cold and damp area growing rye, and report the medical issues on top, black limbs.

People act like if you let bread mold it’ll grow it, but that’s not the case. It’s much more rare of a phenomenon, a fungus that attacks rye itself.

oh yeah I figured the same.

You know looking into it now out of curiosity, it sounds like there’s auto dialer laws and they can send SMS without express consent as long as a human initiated the text. So they send messages by hand I guess, then probably have machines handle the STOP stuff

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-670A1.pdf

Nah some actually do and I was fucking shocked when the dude laughed at my joke, can’t even remember what it was

I just remember being slightly embarrassed but he said I made his day

Or the world is so fucked up and they’re contributing so much, they don’t give a fuck about the cancer

Isn’t this not likely since it wasn’t just metalworkers that had them?

I honestly wonder if there was just some autistic metalworker who came up with this weird fucking design and made a million of them like a psychotic dwarf, and then people started to get fascinated and wanted their own. A literal thingamajig that just fascinated people because of how complex and specific it was, and it just became a cultural phenomenon.

STOP THE DOWNLOADIN

Likely not in any of our lifetimes.

Nvidia is the only obvious one that had a stable business before, took big wins from this AI era, and would survive a bubble bursting. The rest of them are burning as much investor cash as possible just trying to compete with each other, but open source is preventing them from forming a monopoly that way so they’re kinda fucked.

…just make your own at that point and save money? You should not be suffering spending extra on unscented stuff. That’s like the easy ass default. You can buy unscented soap in bulk for cheap as hell.

And haven’t tried this, but: https://cadryskitchen.com/diy-coconut-oil-deodorant/

Like baking soda, cornstarch, and coconut oil might be all you need for an unscented deodorant

Pretty interesting and if anything out of it is real, then it’s a significant breakthrough in machine learning. It means we have computer automation to automate research itself, which hopefully should amplify technological progress and not just replace workers, but it’s concerning that we have to consider that impact in the first place.

Someone else said it’s like a “million monkeys hitting a million typewriters”. That’s incredibly dismissive, but I think there’s also a sliver of truth to it.

The randomness and hallucination/error rate is a spectrum here. It’s not 100% random like a million monkeys hitting a million keyboards, but there’s still some hallucinations that lead to big mistakes.

You see the same thing in computer security. There’s a ton of “slop vuln reports”, but now and then, one is real. The fact that generative AI can generate a real one now and then means that it’s actually doing something interesting and powerful, yet that doesn’t mean we’ll necessarily see it hit 100% ever. I think we have to accept that it generates slop by design and someone needs to sift through slop in all various forms.

I think the AI oligarchs are realizing, and the rest of us are slowly seeing, is that you don’t get exponential improvement by adding more datacenters. Maybe sigmoid or logarithmic. And we might not be able to get enough training data to make the AGI everyone dreamed of.

But there might be this middle ground where humans still actually train and work in these fields and use AI to help automate some aspects like today and sift through some slop when applicable and we greatly accelerate technological progress. This middle ground is not what they promised investors, and they’re going to cause a financial crisis when investors realize it’s slowing down to a halt, and they still have to pay employees.

There absolutely is a real and useful and even groundbreaking technology here, but that conversation is muted by the way CEOs have pushed it on people like it’s the next industrial age, trying to replace and automate whoever possible, and oligarchs have used fear mongering to basically scam the entire fucking country at once and take a trillion in funds to build AI data centers and use exponential amounts of energy just because it can code a little bit better if you throw another 100 billion at it.

I use it and appreciate some of what it can do, and it’s not perfect but it is still very useful. But for fucks sake they could have handled this a little better than dumping so much into they trigger the next economic crisis.

It’s just a massive task that is kind of pointless on top of being massive. We already have a typescript compiler. It works. Rewriting stuff in rust is generally already kind of controversial unless it’s C code that might have significant vulnerabilities, like openssl, anything dealing with serving the internet to a bunch of people. It’s a massive task to rewrite a big project in a new language, and Rust can be tricky sometimes for its own weird reasons. You might have to solve some problems in new ways.

Also, the typescript compiler, you have to understand why it exists and what it does. We have JavaScript that is basically all the client side code for websites. People don’t like that it doesn’t have types or enforce that variables are a specific thing. If I write a function that takes a number but pass it the word “foobar”, JavaScript won’t care.

Typescript was an attempt to basically clean it up with types and it kind of worked. What it does is, you declare the type of variable that your function takes, you say it’s a number. If you then call that function with “foobar”, it won’t even compile your code. It’ll error out and say look dumbass, that’s the wrong type. Fix it, then recompile.

You declare what data types are used where, and the compiler enforces that.

Then what does it do? It emits JavaScript. It literally just needs to check that you are doing things the way you say you’re doing, then the end user still runs basic JavaScript in their browser. Typescript compiles to JavaScript.

Rewriting the compiler itself will just… Generate the same JavaScript and be a bit faster, in a best case scenario.

Every CEO calling for a pause on AI just makes me think that it’s a part of the scam like, “of course it’s not making money, we paused it, now can we get subsidies to stick around until we can unpause it?”

I really doubt this will improve security… “Oh I’ll just vibecode the stripe client for my unikernel”

For fucks sake, these people found jobs where they get to slow blink at cats and I’m sitting here like a dummy doing it for free