25+ yr Java/JS dev
Linux novice - running Ubuntu (no windows/mac)
If you are superficial and care more about validation and agreement than partnership and empathy, I imagine AI is great at that. I’ll bet there are a lot of folks that want nothing more from a relationship than AI can give. And they are apparently happy and probably making other people happy by not making them find out the hard way what they are about.
I love computers, but the thing I love is increasing efficiency and solving puzzles. But I’m terrible at building things and I’m not great at hard kinds of math. I also have ADHD, and without my meds I’m pretty useless.
I think I’d just be an alcoholic and sometimes laborer — probably with missing digits or something. That was a depressing train of thought.
At the time I didn’t think I was good looking, but compared to the guy staring me back in the mirror I was looking pretty good.
Took me from a young man to an old one. Do not recommend.
Oh it’s a great comparison. Sorry if that didn’t come through clearly.
I’ve built furniture before, and stopping before sanding and painting is definitely a thing. It’s a lot of work and you literally can only fuck it up while you’re learning. Finishing a piece is a lot of work when you know you are going to spend years apologizing for how badly it sucks. While an unfinished piece is functional for like 1/3 the work and it’s not pretending to be finished so you can’t really be disappointed.
I think the metaphor you chose is apt. It just doesn’t really address the point in quite the way you were thinking.
Withholding, I think.
The trick is to know if you are withholding for good reasons (because there are lots of times you should absolutely shut the fuck up) and bad reasons (when you need help) and… complicated reasons (you need help and have a legitimate fear the person may not be supportive).
At the risk of reading too much into this…
Any time I hear someone mention sharing their deepest feelings with someone, my experience is it’s because they want to tell someone they love them but the other person is not into them for some reason — usually being with someone else, or not attracted to your gender. Should that be the case this time, you are withholding for good reasons. Keep your mouth shut. I have never ever seen that go well. It will not go well.
I suppose I would say you don’t just strip down and go at it. Generally you start with affection, proceed to foreplay over clothes, then under them, then remove them. And at every point you have the ability to just stop there if you’re uncomfortable going further. That’s a sign that you just aren’t ready with that partner and that’s okay.
Even after you’ve done it once or twice, you generally still follow the same process and you can still stop at the point you’re uncomfortable. Just because you did it once doesn’t mean you need to again or on any particular occasion.
It’s not until you’re married a few years that you reach the point of, “I have an early day tomorrow. If we’re fucking tonight, best get to it.” And skip all the foreplay.
So the vectors of those numbers are somehow similar to the vector of owl. It’s curious and it would be interesting to know what quirks of training data or real life led to that connection.
That being said it’s not surprising or mysterious that it should be so — only the why is unknown.
It would be a cool, if unreliable, way to “encrypt” messages via LLM.
Antifa headquarters are at 1060 W. Addison, Chicago, IL. And we hate Illinois Nazis.
I’m cis and they give me environmental stress. “Dude, I’m just trying to order lunch. Why are you sharing these inside thoughts with me?”
I wouldn’t trade it, but one bad thing about being an old white guy is assholes think I’m safe to unmask around, and Christ it skeeves me out. No, man, take those fucking thoughts to your grave.
I’ve avoided using AI features in Firefox. If I want AI, I explicitly go to AI rather than having it integrated. But you offer some good use cases. And fundamentally I agree that 100% fact checking with a 90% accuracy rate is better than the 0% fact checking most of us do except when we think something is wrong and we go digging through for arguments against it.
That being said, I would worry about model makers building in inherent bias. Like I could never trust Grok as the engine behind a fact checker (though it is surprisingly resilient and often calls out bullshit it is supposed to be peddling).
Like imagine the person who only wants OANGPT to summarize or fact check every article they read. Can you imagine the level of self-delusion that would come from a MAGA-fied version of everything they read? It would be like living in a propaganda factory. Deliberately.
Facebook: Bob Smith [woke, probably drinks soy milk and dresses as a woman on weekends]: Had a great day at work today. [he’s probably on welfare so this is bullshit] Big things are coming! [He’s part of a trans pedo ring, guaranteed!]
Which feels like stupid hyperbole, but I’ll bet every one of us knows at least one person who is that stupid.
Eh. I use AI all the time, but my level of skepticism…
I only use it for unimportant things.
The key to responsible AI use. Of course, in the grand scheme, few things are all that important.
If the marginal cost of being wrong about something is essentially zero, AI is a very helpful resource due to its speed and ubiquity.
I haven’t heard anyone use “Jap” outside my grandfather’s generation — and he fought a fucking war against them so no surprise he had some big feels there. But he’s also been dead about 25 years and I’ve never heard the word since.
But also I don’t hang out with racists, so what do I know.
I mean 4 out of 5 Americans probably held the opinion:
What’s someone who doesn’t hate bass, they just hate your bass?
If you asked me to pick a different name remaining a guy I don’t think I could without a lot of thought.
People get stabbed for lots of reasons. It’s early to be playing armchair detective.
A sex doll can’t do anything my hand can’t, plus it’s expensive as fuck and then you have to clean it. And look at it when you aren’t jerking off. At least your hand can be used for other things.