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I mean, tools are tools. Their value, good or bad, is in how they’re used. If you do something like hit your own hand with a hammer, it’s really not the hammer’s fault. LLMs are 95% gizmos, with a few actually useful cases accounting for the other 5%, at least while they’re still priced way under cost anyway.

Reminds me of that 4chan post where anon gets stopped by a stranger who tries to explain that Aluminum is the best metal. Anon tries to stay calm and explain the iron is the best metal, but the guy just kept going off about Aluminum and started talking about rust and ruined Anon’s whole day.

yeah, catfish can be pretty unpleasant.

yeah, not a fan; I thought it tasted remarkably of how piss smells.

“He’s giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are,” Bondi said. “…we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out, because that’s not a protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country.”’

Actually, I believe it is protected speech. There are apps that let people know where speed traps are. You mean it’s not constitutionally protected to say to someone “hey, did you see the cop down on the corner?” Ridiculous. Of course, what she means to say is that the constitution doesn’t matter and laws are made up now, and they’re just going to do whatever the fuck they want. They’re just not quuuuuite ready to go through the trouble of literally setting the constitution on fire yet.

I mean, they might live a whole other cultural and social experience, but right now the world’s ultra-wealthy are already planning on living out the rest of their years in underground bunker complexes. I really don’t see how that’s a better existence for them and their kids than making 3% less profit and giving just the tiniest shit about the planet.

I feel like that would be, and already is to some extent, both temporary and relative. Windblown microplastics don’t really care if they end up in affluent areas.

I legit don’t get stuff like this. Don’t these mfs have kids? Don’t their kids live on this same planet? Why do you want to make sure your kids get to choke on toxic dust?

I think this is a really insightful comment that adds more depth to the conversation than the original article does. It definitely feels like we’re living in a society where all subconsciously agreed, to some extent or another, that we owe each other nothing. That doesn’t seem like a sustainable way for a society to be.

I dunno, I’m mixed on what the author is talking about here. On the one hand, it’s really not good to have any half of society just checking the fuck out; I think that the loneliness epidemic, regardless of gender, is a problem that is both real and addressable. On the other hand, what the author is pining for here is, imo, best left in the past. The kind of social norms she’s missing sound really unhealthy/toxic to me, and like they don’t really benefit anyone. I half expect some shit like this in Project 2025.

The mod engine is supposed to be an eye-watering 700gb. Holy fuck. I’d considered trying my hand at some mods, but, uh… that might have to wait for me to pop another drive in my machine first.

I’m glad they shipped when they did, messy as it was. They really needed to just get something out the door, before it ended up permanently stuck in development hell.

I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same

Okay, this is too goddamn good. Amazing work on this.

I did, while in high school and well before I realized I had ADHD and probably autism too, given the familiar behaviors in my diagnosed kids. That’s relevant because I had to work hard at learning social norms and conventions for stuff like interviews. Wal-mart offered me the job anyway, but I missed out on it because I missed the call and kept forgetting to check my voicemail.