It’s a tool for the owners, it’s a trap for the users. The sycophancy and malleability of the chatbots makes them not just unsuitable as replacements for therapists, they can be and often are actively harmful, validating problematic, spiraling or psychotic thought patterns.

I know that therapy isn’t accessible for everyone, but any actual human you can talk to is better than a chat bot in this context.

I would rather someone vibe code critical infrastructure with a chat bot than use it for mental health.

No one should be using a corporate chat bot to “figure out who they are”.

Chatbots? Basically nothing. Any interaction I have with one leads to spending more time verifying its output, inevitably finding many mistakes, and eventually finding a primary source for what I’m actually looking for. The best actual impact it has is forcing me to narrow down my nebulous question into what I actually specifically want, but the bot itself is contributing very little to that.

Neutral nets in general have limited real usefulness in analyzing large batches of data when other purpose-built analysis software doesn’t exist.

“AI” is a misnomer and there is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that we’re even on a path toward actual AI, sometimes called AGI, though they’re also changing that to just mean a profitable LLM which is fucking hilarious.

Any task you use a bot to do, you will become worse at that task. For mass data analysis, that’s fine, poring over reams of data is already a skill that other technology has largely obsoleted. But using it to do research, to read or write for you, or god forbid to make actual decisions and think for you, are very slippery slopes that are already causing a lot of the general public to seriously erode their basic mental capabilities.

Not necessarily. It’s a very physically demanding practice and a lot of the forces are borne by your feet, but with good practices plenty of dancers avoid injury or pathology.

Pointe work is especially demanding and is what people usually think of as causing damage, the bleeding toes etc. But it’s entirely possible to work en pointe healthily. Also, pointe is less of a universal demand in ballet than it was a few decades ago, and there are plenty of professional dancers who never work en pointe.

Usually injuries are the result of overwork and incorrect habits, just like they are in every sport. There are certainly teachers and schools out there who push people past safe points and cause damage, and harmful attitudes that you need to “push through the pain”, but again that’s common to every sport.

The only way to correct your learned auditory processing deficiency is to practice parsing audio without subtitles.

Sorry I deleted my comment because I misread your first one.

The joke, which is not funny enough to bear this level of explanation, is that she would do that and call it exposure therapy. That’s funny.

My defense of the comic was more of an indictment of the average reddit/lemmy comic post, which very often literally have no punchline or stretch one panel of content into four.

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Even if this was the intention, which I would love a source for, that was never the practical effect. It was security theater from day zero and the only people who it made feel safer were the hyperxenophobic chuds who were yelling at anyone with vaguely brown skin in the weeks after 9/11.

Any attempt to whitewash the TSA is bullshit. All of DHS is government overreach.

This post is clearly horny but I don’t know why everyone is saying there’s no punchline. The punchline is that pissing in her mouth in the store is exposure therapy.

This is honestly funnier and more well-paced than like half the comics that get posted here.

The dumbest skynet origin story

No thanks, I don’t want all of the descriptions and dialogues to be low-quality semi-plagiarized nonsense blabber just to fill space. I don’t want modders spending their precious time massaging slop to be fairly relevant when they could just make bespoke content instead.

If a part of a game isn’t worthy of human attention, let it be boring or non-existent or an afterthought.

Any games that you can just run on Steam without issue will work fine, it’s when you have to start passing launch commands etc that things become more complicated. Most things are still possible but harder because you have to deal with the very unusual way Nixos stores its files. The specific thing that made me give up and go to CachyOS was trying to get gamescope working under wayland for Steam games – every way I tried, I was having to compromise on what I actually wanted. Also VR has been easier to play with, though it’s still far from Windows parity.

I mix, my server and laptop are nixos but I use an arch variant on my desktop. Mostly I do this because of various pain points with nixos and gaming.

I’m using Helix for some months now – I haven’t checked the repo for slop, but if it’s still good then I do recommend it as an alternative.

Yeah I fuckin love eating a whole stick of butter straight

Yeah this is just accurate IMO. It can be nice to add richness but the people that eat half an avocado with a spoon are crazy.

I quite enjoyed the show but season 4 was a massive turd that should be skipped.

That is literally because they don’t have the missile range. I also assume they have far less warheads stockpiled.

Absolutely love these, thank you!

Whole lotta ifs and assumptions. “A high enough level of information processing” is meaningless if we don’t have any idea what sort of information processing could lead to consciousness, because it clearly isn’t just raw throughput.

AGI definitionally improves itself, which implies awareness of itself and intention. Those are a huge amount of how we define consciousness.