Schadrach

It’s easy to see someone holding up a camera or cell phone making it obvious they are recording.

Really? I routinely keep my phone in my breast pocket whenever I wear a shirt with one, and enough of it sticks out for the camera to see above the top of the pocket. I’d look no different recording or not, let alone it being obvious if I’m doing it. It’d be shaky body-cam style footage, but that’s not the point.

He was downplaying gun violence using a racist dogwhistle whilst standing under a giant ‘prove me wrong’ banner when he was shot with a bullet that had ‘owo what’s this’ written on it fired by a lily white Mormon cop’s kid.

Yeah, it doesn’t get much more ironic than that. Don’t forget that he’d previously (though not that day) said that the price of the 2nd amendment was that sometimes people were going to be shot and killed, but that that bargain was rational and prudent. I always wonder in the very last moments he was conscious if he thought about that, and if he still thought it was a rational and prudent bargain now that he was holding the check?

a jezebel article.

I have been totally unwilling to give Jezebel an ounce of attention since the article with several of their staff joking and laughing about hitting their boyfriends. One of them because he though he might have cancer. Their absence in my life these many years has managed to effect me not at all.

I have no clue who he was and why some people are upset. For the rest of the world he was like me, nobody, so cut the crap and stop explaining who was this nobody.

Being serious just in case.

He was a right wing talking head running an org called Turning Point USA that are basically nationalist christians and had risen to a degree of prominence within that niche by challenging people (mostly young women) to “debates” in which he basically steamrolled over people who really were not in any way prepared to challenge what was said. Anyone he didn’t steamroll just…wouldn’t be included in the footage he’d distribute.

To be less serious about it, he was best known for chronically publicly masturdebating to defenseless college girls. And for having a wife that seemed weirdly close to JD Vance immediately after Kirk died. There’s a part of me that expects JD to divorce his wife for the widow prior to making his next big political move, since his current wife is not exactly…blonde and white enough for a significant part of the white nationalist christian audience Vance is usually playing to.

We are free to fork if need arises.

…and how do you ensure your fork does not contain a single commit involving even a single line written by Claude? If you can’t, then isn’t your fork slop by default?

And most of Claude was made on stolen code.

Sure, it learned to code by reading lots of code, most of it just publicly available online for anyone to read and for anyone to learn from but not explicitly licensed for a machine to read it and learn from it. I doubt it’s possible to teach an ML system (or for that matter a human being) how to code without reading lots of example code. And any code you’ve ever read has an impact on any code you write afterward (same as any other creative endeavor), that’s why clean room design as a defense against copyright infringement is a thing that exists.

I’d say the penis is an engorged clit. But I guess it’s a perspective thing.

Probably a better way to look at it - barring specific hormonal triggers the parts that develop into genitals develop female structures by default. It’s why people with CAIS always appear female regardless of genes unless you do some imaging and notice their “ovaries” look off.

Frankly, I have no issue with polyamorous people, but I honestly can’t understand how they get it to work.

Some people are just built different. I don’t understand how they get it to work either, but if it works for them, good for them. I don’t have to not think you’re weird to accept that you exist.

I was talking about being compatible, not performant. Proton is very often more performant, but WoW64 is seamless and extremely compatible. If we were to pick say 2000 windows 32-bit apps, selected at random released over the last, say, 25 years do you think WoW64 or the combination of Proton/WINE will correctly execute the largest number of them without requiring tinkering? How many if we limit the tinkering to something really basic, like picking the windows version it was made for off a list?

That’s what I’m getting at that I’ve been downvoted for - this “hybrid” console will almost certainly have better compatibility than Proton/WINE for regular windows software (let alone XBox software) and that’s going to be it’s draw. For stuff that’s also compatible with Proton you’ll likely get better performance out of Proton, but effective and seamless compatibility layers are a strength of MS - most regular users don’t even realize that when you run a 32-bit windows app in x64 windows that there’s a compatibility layer involved at all.

The G.I.F.T. Later referred to in actual research as the online disinhibition effect.

To a degree that once a woman chatted me up, gave me her number and I somehow still missed it entirely.

You just made me think of a book I once read, written by an AI researcher and author who wanted to try his hand at a format akin to a Japanese light novel. The premise is a girl who is absolutely depraved and terminally online as an isekai. She literally gets summoned while masturbating, gets asked if she is a virgin because the plan relies on giving her holy magic by binding an angel to her and she has to be a virgin for that to work (and thankfully masturbation doesn’t count). The angel is bound to her, which gives it access to her mind, and it immediately begins screaming in horror.

Sure, but is the full human brain the minimum set necessary?

Sentience/sapience is probably an emergent property of a set of neurons needing to coordinate, plan, predict the future and oneself in relation to it.

I suspect that AI is capable of sentience with sufficient complexity and training, but it’s not there yet. I also suspect we’ll be well past the point where it is there before we realize it is, but not until we make some kind of fundamental change in how we do it - we know human level intelligence is possible in the volume and power consumption of, well, a brain so we’re orders of magnitude off of efficiency limits.

…and likely has better compatibility with more Windows games, which are most games.

Microsoft has the existing expertise and access to source to build a very effective and basically seamless compatibility layer, akin to how 32-bit apps run on x64 windows using WoW64 (Windows on Windows 64). I guess the real question is if it will be running real windows with an Xbox compatibility layer or a version of the Xbox modified windows with a regular windows compatibility layer.

Nothing in the law requires some kind of online server. Only a local API, which a local library that can be linked is. And it only requires age to bebe described in four brackets, hence just storing a value 0-3. Didn’t see anything obvious as to why this wouldn’t actually meet the requirements, while being as dumb and pointless as possible.

Am I missing something or would the following not meet the requirements?

Add a module that does the following:

On first account login to an interactive interface, ask for an age category (<=13, 15-15,16-17,18+). So a value between 0 and 3. Store that somewhere alongside user-level application settings. Include a library for applications to link against. Library contains one function, that function just returns whatever value was stored before.

I think that meets their bare minimum while also demonstrating just how dumb this is.

Really? I would have figured the Rapture route would be workable with the right engineering. Especially given the massive amounts of borderline free cooling and non-existing regulatory environment if outside territorial waters.

People at the heads of nonprofits are often highly compensated, and it’s rare that any of them solve the underlying problem or even make meaningful headway. It’s why there is so much “awareness” and short term band aids involved. A nonprofit that solves the problem it’s supposedly trying to solve has no reason to exist and will cost people well paying jobs managing it.

I’m pretty sure this is the world scalies want, not necessarily atheists in general.

There are models with open weights, and you can run those locally on your GPU. It can be a bit slower depending on model and GPU. For example, GLM has an open version, both full and pruned, but it’s not the newest version. A bunch of image generation models have local versions too.

The whole premise of deep think and similar in other models is to come up with an answer, then ask itself if the answer is right and how it could be wrong until the result is stable.

The seahorse emoji question is one that trips up a lot of models (it’s a Mandela effect thing where it doesn’t exist but lots of people remember it and as a consequence are firm that it’s real), I asked GLM 4.7 about it with deep think on and it wrote about two dozen paragraphs trying to think of everywhere a seahorse emoji could be hiding, if it was in a previous or upcoming standard, if maybe there was another emoji that might be mistaken for a seahorse, etc, etc. It eventually decided that it didn’t exist, double checked that it wasn’t missing anything, and gave an answer.

It was startlingly like stream of consciousness of someone experiencing the Mandela effect trying desperately to find evidence they were right, except it eventually gave up and realized the truth.

EDIT: Spelling. Really need to proofread when I do this kind of thing on my phone.

Everyone around you has a phone with a camera. Businesses and the government have additional cameras looking all over. The phone camera being less obvious and handsfree seems like an arbitrary choice of where to draw the line