No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
4d ago
You could make so many fun films based around the idea, yet they make crap.
E.g. imagine velociraptors escaping confinement and breeding freely in the continental Americas and being as smart as parrots -smart enough to have theory of mind and to bury evidence, avoid people who may have guns and leaving tracks in the mud.
Government dismisses it (dinosaurs? On our federal land? You've gotta be joking!), nothing much happens except feral hog populations mysteriously start diminishing. Blurry photographs dismissed as photoshops and reptilian conspiracy theories. Missing people cases not much impacted yet.
What's going to happen?
No_one
9d ago
Technically it means people keeping themselves aroused with porn without ejaculating for 30mins to hours
Gooning is a kind of self-pleasuring that revolves around entering a trance state (called the "goon") while watching multiple screens of adult content and avoiding climax by edging. There you go.
Used also as a shorthand for people who use porn to jerkoff widely in excess of what nature would allow.
No_one
9d ago
well, I'd find that hard to bear.
Most people under discussion here barely experienced that. Don't known what they're missing.
No_one
13d ago
She's tried everything, it didn't work, and she's clearly suffering immensely. This woman, the purported victim, seems entirely lucid and defending the medical establishment that's carrying out her wishes. What more can you possibly ask for? It is clearly not spur of the moment decision, she's engaged with the options that the medical field can offer her.
So life sucked for her. Life sucks for a lot of people. Giving people who see no point in living (a surprising amount of people, most of whom are too anaesthetised to realise it) a societally sanctioned way of killing herself (this is clearly what she was after) is a pretty slippery slope. We'll see how slippery pretty soon after AGI, I think.
violent death by suicide of a schoolfriend and its impact on the girl’s family deterred her.
The manner of someone's death matters not as much as the fact of the premature death. One could theorize some nightmarish ways to go that could traumatize the bereaved but generally, it doesn't matter.
No_one
13d ago
I'm not sure about the Netherlands.
E.g. they killed a 29 year old woman even though she was perfectly healthy. Did they try any of the bleeding edge treatments of depression? E.g. a week long sleep deprivation fixes treatment resistant depression ?
You could actually find out how much of depression is genetic, and how much is learned. We are reasonably sure memory can be erased, so why dispose of valuable, healthy human resources through euthanasia? Maybe it could be a way of rehabilitating criminal sociopaths..
If we don't trust competent adults to make informed decisions about their own deaths, even with appropriate safeguards and cooling-off periods, then we don't really trust them to be autonomous agents at all.
How is that surprising? The world's most enlightened and civilized people, Europeans, are against free expression because they correctly recognized the famous, reviled but unquestionably true in principle american dictum:
“We conclude that about nineteen out of twenty individuals have “a natural and inalienable right” to be taken care of and protected, to have guardians, trustees, husbands or masters; in other words they have a natural and inalienable right to be slaves. The one in twenty are clearly born or educated in some way fitted for command and liberty.”
If they did not believe that people are sheep, easily led astray, they'd not be restricting the internet, free expression, suppressing holocaust denial, banning Russian TV and so on.
No_one
13d ago
What kind of abuse? I think the limit is pretty generous, e.g. it takes several hours to exhaust it unless you use huge context sizes.
No_one
14d ago
There's a limit per day, you can hit it. Also the speed is quite slow. Really not good for chatting.
No_one
14d ago
(though I have yet to find a good way to medicate its big brother R1)
WDYM, florid schizowriting. I've seen R1 do it, but not reliably.
No_one
14d ago
Uncensored..what are you talking about? How is it a 'first' ?
People have been gooning to Deepseek since it was released.
https://old.reddit.com/r/JanitorAI_Official/comments/1ij1d3w/how_to_hopefully_use_deepseek/
No_one
16d ago
Teenage girls are somewhat specific looking, while most men will find them attractive, to prefer them is more unusual.
No_one
16d ago
but liberal democracy is insufficiently "liberal" to be economically feasible then where we go next seems bad. I'd argue going back to the old ways.
a) It's not about economics.
I'd argue going back to the old ways.
Politics is the art of the possible. Saying impossible things are desirable is mostly useless.
Classical liberalism has all the electoral appeal of I dunno, raw oysters. Sure the right people will like it but you're still basically SOL.
I'd argue many people do, not economic reality.
In a big enough country, ideology and cope can paper over cracks in economic reality for a very long time. Heck this even works in a small country -consider Argentina! People can stay deluded for generations on end if they can. (e.g. society is rich enough because you're exporting money etc). Witness US education system which is mostly regressing.
No_one
16d ago
Classical liberalism is unsustainable, probably inherently because espousing it means leaving yourself defenseless against parasites of liberalism, such as various forms of communism.
And no, you can't simply declare 'we won't have nice people and nice things in my liberalism' to avoid the progressive cancer.
So I'd say, reality has an anti-classical liberal bias. Classical liberalism is a strictly transitory phenomenon that will degenerate into something else. Same as e.g. the brief window of political sanity in farming civilization while people who survived thru civil wars were in power.
No_one
17d ago
It's a meme on twitter because, iirc, Britain and especially London restricts AC in new buildings etc.
No_one
19d ago
Yeah.
Ivy league schools now have 'optional' video statements.. https://www.ivycoach.com/the-ivy-coach-blog/college-admissions/video-prompts-on-college-applications/
Man, do these people love to discriminate. Would be very funny if Feds mandated something like race/sex/background blinded tests and they could pick only based on test / essay results..
No_one
21d ago
HxA is a very much failed project. They've achieved nothing, really. What they do is classically liberal tone policing, and have utterly failed to do anything about the domination of academia by progressive ideologues.
Incrementalism and appealing to progressives entrenched in universities isn't going to bring balance - progressives know they're right and they know what they want. Only putting the fear of unemployment a-la Rufo can possibly succeed.
No_one
21d ago
..sometimes, I wonder how more normal people's mind works.
To me, any photo I know to be artificial, any text communications or prose I know to be an output of a LLM seems..unreal. It's obviously not real, obviously as fake as most compliments and small talk.
Getting 'oneshotted' by a mirage I asked for seems as real as falling in love with a prostitute you hired. I can't rule out liking a whore - a few I've noticed are quite charming, but not in the context of an obvious business transaction. Then there are the uncanny ones - like Aella or Bonnie Blue, who by rights should not appear outside of Cronenberg films.
No_one
21d ago
I think it was... Nate Silver who posted that it doesn't seem it's hurting him at the polls. Vox Day and such are very special people who aren't that interesting.
No_one
21d ago
I understand they're fucked because initial design had a Glock-style trigger insert safety that would have prevented firing unless it was depressed.
Sig claims some potential customer was against it, so they removed it, and then went on to produce guns which will fire at the slighest shock if a certain combinations of part sizes is involved.
Seems like an incredible management oversight, because the gun designers must have been aware of this, and if the management did not test out how a gun with maximally bad part tolerances would behave, they basically fucked themselves.
That's the least what you should do - the people who engineered the trigger mechanism should have been able to figure out how to avoid this and what's the most dangerous combination of sizes.
No_one
21d ago
They would surely have killed him when he was a private citizen and before he was arrested and locked up in a jail in the middle of NYC.
Not everyone has perfect knowledge of what's going to happen.
Epstein’s lawyers told him he was going to die in prison and it is very plausible he told them that in that case he wanted to do it now
Why are his lawyers insisting they don't believe he killed himself? Some self-serving ploy to keep being paid by his estate or what?
No_one
21d ago
He was a psychopath who has been getting away with it his entire life. I don't think it's plausible, at all, that he killed himself. These people are optimistic and never really give up. You could maybe expect a guy like that to kill himself once he's in a supermax with no parole, etc.
So whose kid was it?
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