fmac
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fmac
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1mo ago
It's literally a mass delusion. I'll grant them there is a slight difference, but as a non-delusional person 5>4o. The difference is a win for the consumer.
It's also just so funny to me that you can just ask it to be a little sycophantic yes man and it will. Why freak out? Just tell it what you want (but that's embarrassing to have to ask, is my best guess).
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1mo ago
Do cardiologists open McDonald's outside their hospital?
Genius vertical integration, we should find some VCs
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1mo ago
That said, as nightmarish as that act was to them, there at least was no 3rd party to the act to complicate their feelings of grief.
I actually think the method in which he committed suicide does matter somewhat.
It's hard to make up a counter factual when we don't know the "factual". Would his mom's pain have been better or worse if the two options were:
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he goes to a clinic and gets euthanized painlessly
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she discovered his headless corpse after he takes it off with a 12 gauge?
I don't have a child, but I think stumbling into the horrific aftermath of a DIY suicide would be infinitely worse than receiving the worst phone call of my lifetime.
For 2), I can think of many many more colorful horrible scenarios. Including but not limited to walked into a failed suicide, where instead he's writhing around on the floor blind, as he shot out his optic nerves but didn't die (never shoot temple to temple kids, in your mouth, up and back).
I guess the counter-counter factual is how would they feel if they discover him in bed peacefully lying there after ODing, or slumped in his car after flooding the garage. I guess that's probably roughly equivalent to receiving the "we just euthanized him, sorry" call.
But the call will always "work", DIY guaranteed 100% will result in all the hypotheticals I'm making up, and more.
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1mo ago
Suicide is trivial, and obvious.
Also incredibly unfair to subject innocent bystanders to. Jumping in front of a train is horrific for the train driver, plus the massive inconvenience to thousands of people as train schedules get disrupted.
Jumping off a high structure runs the risk of hitting someone at the bottom, and guarantees some flavor of first responder has to scrape you off the pavement/fish out your bloated corpse. Let alone the trauma to whoever finds you first if it's just a random who gets to watch you splat.
Basically every flavor of at home suicide also involves at minimum a first responder having to deal with your aftermath, and again runs a very high risk of traumatizing a friend or family member who discovers your corpse.
Also people are fucking stupid, so failed suicides are guaranteed. That means you also eat up finite medical resources AND probably have a lower quality of life.
Suicide is fucking barbaric, and honestly pretty selfish.
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1mo ago
It's basically replaced google for me.
I use it for boilerplate business writing, as it's both faster and slightly better at it than I am (I just started a new career so it's very useful).
It writes me code/excel formulas, it's insane at writing formulas.
I find chatting to an AI just to chat is insane, weird, and mildly off-putting. However, I actually think it's a decent tool for self-therapy, if used well.
It's great as essentially an interactive CBT workbook. "I'm feeling anxious about X,Y,Z what should I do?"
It gives pretty trite advice (go for a walk, do a breathing exercise, etc) but when you're dysregulated it's soooooo much easier to follow instructions than it is to self-motivate and bootstrap your way out.
I've also tried to infodump my neuroses to see if it had any root cause/triage advice, which it was about as effective as a therapist, which is to say it took some slightly emotionally resonant stabs in the dark but it's all so squishy it's basically impossible to say or verify. The "why am I like this" is a mediocre question, "I'm like this, what next" is a much better one.
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1mo ago
I don't think 4o is that harmful
I agree. I think it's more "if a model as mediocre as 4o can make people rabidly support it and chimp out when it's gone, how fucked are we when an actually manipulate AI shows up?"
I find the AI doomers hysterical, but this has made me a little more sympathetic towards them
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1mo ago
they were going to kill it entirely, but so many people have become addicted that Altman relented. Big mistake.
I've been skimming Elizer's twitter occasionally this weekend to see if he posted any "HAHAHAHAH FUCKERS I WARNED YOU/TOLD YOU SO" but I'm wondering if he's getting sick of saying it
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1mo ago
Is anyone watching the chatGPT 5 "bring back 4o" meltdown on /r/chatGPT and /r/OpenAI?
It's insane. People are losing their shit about 4o being taken away to the point it's back now (lmfao). There's also a huge push of "don't mock others for using 4o as a trusted friend you just don't understand". It's honestly equal parts hilarious and horrifying.
For additional fun, browse the comments, obviously there are idiots on the internet, but these people are cooked.
I had thought the internet collectively agreed that RLHF had resulted in glazing that was a huge issue. But it turns out a sizable amount of people actually loved it.
Also funny, gpt5 can glaze you if you ask it, but I guess the median Redditor complaining about this doesn't understand custom instructions. Similarly, people are clearly giving gpt5 custom instructions to be as robotic as possible and then posting screenshots of it... being robotic.
The whole thing makes me rather worried about the state of western society/mental health, in the same way that OnlyFans "chat to the creator" feature does. We need government enforced grass-touching or something.
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1mo ago
This is by far the best functioning Reddit clone I've seen
Calling it a clone is even wrong, as it's better than Reddit lol
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1mo ago
State-funded daycare
This one is the most important priority by like, a factor of 10
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1mo ago
600 people per year being deliberately killed
*Voluntarily killed
although if they want to DIY it that seems fine
How is a ~77 year old terminal cancer patient going to DIY suicide, and how is that better for literally anyone? Sucks for them to DIY it, sucks for them even more if they fuck up DIYing it and survive with a crippling injury, sucks if they just can't, and have to die of their terminal disease slowly, sucks for whoever has to find their DIY remains (likely, a family member).
this new category of homicide is totally cool and no problem.
It's not homicide, it's literally voluntary. The average age is 75 for track 2.
Further, given it's VOLUNTARY, it won't happen to you, so why are you so tilted other people are doing it?
I feel like you should convince me why terminal or near terminal old people shouldn't be able to go out peacefully and painlessly. I think everyone has a right to a dignified and painless end, justify why they should be stopped if they consent.
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1mo ago
ADHD people should just... not become accountants
FUCK
In my defense, the ADHD diagnosis came after the CPA, although admittedly it wasn't much of a suprise to anyone (except me)
Quit accounting last year though, life has improved a lot since
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1mo ago
But like how much is too much MAID, is 10% too much? Is 50% too much? Define what your limit is.
Does the amount of death attributed to MAID even matter? If 96% of MAID recipients have a terminal illness, why do you care?
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1mo ago
I don't even know how to respond to that
Define "a lot"
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1mo ago
Depends which version of market efficiency you're talking about.
I just spent quite a while at work doing research for a legal case we're doing where proving the semi-strong market efficiency hypothesis is a profoundly load-bearing part of our argument.
We'll know what the judge thinks in like, two years lol
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1mo ago
If it makes you feel any better, one of my university housemates loaded up on cruise line puts, he timed it well (somewhat) as the price did indeed drop further after he bought the puts.
However, due to the implied volatility being so high when he bought them, he still managed to lose money overall despite buying puts on a stock that fell after he bought the puts (as the IV also dropped over the same period).
I've never felt bad about not being an options degen after witnessing that lol
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1mo ago
From 2011 (not Scott)
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1mo ago
So MAID is the "poster child for assisted suicide abuse" because the government, who lost a court case forcing their hand, is doing what they can do delay expanding eligibility to it?
Seems very abusive lol
You should provide evidence for your claims. I'll start.
In 2023, 15,343 people received MAID in Canada, with 95.9% (14,721) falling under Track 1 (those whose natural death was reasonably foreseeable) and 4.1% (622) under Track 2 (those whose death was not reasonably foreseeable).
Average age track 1: 77.7
Average age track 2: 75.0
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2mo ago
Congratulations on not being a furry (I also, don't know what he's talking about, what're the odds there's a Kiwifarms thread about it though lol)
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2mo ago
Prison sucks though. The Tasmanian Devils are getting expert and attentive care with the goals of meeting their needs as best as we can.
They even get laid! And not sexually or violently assaulted.
The lack of freedom and movement is analogous to prison, but basically nothing else is.
Homeless people is a better analogy, although shelters dedicate WAY less effort/money to making the homeless happy than sanctuaries do for their animals.
He made a sweeping statement about people who's views he dislikes having other views he dislikes with 0 evidence or support
Is that not the definition of "booing the out-group"?
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