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Throwaway05
13m ago
I am studiously silent on whether you could replace me entirely with one
I can't find the paper but I was linked recently to a study illustrating that generative AI performance on medical content drops precipitously when "not one of these" is added to the answer list and used.
We aren't dead yet.
problem_redditor
15m ago
I've ping-ponged between two countries at one point, not for work but to fulfil other obligations. It got tiring and I got fed up at many points, yet I still somehow romanticise the idea.
The highly wistful bent of the third paragraph isn't meant to say "travelling is great" but to illustrate the strong compulsion I feel towards doing it anyway. Which comes back to the idea of adaptation promoting certain behaviours.
hydroacetylene
26m ago
The same way ‘woman/minority owned business’ fraud does.
birb_cromble
28m ago
Wait, what happens if you don't hit the minimum? Is there some kind of penalty that's worse than just burning tokens to hit the minimum?
Drinniol
33m ago
Wouldn't is correct.
"Only enter information you wouldn't mind being leaked"
birb_cromble
37m ago
how many companies can directly turn voice synth
I recently called a plumber that had an AI receptionist pretending to be human, so at least one.
Something about it was so off-putting, though, that I ended up calling somebody else.
Oh wow she just now dropped a new video laying out a lot of her theory in one place.
It seems like this is something of anti-Yakub theory, a modern well-informed reaction to it that proposes the actual proximate mechanism for creating white people: heavy metal poisoning causing DNA damage causing albinism. This was initially an accident, then may have been done deliberately (unclear by who or why), and is now starting to happen accidentally again to both Black Americans and to Africans (who are, I gather from other videos, unrelated to each-other). She's very mad at people who are still insisting on the old theory that white people came from (Yakubian?) genetic engineering mixing animals with human DNA, which she's disproven.
So it all started in Tanzanesia, where artisinal mining exposes everybody to heavy metals accidentally causing birth defects like albinism. There is still some further level of deliberateness here (there's a "they" doing it) which I don't understand. But pale-skinned people are actually a very recent development and come from this Tanzanesia heavy metal poisoning. Albinos are still to this day treated badly there, which is why white people hate black people: in revenge for their recent memory of being abused and mutilated as albinos by Africans. And it's starting to happen to Black Americans too because seafood boils are exposing them to heavy metals causing vitiligo.
She doesn't actually get in to the Native American stuff in this one, but my head-canon is that it's something like: everybody everywhere was black, but then everyone other than Africans and (completely seperately with no relation) the real Native Americans (Black Americans) got this heavy metal poisoning and turned pale. Then at some point later the fake Native Americans (Siberian/Asian, she mentioned this in another video I skimmed but I'm not going to find it again) invade or are imported or something, and invent/are forced to believe the lie that they were there first.
From some screenshots she included, it seems at least some of this is LLM-potentiated.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
53m ago
Twitter is advertising Scottish HIV testing, shortly after I visited a gay bar. Does it know something I don't?
I guess this calls for a Thunderdome
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