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FistfullOfCrows
18hr ago
I see you are a man of culture as well
Hephzivah
18hr ago
Everyone needs religion as we are built for it. Those who lack institutional or personal spiritually fulfill this need via the state. Wokeness is a religion.
FistfullOfCrows
18hr ago
in my experience Claude 3.7 thinking was the best for the way I use it to vibecode shit
FistfullOfCrows
18hr ago
Hephzivah
18hr ago
Adding a female perspective. Getting to a healthy BMI will greatly enhance attraction. If at all possible, avoid gaining weight in the face and stomach. Use recent photos. My biggest disappointment is discovering that a man's photos are years old. All three lines have since changed - hairline, jawline, waistline.
Bartender_Venator
19hr ago
Peptobismol and Imodium can be combined in all but rare instances, usually when you wouldn't want to take one of them in particular (think dysentery, not regular travel shits), different mechanisms of action.
ulyssessword
19hr ago
or the tiresome cars/guns comparison?
I missed my chance at the time, so I'll put it here.
You want guns to be more like cars? Fine, let's do that. If the government wanted to spend a few billion on public gun ranges all across the country, mandated a gun safe in every new house, added firearm safety to the highschool curriculum, bailed out failing manufacturers, and also let people build/buy/use them freely outside of the new infrastructure they built, then I'd be pretty happy. Heck, I'd even compromise on that last point if they did the rest.
Tree
19hr ago
Is this about the legality of my statement vis a vis the rules of themotte, or about its truth/probability?
If the latter, I agree that those sources do not prove that a woman’s quora answer is on average less correct. But they do make it more likely my statement is true. I don't think women who answer general questions on the internet are subject to selection effects as strong as men on fashion forums.
If the former, demanding that a commenter proves every inflammatory statement is a prohibitively high standard.
Tree
19hr ago
I didn’t say that AIs are women/feminine or that women are parrots. I said the AI in this instance went from parroting men to parroting women, that would explain the gain in empathy and the loss in accuracy.
ulyssessword
19hr ago
AI companies all fail at naming things. There was:
- Claude 3.5 (June 2024)
- Claude 3.5 (October 2024)
- Claude 3.7 (Feb 2025)
You're probably thinking of the one between the original 3.5 and 3.7.
GBRK
20hr ago
Cherry picking but free lunches are just unironically a good thing. Investing in childhood nutrition has a demonstrably positive return, and it's also pretty basically the sort of coordination problem a well ordered government is designed to solve. Good childhood nutrition improves heath and intelligence with diffuse social benefits extending out well beyond just the parents normally required to pay for it. Maybe you have some implementation bugbear, or just want to complain about the quality of school meals in general, but I'm still pretty sure that free school lunches are both a good idea in principle and a net positive as actually implemented.
ChickenOverlord
20hr ago
For whatever it's worth, I think both your example comments are wrong and retarded (and I even replied to one of them with a 4chan copypasta effectively saying as much) but I didn't downvote either of them. The reason being that downvotes (and upvotes) are for narcissistic ninnies who care way too much about imaginary internet points.
GBRK
20hr ago
The old adage that goes, "anything you say should be at least two of: true, kind, useful" accurately encapsulates the tradeoff. The vast majority of communication benefit from being all three of these things... I wouldn't want, for example, and untrue, unkind, useless pasta recipe. But at some point along the optimization curve you start to hit serious tradeoffs. A well-ordered mind know when to make any given tradeoff... For example, It's best to be true and useful when describing gun safety, and it's best to be kind and useful when interacting with a grieving relative. But choosing what to optimize for at any given time is a matter of strategy and deep context, which AI still struggles with.
Thanks for reading! You can probably tell how much I've put into this and the worst case scenario is that no one ever reads it.
Actually worse is that they try but bounce off because it's incomprehensible which did happen to about a third of the test readers but I think that was an IQ thing. At least idk how else to interpret some people telling me it's unreadable and others telling me the prose is immaculate.
rae
21hr ago
Were you attracted to women before on any level?
I don’t see how conversion therapy can work unless you start off at least a little bit bi. There’s something just neurological different about gay vs straight brains and you can’t change that through therapy anymore than you can fix epilepsy. I also find the flip side - e.g. straight men watching gay porn and “turning gay” because straight porn became too boring - to be similarly questionable.
SnapDragon
21hr ago
Isn't it a massive meme (based in fact) that even the most pure and apparently useless theoretical mathematics ends up having practical utility?
Hell, it even has a name: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"
Definitely not! The article you're referring to was about theoretical physics having surprising application to the real world, not pure math. The rabbit hole of pure math goes ridiculously deep, and only the surface layers are in any danger of accidentally becoming useful. Even most of number theory is safe - the Riemann Hypothesis might matter to cryptography (which is partly why it's a Millennium Problem), but to pick some accessible examples, the Goldbach Conjecture, Twin Primes conjecture, Collatz conjecture, etc. are never going to affect anyone's life in the tiniest way.
My career never went that way, so I've only dipped my head into the rabbit hole, but even I can rattle off many examples of fascinating yet utterly useless math results. Angels dancing on the head of a pin are more relevant to the real world than the Banach-Tarski paradox. The existence of the Monster group is amazing, but nobody who's not explicitly studying it will ever encounter it. Is there any conceivable use of the fact that the set of real numbers is uncountable? If and when BB(6) is found, will the world shake on its axis? Does the President need to be notified that Peano arithmetic is not a strong enough formal system to prove Goodstein's theorem?
yofuckreddit
22hr ago
I was surprised about power being an issue and it was a bit of a self inflicted wound. I had a 10k mAh bank which is a lot. My phone's battery is old, and I came away deeply unimpressed with the Edge 840s battery life. I did use Ebike charging ports at restaurants sometimes. The euro concept of lunch was damaging to pace and time though. The German side was a 1.5 hour ordeal, the French side more.
I drank exclusively from faucets and filtered from streams only once. I think my infection could have come from a couple of different places. I normally have a strong stomach, I must have made a dumb mistake.
And yeah, I was right near what felt like the main strip. No beach but concrete steps into the water. Convenient to change into my unused bathing suit id carried with me.
yofuckreddit
22hr ago
I think that doing it in the lower parts is an excellent idea, especially stringing together hotels and mid-size cities. Do so on the Italian part as well to save money and eat better food... It's a great plan
Ademonera
22hr ago
I appreciate the 'why worry about it' perspective, but being an adult means you have to be honest with yourself, especially when you're at a point where you're making choices that will define your future and affect other people.
The indulgent, careless thing to do would be to just 'roll with it,' get married, and pretend this part of my history doesn't exist. That's the path that ends with me hurting a family someday because I decided to indulge in something hidden, something I refused to honestly confront beforehand.
It's about doing the difficult, private work of self-assessment now so that I don't live with regret, and more importantly, so that I don't betray the trust of a person I promise my life to.
Frankly, I see this process as the absolute opposite of indulgence. I see it as a prerequisite to being a decent husband and man.
anti_dan
22hr ago
Comment 1 is a combination of strawmanning and mocking. It also includes a reference to a meme that is arguably being applied incorrectly.
Overall a low-mid quality comment that, if you agree with you are likely to ignore, and if you disagree with you might throw a minus on it. That it has +10 at all is strong proof of anti-gun people voting on ideology.
The second one is perfectly mid, I would not have voted on it, and in fact did not. But it does invoke several anti-gun idiocies like appeals to other combat weapons, hunting, drivers licenses, etc. I can see a strong argument for giving it a downvote for being mealy-mouthed gish-gallop and I see no reason other than length and partisanship for an upvote.
faceh
22hr ago
It seems like there are still pockets of competence to be found and an increasing motivation to overcome short term political obstacles and create some robust institutions that will allow coordination amongst serious chaos. I think that even in the worst case scenarios of the U.S. FedGov starting to collapse, state governments are capable of acting as a backstop.
If Starship is successful and we get some orbital infrastructure, its JUST possible we can get some self-sufficient or semi-self sufficient off-world communities. Not a great place to bear and raise kids, of course, but somewhat insulated from turmoil on earth. Buys some time if nothing else.
Biggest problem I don't see a clear solution for is maintaining a decent technology stack if the global shipping network degrades. That is, all the materials, labor, expertise, and machinery/capital could still be intact, but if there's no cheap shipping to connect it all together, most nations are left only with what they can source domestically and from immediate (friendly) neighbors. Not ideal, and it means any places that have stockpiles of critical equipment and materials will need to be protected, and somehow organized to use all that for maintaining civilization.
AI is a wildcard here for the moment.
And... the big question is what, if anything, will convince women to start popping kids out again.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
22hr ago
What about fiction and code? How can that be quora slop? Parrots... parrot words we tell them. They don't combine them to create new ideas within a precise target area, nobody pays for parrot intellectual labour. Nobody has ever benchmarked a parrot or if they have it's 'wow this parrot knows 250 words!' The only things we benchmark on mental tasks like this are people with exams, then we use those benchmarks to decide who does what job. Same with AI, benchmarks and testing determines which one does what job.
These things are more like us than parrots in key domains (while being supremely alien in others, such as their stateless nature). So calling them parrots is unhelpful, they're alien intelligences. If it can write code, produce New Yorker cartoons, write fiction, analyse a document, provide literary criticism and translate legalese down to English, it's intelligent.
Even just on pure bro-science level, writing database code is not very effeminate, it requires precision!
Are you working in tech? Are your coworkers the same age as you or older? It must be fun though, to work with really good, competent people.
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