Initiateofthevoid

It also has about the same population as the bottom 10 states combined! The entire population of both Dakotas are outmatched by Queens alone.

The least populated state - Wyoming - is about the same population as Staten Island.

it's not convenient, but you're doing it for them, not you.

All of parenting - especially the difference between good parents and bad parents - summed up in a single sentence.

On the flipside, "Bot" is the backend for almost everything that I've dealt with recently.

"We need the data moved from X to Y, can someone make a bot for that?"

Internal suffering

"... Yes. We can setup an API between X and Y."

"Great! We also want a bot to generate daily reports from Y"

Suffering intensifies

"... Ok."

I don't even try to fight it anymore.

I have had Windows corrupt a hard drive because it forced an update that exceeded the available storage.

If they only forced security updates by default, I would agree with you. But they don't.

Hi, please, don't. These baseless "corrections" that are really just semantics aren't helping anyone, and just contribute to anti-intellectualism.

We know what an impartial sponsor is in the context of this study - it's a sponsor that doesn't have a profit motive.

Obviously humans are biased. Scientists know that. Scientists train on that concept from day one. Observational studies are hard to control for bias, but that doesn't mean the field of science is silly for trying anyway.

The placebo-controlled double-blind study is the gold standard of scientific experiment for a reason.

An impartial sponsor is not a sponsor that is inhuman and has no preconceptions. We all know that's impossible.

An impartial sponsor is one that does not have clear signs of partiality - like a literal profit motive. That's all.

Edit - and for the record, in science, everything requires study. If you want to claim that conflicts of interest are impacting scientific results, you study it.

That's what it means to be impartial. To not trust assumptions based on your preconceptions. Assume as little as possible, consider as many possible explanations as you can, and verify everything.

The point is that no vibe coder could design an LLM without an LLM already existing. The math and tech behind machine learning is incredible, whatever you may think. Just because we can spin up new ones at will doesn't mean we ever could have skipped ahead and built Jarvis in 2008, even if all of society was trying to do so - because they were trying.

In the fictional universe where a human could singlehandedly invent one from scratch in 2008 with 3D image generation and voice functionality that still exceeds modern tech... yeah, that person and their fictional AI wouldn't necessarily be producing slop.

out of widely available free tools

I think you missed the part where "nothing like it even existed"

A vibe coder is someone who codes by vibe, rather than by knowledge or practice. It's literally a term to describe bad coders. Yes, it is about the use of AI, but only in the context of using that AI for programming without having any idea of what the AI is actually doing.

Nicotine is worse.

Nicotine is one of the most toxic of all poisons and has a rapid onset of action. Apart from local actions, the target organs are the peripheral and central nervous systems. In severe poisoning, there are tremors, prostration, cyanosis, dypnoea, convulsion, progression to collapse and coma. Even death may occur from paralysis of respiratory muscles and/or central respiratory failure with a LD50 in adults of around 30-60 mg of nicotine. In children the LD50 is around 10 mg.

The LD50 of caffine is over 100 mg per kg. That's not just a dosage difference, either. Nicotine gum comes in 2-6 mg doses - chewing 5 pieces of extra-strength gum can bring you up to the LD50.

Drinking 5 celsius drinks - one of the strongest (and most maliciously marketed) energy drinks - at 200mg per can doesn't bring you even close to the LD50 of caffeine.

Nicotine is:

• More toxic
• More carcinogenic
• More addictive
• AND the addiction is heritable.

This in turn reinforces the addiction by inducing craving. This effect has been shown to affect the CYP2A6 gene and leads to heritable dependence to nicotine. Studies have shown the nicotine dependence to be transmitted maternally and grand maternally by epigenetic mechanism.

You can be genetically susceptible to nicotine addiction because your grandmother smoked cigarrettes. Not because she herself was genetically susceptible - no, literally just because she smoked. And the same effect would occur if your grandmother only used tobacco-free nicotine products.

Congrats kids, welcome to the new generation of Big Tobacco influencing society to think it's okay. History sure does rhyme.

I've seen a single swan absolutely beat the shit out of a handful of geese over an extended period of time. I've seen plenty of predators and prey, but this was pretty disturbing. Maybe because it wasn't a predator in that fight at all.

Every human in earshot was standing around like "do we... do something? It's nature, but... that's fucked up"

That's not a pendulum swinging back, that's a genocide.

The mom uses location data to confirm everyone is in the same place, and everyone is too busy staring at their phones to notice anything. The entire movie is now an allegory for the risks of doomscrolling.