Frankly, they shouldn’t be driving at all if they need something like that to drive safely day to day. The bar for being allowed to drive is way too low IMO (and I thought this before seeing you say that and realizing you might be right about that).

My thought after hearing about a lane assist that will fight you if you don’t signal is when I leave my lane without signaling, it means I really need to be out of that lane and not fighting some safety system that works on the assumption that unusual things don’t happen. Even during usual situations, it just sounds like a feature that encourages paying less attention.

Makes me glad to have a car where the most it does to “help” is traction control. Hell, even the ABS seems to be tuned for pavement rather than snow/ice and I had to learn to not trust it to help stop in those conditions and instead pump the breaks.

There’s a lot of space between “just let them carry on with whatever” and “beat them like I expected to be”. Not to mention, “getting my ass beat by my parents” might not mean literally getting beat, but can be a metaphor for any kind of discipline (though I can see how it can fall into the uncanny valley since there were and are parents that would literally beat asses).

Yeah, part of it is to teach that they won’t get their way by annoying you into giving in. Helps in my case that I can be a stubborn fuck, too. It means I have to choose my battles because I don’t want to back myself into a situation where I make a choice, realize it’s not the best one, but feel like I have to stand my ground to combat whining. Luckily we’re past the point of tantrums and she’s old enough that I can explain my reasoning in cases where I say one thing at first but then later change my mind.

But there’s two other parts imo. One is teaching them the right way to express what they want (as well as when stating what they want might be rude or out of line, like if it’s in response to getting a gift that isn’t their top choice). And the other is being open and honest about the why. I only use “because I said so” or some equivalent to deal with the endless chain of "why?"s (though I’ve found deflecting it back at her is also effective, like “why do you think it is?”).

I can’t understand how such an obviously stupid approach to rasing kids even got off the ground to the point of general awareness. Any intelligent adult should be able to see how learning to take a “no” is an essential part of growing up. Same with dealing with negative emotions in general, which I understand the whole “never say no” thing is trying to avoid.

My daughter was taught how to take a no at a young age. It was a bit rough the first few times, but she quickly learned to take them in stride.

But even that case doesn’t work because someone could use a different account (or no account at all) to do the stalking.

“It’s a comic where JRR Tolkien says “Gandalf” is actually pronounced “Jandalf”, a reference to the dumb side of the gif/jif debate. Also someone in the comments posted a denim-clad Gandalf since denim versions of things are often called that thing but with a “J” at the start of the name.”

Add to the confusion by changing your briefly turning off your camera, changing your shirt, then camera back on.

I think even bullshitting isn’t a good term for it because to me it implies intent.

It’s just a text predictor that can predict text well enough to be conversational and trick people interacting with it enough to pass the Turing test (which IMO was never really a good test of intelligence, though maybe shines a spotlight on how poorly “intelligence” is defined in that context, because despite not being a good test, it might still be one of the best I’ve heard of).

All of its “knowledge” is in the form of probabilities that various words go together, given what words preceded them. It has no sense of true, false, or paradox.

I wouldn’t really say it’s the outside going all the way through us because there’s doors along the way. That would be like saying if you have a front door and a back door, your house is outside.

You jumped in to a thread about trump and epstein’s preference for young girls with your own preference for small breasts and to talk about sex you’ve had. No one asked and no one gives a shit about that here, plus it’s weird af to use a thread about pedophiles as a springboard for talking about your own sexual preferences.

If you want to talk about your preferences, I suggest something like chaturbate or a sex-focused community or thread (where the topic isn’t about potential or likely pedophiles).

Some arcades were actually a bit more manipulative than that in that they’d get harder depending on how long it was since you last put a quarter in.

Mortal Kombat was one. I noticed this pattern on the snes version of MK3 (can’t remember if it was ultimate or not that I had): I’d easily win one fight, then get demolished by the next fighter. Then continue and that same fighter would be easy, only for the next one after that to be much more difficult. I didn’t have to put quarters into my snes but they just used the same tuning from the arcade machines.

Eventually when I played that game, I was spending much more time on the space invaders minigame lol.

Also if the CEO of target decides he really doesn’t like a popular shirt and is able to force everyone to only shop at target, then he can come a lot closer to snuffing out the existence of that shirt.

I put a link in another reply, dunno if you’d consider it credible or not, but I got it from a websearch for “inhaling diatomaceous earth” if you want to look at the many other links.

Food grade isn’t as bad as non-food grade, but still not great. And the “aabestos-like” bit was in the context that it causes harm through a similar mechanism (small sharp, jagged particles). Severity and outcome might vary.

It’s particularly bad for them but that doesn’t mean it’s perfectly safe otherwise. I wouldn’t use it at all with cats or especially dogs, since they explore their world with their noses. A lot of the claims that it’s safe for pets say something about if it’s food grade, it’s safe for pets to ingest the small amounts needed for pest control and then ignore how dogs get right up to things with their nose when they say “but don’t inhale it!”

https://www.earthworkshealth.com/post/myths-and-misconceptions-about-diatomaceous-earth

I wouldn’t use that on pets. Inhaling that stuff is similar to inhaling asbestos.

“Haha the website runner thinks I’d actually be interested in this”

Yeah, if your reaction to “website wants permission to push notifications to your device” isn’t some mix between mirth and revulsion, I don’t fundamentally understand you.

The water tasted like damp basement! Oddly enough, it was a kinda pleasant flavour.

I mean, even if they had to pay in the event of self-afflicted injury, that first quote is fraud on its own, though I bet the huge payout is also a part of it.

It’s because they are horrible at problem solving and creativity. They are based on word association from training purely on text. The technical singularity will need to innovate on its own so that it can improve the hardware it runs on and its software.

Even though github copilot has impressed me by implementing a 3 file Python script from scratch to finish such that I barely wrote any code, I had to hold its hand the entire way and give it very specific instructions about every function as we added the pieces one by one to build it up. And even then, it would get parts I failed to specify completely wrong and initially implemented things in a very inefficient way.

There are fundamental things that the technical singularity needs that today’s LLMs lack entirely. I think the changes that would be required to get there will also change them from LLMs into something else. The training is a part of it, but fundamentally, LLMs are massive word association engines. Words (or vectors translated to and from words) are their entire world and they can only describe things with those words because it was trained on other people doing that.