This subject is always confusing for me and I’m not sure I’m not somewhere in between. I can “see images” but it’s not like watching a movie screen for me. The images aren’t… Crisp or clear or anything. And they move around (my brain only really fills in the bits and pieces I concentrate on), so parts of the image are fuzzy.

As a kid, I always lamented that images in my head wouldn’t stay still long enough for me to draw them out.

I can also just close my eyes and wee plain blackness. So it feels like neither description is one I fit into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi

The people who own the company that’s trying to buy EA are the people who ordered the assassination of Khashoggi.

Not me, but I pirated sims 3.

Lol. If humans can’t make money then they can’t spend money on using your AI.

Yeah! Compared to the first game it’s so much bigger. I feel like there’s so much to do and that’s just in the first act. I’m not as far in as you but I’m trying to take my time. Backtracking everywhere to see what I missed. It’s also a stunning game and the mechanics feel really good. It’s frustrating at times because I feel like this game deserves a better player than me but man, I’m having fun. I’m so glad this game was worth the wait.

Same. The first crest makes pogoing a lot easier for me, but they crests are all very customizable once you start collecting memory lockets. But every time I get a new one I feel like I need to test it out just to see if it’s better or anything and admittedly I think the third one you get makes your strike slower but also allows you to do more damage per hit and that was useful for me in greymore while exploring.

Totally fair. I was trying to hold back on “blaming the normies”. But you’re right. There are a lot of people who don’t change any settings they just plug and play and pretend everything is fine.

This is what I use in my house. I don’t understand what the deal is with this besides the fact that some people are ignorant and don’t change any of the factory router settings. You don’t even need to use WRT. Just change the factory passwords and config.

I’ve played through to just after you free the town of Bellhart. But unpacking has been taking up a lot of my time recently and so I haven’t got much further than that. So basically I’m still in act one and might be there for awhile. I’m still exploring the move sets of the crests I’ve collected and seeing what works for me (sometimes crests work better for different sections even though they aren’t my favorites, so it takes some getting used to).

Thanks for the well wishes. I appreciate it. Hopefully the furlough will end soon. Government shutdowns suck and people don’t realize they affect whole industries that include people who don’t work for the government.

The thermostats should still function based on the blurb. They’re just no longer connected to the Internet. So you can’t change anything or set any automations that rely on a network connection.

I’m playing Silksong. Until I beat it, that will be the answer. I’m trying to take my time and explore.

Also, I couldn’t give out candy this year. Unpaid furlough + the cost of moving to a new place strained my wallet.

I am very sad about this.

You don’t have to be stupid to fall into this, you just have to be vulnerable. This type of shit can cause permanent damage to someone’s mind and these companies simply do not give a shit about us.

I feel the same about being poor. Being poor isn’t a moral failing. And it can happen to just about anyone. It can and most of the time does cause permanent damage to the mind and the body. But there are plenty of people who do view poverty as a moral failing, and help to wage a class war that only profits the rich.

The difference here is, often, when you are poor you don’t have a choice. People don’t live in poverty by choice. But people often do use LLM’S for therapy and mental health by choice. They have been warned it’s dangerous. But it’s kind of like when you see fire trucks whiz past you on your way home. You hope everyone is okay, but you never think it’s your house that’s on fire.

And when it inevitably burns them, they often don’t have any support structure in place to help. Which compounds the damage.

An argument could potentially be made that the people who use them this way don’t have a choice because the healthcare system is so bad in the US, and mental healthcare especially is so unavailable, even to those who have healthcare, but most of these people also recognize on some level that they are nothing more than a product for these companies and these companies are not their friend.

So even though I generally agree with you, I also recognize that it’s not so cut and dried as “scorning people who use them” is wrong. Because we aren’t going to convince law makers that they need to be regulated, but we can try to dissuade people from using them.

I don’t think straight up saying "you’re a fool if you use Gen AI LLM’S " does any good, but I can certainly understand why after you’ve told people it’s a bad idea a million times you might get fed up. Human nature.

Most of mine are things like setting a default for things like wifi or Bluetooth devices.

I want my phone to connect to my home wifi and know it’s the home wifi? I want it to prefer that wifi to other networks.

I want my Bluetooth headset to stay connected to the device I’m currently using rather than changing to a separate device when that device is powered on.

I’m sure there are others but I think these may not be solvable without changing the way these devices handle connections in their firmware.

Futurama suicide booths say what?

I’m going to say that while that’s probably true there’s something it leaves out.

For every life it saves it may just be postponing or causing the loss of other lives. This is because it’s not a healthcare professional and it will absolutely help to mask a lot of poor mental health symptoms which just kicks the can down the road.

It does not really help to save someone from getting hit by a bus today if they try to get hit by the bus again tomorrow and the day after and so on.

Do I think it may have a net positive effect in the short term? Yes. Do I believe that that positive effect stays a complete net positive in the long term? No.

My first thought was “Open AI is collecting and storing the metrics for how often users bring up suicide to ChatGPT”.

No. They do this on purpose. They seem to believe it messes with LLM scraping tools.

Touché

Still a Billionaire.

I tried to make sure it got quoted but my app doesn’t do well with copying the user so I did it this way so people would know it certainly wasn’t me who saw the flaw.

If it helps UFD tech on YouTube also reported off the Tom’s Guide article, spouting the same flawed data as the headline.