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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> Mentally healthy people will never be less lonely as long as they know they are talking to a model. This isn't an empirical claim; it’s a definitional loop. You've defined "mentally healthy" in a way that makes you
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Well, considering both depression and alcoholism are quite prevalent today, I think we can just ignore that aspect.
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Let them. And let them eat the higher cost - foreign suppliers will not ship that stuff for free, and will demand securities for large orders. At some point, there will be a financial equilibrium.
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I think this needs to be understood by more people, and as a society, we need to start acting against these practices (e.g. by collectively blacklisting organisations who do not fulfil their obligations).
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I've been using the rotring 800 mechanical pencil for a while now ... until it randomly broke down (no, I did not treat I strangely in every way or form). I'm using the - much cheaper - Kuru Toga Advance now ... which rotates the
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"normal" as defined by those in power over policy.
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The UK arrested around 12.5k people in 2023 over social media posts, according to the Times. Not all of them related to immigration at all (but I would wager: many are). It is sufficient to 'cause distress' - against whom, or in w
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Because we all know that an instrument given to law enforcement, once installed, is never used for other things later. All the things we set up to combat terrorism or protect children turned out to be used for those exact use-cases. The pro
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... and all the social media posts having been pre-approved by Minitrue. What a glorious world we shall live in. This is no longer just rhetoric. Meanwhile, the EU’s polite, tea-drinking cousin, the UK has quietly deployed a “social media s
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
> In this context, free alternative mobile platforms, such as Sailfish, cannot flourish. If you are a system that depends on people being constantly under the yoke of your jurisdictional powers, you do not want a strong, free, ecosystem.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I think the emphasis is in 'indiscriminatly'. The goal is not to have absolutely zero dependencies, just don't depend on dependencies that you could reasonably implement yourself. A classical example might be https:/&#x
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There is always a way to make things more complicated and/or expensive. That is not the goal of the exercise, though.
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A Raspberry Pi 5 already does all of the examples you mentioned. Add a hard disk o it, and a somewhat-reliable power supply, and you're looking at a hundred bucks. We are not that far away from that. Does it replicate Netflix? No. But
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But of course. For you, it's all about engagement - that darling coin of the petty court jester, who sets the salon ablaze not to warm the room, but simply to watch the tapestries curl and blacken. What care has the arsonist for archit
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Ironically, that text itself reads a lot like slop. At the same time, thanks to anti-AI-snobs like this distinguished gentleman, I have started spending significant amounts of time to deliberately not sound like an LLM (foreign-language s
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Thank you for providing scale. From how you describe it, these two examples - while unpleasant - likely fall below the threshold for criminal prosecution. And it’s precisely in that gray area where public shaming platforms risk becoming ins
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
It feels broken because it is broken. But if you weaken procedural safeguards to ‘fix’ it, you don’t get justice - you get lynch mobs. Sometimes quite literally. There have been people beaten to death by neighbors because they were declared
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This is a very sensible topic ... and sensible topics need careful solutions, not 'let's reinvent a medevial town square's pillory'. Western society has become actively anti-dating lately (think: ever since the 1980s). P
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It's an app that exposes the identity of people against their will. That's the exact definition of doxxing. Whether the original intent was honourable or not - or if they decide to spend part of their income to a honourable cause
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Sometimes it is not whether or not you do , but if you send the signal that you could. By refusing to provide a (superfluous) app, not only do you spare yourself the dev (and continued maintenance) costs, you also are not even as exposed t
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
So all I need to do to mark another guy (who might be, for example, competing for a job I want, or a certain woman's attention) as a rapist on a platform that's used by people in the location this guy lives in in the US is a (fake
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
In a perfect world, Visa/Mastercard would turn around to the advocacy groups and say "Alright, obviously you are not happy with our service level, so we do not force you to be our customers. In fact, we just cancelled all the card
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
From this developer: a talk about this project, some similar of his projects, and console/textmode-web interfaces: https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn18-164-using-and-creating-console-...
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Body Worlds - at least when I started in the 1990s (and their website claims: as well as today) - was a 100% european-bodies from volunteers exibition.
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> Lots of usage of "no prior history" ... which ironically sounds a lot like the family is trying to discourage the idea that there were, in fact, signs that just were not taken seriously. No-one wants to admit their family mem
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Maybe. Or maybe it is just the current moral panic. Remember when "killer games" were sure to urn a whole generation of young men into mindless cop- and women-murderers a la GTA? People were absolutely convinced there was a clea
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Calling “whataboutism” is often just a way to derail those providing necessary context. It’s a rhetorical eject button — and more often than not, a sign someone isn’t arguing in good faith. But just on the off-chance you are one of "th
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Any time a new technology makes people uncomfortable, someone pulls the CO₂ card. We've seen this with cryptocurrencies, electric cars, even the internet itself. But curiously, the same people rarely question the CO₂ footprint of thing
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You're misreading my intent - this isn't adversarial rhetoric. I'm not making a universal claim that every LLM is always more empathetic than any human. There's nothing to disprove or falsify here because I'm clearl
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> A "relationship" with an LLM has an obvious, intrinsic, and fundamental problem. What exactly do you mean? What do you think a therapist brings to the table an LLM cannot? Empathy? I have been participating in exchanges with

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