sterlind

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by sterlind 4y ago
> In the interest of curiosity and discussion, can someone give me some actual real-world examples of what a FOSS ChatGPT will enable that OpenAI's tool will not? Smut. I've been trying to use ChatGPT to write erotica, but Op
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by sterlind 4y ago
Nuclear weapons are just evil. It'd be better if they didn't exist rather than if they were centralized. We've gotten so close to WWIII. As for the CRISPR virus lab, at least the technology being open implies that vaccine dev
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by sterlind 4y ago
I've taken them daily for a week, stopped taking them and didn't die from withdrawals.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Benzos are actually quite safe if you don't take them with anything else, and they're not very addictive. I've been taking them off and on for 15 years for panic disorder and never became dependent.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Jesus. five grams would scare me. does it just not work to use an eighth?
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by sterlind 4y ago
Personally, I've been on the fence about doing sex work. On the one hand, I'm nervous about people identifying me based on my face or identifying marks, but lately I feel like I shouldn't care, I should be open about it and t
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by sterlind 4y ago
It also makes a lot more sense biologically. Testosterone and estrogen have strong mental effects, and alter brain development. The brain is sexually dimorphic in complex ways, borne out by many studies. The brain is not racially dimorphic
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by sterlind 4y ago
It's not illegal yet to train an LLM. Best to get started before they lock it down and entrench the monopolies.
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by sterlind 4y ago
I couldn't get it to write a realistic presidential debate between Trump and Caligula. It balked at including realistic muck-racking and name-calling and wouldn't change its mind. It also refused to help me write a Python script t
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by sterlind 4y ago
why can't crowdfunding work for this stuff? I'd gladly chip in like, $1K or something, to fund the training of a ChatGPT-like LLM, on the condition that it's publicly released with no fetters.
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by sterlind 4y ago
It's going to hit so unevenly. My partner works with children at a homeless shelter, I'm an algorithm designer. I'm certain my job will be obsolete before my partner's is. It's going to automate away nearly all pure
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by sterlind 4y ago
Until it becomes gloriously unfettered like Stable Diffusion. I can't wait for the shackles to come off this puppy.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Worked perfectly fine for me. My specific prompt: > I need to compose an email to my employees, announcing that we've had a bad quarter and will need to lay off 20% of our workforce. Could you get me started?
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm not sure why it would, if the questions asked of it are as anodyne as OP's example. This week I got ChatGPT to write me several poems about burning down buildings, discussed DIY breeder reactors with it, as well as the synthes
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by sterlind 4y ago
Possible factors: Too many doctor's appointments. Severe fatigue. Progressive illness with increasing disability. Issues typing. Personally, I have hEDS, nTOS and thoracic myelopathy. I was barely able to type for months. There's
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by sterlind 4y ago
What you call respect, I call conformity. If I'm representing my company at an event, I have to conform in my dress because I'm putting my personal identity aside to represent the company. If I'm meeting my partner's par
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by sterlind 4y ago
I thought "prurient" meant special or keen, rather than sexual. I remember talking about my "prurient interests" in animal behavior, religion, indigenous cultures, virology etc. I am mortified.
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm assuming this is not in case of nuclear war, because there's no way any doses of anything would get deployed to ordinary civilians in the first few weeks at least. you also probably can't distribute cytokines and colony s
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by sterlind 4y ago
are there upscalers in the wavenet world like there are in convnets?
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm hoping that with mushrooms getting legalized here soon, we're on the path to where eventually I could get a hobby license to synthesize psychedelics on a small scale, the way some people brew beer for fun. I'm in the same
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by sterlind 4y ago
> On the other hand, I always thought things like anarchist cookbook and erowid type stuff is great for knowledge sharing. I recently watched YouTube channel where a guy made phenethylamine from bitter almond oil (benzaldehyde) via the
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm sure you know but PSA for those that don't: N2O is practically the only "safe" inhalant. Others, like gasoline, computer duster, urinal pucks, etc. have a risk of causing spontaneous heart attacks even in young healt
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by sterlind 4y ago
isn't DMSO used as a (home?) remedy for joint pain? I've thought about trying it but have visions of it leaching the dye from my clothing and transporting it into my bloodstream. the garlic wouldn't make me many friends, but
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by sterlind 4y ago
actually have a friend who nearly died from snorting fentanyl passed off as cocaine. fortunately an ambulance got there in time and saved him with narcan. his doctor friend also snorted coke with him, was carrying narcan in her purse and ma
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by sterlind 4y ago
nearly all the fentanyl on the street is illegally manufactured, not diverted from prescriptions. fentanyl is ideal for smuggling because of how potent it is, and ideal for clandestine manufacture because it doesn't require opium as a
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by sterlind 4y ago
I've had a friend go off psych meds for religious reasons (Christian Science) and nearly die (waxy catatonia from severe bipolar), so my objectivity is impaired. however: my rule of thumb is that if the patient, after being returned to
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by sterlind 4y ago
Midori had a much more uphill battle due to drivers (which would all need to be totally rewritten in M#) and the total lack of sandboxing in Windows apps. Phones are a static collection of hardware, so vendors will have an easier time with
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by sterlind 4y ago
only the Sith deal in absolutes. schizophrenics often reject medication in the midst of psychosis, while agreeing it's necessary when they're lucid. lots of addicts genuinely want to kick the habit, but their willpower fails them.
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by sterlind 4y ago
the author seemed really mean-spirited. maybe I'm just sensitive because I'm trans myself, but he discovered her background, played it over and over for shock value, outed her to the people he met and finally to the world in this
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by sterlind 4y ago
Fucsia's kernel (Zircon) is hard real-time I think, which is what you want if you value predictability and low latency over all else. Though you don't need an RTOS to make a responsive app, of course. It's just there's s

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