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I don’t have an example but it really is the way you (and I) are prompting it. I also don’t encounter anything worse than “good data” but I write to it like a professional colleague.

If you write jokes to it though it absolutely will reply “LOL”. Some of the states people get it into on reddit are wild — it seems really easy to get it to speak like a gen z teenager, if you end every message with “fr fr”

There are even people involved in commercial distribution of it that claim to not even be interested in children, just in profit or even allegedly “for a sense of community” (someone actually said this after getting caught, he was in his 20s but I can’t remember his name — he might have been one of the red room guys).

On top of that, while there are different types of child abusers, the worst ones almost invariantly collect CSAM to the point of hoarding. So it really isn’t that bad of a proxy.

The root comment is implying that legalizing or decriminalizing csam would somehow help with prosecution of child abuse? I’m kind of speechless. Csam IS child abuse. The fact that there are consumers encourages producers to, well, produce!

I wasn’t arguing his methods were scientific or anything. They’re not.

Tripping is pretty different from even the wildest dreams, mostly because it changes how you think. Usually when I have a bizarre dream the non-euclidean reality is frustrating, because my mind in the dream is still the same as my mind when I’m awake.

But psychedelic drugs can trigger an openness to new ideas that is incredibly difficult to achieve while sober.

They’re also dangerous though, like the article notes. It’s like working (or playing) with fire. Even people who have decades of experience with it can suddenly get viciously burned. So I don’t really recommend it at all — intensive meditation can still be dangerous for people who are unprepared for what can come up but it’s a much more sustainable practice than drugs and can achieve similar (but better, if done correctly) states.

The article did make me pretty sad for the same reasons you called out. I used to look up to him a LOT in college. I moved past it when I discovered meditation but reading this piece really shut down the goodwill I still had for him. It also makes it hard not to view him as a weak person who never did any real personal development and just got lucky with his first few decades of tripping. I had nightmarish nihilistic mushroom trips that made me want to off myself even as a college student lol.

he didn’t say it would diminish, he said it would increase until we reached a singularity, which he pegged to 2012. not that i’m a mckenna devotee but i always thought it was interesting that he speculated the final push would be a “device that a small group of people use to generate infinite novelty” and then the smartphone really took off exactly around 2012. the “small group” is just you and your buddies making endless memes and new inside jokes.

I really don’t think the word spiritual precludes atheists, you could even read it as “the human spirit”. The point is just that you need some framework to ground yourself. Plenty of people have “spiritual” beliefs based purely around the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics or even simulation theory.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11594359/#sec3

That article gives a superficial overview of some of the research, which for obvious reasons is still in its infancy.

I didn’t mean to compare the harms to tobacco, but to how these companies tend to operate.

That said, the fallout of social media addiction and overuse is far weirder than the fallout from tobacco (which mostly just gives people cancer). Social media appears to be tearing the fabric of society apart.

I don’t have studies to cite but it seems like half of americans are one type of conspiracy theorist or another now, and that’s directly attributable to these new media channels.

I think the negative effects have been most pronounced on young women (body image issues and bulemia) and people with low media literacy (the misinformation plague).

There’s also the algorithmic “extremism” pipeline, where anything you show a little interest in gets turned into more and more extreme iterations to keep you engaged.

So maybe “addiction” isn’t even the right word to use here. But just look around outside in any major city or event in America and see how compulsively almost everyone uses their phones during downtime. It’s reflexive at this point, not really a conscious decision.

Some of the scariest stuff is coming from primary school teachers. Most of them act like late gen z and gen alpha are genuinely illiterate. It makes sense, you have little kids trying to swipe on physical photos in picture frames and stuff. That says something big about their lifestyles and then imagine the downstream effects of that…

I think it really tells you something when the CEOs and people who work for social media companies don’t let their own kids use the product, or drastically limit access to it.

No I know of course, I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them when all of these companies committed the largest copyright theft in human history to build the models.

I just wanted to know if that other person had proof or not, and I guess they didn’t. I would still rather have some semblance of an agreement than not have one at all — if you’re coding on a consumer plan you should just 100% assume anything you write with it will end up in the training set

Yeah even the chatgpt teams subscription claims ZDR. I believe the business plan from anthropic does too.

Of course maybe there is some fine print I haven’t read, and obviously I get the point that it may not be trustworthy.

edit: whoops I just checked and the “business”/“teams” plans just agree not to use your data for training

Is this really true? I was led to believe my company had an enterprise zero data retention agreement with them and it’s why we didn’t get access to Fable

Is there proof of what you’re saying or is it just a guess?

I’m not the one you replied to so I can’t give examples of that, but it is remarkable how much you can guide the output with claude.md.

I wrote in mine that I don’t really care that much about what it has to say, it should be concise and avoid unnecessary prose, and always lean on sharing relevant passages from the actual code with file names and line numbers and it helped my sanity a lot.

Is the code it’s quoting 100% accurate? I don’t know because I don’t double check it all. But I don’t feel like I’m losing my mind anymore and the stuff I have double checked was correct.

It’s incredibly popular in the mushroom growing community. Maybe they’ve trained it on the shroomery.org? It could also explain the alleged leaked full reasoning logs that are totally bonkers incoherent digital glossolalia…

I’m a Buddhist, so I really do see what you’re saying about personal responsibility and agency, but the other problem I see is that the companies at the forefront of these ultra-addictive industries (including mass social media) get busted eventually every single time for working overtime to hide what they knew about how damaging their products can be, and in fact to convince the public that their products do the opposite of what they actually do.

Does nicotine have some beneficial health effects? Yeah, it actually does. But do they outweigh the downsides (and societal costs)? Absolutely not.

I do believe strongly in individual freedom of choice, but only under a paradigm of informed consent, and companies like Meta have never allowed that to happen and they never will, because the truth getting out could destroy their bottom line.

Yeah sadly let’s not kid ourselves, most people on their phone on the subway (in the USA) are watching very low quality short form video content. Or they’re reading gossip subreddits or something. If you want to really scare yourself go check out what teachers have to say about the current crop of students and their literacy rates.

We should 100% ban all smart devices for people under 18. Not just in schools but entirely. Middle schoolers literally can’t spell their own names, or words like “want” and “cat”. I would have assumed some of the teachers were pearl-clutching but it’s not just a few of them saying this, it’s all of them, including my own mom who I trust a lot.

I’m not sure if “theft” is the right word or not but selling copied dvds on the street is completely different from “sharing is caring” piracy. These companies took the entirety of human knowledge for free and now want to sell it back to you, and even openly tout that it will put most of us out of our jobs.

It’s not the same thing as downloading a car or a purse for private individual use.

One of my winning words was “BAITH” which google tells me is scottish haha. Is this intentional OP?

Oh it was supposed to be Habit…

This is referring to the Business plan I think (used to be called Teams or something). The problem is that there are two types of seats: normal and codex only.

Codex only gets billed at API prices. The normal seats are more like a normal subscription, but their codex limits were LESS than a $20 subscription last time I checked (it used to be the same or more but they reduced it when they introduced the codex only seats).

I can tell you specifically that Indeed dropped its footprint because of WFH. They moved into that building during covid, then shortly after introduced permanent work from home / hybrid.

The other person’s point about rents probably explains the continued emptiness but WFH definitely drove the abandonment. And that newspaper does suck.

It’s melting my brain to read them all day. Our merge request descriptions are a mile long and so dense with jargon that it’s very difficult to figure out the important part of the changes.

They turned the english language into enterprise java and my train of thought is now a series of NullPointerExceptions

The thought of a closed book take home exam really made me laugh. They also mentioned Princeton hasn’t had professors in the room for exams since the 1890s… They just have a code of honor and rely on other students to report cheaters??

Ivy league is such a scam, in so many different ways.

This is a great idea of course but it’s kind of hilarious because if your tool ever became even a little popular it would completely destroy itself. People will find a way to filter stuff like this out because it will be incredibly annoying.

You should add a “polite” setting if you don’t already have one that only searches for hiring managers and stuff. Maybe you’re already doing that though.

In the USA you can film whatever you want in public but if you target and follow someone while filming them you open yourself up to harassment or stalking charges. The flock network does something similar and this article is literally about police officers using it to stalk exes.

Even flock’s own employees (including the VP) accessed cameras stationed at a children’s gymnasium. They claim it was for a sales pitch but who knows. The names of the cameras imply they’re inside the facility, not on the street corner.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/flock-safety-employees-w...

They’re both wrong though in reality. Zen comes from the chinese word chan, which comes from the pali word jhana, meaning meditative absorption (and it doesn’t just mean “meditation” in a general sense, it’s really referring to the rupajhanas). Real Buddhadharma has nothing to do with going along with nature or nonduality. What you’re describing sounds like taoism.

Did you get anywhere with this lol, I’m so interested