Yes, but many things can be mapped to “language”, let’s say a grammar describing state machines, so it can be used to generate control actions.

Transformer models etc. are not only useful for conversational AI and translations.

I’d be fine with the approach as part of research advancing the field, but unfortunately, that’s not what we’re seeing.

Many smartphones today have a call screening option where a voice agent asks the caller why they’re calling and messages you the result.

You will be glad to hear that what you describe is also pretty easy to setup.

While capitalism is bad, buying something that makes you happy is okay. Just try to buy ethically and don’t use consumer purchases to trigger dopamine hits.

Sorry, but that’s simply not good advice. Nobody is born with perfect parenting skills and is granted all the answers. In fact, many parents are not fit to raise kids at all, others are simply overwhelmed and need help.

It’s very easy to have a kid, not particularly easy to raise one. The idea that all your decisions are magically correct and sound just because it’s your own kid and that every parent knows best is simply wrong. It’s healthy to doubt yourself and to ask for advice.

Also, parenting science is not quackery. This is an actively researched area and there are real scientific efforts to better understand child development with respect to biology, psychology and neuroscience. These efforts do lead to a better understanding of how kids can be raised and how certain parental decisions might affect a child.

Personally, I’m happy each time parents try to inform themselves and seek the advice of others. That doesn’t necessarily mean relying on the answers a bunch of strangers give on social media, but I hope the Fediverse as a whole can do better.

Right now, I can’t make the claims you did in your post initially.

You’re not causing permanent damage to a child by letting them sleep in your bed.

I wouldn’t know that. Intuitively, I do believe that co-sleeping would have a lot of benefits up to a certain age, after the infant stage and dangers of SIDS have passed. However, I could easily imagine that there might be adverse effects after a certain age. Would it be likely to occur after a handful of times? Probably not. Are there any indications on the threshold maybe? Anything to look out for, given the kid might have anything else going on? Maybe. All information I would have on that subject would indeed be anecdotal though, and so in turn pretty useless. Why the dismissal of an honest attempt at getting educated?

I would indeed argue for getting an overview of what science has to say on the matter and then making an individual, informedndecision based on all the additional context I’d have as a parent that I could never cram into a couple of posts on the internet.

Having access to scientific publications, I’ll see if I can provide some material later.

Congratulations, this is how you get exploited by corporations.

Unfortunately, it’s probably not going to be an electric fan, but compressed air. Even more unfortunately, compressed air turns out to be a major cost factor due to the cost of running compressors, which might prevent adoption.

The original paper mentions blowing the caps out with an “air bomb”, which I’m pretty sure is a mistranslation stemming from the French term “Bombe d’Air Comprimé”, i. e. an air duster, a can of compressed air. In an industrial setting, you’d use a compressor for this, naturally.

A 4yo has no business having unrestricted access to media, let alone YouTube. Current recommendations are 20 to 45 minutes a day at that age, depending on country / organization.

YouTube has so much questionable content, kids shouldn’t be in a position to be able to click next and consume that crap.

YouTube kids exists since 2015, but Elsagate happened around 2017/18, so I don’t exactly trust their content moderation.

It is “up to two years”, naturally, as mentioned in the article. I do agree two years is a span that is most likely rarely achieved, but I also remember that a single dose can basically cure* people of PTSD, so I do believe some people might be free of depression for 24 months if they processed their trauma / issues in a significant manner.

Please remember, studies that use psychedelics don’t simply hand psychoactive substances to people and send them away, they do receive assistance (e. g. therapy) to process whatever issue they might have.

• again, along with therapy

This is not the only study that points to lasting relief from depression. Your experience is valid, but also anecdotal and not necessarily representative at large.

You can easily grow mushrooms that contain psilocybin at home. It’s an easy process, the internet has plenty of communities.

If you are not very experienced with psychedelics, please inform yourself about best practices / harm reduction. Look into set and setting. Have people around who you trust.

For most people, psychedelics are not a substitute for therapy. The healing happens in between trips, but you have to put in the work - don’t skip integration. The average Joe will need professional help for that.

If you have serious issues or if you are repressing a lot of stuff, it will most likely come up during a trip and you will have to process it - psychedelics show you what you need, not what you want. That being said, most people that have a lot of experience with psychedelics will tell you even difficult trips will lead to positive gains.

Overall, it’s mostly a marvelous and wonderful experience that can be life changing, but please treat it with the respect it deserves.

Honestly, just do all of it. Psychedelics, dark humor and therapy.

Sorry, there is no quality difference in mattresses that would warrant price difference above a few hundred dollars. This simple hasn’t been true for almost two decades. No mattress should cost $5000.

The real cringe is using passwords instead of keys to login.

I’d pay extra for that

Who says you can’t check their outputs? It’s much faster to e. g. read a generated text than to write everything yourself. Same applies to translations, they’ve been excellent for quite a while now.

Business communication can be handled effortlessly by AI. Of course you read the result before you send it out, but that takes an order of a magnitude less time than formulating and typing all those meaningless sentences.

And honestly, that’s a perfect use case for AI. I wouldn’t compose a love letter to my family using AI, but a pamphlet, feature description, sales pitch, any bullshit presentation deck? You bet AI excels at those.

Same applies to content summaries that help augment search indices. Finding a large number of content candidates (e. g. videos) and have AI summarize the contents of said videos to narrow down the search is helpful and works today.

I’m not looking for AGI. I’m looking for tools to make my life easier, but in an ethical manner that doesn’t advance the destruction of the planet at an exponential rate, just for some tech bro to jerk it and buy another yacht.

Those numbers are baseless exaggerations. There are plenty of tasks which they solve perfectly, today. It’s just that a bunch of dicks operate them, and the cost of operating them are way too high.

Also:

• environmental impact of AI
• unethical acquisition of training data
• dichotomy of how conservative politics treat AI company and private copyright law
• “undress AI” and deepfakes

It’s not that they’re not useful, that’s just nonsense.

Isn’t an L3 shield on the order of $2k?

Ah shit. I swear to god, this just happened to me. I came to the comments, confused why a trailer for Outer Wilds 2 would be age-restricted.

Ugh.

But then again, you cleared up my confusion, so I guess there’s that.

If you have ADHD, it’s literally impossible to work without the background distraction.

When I was still young (and buff), I had a very inappropriate encounter with two drunken women on the subway, I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there was a lot of sexual harassment.

Another time, a female doctor touched me very inappropriately, caressing my pecs and letting her hand slide down my bare chest down to my stomach, pinching my biceps, all while commenting how she liked that I was toned and “not a beanstalk”. She was about 20 years older than me.

Now, on both occasions, I never felt in danger. I was subconsciously aware of the difference in physical strength between me and those women and never felt threatened. In fact, I was pretty much flabbergasted in both situations and only realized later that I connected these events with an “unpleasant sensation” of abuse. I can’t describe it any better - it was like a thought popping into my head later that evening, akin to “Hey, I think that doctor molested me, how are you going to handle that”.

While none of these events were even remotely close to what it must feel like to experience actual rape, I still want to speak out against the misconception that men can’t experience sexual violence and harassment, and in particular against the insanity that asks men to open up about their feelings, while at the same time assuming they’re emotionless husks that can’t be affected by such events and should just “man up”, let alone the idea that men are incapable of even feeling anything in those situations and are faking it in order to achieve ulterior motives.

Fuck that noise.