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treefrog , (edited )

That's a way to look at it. As a person with C-PTSD it's not something easily dealt with or healed from because society isn't that skilled at helping with it, and my brain was shaped by constant bullying and abuse for the first 12 years of my life. Saying I need to 'heal' is like telling someone with ADHD they need to 'heal'. PTSD, for me, is a form of ND. I can learn better coping mechanisms and my symptoms can be more manageable, especially with better self awareness. But there was never a baseline of not having PTSD to heal back too.

In other words, hypervigilance around toxic masculinity is wired deep into my amygdala, and that's very difficult to change in a society that doesn't have adequate tools or resources to help even typical PTSD. Maybe when MDMA treatment becomes available and affordable. I don't really know the outcomes with it for child abuse.

Anyway, bringing it up out of context when someone mentions having a good relationship with their (in my case) father, isn't a trauma response. It would be petty jealousy. And while I have plenty of jealousy of NT people, I agree that bringing up jealousy when other people are having a good time, especially in such a petty unhealthy way, is a dick move.

treefrog ,

I guess that's when I switch my laptop over to Linux. Which is back how it was before I switched it to Windows for school.

My PC is already Linux.

treefrog ,

If I had altered a primary source this little on a term paper I would get flagged for plagiarism.

The AI copy pasted down to the amount of cheese and then changed some words slightly to hide the theft.

It came from Reddit

treefrog ,

Umbrellas. Good for rain and tear gas.

treefrog ,

Also good for scuba diving and tear gas.

treefrog ,

I worked on an open source roguelike years ago that's been financially successful.

He used a donation model (similar to Patreon, but this was before), and eventually put the game up on steam for $5. I think he still works his day job but it was cool to see his hobby support him some (he also kicked me down a few grand for time I spent on the project).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Maj'Eyal

Game in question if you need some ideas on how he pulled it off.

treefrog ,

Yeah, I was an old ToME 2 player and got sucked into the ToME 4 Beta early on. Wanting to avoid any licensing issues, he decided to go with his own setting.

treefrog ,

Yeah, my only complaint with ToME 4 is the length. I like to play on roguelike mode, so a roguelike that takes tens of hours to finish can be daunting. I 'lost' a lot of playthroughs due to losing interest, too.

But working with Darkgod was great! Learned a lot about game design and artistic endeavors in general. And, I didn't know a lick of code when I started. But, the other developers were happy to teach me. Was, and probably still is, an excellent community.

treefrog ,

Only less efficient.

treefrog ,

That's also happening, yes. But ChatGPT is also reproducing large chunks of training data verbatim.

This isn't just about using ChatGPT to summarize articles or bypass paywalls. But also about copyright infringement (and no, reproducing large chunks of training data verbatim is not fair use).

treefrog ,

People are naturally going to pay less attention the more cars drive for them. You can't partially automate steering. Driver assisted steering is as close as it can be before the liability needs to fall on Tesla and other software manufacturers. A car isn't a plane. The driver needs to be in control when split second decisions happen, like a child running after a ball.

If I'm paying for an autopilot, I'm not the pilot. I.e., the driver. The car is. And Tesla's marketing bullshit and lawyers are going to fail here. This does not fall under puffery. It's false advertising that's causing consumers to place undue trust in a product. And the insurance industry is quite concerned just where the liability falls in all of this as well. And as they're the ones currently having to pay out claims when Tesla wins, they have a vested interest seeing that Tesla doesn't.

Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)

Baltimore County Police arrested****Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....

treefrog , (edited )

AI simulations are going to get used a lot for both revenge and black mail.

treefrog ,

Because people aren't used to seeing a politician in a hoodie.

treefrog ,

Considering how buggy the release builds are I can't believe they're having that much fun.

treefrog ,

I don't know why anybody downvoted you, but by release build I think we are talking about the same thing.

My comment was basically I don't buy Bethesda products until they've been on the market for at least a year because they're so fucking buggy and I know they're going to go on sale anyway.

treefrog ,

Sounds like they were arrested for trespassing because they were protesting inside the CEOs office amongst other places.

At stake is that this cloud technology will be used for military applications by IDF and ultimately help perpetuate genocide .

treefrog ,

New pipe and inner tune still work fine.

treefrog ,

Or a massive dose of psilocybin

treefrog ,

I've taken a mg. Was a lot lol

treefrog ,

Did you read the article? Google is not an insurance company. So, why is my hospital sharing information with them? And why wasn't that disclosed in the privacy policy?

Those are the types of questions this study raises.

treefrog ,

Can we just strap Jeff and Elon to a rocket and shoot them at Mars? They both seem like they're in such a hurry, I feel like we should help them.

treefrog ,

No, harm reduction would be recognizing that an object as causing harm, that people will use that object anyway, and doing what we can to minimize the harms caused by that use.

It's less about addiction and brain chemistry than simple math. If harm is being caused, and it can be reduced, reduce it.

treefrog ,

right, so I think the person's point was that microsoft is helping to manufacture the harm, and warning that the harm is there, but not doing much to actually reduce the harm.

treefrog ,

I just heard a news report on OpenAI developing technology to make deep fakes easier. They realized this could cause harm. So they're only releasing it to a few educational institutions.

This is harm reduction. And I realize corporate ethics is something of an oxymoron. But something along these lines was what the original person was meaning by a harm reduction approach by microsoft. If they're aware their technology is going to cause harms to democracy, they have an ethical duty to reduce those harms. Unfortunately, corporations often put ethical duties to increase shareholder value first. That doesn't mean they don't have other ethical responsibilities too.

treefrog ,

I hear you about it just being an evolution of the propaganda machine. And I think it's going to reveal cracks in the system. That it's going to rip the bandaid off faster than climate change which is the slow peel we're all dealing with already.

Harm reduction would be investing money in government regulation. Lobbying for government regulation. Usually this is seen as a disaster for business, but in this case it would throttle competitors too. And possibly save a lot of lives. Because this sort of automated propaganda is going to create a lot of fascist regimes all over the planet. Propped up by the illusion of democracy.

More so than it already is.

treefrog ,

Buddhism also explains animism. Things aren't separate from the mind that perceives them. The mind is alive. Thus, all perceived things are alive. This also explains non-violence and dana (selfless acts of giving). Being aggressive towards anything in our field of perception is to be aggressive to ourselves. To be giving to anything in our field of perception is to give to ourselves.

Took Buddhism plus DMT to actually grok that, though.

treefrog ,

If you have Best Buys they have e-waste recycling available year round. It doesn't really solve the problem though, it just ships it off to poorer countries.

treefrog ,

It's free. I believe, Best Buy packages it all up and ships it to China. I believe Chinese companies pay for the waste, and then pay very poor people to pick through it for valuable (and toxic) metals. A lot of the metals etc. end up in the groundwater. In other words, it's still mostly pollution, but dropping it off at Best Buy makes it someone else's pollution...

Not sure how to feel about all of it to be honest. I still recycle at Best Buy, but it's kinda like recycling plastic in the municipal recycling, I know most of it ends up in the garbage, and thus as pollution, ultimately. But I still put it where it's 'supposed' to go.

treefrog ,

Yeah, I can't say I've ever tried recycling large items. But I've dropped boxes off at the stores here in the Midwest, and they've never hassled me over misc. electronic garbage. They used to have kiosks in the entryway. Or maybe still do at some stores.

Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law — American workers could lose workplace protections that they’ve had for almost a century (techcrunch.com)

Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law — American workers could lose workplace protections that they’ve had for almost a century::Amazon alleged in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. SpaceX and Trader Joe's --

treefrog ,

Trader Joes too. Which is a bummer, I liked buying their veggie burgers.

Now I'm planning to stand outside their stores and picket instead. Let all those liberals know what they're spending their money on, the destruction of the working class.

TikTok, Facebook and YouTube sued by New York City for alleged harm to kids’ mental health (www.nbcnews.com)

TikTok, Facebook and YouTube sued by New York City for alleged harm to kids’ mental health ::New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that his administration has filed a lawsuit against the parent companies of TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube, alleging that their services are damaging to the mental...

treefrog ,

It's not really alleged when they admit in their own interoffice emails that it's happening.

treefrog ,

A scalpel can be used to cut or to heal, depending on the skill and intentions of the wielder.

Learned that from Stanislov Grof. He was talking about LSD.

treefrog ,

Here's an example.

I was advertised camel smokes as a kid.

Everytime I relapse it's on camels. Camels are shitty and cheap.

I relapse and then switch to a brand that's not garbage. Then figure out again how to beat the addiction.

It's a substance use disorder directly caused by advertising. And cancer causing (so my physical environment).

Here's another mental illness that's very easy to trace back to advertising.

Eating disorders.

treefrog ,

It's also more addictive than tobacco. Which isn't saying it's not safer. But the vape ROA hits the brain faster than smoking. This reinforces the addiction cycle more effectively. One of the reasons crack cocaine is so fucking addictive. It's vaped cocaine.

treefrog ,

Huh... I was basing this info off huberman labs episode on nicotine. He's usually very accurate (he's a neurobiologist and a professor at a major university)

treefrog ,

I was referring to quality lol

I can buy a pack of American Spirits and half a smoke will satisfy me.

I finish a Camel, and I'm like, wtf happened to that thing?

treefrog ,

Yup, I figured service jobs would be some of the last to go honestly. Replacing a person that works at a desk on a computer all day with a computer is just cutting out the middle man. Replacing someone that requires a lot of physical ability to move around and manipulate objects requires tech that doesn't live in the cloud.

And considering I've been reading about AI taking other jobs for the last year or more, I guess they kinda are the last to go. Now we just sit back and watch it accelerate. Either get UBI or a revolution that leads to UBI. Or the cyberpunk future the oligarchs plan to leave us with as they set their power hungry sights on Mars.

treefrog ,

Was looking for new political/philosophy podcasts. Been listening to Acid Horizon and will check this one out too!

treefrog ,

If they were really centrist they'd vote democrat anyway, as that's the centrist party.

Many leftists also vote democrat. Lesser of two evils, a two party system, no ranked choice voting, etc. etc. etc. etc.

treefrog ,

Tolerance for fascism is like trying to negotiate with cancer.

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