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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
these are in separate industries, though. apple had to settle because they started apple music which tacitly operated in the exact same sector of the economy as a record label. just because two things have to do with computers doesn’t mean they’re both in the “computer field”.

for example, if apple had started selling pianos like yamaha in the mid 2000s instead of opening an in-house music label they’d still be in the “music industry” but wouldn’t have had to settle with apple corps because there’s not a reasonable argument that consumers would confuse the two companies just based off the semantic “music” connection. same here. an AI startup isn’t at risk of violating the brand trademark of an open source monitoring project in basically any western legal framework.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, you aren’t necessarily being stupid, even though that’s my own personal opinion, but you’re still committing a really blatant logical fallacy that doesn’t make you look very intelligent.

Using your idea and definition of subjectivity vs objectivity… astrology is objective, given a horoscope. Phrenology is objective, given a craniometric table. What a “witch” is, is itself objective, given the Malleus Maleficarum.

You’re saying that as long as some definition exists, the entire domain is objective, which is just patently fucking false and makes no sense if you think about it for even just a second. Words fucking mean things. You’re conflating “deterministic” with “objective” in a really obtuse manner. Just because something has a rule doesn’t mean it’s objective, it means that it’s internally consistent.

You can go ahead and redefine subjectivity to fit your world if you please, no one is stopping you, but no one is privy to follow you either - you’ll be alone…

I’m seriously not trying to be rude here, you’re just genuinely making a very grievous logical error and you can’t seem to see it.

For example:

If you provide one one of those definitions to someone and ask them if something meets it (and for the sake of argument they have full knowledge of how it was created) they should always be able to come to the same conclusion.

This is virtually never true, in real life, because the only potential things that might have true “full knowledge” are god and the universe itself, but I digress. Even if I grant this weird hypothetical based on charitable interpretation, your whole fucking argument is still nonsensical. Determinism does not imply objectivity.

If we define ‘criminal’ as anyone whose name appears on a list handed to us by the king, classification becomes deterministic… but it doesn’t make the list objective.

You couldn’t build a model that filters out bad art based on that subjective definition.

You acknowledge that the definition itself is subjective here (also, side note, I absolutely could trivially build a model based on the subjective definition “art is what makes @Chronographs@lemmy.zip feel good” and then filter art based on that. least ethically and most obviously, you could be strapped to a chair robot-chicken style and simply evaluate every sample for us since you already exist and we might as well not reinvent the wheel to fulfill our production order. the same way i can trivially build most any model once it’s been defined, which is the actual work).

You then go on to claim that once something has been defined it is no longer subjective, i.e, a category or domain is objective one a definition has been applied. This is just a giant non-sequitur, it makes not one iota of sense because you’re confusing the definitions of multiple well-defined concepts as we go along.

I know I’ve been pretty glaringly terse and rude in tone thus far but that’s because my job heavily involves logic and I deal with this shit daily, it gets tiring. If you’re genuinely interested in this stuff I encourage you to read more natural philosophy and study logic directly. The reaction I’m giving you here is soft compared to what actual academia will do to you if you ever step into the university system trying to bandy about arguments formulated like that.

Your idea of subjectivity vs objectivity requires you to treat every charlatan on the street who comes to you with an idea as an oracle. That’s patently fucking absurd, to borrow from the literature.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Whether something is AI generated depends on what definition you use

I am so sorry, I don’t mean to be terse, but; We must speak a different English because this is the actual fucking dictionary definition of “subjective” :
```
4
a(1)
: peculiar to a particular individual : personal
subjective judgments
(2)
: modified or affected by personal views, experience, or background
a subjective account of the incident
b
: arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not directly caused by external stimuli
subjective sensations
c
: arising out of or identified by means of one's perception of one's own states and processes
a subjective symptom of disease
compare objective sense 2c
```
THEREFORE, ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING:

Whether something is AI generated [or not, sic] depends on what definition you use…

MIGHT BE…

Whether something is AI generated or not is subjective.

Regardless,

Yeah I’m basically ignoring the part of implementing it as a separate issue from defining it, which is the part I’m saying is objective. Given a definition of what type of content they want to ban you should be able to figure out whether something you’re going to post is allowed or not, that’s why I’m saying it’s not subjective.

You summed up the problem with your own semantic definitions and viewpoints earlier pretty well. What you’re basically saying is there could exist a model that defines and filters AI content based on a subjective definition of genAI, which no shit sherlock - that’s fucking trivial and can be said about anything. There could exist a model that subjectively defines unicorns and filters them out of all content too. Doesn’t mean it’s actually useful to anybody or that there’s any practical reason to build it, though.

You’re just talking past @chrash0@lemmy.world who’s trying to point out to you that actually defining what constitutes genAI content is the hard part. You’re being obtuse and intentionally ignoring it by focusing on the implementation itself being easy.

Of course filtering things by a definition you’ve set is trivial. Out of all infinite possible definitions that we can choose, how do we make the right assumptions to choose the most optimal one, though? Do you see the issue and why you’re being kind of fucking stupid, man?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

hard to detect

certainly not subjective

just depends on how it’s written

i’m fucking dead you have to be taking the piss lmfao
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Answer May Surprise You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
nothing you do like this is actually going to drive up their compute costs.

if every chatGPT user tomorrow started spamming the most highly optimized prompt for pissing away system resources… it still wouldn’t do anything because, like them or hate them, openAI aren’t fucking stupid and have implemented basic DBA practices that have been entrenched since… like… i dunno, the 80s, for fucks sake…

think: chatGPT responds with responses around the same max length depending on plan. you cannot submit prompts larger than a certain size, similarly. chatGPT will also only engage in reasoning or tasks for a limited amount of time before stopping, whether or not enough information is available to “answer” the prompt yet.

this is all because openAI is capable of dummy fucking simple statistical analysis that let’s them just predetermine a set size for any data package in the pipe, or predetermine a set time for any stream to have an open spigot, etc. i guar-an-fucking-tee you that they have calculated these numbers in such a way that, barring the world literally ending, they’ll still come out in the black on that front no matter what the userbase’s behavior is. it is likely mathematically impossible to “hurt” any big tech company with means like this.

you’re just wasting real resources and then further encouraging others to do so, which is hypocritically the exact same thing people enjoy going on a tirade about big tech doing.

if you want to actually piss away compute go get a copilot subscription or something and just let an agent run with no limits on iterations or requests. it’ll be at your own dime though because, again, these companies aren’t fucking stupid and can implement monetization in a way that is more highly optimized than any other polity in human history.

pretending the devil has broken hands won’t save johnny in the fiddle contest… pretending the oligarchs dismantling western society are inept won’t stop them from continuing to do it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
most people, unfortunately, don’t seem to think when they see the letters ‘A’ and ‘I’… these people probably would burn sage at the sight of the identity matrix lol.

i think you’re probably wasting your breath here but you seem like you might be cool, so if you’re interested in discussing ML at all reach out fs!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
big tech doesn’t have a monopoly on linear algebra or calculus.

you can run your own telemetry, analytics, and modeling pipelines with existing toolings and most modern PCs are plenty capable of doing a wide variety of useful things with said data.

these tools are very powerful. algorithmic feeds regularly hijack your dopamine response whether you’re aware of it or not. these organizations colonize your mind and your consent or acknowledgment is not a necessary factor. why should MS, Google, and Meta be the sole masters of these feedback loops?

the old privacy is dead. going into the future people should be pragmatic and actually do something about the current state of our society instead of being whiny do-nothing pissbabies complaining endlessly about things they barely comprehend. the answer to breaking our chains is understanding the very tools that oppress us all.

being as tech-illiterate as most people are is why we’re in the precarious position we’re in… one where these big tech empires have risen to institutional scales, rivaling nation-states themselves.

do you people not see what is at stake here?

you’re a boiling frog, all of you, all of us.

one day you will wake up a citizen of meta and purchase your rations with facebook scrip, and you won’t even know it’s happened.

the decisions we all collectively take now over the next 5-10 years determine whether free society survives or if we descend into a new dark age of neo-serfdom and techno-feudalism.

may god have mercy on us all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a relief!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
it’s just a different base system with some extra quirks thrown in that’s been shoehorned into a decimal society. it isn’t too difficult once you know the story of how french language got there, you feel?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
like most commentary on Gödelian incompleteness, you got the right “vibe” but you’re not exactly correct.

for example, geometry is not an incomplete system, geometry is complete and thus not subject to incompleteness properties unless viewed strictly from the perspective of reality. in that case, all systems and models we build are necessarily presumed incomplete because of what people like Kant and Descartes said - all you know is known filtered through your perception, it isn’t what is actually real.

that is where people get the “it’s impossible to completely describe anything” argument from. it isn’t true flat out like that, though. you need some qualifiers, like, it’s impossible to completely describe reality solely through the human experience. this makes sense if you think about it. how much data lives just in a grain of sand? how many atoms are there in it? molecules? where might it fall in 2.76463 seconds? what does cathy juniper, born 1973, think this grain of sand would be named if it worked at the dollar store?

just because information that is incomprehensible or unreal to us lives in the world doesn’t mean it isn’t there. one iota of the universal computer has more computational power than all humanity combined over all history, many times over. our minds are so much smaller compared to the amount of information that actually lives in the world that we necessarily can only ever shine our spotlight of focus on tiny pieces of it at a given time, and not for very long. that is what the incompleteness theorem is describing…

this doesn’t mean that “it’s impossible to create any consistent set of math statements that completely describes everything,” if you’re willing to be a bit clever about it… after all, as humans, our big schtick is recording information in the world for later use, in reality… and there is proper suspicious to believe that reality itself could be a complete system, understandable from both the outside and inside if only viewed at the right angle…

hilbert’s dream is not dead yet, the early neoplatonist were just doing the dirty work of finding bounds.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
no, i think i know how things work enough to know this is a shitty idea.

that excerpt is going to do a 301 redirect to the AARP site for any requests to www.yoursite.xyz - that’s 100% not up for debate.

there are a fair amount of things, especially in a corporate environment, that automatically append www. to any URL passed. you think a hiring manager is going to care that it’s a quirky technical joke? why would you make it more difficult to access a portfolio who’s entire purpose is to be as accessible as possible for the target audience?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
that’s… a terrible idea for a portfolio site of any sort. why would you intentionally hamper accessibility? what if their company VPN automatically routes yoursite.org to www.yoursite.org? i personally wouldn’t spend the time spending out why i was looking at AARP, i’d just pass you over and not hire you, let alone reach out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
based-pilled take
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
this isn’t a conspiracy theory to the people saying it is. these systems are well attested to exist already. predictive policing is already being used. fucking watch yourselves. big brother sees all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a whole genre! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
i’m someone who grew up fat/ morbidlyobese and is now 160 lbs at 6’0” height, this is real af and talking about weight with anyone now pisses me tf off usually.

people are fat as shit now and it’s entirely normalized. you can’t even say being fat is bad for you without someone asserting that it’s possible to be both overweight and healthy at the same time. it’s not. being overweight at all, let alone fucking obese or morbidly obese, is literally up there with smoking and drinking on the shaving years off your life scale. no one should be made fun of for their body but portions of the fat acceptance movement went too far deluding people into risking their health, and corporate america has been feeding us all literal high calorie slop that is as addicting as fucking drugs.

virtually everyone is at least somewhat overweight now in america, most people are obese, with the rest of the west trending towards the same fate. it’s a gigantic fucking public health crisis. i’ll talk about how i need to lose 10-20 lbs and people will say “tHaT wOuLd mAkE yOu lOoK sIcKlY ThO!?!”… 1. who the fuck cares? it’s my body and idk why vanity is such a big factor for people, anyway. idgaf if being a normal weight for my height would make me look “sickly” in a country like this 2. and it really fucking wouldn’t! i don’t have an eating disorder or anything, and i’m smart enough to objectively measure and maintain my own body. i could stand to lose a few pounds of fat and go to the gym!

i’m sitting here having to have been made fun of my whole childhood for being fat and now ive grown up into bizarro world where everyone is overweight and i’m the weird one again for trying to maintain my body. fuck you guys. my kungfu is better than yours. lmao jk but being fat as a kid is seriously traumatic. not wanting to take your shirt off at pools really sucks and is a part of it but there’s worse stuff. i still don’t really like my body bc i probably will need to have loose skin removal surgery over my torso to look normal. not sure, will try bulking up a bit first but have never been a gymbro or anything like that. maybe it’ll turn out okay.

thanks for coming to the local trauma dump haveawonderfulnightcomeagain.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
i never stopped, fuck these vultures - idc how much fake ass american dream-pilled carrots they wave in our faces. always fuck them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something about psychological warfare idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
kinda off topic but i thought someone referring to the amount of detergent as a “dosage” was pretty funny.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
this is a whole can of worms that you can look into but the entire western conception of the Chinese social credit system is essentially a myth propagated by western media outlets.

don’t get me wrong, the chinese government legislated local governors implement something vaguely similar to the financial credit system in the west but, as the law works in china, they all interpreted the order differently and it seems only the “good” parts get rolled out nationally.

situations similar to the western “social credit” myth existed for a brief time in a very small number of local pockets (think smaller divisions such as cities and towns), but they were quickly absconded and the architects of those systems punished, for essentially wasting government time and money.

note i’m definitely not a tankie fuck tankies but i also think if we’re gonna talk about china we don’t need to make shit up bc just like the US there is plenty of real shit to criticize. the “social credit” thing is a joke that westerners get made fun of internationally for believing, pretty much. it’s not remotely real, at least how you probably think of it.

realistically at this point you don’t have more or less rights or freedoms as a citizen of china or the united states. you’re pretty equally fucked either way now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia articles could have Context boxes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
wikipedia’s traffic is public data. articles do trend over time on the site and it’s a separate phenomenon from the featured content.

sometimes a random article pops up in the trends on a given day or week. OP wants a way to know why.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
maybe a little abrasive in tone but i don’t totally disagree, this is kind of fucking dumb and i don’t understand why im seeing this everywhere rn.

mercator hasn’t been ubiquitous in decades and when it is used today there’s usually an actual reasoning, however valid one decides it to be.

what the fuck are these people talking about?

a campaign for this? what, are we going to campaign to cease the use of subway maps next because they give a dishonest sense of size and scale of metros?

this feels like weird distraction bait from things that actually matter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy?

It’s less absurd than it sounds and requires understanding how modern data center facilities that are being deployed by big tech actually work and run at a facility-wide and systemic level. They do generate this energy, they just proceed to use it. Notice he says roughly a gigawatt of energy, which is nowhere near the gross need for the facility as per the article.

Most modern data centers built in the past few years, especially those that are “campuses” as described, have on-site power generation solutions. Sometimes this means classic oil/coal/gas generators on the property, sometimes it means more involved and nuanced situations. What Lehane is telling the AP here is that, of the energy consumed by the new data center as a whole, “roughly and depending how you count,” 1 gigawatt comes from such sources. The article clearly states the center is set to deploy at 1.8 gigawatts consumption scaling up to 10 gigawatts over the lifespan of the facility. Presumably these are on the same time scales and everything. Frankly, for an AP article this was written quite poorly and the exact meaning of most this information isn’t very clear. I don’t think that’s Lehane’s fault implicitly. Just seems like bad reporting.

People have this image in their heads of these big data centers opening up and just like, sucking up all the power from the local grid due to their demand and this is what causes things such as blackouts. This is mildly incorrect. The negative effects of these data centers’ power demands is less to do with them “overloading” public grids and more to do with the market economy of energy. You get blackouts because all the energy they can’t generate themselves on-site must be acquired somewhere else. They can walk up to the local power companies and buy energy just like any private citizen can. They often get discounted rates compared to the plebes, too. You end up with blackouts because the energy companies don’t give a shit who they sell their product to, they just care that it sells. When companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, or OpenAI roll up with significantly more capital and resources than anyone else in the local economy, they’re easily able to out-compete even the entirety of the local domestic power demand. That’s what causes blackouts.

No one wants to talk about this because it’s easier to just say braindead shit like “fuck datacenters/AI/big-tech/fuckingwhateveritis” so you can feel like you’re “on the right side” than it is to acknowledge the long line of people in both the public and private sectors who had to rubber-stamp personally fucking the average person for us to even get to this point. Does big tech suck absolutely, fat, stinking donkey balls? For fucking sure. Are they anything more than a symptom of a much more entrenched societal rot? Nope.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
i wish people would understand that copyright and the entire existing economic system built around art are all intended to oppress the little guy.

i think getting a grip on what you just said here is probably the first sort of real step in that direction for people.

can’t even count the number of times i’ve had someone respond to me with some variation of “oh so you don’t care about the artists WORK then, do you??” as some sort of accusation because i said something negative about copyright… when that’s not remotely the case - for me it’s based in a sentiment very similar to this ethos here regarding piracy. to me, the brain dead people rabidly defending a system where leeches can MitM artists and their clients are the ones who don’t care about artists or their work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is a strawman argument, though. Sure, that can and does happen, but it isn’t the existence of spaces like Tea that is problematic, it is the general relationship between men and women in our society generally. Further, I’m clearly not saying opposing Tea is inherently misogyny. It is a very particular kind of reaction that I am talking about, and you know this.

Tea itself really isn’t any worse than any other forum. You could have the same thing happen to a man on other platforms, there is nothing unique about Tea in that capacity and it is disingenuous to levy that criticism against the platform in isolation. People dislike it because they have a weird caricature of women in their head and assume every person on this app must have been a gossip or an evil person, yet there is no real basis for that claim other than the fact the audience is mainly women. Hence, the “misogyny,” that you seem to not really have the prior life experience to see. You can look through my profile here. I’ve said plenty in support of men’s rights and men’s issues as well, I’m really not rabidly in coalition for a particular gender’s rights or anything. I’m just calling it as I see it and the reaction to Tea on the web is largely sexist.

No one said false accusations aren’t real or that opposing them makes you a misogynist. You’re being intentionally obtuse and conflating a critique of people’s treatment of women in public discourse with a critique of apps such as these generally to make it seem absurd to point out how sexist some of the reaction to Tea has been. Mostly because I think you saw the word “misogyny” thrown out and for some reason took it as a personal insult or something. I think most people would reflect upon that and I’d hope you would too.

I probably won’t further respond because I’m getting the idea honest discourse and dialectic isn’t your goal here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
it’s more you’re expected to buy a car to get to the only pub in the tri-metro area which is itself owned by one of two large corporations who control the entire market. what’s that? you don’t like the idea of dedicating 1/3 of your income or more to being a motor vehicle owner? well, there’s always bootstraps.

suburbanism isn’t the only shitty american thing you guys have imported from us as of late but it’s probably one of the more starkly visible ones.

i’m frankly surprised either of our nations have made it this long. the anglosphere is cooked, man.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think GOG might be the next?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
the people who run these companies are so astronomically detached from the average human experience - meaning that tagline might actually be the line of thought they’re predicating this on.

they might say it in corpo drivel-speak, but it’s pretty clear any negative consequences they can think up over the status quo are based in this fear.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP AND TEAR⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
based and less absurd of a comparison than it seems.

jesus is a hard ass bitch in the bible, not to even mention all the non-canonical sources. i’m not religious but they’re cool stories.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
if that’s truly how the leak happened then these people, in any reasonable jurisdiction, would be considered criminally negligent, at the least.

yay compsci ethics courses :D

boo courts failing to uphold the law >:(
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
saw this happening here, saw it happening in reddit threads on the topic, saw it all over the media cycle in the comments.

i agree, people’s visceral backlash against this app is steeped in a deep misogyny.

watching people take somewhat valid privacy concerns as an excuse to let loose their most toxic feelings towards women used to be the sort of thing only losers or emboldened megalomaniacs did in public, even just a decade ago.

in the past years i’ve just seen all my peers, regardless of political affiliation, manipulated into a cult of outrage that serves as another hamster wheel upon which capital may spin.

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
why do you guys always just move the goalposts?

“X thing isn’t real AI, because real AI sucks and I might have to concede the positive attributes of X about AI generally… [OCR, chess bots, etc.]”

“Y thing isn’t real vibe coding, because real vibing coding sucks and I might have to concede the positive attributes of Y about vibe coding…”

like… you seem like you’ve just decided these things are “bad things” in your head and just shift your definitions the moment you meet reality and see anything that might evoke cognitive dissonance about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true friend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That one is much more recent but much less engaging of an anecdote imo. These are kind of lame but I’m always willing to chatter lol.

Honestly just had a different, actual friend come over the day the news broke about the election in Trump’s favor here in the US and he was super into the honey jack daniels at the time. We just pounded an entire big bottle of that and I ended up way drunker than felt reasonably possible. Ended up shirtless sitting in the shower throwing up my guts. Also accidentally stepped on my cat which was sad (but I think she was okay). Oh and ig the Dictator-In-Chief shit happening but overall bad experience and while I didn’t really feel like I was gonna die but it made me retch a bit every time I smell cheap liquor mixed with honey from then on.

I honestly had problems with alcohol from like, 17-18 all the way until I was 21, almost 22. I don’t really drink much anymore. It’s a bad drug anyway. Basically toxic. Nicotine is also up there. What’s it matter that nicotine itself doesn’t really much cause cancer if every single fucking way you can ingest it is carcinogenic itself somehow? Not to mention the addiction both of those can cause. The social acceptance of both is insane. I’ve ingested my fair share of both and more tho so maybe that’s why I’m so cognizant of everyone huffing and drinking what is paramount to a poison. I’m still hooked on both every once in awhile and want to quit but I don’t really think that’s the topic at hand here, bc I get these vibes when people bring that up in this vein.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true friend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
random as fuck for me to mention here but i actually used to consider woodford reserve my favorite liquor until i bought one of the bigass bottles and a coworker at the time i thought was cool kept threatening to deck me if we didn’t keep taking shots until we went through the entire bottle. i’ve never genuinely thought i was going to die the way i did being collapse on the ground after. seriously thought that was it and i was gonna choke out on vomit or something in a drunken stupor. i did the math once to figure out my BAC that night and i should’ve probably died lmao.

anyway long story short i have a food aversion to the taste and smell of woodford reserve now. any of those cheap honey whiskeys too but that’s a different story for a different time.