It would be like castrating the entire penis and testicles.

More like removing the glans and foreskin, but that doesn’t make it much better. There are definitely varying degrees of awfulness, but it’s all bad.

While there are some truly evil and horrific practices like removing the clitoris or sewing the vulva shut, some female genital mutation is “just” removing the clitoral hood, which is directly analagous to the foreskin.

Most people can agree that this practice is deeply wrong, and that it is still genital mutilation. And so I think categorizing male genital mutilation separately as “circumcision” is downplaying it.

<3 is named that for a reason. The thread pitch is pretty versatile, it’s not too long, it’s countersunk, and it’s Robertson.

Torx/Robertson > Allen >>> Phillips

Hex and Slot can both be the best option in certain situations.

I think I’ll go with # <3. Medium threads, shorter length, and countersink.

I would rank slotted higher than Phillips because it is really easy to manufacture, and it still works when it’s really shallow. There are lots of places where it’s the only option that makes sense.

I’ve bought quite a few items of clothing of the “wrong gender” from them…

I’ve been wondering about this. It seems like it’s been around for a long time, but I’m seeing it more recently.

I kinda like the letterforms, even though the kerning and balance of visual weight are terrible. . . . . . oiter

There is some risk of burn in, but it’s pretty manageable for modern OLED monitors with normal usage. Like, it should last closer to a decade than a year, especially if you lower the brightness a little.

Eh, sometimes the training takes 4-8+ years, and is only achievable by people with a certain disposition or talent.

I do think it makes sense for education and work to be better integrated (apprenticeships make a lot of sense)

But “discriminating” based on education and skill is just making a decision based on the two most important factors. I don’t want some unskilled HS student as my surgeon.

If anything, I think hiring should be based on skill more, not based on previous jobs you’ve had and how good you are at interviews.

There’s definitely a grey area. “Sports” is a spectrum from competitive team based games, to any recreational activity that requires athleticism.

In this case my point is that wrestling presents itself as a competitive sport, while that aspect of it is fake.

I agree to some extent, but there’s an important difference between sport and performance. WWE is categorically separate from say, BJJ. Sure, they both have guys rolling around on the floor, and they’re both kinda silly, but one is a real competition with rules and skill while the other is a predetermined show.

Yes, you can run ollama via termux.

Gemma 3 4b is probably a good model to use. 1b if you can’t run it or it’s too slow.

I wouldn’t rely on it for therapy though. Maybe it could be useful as a tool, but LLMs are not people, and they’re not even really intelligent, which I think is necessary for therapy.

I think they’re joking about being single and unemployed.

You don’t need to sit at a light with the blinker going. I just put it on before the light turns green, or right before I start moving.

Good news, we can actually do all of the above already!

• add consciousness have kids

• remove consciousness die

• alter consciousness do drugs

Well, it falls apart pretty easily. LLMs are notoriously bad at math. And even if it was accurate consistently, it’s not exactly efficient, when a calculator from the 80s can do the same thing.

We have setups where LLMs can call external functions, but I think it would be cool and useful to be able to replace certain internal processes.

As a side note though, while I don’t think that it’s a “true” thought process, I do think there’s a lot of similarity with LLMs and the human subconscious. A lot of LLM behaviour reminds me of split brain patients.

And as for the math aspect, it does seem like it does math very similarly to us. Studies show that we think of small numbers as discrete quantities, but big numbers in terms of relative size, which seems like exactly what this model is doing.

I just don’t think it’s a particularly good way of doing mental math. Natural intuition in humans and gradient descent in LLMs both seem to create layered heuristics that can become pretty much arbitrarily complex, but it still makes more sense to follow an exact algorithm for some things.

I considered this, and I think it depends mostly on ownership and means of production.

Even in the scenario where everyone has access to superhuman models, that would still lead to labor being devalued. When combined with robotics and other forms of automation, the capitalist class will no longer need workers, and large parts of the economy would disappear. That would create a two tiered society, where those with resources become incredibly wealthy and powerful, and those without have no ability to do much of anything, and would likely revert to an agricultural society (assuming access to land), or just propped up with something like UBI.

Basically, I don’t see how it would lead to any form of communism on its own. It would still require a revolution. That being said, I do think AGI could absolutely be a pillar of a post capitalist utopia, I just don’t think it will do much to get us there.

The math example in particular is very interesting, and makes me wonder if we could splice a calculator into the model, basically doing “brain surgery” to short circuit the learned arithmetic process and replace it.

Depends on what we mean by “AI”.

Machine learning? It’s already had a huge effect, drug discovery alone is transformative.

LLMs and the like? Yeah I’m not sure how positive these are. I don’t think they’ve actually been all that impactful so far.

Once we have true machine intelligence, then we have the potential for great improvements in daily life and society, but that entirely depends on how it will be used.

It could be a bridge to post-scarcity, but under capitalism it’s much more likely it will erode the working class further and exacerbate inequality.

Well I remember seeing a study that ads actually have a pretty bad return on money on average, so the problem is that selling ads is quite profitable. Platforms drown us in ads because it makes them money, and it doesn’t matter if the ads themselves are effective or not.

While it’s true that we don’t understand consciousness, LLMs don’t have the hallmarks of consciousness that humans and other animals do.

Modern LLMs are essentially just guessing the next word in a sentence. There’s no continuous experience of the world, and there’s no self, no agency.

Don’t me wrong, it’s fascinating tech, and if we do one day create machine consciousness, it might incorporate parts of our current technology. But right now it’s pretty safe to say that LLMs aren’t conscious, unless you believe in panpsychism / animism.