Interesting read! So they have never significantly tapped into your chemistry or science knowledge? I have a college kid who doesn’t love taking money from me and randomly lost a bunch of financial aid this year. Thinking of forwarding this info to them but I’m a little worried it would be demoralizing as a first non-work-study job…

The fact that many don’t see the satire despite for example the bug SA scene is a statement about society, it’s part of the art

I actually don’t know, technology maybe? I’m sure main would do. My impression is that as far as traction goes the comm doesn’t matter too much on this site, most of us are looking at an unfiltered feed of all the posts. If you remember, please tag me in a comment or DM me so I don’t miss it!

“I’m not gonna speak to that,” Patel said.

That’s literally your job!

So I seem to recall Biden threatened to begin thinking about maybe considering implementing possible consequences with regard to providing certain weapons if humanitarian conditions didn’t improve. Does anyone know if this happened?

I’m interested in hearing more about the experience for sure

I haven’t sincerely shouted for joy or wept in years.

This implies that you haven’t always felt this way. If so, well you might or might not be neurodivergent, but your complaint is a consequence of treatment resistant depression.

Me, somehow in the same situation and remembering your advice, “hahaha, me too!”

Like, if you didn’t like reservoir dogs even a little I guess just quit. Otherwise, just don’t watch once upon a time in Hollywood and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the rest.

“Let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant brilliant billion of stars.” -Kamala Sagan

“considering the more left wing politicians never seem to win the primaries”

I got the result I was brave enough to say I wanted yay

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Okay, the one nostril thing is actually normal! Most people breath primarily or entirely through one nostril at a time, with the dominant nostril switching every few hours. When I go off nasal spray (gradually) this is what happens to me and it drives me nuts. Like, if I’m entirely healthy and no allergens I can sort of breath through both, maybe 80/20, and it’s only a little bothersome but the moment I get any congestion at all at least one is plugged up and I just cannot handle it. Probably I “cured” myself of the nasal cycle at a very young age and got used to it.

If you do the same yes you will definitely get physically dependent but for me at least I have never had to increase the frequency or amount I’m using over time (literally like 35 years of continuous use). Actually like mentioned I’ve gone from full strength oxymetazoline to about 1/4, it works for 6 hours or so. Phenylephrine spray is much weaker but still causes dependence.

As far as I can tell the only negative of being addicted is you will freak the fuck out and be miserable for a few days if you should find yourself without it. I am a habitual nicotine user and if I had to choose between nasal spray and my vape it would be no choice at all, nasal spray plz

What product from Zicam are you using?

If you’ve been using nasal spray for a long time the congestion is just rebound, it would take several days for it to start going away. Personally I can’t stand nasal congestion, like ever, I am a long term nasal spray addict and haven’t had any obvious health problems from it. I’ve quit a couple times but soon as I get a cold or something I’m back on the stuff so pretty much gave up on that. Currently use it at about 1/3 strength, mixed with saline nasal spray, which is plenty it just takes a bit longer to take effect. If you have been on it a while you can quit by making weaker and weaker solutions, gradually go to 0% over month or two

Had them more than a decade ago, pros couldn’t get rid of them. All I had to do was put all my belongings in the garage, heat that up to 140 degrees F for about 12 hours, dust the entire house including inside the walls with diatomaceous earth, and move out for 3 months. Easy peasey.

Btw they can’t climb smooth surfaces, it’s actually practical to just put protectors/detectors on all the legs of your beds and furniture and make sure there’s nothing touching the walls or hanging to the floor. I did that for a few years out of paranoia actually and always for the first few months after moving into a new place. I still wake up sometimes and am compelled to turn on the light and check my sheets. They need human blood to survive, unfortunately they can live for quite some time without feeding.

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Very well, I’ll take that as a sort of compliment lol.

So I guess I start where I always do, do you think a machine, in principal, has the capability to be intelligent and/or creative? If not, I really don’t have any counter, I suppose I’d be curious as to why though. Like I admit it’s possible there’s something non-physical or non-mechanistic driving our bodies that’s unknown to science. I find that very few hold this hard line opinion though, assuming you are also in that category…

So if that’s correct, what is it about the current paradigm of machine learning that you think is missing? Is it embodiment, is it the simplicity of artificial neurons compared to biological ones, something specific about the transformer architecture, a combination of these, or something else I haven’t thought of?

And hopefully it goes without saying, I don’t think o1-preview is a human level AGI, I merely believe that we’re getting there quite soon and without too many new architectural innovations, possibly just one or two, and none of them will be particularly groundbreaking, it’s fairly obvious what the next couple of steps will be as it was that MCTS + LLM was the next step 3 years ago.

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You’re describing like 95% of the entire USA though, and 80% of the entire world. I am also prone to judging humanity as not so great, but we literally need them for the revolution. Well maybe not the initial part, but we’ll need most of them to get with the program in short order.