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.

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.

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.

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.

Ich kann mich nicht auf umfangreiche Kenntnisse der deutschen Sprache berufen, aber ich glaube, fachlich ist das nicht korrekt:

https://www.chemie.de/lexikon/Lösungsmittel.html

Ich verstehe nicht, ob das ein Scherz ist, aber: Ethanol ist eines der wichtigsten Loesungsmittel in der Chemie

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.

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.

Das wirkliche Problem ist, dass die Bruecke nach etwas mehr Nachdenken nur noch €580.000 kostet.

[…] the people of the land

👌

Thank you. I’m so incredibly tired of propaganda guilt tripping consumers to feel personally responsible for issues that should be regulated and fixed by a competent government.

Sorry, dann handelt es sich um ein sprachliches Missverstaendnis. Davon kann es bei mir jederzeit viele geben. Now I know.

Der wichtige Punkt ist: Es besteht trotzdem eine Pflicht zur Dokumentation der Arbeitszeit.

Naechster disclaimer: Auswirkungen dieser Regelung sind bislang nicht mal als Arbeitgeber zu spueren, ich koennte mir also vorstellen, das es ein schwieriger Prozess ist, bis man davon als Arbeitnehmer profitiert. Trotzdem rate ich dazu, unter Umstaenden selbst die Zeit zu dokumentieren, um darauf verweisen zu koennen - je nach Arbeitgeber vermutlich auch, obwohl ein entsprechendes System im Betrieb schon existiert.

Es gibt keine Vertrauensarbeitszeit mehr. Die objektive Zeiterfassung ist seit einiger Zeit fuer alle Betriebe verpflichtend:

https://www.bmas.de/DE/Arbeit/Arbeitsrecht/Arbeitnehmerrechte/Arbeitszeitschutz/Fragen-und-Antworten/faq-arbeitszeiterfassung.html

Wenn euer Arbeitgeber ein solches System (noch) nicht eingerichtet hat: nachfragen!

Most people will run a post 2.6 kernel, so prlimit will be available as an interesting alternative to ulimit.

I want my pain to be inflicted on others.