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This is like learning about the christmas truce in WWI.

Also, I had to search both those guys. RIP Sven Guckes, I’m sure I have more to thank you for than I’ll ever know (unless I go back and check the commits). Thomas Dickey, I hope Luigi Mangione’s defence is going well.

lol

You will, regrettably, find it easy to believe what happened next.

The chatbot recommends the patient see a touring clown to cheer them up, only for the patient to reveal that they are themselves that same clown???

Thanks for debunking that. The AI bro writing the OP probably googled “examples of well intentioned regulation gone wrong” and copied the first thing they popped up. As in, I googled that and the first link I got was a quora post with both the example in question and a long discussion thread (152 comments!) poking holes in the example. And if they didn’t get it through google, they probably got it through GPT.

E: forgot to link to the quora post. Link

capitalism working against itself

More like: capitalism reaching its own logical conclusion

I’d believe it! I don’t spend much time looking at the specifics of chud weirdo discourse, but that definitely sounds like something they’d pull out of their ass.

How many CEOs did you speak to in the last 5 years to make you so confident about their “state”

Probably just short of 70, definitely more than 68.

Here’s one about “jumping ships”

1. That “article” doesn’t say shit about fuck.
2. Your point in no way conflicts with what I said.
3. What are you even doing here? How does boot taste?

A little more depth. Feel free to read up on the wellness to fascism pipeline in your own time, but here’s an outline of how I understand it:

The concept of wellness begins when the general public is encouraged to care about health. Wellness influencers are soon to follow (consider: Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. The aerobic gymnastics world championships).

The wellness influencer population balloons during the current age of social media. A lot of them begin parroting conspiracy theories, for good reason! There are real conspiracies with negative health impacts. Consider: Big Ag pushing HFCS. Unfortunately, not all of these influencers are gonna be well read on the science, and someone looking to become fit and healthy is probably more likely to just uncritically listen to models on instagram. So now there is a huge community of people that will uncritically believe conspiracy theories as long as they come from a wellness influencer.

Now, whether by design or accident, far-right conspiracies are sprinkled into this mix. While there is probably already an undercurrent of this*, the situation takes a nosedive during the early stages of the COVID pandemic. There’s a huge explosion of fascist conspiracies, notably the idea that the pandemic was caused by foreigners, causing anti-asian hate crimes to spike. So, where are health-related conspiracies going to propagate most virulently? The wellness community!

So, how do seed oils factor into this? Let’s say you’re someone thinking about becoming healthier. You don’t really know much about health science, and aren’t really trying to fix that situation. One day, you’re on tiktok, getting bombarded by thirst traps, when one day, the algorithm throws a fit thirst trap your way to tell you about one simple trick that will help your heart health: switching from seed oils to beef tallow and butter. Now, you’re not totally stupid, and you know that for some reason, beef tallow and butter are supposed to be kinda bad for you, so you’re a little skeptical. That’s when the influencer tells you that canola oil, one of the most popular and cheapest seed oils, doesn’t come from a real plant- Canola is a portmanteau of “Can” from Canada, where canola oil was developed, and “ola” from “oleum”, latin for oil. That’s right, you heard them: Canola oil was invented in a lab by Big (canadian) Science! A couple more tiktoks and spoonfuls of the naturalistic fallacy later and QAnon themselves is knocking at your door, looking for a place to stay.

*Of course, there is a fascism to wellness pipeline in play as well, though this is a little more straightforward. You can’t look like the master race if you’re unfit. You can’t be pure if you eat processed foods. But also buy these Alex Jones approved nutrient supplements, etc.

You’ve actually pretty much got it. There’s the wellness to fascism pipeline, which includes seed-oil-phobia and beef-tallow-philia. The biggest proponent right now is likely the current US secretary of health and human services RFK jr., who in a recent interview at a steak and shake decried seed oils in favour of beef tallow.

I don’t actually think there’s much of a hyper-masculine angle to it, but wouldn’t be surprised if I’m wrong. I think the manosphere would be more into eating meat that needs to be hunted. I don’t look much at that part of the internet.

More discussion at a.s here

Depends on the steakhouse. Take a shitty american chain steakhouse, for example; it could go either way. They might still try cater to vegetarians, because these chains are a volume business. But it also makes sense in that saturating your meal with beef makes sense for a shitty chain steakhouse.

For a fancier place concerned with taste, having beef on everything would desensitise you to that taste, and would probably kill the experience.

That tracks. CEOs are locked in a state of needing to justify their own existence. Being the one in charge of migrating to AI is the perfect reason. CEOs live and die by quarterly performance, but don’t have to answer to long term issues; janky code that resembles a demo is good enough to last until the CEO can laterally jump to the next ship.

Re: beef tallow fries. I tried some tonight. I liked them. They taste exactly as you’d expect: beefy. Is it worth fascism? Definitely not.

watched 3blue1brown videos at the gym

Ahh, getting brain gains while also getting your gain gains. Gotta gainmaxx

I would delete a field in a struct definition and it would suggest “hey, delete it down here too, in the constructor?” and I’d hit tab and it would go “now delete this setter down here too”, tab, “… and this getter”, tab, “… and it’s also mentioned here in this formatting function”, tab. Tab, tab, tab.

wtf? Refactor functionality exists. You don’t need an LLM for this. There are probably good vim plugins that will do this for you. Clearly this 15 year vim user is still a vim scrub (takes one to know one tbh).

I started following near, who was talking about Claude like a life companion. near used Claude in every possible situation: to research, to program, to weigh life options, to crack jokes.

Near needs to touch some fucking grass.

If nothing else, it’s a trap discussion. The only real answer is “they’re both fine.” Anyone who seriously argues that one is far superior to another probably needs therapy. Joke discussions are fine and signs of a healthy brain.

E: when I think vim, I think of bram moolenaar, may he rest in peace. When I think emacs, I think of richard stallman, who can go fuck himself with a rake.

Praise be to the timelines

ah, big insights into the world of AI. Where do you think we’ll land on AGI?

Now I want an anti-AI song parody called “A Guy Instead” to the tune of the Beatle’s “I’ll Cry Instead”

Thanks for looking into it. The idea of an ethical data set large enough to train an LLM is suspicious.

From the class guide:

We ask that students do not use laptops or phones in class. Research suggests that students who do so unwittingly spend much of the time surfing the internet leading to worse educational outcomes, and that taking notes by hand is much more effective. You may use laptops during class exercises, and you may also use a tablet to take notes.

lol

I think this sub might be satirical and that this post is under that umbrella, investigating!

E: post is tagged as humor