Elise

Well, it’s their company 🤷🏻‍♀️

Gpt4 is seriously idiotic with code. It’s only capable of some basic stuff. Anything mildly complex and it’ll keep bouncing back and forth between mistakes as I keep correcting it. It just can’t reason.

What she said plus lots of people don’t fly.

I’m mostly on your side but I did just cancel my gpt4 subscription.

There’s several factors but the main one is that it just uses a whole lot of power and materials eventhough I don’t really need it.

For example it helped me learn about electronics, and it was effective at that. But I feel it’s more efficient to just buy an ebook. It just feels slightly less convenient, but actually is healthier for my focus.

It’s kinda like with bitcoin. It isn’t a net positive given our current situation. It’s a waste of the scarce resources we have. And we need to get to net 0 ASAP and stop mining like there’s no tomorrow.

The other thing it was good at was searching information and providing it in a uniform format, rather than the mess that is the web rn. But installing Firefox and a bunch of extensions solved most of that. And search engines allow for generating an LLM response when I feel it would really help, so that fills the gap.

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An angry squirrel crawls up your ass

Just a fun fact: They’re not insects, but crustaceans, and they like moisture. They’re originally from the Mediterranean area. If you search you’ll occasionally find a blue one. They are valuable in bioremediation since they consume heavy metals. This makes them less tasty to predators.

Wow that’s cool! Thx

The succulents when you give them:

Oh and I am considering to attach a potted plant to my bike. Is that even possible? It will have to be shake resistent.

Yes please

Better push it back into the ocean before it evolves. Already made that mistake one too many times.

Another tidbit of info I have is that if you have an annoying sound, like say your neighbor is playing music, it is only annoying if you know you can’t change it. If you’re friends with the neighbor and so you know you can go over and stop it, it’ll suddenly stop being annoying and you won’t even ask for it.

Thr question is if this is applicable to you and if you could somehow trick yourself into that. Magbe by meditating you could go into the sound instead of your usual pattern of trying to get away from it. That way you grow a new habit of sort of going with it and finding it enjoyable even in some way.

At least that helped me with a lot of other stuff like emotions.

Don’t you think hat’s kind of extreme? There’s countless examples of social change through peaceful protest.

To name a few examples: Germany people got rid of the nuclear power stations through peaceful protest. The US civil rights movement. Women’s suffrage. LGBT. XR rebellion recently made a change by blocking a road in the Netherlands. Gandhi.

I’m not saying violence never works or is never necessary. But it’s also an unstable component that’s best to be avoided if you want lasting change.

You could even argue that violence is counterproductive, at least in some cases. Take the democratization of Europe in and after the Napeolonic era. Napoleon and co did plenty of unethical stuff, and eventually he repeated the same thing all over by becoming emporer, and in the end he lost to the monarchs and so it didn’t really last. But in the long term the idea stuck and did its magic everywhere, even in places they hadn’t conquered.

Replying to both your msgs. Ya I have tinnitus as well and it’s difficult to compare. I also knew someone who was ready to kill himself because it was so bad for him. I’ve been looking for solutions for a while.

Afaik there’s no direct treatment. However there are some pills that can help for specific cases, that reduce the blood pressure which can be a factor. It’s worth a try. I can’t remember the name but it was specifically for tinnitus.

As far as I understand it knowledge is limited because it’s something that happens in the brain. That the cause might be that the brain adapts to hearing loss in an undesirable way, by connecting the auditory center to the wrong place, and so the sound you hear is actually activity in that part of your brain. In certain cases that can mean that reducing stress or taking certain drugs can reduce the activity and consequently the tinnitus too.

On the other topic, I was just thinking that perhaps you could wear cupped sound canceling headphones on top of your hearing aids and then use a directional mic. Maybe there’s even headphones that already include that function. It really depends on how your hearing aid works.

Can they pair over Bluetooth?

What if you wear headphones over them? Does that work? Then you could connect those to a directional mic. And maybe you can make it so it doesn’t look totally idiotic.

Interests before values

Marriage isn’t needed for practical purposes any more and we’re closely related to bonobos.

I feel uneasy about having disorder boxes for everyone. People just have different cognitive styles with pros and cons depending on the environment in question.

For example I think visually and was terrible in school, and it has plenty of pros and cons. It’s impossible to really explain to someone who doesn’t think this way, so they go for the DSM, which doesn’t even describe cognitive styles. When you hold a hammer everything is a nail.

Just as with piracy I always wonder what percentage of the market really uses blockers, how relevant that segment truly is, and how much of it can be regained by simply improving service quality.

For example when it comes to ads I often see unhealthy lifestyle ads such as fast food. Or those money grab mobile games I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. I honestly wouldn’t mind being served a trailer for baldur’s gate, or an ad for a local restaurant.

Furthermore it’s not that I wouldn’t pay for something like YouTube. But it’s just that I have no choice as a customer in what service to use and it feels forced. YouTube is the only choice for many things. Google has an unfavorable privacy license and so I prefer to avoid them altogether.

So in my eyes it’s a service issue. It’s like they are mopping with an open faucet. It’s just a waste of resources.

I get what you mean about working with people/customers directly. You know you don’t always end up with the job that you think you’re studying for. Life can be really dynamic and you simply have to go with it. It’s impossible to tell where you’ll end up. The strangest jobs are connected.

I mean one time I met a guy from Germany who climbs trees in Guyana. Who knows how he ended up doing that.

And I know a coder who became a horse shoe blacksmith. And a trashman who became a mathematician.

If you don’t enjoy coding then maybe that’s not your call but there’s so many jobs surrounding it and it’s good to connect to others in your school.