A guy died at work. I was his manager, so when he went missing for a few days, the police called me and asked me to check his office in the basement.

After I found his body, I was scheduled to be off a couple days. When I got back the office he had been in was emptied, stripped bare, new floor, new ceiling, new paint.

A few weeks after that, I saw him walking down a hall. I rushed to the corner he had turned down, but he wasn’t there.

He also had a distinctive odor. Poor hygiene combined with strong cologne. There were a bunch of times when I’d suddenly smell him standing nearby.

I’m not a big believer in ghosts. I figure it was just my mind working through it.

In Soviet Russia, it is lovin’ you.

There’s nothing they can do about the extreme pain you live with for hours to a few days. You just suffer horribly.

They may not be able to save you, but there is something they can do about the extreme pain if they are willing.

Having a gun probably also gives you a better chance of being shot either by suicide, accident, or making yourself seem like more of a threat.

LLMs are interesting, and there are some very promising applications, but I’m concerned that the hype is going to damage the reputation of the technology in a way that could interfere with those things.

Regarding all other AI, there’s a lot of good that has come from AI research, and most people don’t recognize it. We have a tendency to shift our definition of “intelligence” to always exclude things that someone figures out how to get a computer to do.

Every day we use software that would have been considered AI years ago.

I’m not against AI, but I’m against the capitalist impulse to squeeze money out of anything to the detriment of all of humanity and the world.

My hope is that the LLM bubble bursts, big companies suffer terribly, the “AI” tag becomes bad marketing, and they let AI quietly return to research, where people can do some good with it.

What do you mean when you say AI?

Are you talking about all the different areas of research or just LLMs?

I tend to use metric when I’m designing 3D models.

In woodworking and other linear measurements, I use imperial units.

Celsius for my 3D printer, but Fahrenheit for weather.

Driving is miles.

In cooking I use imperial units.

Metric for Physics.

The one from this post I foolishly unmuted a few moments ago:

https://vger.to/aussie.zone/post/30689967

I would point out the way drug dealers kill their customers is unintentionally via overdose or bad drugs.

Also, if you’re a parent, and you lost your only child to a drug dealer due to an overdose, that’s really all you need to want to hunt down and kill the dealer.

A parent with nothing left to lose could be about as dangerous as it gets.

I have one example of a rich person who was addicted to drugs.

He was a gifted child so his parents treated him like he knew how to raise himself. They also probably weren’t terribly interested in raising a child, so they basically abandoned him. He was cared for, but not by them.

Best example of this: I mentioned that I still remembered my mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. He remembered the maid teaching him.

Because no one would stop him, he started drinking in his early teens, and moved onto drugs soon after.

Regarding murdering because of money, I’d recommend making it a home invasion gone wrong. Addicted kid gets cut off from family, can’t pay drug dealer, can’t get drugs. Tells drug dealer he knows where the family keeps a lot of money. Like “won the lottery” money. Drug dealer tells someone else who convinces them to go after it. Hilarity ensues.

I always felt like it was my responsibility to have them.

Personally, as a guy, I think him just questioning it is enough for you to have rejected him.

The only appropriate response to being told to use a condom is, “Of course I’m going to use a condom.”

Molokai

The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Not Noah Wyle, although I agree that picture looks like him.

The moon landing was faked, but they hired Stanley Kubrick to direct the shoot, and he insisted that they film on location.

I didn’t see either of these mentioned:

Farscape

The Orville

Ooo, I’ve got one!

Last Saturday, I was knocked off my feet with a stomach virus.

Because the meds slow down your digestion, it was difficult to, um, expel the illness in the usual, fast manner. I started feeling slightly better on Wednesday, but the issue wasn’t really resolved until Friday morning.

Where is here? Are you taking about terrorist cells?

Yeah, the week is looking better. Had a couple scrambled eggs this morning for breakfast and a baked potato for lunch.

If it all goes well, I can be back to eating the unhealthy crap I usually eat tomorrow 😁

Well. I got sick on Saturday. Stomach bug.

The best thing that’s happened to me this week is I was able to eat a few saltines last night.

Am I the only person who puts glasses in the cabinet upside down?

Also: left side, but flipped.