I’m not even talking exclusively about capabilities, I’m talking about the effects of using LLMs on people. Cases of psychosis and the effects on the newer generation in their education, the atrophy of critical thinking skills, the ability to subtly influence public opinion, those are things we should be thinking about even if you don’t think that LLMs are capable of doing anything.

Here’s the thing. We should absolutely not trust any companies with this much power about anything they say, buuuuuuut to play the devil’s advocate here, let’s pretend they are absolutely altruistic.

They are still a company and must compete. Their market edge isn’t dominant enough that they could really take any moral stand like “stop research and development” when there are three other companies who will gladly step into the market leader position, so even if they do believe their message, without any assurances that everyone will agree to pause, they’d just be letting someone else take over their spot for a moral stance for an arguably worse situation.

And realistically, if they weren’t in the lead, people would be saying “loser wants leaders to slow down lol” and if they’re in the lead people will say, “lol market leader wants competition to stop, I wonder why?”. There is really no position they can be in and make the claim without catching flak for it. A year or two ago Anthropic made a similar blog when they weren’t in such a dominant position and comments were exactly like that.

All that said, obviously they’re nearly a trillion dollar company and we shouldn’t take anything they say at face value, but I really do think the message here isn’t terrible (like the article says). We really should be slowing down and looking at the effects of AI. It has too much potential to fuck everything up to not think about it a bit, especially if recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.

Alien Isolation is one of the few games that gave me legitimate anxiety to play. I wouldn’t say I was scared necessarily like the feeling you might get playing some other horror games in the dark, but like a genuinely stressful experience. They nailed the inevitability of conflict with the alien.

Looking forward to seeing how they’ve done with an open area version of this experience given how the tight spaces in the space station contributed so much to the experience of the first game.

Holy fuck, me too! Meet in the barn after horse-work or whatever? :3

You can disapprove of something and not “cry” about it. Do you cry every time you dislike something?

I mean, ya gotta make amends. Give healthy food on a schedule so they know you’re committed. Perhaps leave a kindly note with a shiny bead.

The rest of this comic is that guy freeing the chimp, I think, right?

Edit: yes! I found it!

I have exactly the opposite problem 😭

I don’t know if it’s unintended consequences or not caring about the consequences. The people responsible for this are richer than god as a result and they simply do not care what happens to anyone else.

I just want one minion to say fuck right in the middle somewhere. No preamble. No explanation. Just pops out.

Having lived in Florida, it’s worth the risk.

I’m a tiny bit confused as to what this actually is. I don’t use the Codex/ClaudeCode/Cursor stuff, but it seems like this is just an interface for connecting those services, isn’t it? It doesn’t seem like that actually protects your data at all.

Can anyone help explain it a bit?

Edit: I realized I kinda glossed over all the stuff that seemed to be included in this, I more meant the start where he talked about this being privacy centric. Is he just trying to make self-hosting less painful?

The EU’s payment processors cannot come fast enough.

It’s too late, I saw what you posted and I agree.

This is perfect! I’m always having trouble making my computer cum, so this will be super useful, thanks!

I found this image helpful as well, for anyone else with a similar problem. The important bit is highlighted in red.

Yeah, I’m in 100% agreement here. His thesis statement, “That’s what makes me evil–being sick of him. And if you’ve ever been sick of him, then you’ve been evil, too.” was so good. The idea of a Morty who wanted to chase the pure freedom and chaos of an unfiltered, infinite universe and him being painted as evil as a result was such an interesting character.

I don’t mind that they brought him back, but I do wish that was the underpinning motivation of his character still. Or, if they wanted to subvert that, that while he craves pure freedom, he ultimately learns he doesn’t want to become as detached as Rick (as he saw when they last met) and still wants some connection to Rick or his family.

Fans are nice to make white noise when sleeping, as are softer sounds like a sleep music playlist. For earbuds and headphones, look for stuff with individually customizable audio per side if your tinnitus/hearing damage is asymmetric like mine. I also found a lot of use for headphones that allow audio passthrough and turning up that ambient sound because I lost hearing for certain pitches (which coincidentally are really close to same pitch as the ringing in my ear now) and sometimes struggle to hear what people are saying in surrounding noise. Earbuds that focus on voices help with that as well.

As far as getting used to it, my hearing was damaged at 24 and I’m 35 now. I got more used to it with time, better at selectively listening what I need to, and finding ways to block the ringing out or ignore it mostly wasn’t a terrible experience. Mostly that means I just am always listening to something. Music, TV, a stream, whatever. For me it’s medium-ish loud so it’s always a bit annoying, especially when it gets in the way of actually hearing something or it keeps you up at night or something like that, but please believe me when I say it isn’t so bad. I still enjoy music just fine and get to sleep on time. I just don’t need all my hi-def audio equipment anymore, hahaha.

She cares about those in need! 😭♥️

The difference there is that the basis for restrictions comes from already established precedent surrounding regulation of firearms. It would be illegal for the layperson to build, but not necessarily someone licensed to do so.

In this case, there is no precedent for requiring an ID to use computer hardware. The basis (as far as I understand it, but I’m not a lawyer) being used to force these ID laws is that these OSs (Google, Apple, and Microsoft) are actually a commercial service which knowingly deals with children, and there are established laws about how companies are allowed to enter into service with children and obligations/regulations that require a good faith attempt to determine what sort of customer they are dealing with.

In the case of FOSS, though, there is no associated company and no contract of service, and no reasonable way for a developer or maintainer to know who is using their service. It’s much closer to someone giving away a book than it is to basically anything else, and there are decades of precedent backing this up, which makes it a much easier thing to challenge in court.

I don’t know what their arguments would be, but even if it were, that seems akin to saying it’s legal to say but it’s illegal to hear. It depends pretty much entirely on what the courts think of an argument like that.