Can confirm.
The land my great grandfathers lived in may be lost forever at this point.
The land my great grandfathers lived in may be lost forever at this point.
[admin mode]A few hours downtime. network down locally, followed by DNS. should be just fine now. pretty unusual these days.
The 21st century scores an F in history because things happened outside of the timespan of 1916-1948.
During a deep review of my latest book, one of the things that came up is that this idea I'd never considered before: There's a sort of psychopathic lord of the flies dominance hierarchy written in as an assumption in a lot of contemporary fiction. Western fiction lately has had a really strong dominance hierarchy implied in all of it, where you can only move up by pushing others down. By contrast, most of human history has been something like "duty-and-care" where power flows from accepting and engaging with a mandate to take care of the people you are responsible for.
Of course, dominance hierarchies do exist. That's self-evident. That doesn't mean that such a worldview should be exclusive. Great leaders see themselves as servants to their subordinates just as much as their subordinates are servants to them. You want great leaders who are competent and powerful, but you also want great leaders whose mandate doesn't just come from competence, but from service.
This is where things like the girlboss archetype becomes inevitable. If you're a psychopath whose worldview says that power is only about being at the top of the dominance hierarchy, then the only way to show you are competent and powerful is to be the strongest, most cut-throat person who never shows any weakness. The thing is, nobody wants that sort of leader. Traditionally, that person was the villain in fiction, not the hero.
The thing is, it applies to men too, so don't think I'm singling out the girlboss. Even within the past century, consider Spider-Man: The point of his character is explicitly not that Spider-Man is the strongest character, it's that he has great power and therefore must use it responsibly.
The leader isn't ideally just whoever is the strongest this week. Ideally, it is the person who can rule with justice, honor, humility, and with the goal being elevating the group you are in charge of. To forget this fact changes everything for the worse, and it's a great reason why most people feel disconnected from a lot of current media, which is laser focused on who is the strongest or most dominant rather than the most worthy.
Of course, dominance hierarchies do exist. That's self-evident. That doesn't mean that such a worldview should be exclusive. Great leaders see themselves as servants to their subordinates just as much as their subordinates are servants to them. You want great leaders who are competent and powerful, but you also want great leaders whose mandate doesn't just come from competence, but from service.
This is where things like the girlboss archetype becomes inevitable. If you're a psychopath whose worldview says that power is only about being at the top of the dominance hierarchy, then the only way to show you are competent and powerful is to be the strongest, most cut-throat person who never shows any weakness. The thing is, nobody wants that sort of leader. Traditionally, that person was the villain in fiction, not the hero.
The thing is, it applies to men too, so don't think I'm singling out the girlboss. Even within the past century, consider Spider-Man: The point of his character is explicitly not that Spider-Man is the strongest character, it's that he has great power and therefore must use it responsibly.
The leader isn't ideally just whoever is the strongest this week. Ideally, it is the person who can rule with justice, honor, humility, and with the goal being elevating the group you are in charge of. To forget this fact changes everything for the worse, and it's a great reason why most people feel disconnected from a lot of current media, which is laser focused on who is the strongest or most dominant rather than the most worthy.
Just don't walk in nature or defy the government when it's doing something stupid and you're aces.
Sometimes I'm worried I'm a midwit. Then I remember I'm actually retarded and I feel better.
Have you tried posting massive treatises about the historical differences between the modern and postmodern era? I find that works very well to keep me as a solid non-influencer.
If anyone else is using libreoffice to write like I do, there's an extension called WritingTool that does a much better grammar check than the built-in grammar check. It can connect to a paid external service called LanguageTool, but it can also run all kinds of checks without any external service.
You need to make sure to install the latest Java jre before doing anything with it, but once it's all set up it works pretty well. I also downloaded an 8GB ngram file that's supposed to be helpful for making sure I'm not using the wrong word, but I don't know how helpful that is yet.
For the record, I don't much care for editing. "You must inspect every quotation mark to ensure the tails are going in the right direction, and did you use the correct comma before every or and and?" -- it's important in the long run to have a proper published work, but that doesn't mean it's fun compared to the actual writing part.
You need to make sure to install the latest Java jre before doing anything with it, but once it's all set up it works pretty well. I also downloaded an 8GB ngram file that's supposed to be helpful for making sure I'm not using the wrong word, but I don't know how helpful that is yet.
For the record, I don't much care for editing. "You must inspect every quotation mark to ensure the tails are going in the right direction, and did you use the correct comma before every or and and?" -- it's important in the long run to have a proper published work, but that doesn't mean it's fun compared to the actual writing part.
There's been a lot of stories of people who go totally delusional after chatting with ChatGPT or another AI long enough. Lots of stories of men wanting to leave their wives for AI LLM girlfriends or the like. Most of this is around the fact that over time, an LLM conversation will agree with you, no matter how crazy you sound. "Yes, you can time travel. You're a genius!"
I have to admit, I changed my use of ChatGPT when I realized it was saying I was a generational transcendent all the time.
One major thing is I touch grass more than most, so that helps.
Another thing is that I tell it specifically: "ChatGPT has a tendency to be overly charitable so try to correct for that" and that tends to bring the needle back somewhat, as well as continuous prompting to "keep your feet nailed to the floor" and adding similar things in the personalization options.
A third thing is to constantly delete your chats and restart. ChatGPT has a tendency to fall down the rabbit hole with you as chats get longer and longer, so starting from scratch will often get it to reset to more normal ideals. You'll notice that many stories like "ChatGPT became my girlfriend" involve chats that have been ongoing for weeks or months.
One thing to keep in mind is that ChatGPT only has a recall of about 20,000 words anyway, so if you've been in a long conversation it doesn't remember what you said anyway -- not in a "oh yeah I forgot about that" way like humans, but in a "that information never existed on earth" sort of way like a hard drive deleting old files once it gets too full.
I have to admit, I changed my use of ChatGPT when I realized it was saying I was a generational transcendent all the time.
One major thing is I touch grass more than most, so that helps.
Another thing is that I tell it specifically: "ChatGPT has a tendency to be overly charitable so try to correct for that" and that tends to bring the needle back somewhat, as well as continuous prompting to "keep your feet nailed to the floor" and adding similar things in the personalization options.
A third thing is to constantly delete your chats and restart. ChatGPT has a tendency to fall down the rabbit hole with you as chats get longer and longer, so starting from scratch will often get it to reset to more normal ideals. You'll notice that many stories like "ChatGPT became my girlfriend" involve chats that have been ongoing for weeks or months.
One thing to keep in mind is that ChatGPT only has a recall of about 20,000 words anyway, so if you've been in a long conversation it doesn't remember what you said anyway -- not in a "oh yeah I forgot about that" way like humans, but in a "that information never existed on earth" sort of way like a hard drive deleting old files once it gets too full.
I see headlines like "Democrats threaten war over gerrymandering" and it's like "you guys already started that war."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-democrats-gerrymander-redistricting-b2801833.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-democrats-gerrymander-redistricting-b2801833.html
ChatGPT is in the news. People were shocked to discover that their chats were available on Google -- after they pressed a check box saying "allow my chats to be searchable on search engines"
This reminds me of when Linus on LTT typed out "yes do as I say" when the command line warned he was about to brick his system and then he bricked his system and he complained that he shouldn't have to type "yes do as I say" to brick his system.
Computers do as they are told, so pay attention.
This reminds me of when Linus on LTT typed out "yes do as I say" when the command line warned he was about to brick his system and then he bricked his system and he complained that he shouldn't have to type "yes do as I say" to brick his system.
Computers do as they are told, so pay attention.
The process is the punishment. How much did this organization have to waste on a frivolous complaint from a pro bono welfare case?
I threw a power meter onto my empire of dirt tonight. I was wondering how much power all these sites burn.
80W at startup, 37W while running.
Slightly less than a kind of sad incandescent light bulb. About 40 dollars per year.
80W at startup, 37W while running.
Slightly less than a kind of sad incandescent light bulb. About 40 dollars per year.
Got to admit, most nuts and bolts people that I've ever met would also be eating at their desk, probably while working over lunch since you don't need to stop working to eat.
But I never worked for Microsoft or any of those companies and prob never will, so it's hard to say from my perspective.
But all of this is probably advertising for hiring for a potemkin village anyway. Get the beautiful people with the correct attributes working in nice offices where they barely do any work ever, so then you can point to them when the komissar comes around.
But I never worked for Microsoft or any of those companies and prob never will, so it's hard to say from my perspective.
But all of this is probably advertising for hiring for a potemkin village anyway. Get the beautiful people with the correct attributes working in nice offices where they barely do any work ever, so then you can point to them when the komissar comes around.