moreover, I’m convinced the entire reason my generation (millennials) turned out to be tech-savvy was because adults didn’t understand it, were trying to control and curtail our usage, and we were mostly focused on finding ways to circumvent boomer and gen-x meddling in our usage.

LLMs are never going away.

Are you basing this assumption on the idea that they’re free to use? Because that’s not sustainable.

The every single time an AI company has tried to actually require compensation for the tokens burned for AI queries, even amounts that would hardly cover a fraction of the operational cost for that ‘work’, contracts have mass-canceled immediately.

You don’t have any control over token churn, either:
First of all, no matter how simple the prompt, LLMs can get stuck in thought loops that can chew through thousands of tokens before an answer can come out.
And second, every prompt you make not only eats a bunch of tokens incorporating the system prompt that can be billions of parameters long, but also includes every PRIOR prompt you put in, AND all their responses for “Context”, therefore token use increases geometrically for every next prompt.

The only thing holding its usage aloft is that nobody has had to pay up front. But the bill is racking up more and more every day for the power and cooling and facility upkeep, presently “paid for” by massive debts. When these firms that took out those debts file for bankruptcy, you do realize what’s owed doesn’t just magically poof into smoke, right? Even if a court literally ordered an injunction that those debts be stricken from the books as if they never happened, there is no financial firm on earth that wouldn’t find some backhanded way to balance the loss by shifting the burden to its other clients.

Maybe if any one of these companies posts a net profit, EVER, I might change my tune… but so far, this has been the emperor’s new clothes all over again.

Yeah fam u.u i feel ya…

Hard times–and it’s not even just reddit.

The things we once took for granted are now associated with new hardship because profit for Party A requires suffering for Party B.

Every new loss I encounter, I no longer have the energy to get upset. I just resign myself. “Oh well. That figures. Just gotta accept it and adjust.”

It’s weird how I’m less emotionally volatile and vulnerable than I had ever been in prior stages of my life despite the world having become distinctly worse since then. But … getting upset takes energy; i have no energy to spare.

it’s been wrong for as long as i can remember. perhaps longer. it’s always been wrong, as far as i know.

it’s still wrong…

…but for the first time, it seems to be getting less wrong.

… Depends on your definition of “okay”.

A maximally “good person” would not consider it OK to criticize someone’s religion, but they may criticize harmful activities that individuals perform, even if such individuals use their religion as an excuse to do harmful things–because it is not about religion, but rather about choices and actions.

However, I am admittedly not a maximally good person, no matter how much of a cinnamon roll I do wish I could be… And I draw the line a little further into the gray area, in that the thing that gives me pause is not “it’s a religion” but rather “participation in these activities–” this religion in particular “–strongly correlates with specific marginalized demographics.”

There is a very strong likelihood that dissing islam will also, with proverbial ‘splash damage’, hit people who are also going through a lot of awful shit with government leadership and legislation that somehow manages to STILL be more cruel and more corrupt than a given “global north” or “western” nation state.

So … It’s just awareness of context.

Also there is a chilling effect from all the highly publicized incidents where journalists are murdered for saying something that some individuals whom are Muslim do not agree with.

(although that does not make them look any worse than when israel murders journalists lately…)

Generally speaking, the normative population of christians (using the broadest possible definition in Literally Anyone Who Prays To Jesus) does not, statistically, suffer nearly as much oppression as muslims.

So … due to EXTERNALITIES, mocking islam itself, specifically, feels too much like ‘punching down’ for my liking. It is my hypothesis that there are other people hesitating to talk shit for the same or at least similar reasons. Meanwhile, mocking christianity is quite a bit less like ‘punching down’ because the most corrupt, powerful, dastardly sacks of shit on the planet dress themselves up as christians.

…That said, I do not think anyone has a leg to stand on as far as trying to dictate at other people that they are “allowed” to mock some religions but not others. I for one believe this is a personal choice that one must make for oneself. If you wish it did not happen, the extent of one’s individual influence is to choose not to oneself.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK:

PUBLIC LEGISLATORS AND EXECUTIVES DO NOT DESERVE PRIVACY!

Fascinating!! Honestly I think I’m even more inclined to buy one myself now ^-^

it’s going to take a little time while i save up, but hopefully the price won’t increase it out of my reach in the mean time…

Hmm. Yeah, I think you’re right. If I share this with friends online anywhere else I’ll leave it out.

“w-wa-WAIT HOLD ON man what are you pushin’ this thing at me for?! I don’t want it! GEEZ, dude…!”

Now he lives in constant fear for his life, unable to feel comfortable or safe anywhere he goes.

(Good; LOL. Perhaps LMAO, even.)

One must NEVER eat gas station sushi ._.

Huh. Now, I for one enjoy coming in for extra hours because MONEY but I realize that few people enjoy their jobs as much as I do D:

Hell, few people enjoy MY job as much as I do!

I work overnight dispatching at a towing company.
(I discretely sabotage certain predatory practices while I’m there, teehee~! ;3c )

The bed is too damn hot.

Please let us know how it performs! I know it’s not gonna blow our socks off but a regular human being using it to gauge its ease of setup and use would be nice.

Sometimes the “I built my pc from scratch starting with smelting the copper ore for the circuit board traces and folding together the case out of a single sheet of steel with my BARE HANDS” perspective has blind spots with regard to everyday usage.

If I got that letter I’d be on the verge of going Paper Mario on that fuckin place

“Please select the toy whose attributes are more likely to statistically correlate with the reproductive caste demographic which has been labeled ‘male’ by the consensus of Homo Sapiens who speak English.”

“Ma’am do you think a college educated sociologist would work at a fast food drive-thru?”

“In this economy? Absolutely, yes.”

“…”

“…”

“…okay fair, I’ll put the toy car in the bag.”

it’s ironic how all the people barking “think of the children” turn out to be the people we absolutely DO NOT want thinking about children, ACTUALLY.

… i hope he never had the chance or ability to actually do anything to her physically ._.

i hope learning about what someone did without her knowledge will not scar her for life…

huh. i have somehow managed to instill within myself a penchant for unambiguous specificity in response to this question before this ever became a problem for me.

“Are you busy?”

“I am not available for any communication at this moment except for textual.
I anticipate my response time shall be approximately between 30 and 300 seconds.”

Have a little more faith in them!

I for one believe that they will manage to run out of money even sooner. -_-