Art. Do something creative for its own sake. Play some music, draw something, write something, glue something silly to your wall. Remember that not everything you do has to come with purpose or justification.
You’re alive, and at this very moment aren’t being physically consumed by a predator. Take it in and let yourself enjoy it.
This makes me wonder what our planet would smell like if we didn’t spend all our time here.
Y’all are burying the headline. This person has multiple groins.
Edit: Today I learned that groins are the armpit of the legs and I have two of them.
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There’s definitely a ceo-driven tendency to insert AI anywhere and everywhere whether or not it actually is a reasonable application. What I’m saying is that there are also some reasonable applications. When people focus entirely on “AI useless!”, they’re fooling themselves every bit as much as the people who think it’s suitable for every possible application. Their arguments are just as empty and vibes-based.
If you’d like to take the next sentence into consideration and respond to the context of what I was actually saying there, feel free.
That’s not what “thinking model” means. It’s not a statement about cognition, it means it takes steps in which it explains itself to itself to check if it’s missing something.
Well, it has initial utility with a bad trade-off and the utility dereases as addiction sets in. There’s a point at which smoking a cigarette is reducing stress, but eventually it increases the baseline stress before having a cigarette to the point that it’s a net loss. Eventually it’s not smoking reducing stress from other sources, it’s pushing back against the mountain of stress of addiction.
If it didn’t initially reduce stress in the first phase, you wouldn’t do it enough to get to addiction.
Personally, one of the things I found most useful for quitting was the idea that smoking another cigarette would never fix the desire to smoke, only not smoking could do that.
They can use it to do a lot of things. AI is far from perfect and makes all sorts of weird mistakes, but so do people. Arguably there’s substantially more value in training inexperienced humans to get better in their fields than in settling for AI as a cheap alternative that starts with a maybe slightly higher or similar but cheaper baseline, but that doesn’t eliminate all value they create. You can make arguments about the long term benefits socially or for individual organizations that leverage AI, but spend a couple hours playing with Claude and it becomes extremely evident that they’re not anything resembling useless.
Even if we completely throw chat bots out the window, there are some instances of general utility for thinking models. This comic is making a moral argument that’s more compelling, but arguing that they’re actually totally useless doesn’t really reflect reality
It’s much easier to make use of your brainstorming later if you write it all down. Like, literally write the entire thought process. All your justifications, waffling, everything. Connect brain directly to fingers.
Doesn’t Lemmy have crossposting so you don’t have to double-post into the feed in order to cover multiple communities?
That does seem like a reasonable use for an LLM, but it’s very important to realize that an LLM is not a database. You don’t necessarily get out what you put in. LLMs can lose context, they can hallucinate, and they can make all sorts of weird decisions that might compromise the quality of your data. There’s no workaround for actually checking on that information when the stakes are high.
An automated system that isn’t an LLM would be more reliable.
The idea that you can do anything you set your mind to can be an incredibly useful motivator. It still requires meaningful action to accomplish your goals, but it can help people be more willing to expand their own potential.
What’s harmful is the idea that asking an AI to do something for you has any relation to you actually doing that thing.
Chess I think.
Here, I fixed it. The person in the back row has their right blinker on so they can get into the left-turn only lane.
Because you’re a good driver who signals instinctually when turning rather than using your attention to look for excuses not to tell people what you’re planning to do?
I feel like this argument held a lot more weight before polymarket.
It’s pretty new and incredibly fun. YouTube and Twitch are bursting with streams and clips lately.
We have whole ass multiplayer Skyrim roleplay with 500+ people on servers simultaneously in 2026. No NPCs, all people. The world feels full. Like, it has as many people as it should to feel alive. The voice acting is impressive. I’ve met many people that feel exactly like running into a character in the game. I’ve also met a talking mudcrab that sold me mazte at a feast of St Veloth.
Public servers are predictably extremely goofy, but whitelist servers are really good. Right now the only English speaking server that’s currently up that I’m aware of is Keizaal, but Mereth will be launching their beta soon. Mereth seems to have cracked the NPC sync issue, so they should be able to fill the world with roaming creatures where Keizaal currently has spawn zones that trigger when you enter them (thus spawning NPCs in the same location for everyone), which then have a cooldown.
Look at you with your fancy extra buttons and your whole ass keyboard!
I would love to see more of these posted here!