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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • Whether or not you said you like reading isn’t really applicable. That you find books complicated and want a computer to dumb it down for you to the extent that you maybe can’t read a book anymore is indicative of the mental acuity you are capable of bringing to a conversation or task.

    Critical thinking is an exercise that one must keep up with, regardless of interest, if one is to be able to maintain effectiveness of it. Supplanting one’s own capabilities with a regression model will cause one’s abilities to atrophy and further a dependence on that algorithm regardless of its own incremental improvements.

    Books are not inherently complicated. They make them for kids. The fact you find them thus is an indicator of your own lack of ability.



    • Excessive resource use for what it can produce thereby negatively impacting the broader environment
    • Excessive noise and heat pollutants (among others if generating power locally) thereby negatively impacting local environments
    • Used for trivial things that could generally be done faster or more accurately by a human
    • Places the levers of available knowledge and social influence in the hands of a few powerful men
    • Excessive use supplants your trained ability to critically think which can make you more dependent upon them in the future
    • The generic LLMs we have today are being invested in at the expense of investments in other technologies which could have a greater positive impact
    • People are losing their jobs to a machine that does it worse in a society with no recourse for protecting human life






  • I wasn’t responding to your mention of ads, I was responding to your assertion that there weren’t overblown sensationalists at the same time you liked specific channels.

    Yeah, of course they weren’t of the same quality, but during that same time period they both existed and were more popular than the one’s you mentioned. Fred was pulling in double digit millions of views on most of his videos for a couple years. That’s more than what could be said for any of the creators you listed.

    Of the channels you highlighted as positive the only one that competes with Fred is TomSka with the asdfmovies, and those were spaced a year apart. Hell, Hawp, 5sf, and Nathan Barnatt never broke 10M views and rarely even broke 1M. Furthermore, TomSka in asdfmovie is overblown sensationalism.


    What I’m attempting to highlight is that the platform has always had it’s cringeworthy creators and that your rose-tinted glasses don’t automatically elevate the creators you personally liked to popular status. That’s not a bad thing per se, but obnoxious sensationalist creators operating at the same time as your preferred channels (and thus in your perceived glory days) were bigger and more popular than those you mentioned.










  • So Trump, in his racist fury, canceled an existing plan that prevented Iran from producing nuclear weapons and permitted rigorous investigations. While this plan did grant access to several billion dollars those funds were either Iranian funds formerly frozen as part of prior sanctioned nuclear activities or repayments for a trade deal the US had failed to uphold their side of.

    To replace this deal, “No new wars” Trump started a new war which ended up closing one of the world’s most influential shipping lanes, revealed to Iran how easy it is to close that shipping lane, revealed to the world how affable the US military is, lost the war he started and will have to actually pay reparations in an amount double the number of funds the Obama plan gave access to. The end result of this will be that Iran has fewer restrictions (though still no nuclear weapon), more money, and greater respect in the region.

    Trump will still claim he got a better deal.


  • You didn’t search for how to do something though.

    And the most recent release was about 5 months ago.

    Also carbs are significantly older tech than 5 months, 1 year, or even 9 years ago.

    Also also the average age of a car in the US is about 12.5 years old.

    Also also also why the fuck would you not include the model of your car when searching for information about your car.


    This just reads like you not understanding something, misattributing it to something else, then producing a non sequitur as an analogy.

    Edit: You could always sort by recently uploaded if you genuinely want new videos about 5 month old software, but you’ll be greeted with a lot of slop and irrelevant content. Could it possibly be that the algorithm surfaced the most relevant content for your vague post? It can’t surface things that don’t exist after all.