Candelestine

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Eventually, yes, I think it will be. Not yet though, the tech just isn't strong enough atm. But an AI is resistant to the emotional toll, burnout and low pay that a real life therapist has to struggle with. The AI therapist doesn't need a therapist.

Personally though, I think this is going to be one of the first widespread, genuinely revolutionary things LLMs are capable of. Couple more years maybe? It won't be able to handle complex problems, it'll have to flag and refer those cases to a doctor. But basic health maintenance is simpler.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 months ago (4 children)

tbf, kids content on youtube has been a shitshow for awhile. Here's a short Folding Ideas piece on it, that's equal parts surreal, sad and scary:

https://youtu.be/LKp2gikIkD8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I really hope this doesn't start an actual cult. People don't need much in the way of an excuse, you know.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Not a platitude, a harsh and brutal reality. Though I do agree that it is time to fight fascism. Just don't think you can actually destroy it by fighting like this is all some fictional story with a happily-ever-after. Real life doesn't work that way, only fiction.

Real life needs more difficult and complicated fixes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

...not wrong. Except remember that an idea cannot be genuinely destroyed, since it's not an actual physical thing. Even if you did somehow manage to destroy it in the present day, nothing prevents people from creatively coming up with it again.

Netanyahu wants to learn this the hard way.

Find another way that doesn't involve death, destruction and ill-fated attempts at control.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago

Less about self benefit, more about preservation of data accessibility. Potential self-benefit is a bonus, an extra. Two birds, one stone, nice and efficient. How smart people do things.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Simplifies your wardrobe a lot, that's probably my favorite thing about mono-season climates.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Very likely. Those are not secure in the long-run either though, hence the need for an overabundance. No single online service should be genuinely fully trusted. You need a lot of duplication for any kind of real future-proofing.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Vice did a lot of very good, and generally in-moderate-depth reporting over the years. Hope an overabundance of people scrape that shit while we still have an opportunity. Once its hosted somewhere safe, you could probably even dump access to it somewhere like ... the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Something, something, technology indistinguishable from magic, something, education funding, something, something.

[–] [email protected] 187 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Funny the kind of folks that get suspended on Elon's twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Different fuels do release different amounts of heat when burned, this is true. But, the amount of heat in a fuel, and "temperature" are two different things. Did you not understand my explanation of how that worked?

Memory can get foggy after even a few years, much less 20. Brains are not as pure as we like to think. This is why witness testimony is such weak evidence in a courtroom, where physical evidence like fingerprints are considered much better. People's memories suck.

edit: So how about this one. If wood fires "burn at a low temperature", how does the inside of a forest fire get over 1000 C? If wood just burns at a set temp, wouldn't that be the temp they can reach?

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