74207 pts ยท July 26, 2022
I don't know if you'll find what you're looking for on the internet. I mean, I'm sure it's possible, I just feel you may find more positive feelings if you do it in front of people, like at an open mic night like another commenter mentioned. Plus if you record yourself, you've got videos to post. And the big ideas can always come later, it's not like no musician has ever re-recorded a song before.
I've been playing music (poorly) for 25 years or so now, and for the past 15, nobody else had heard me play anything. Until I posted a clip here. More people saw my clip than had ever heard me play music throughout my entire life. More than all the parents at all the school orchestra concerts and all the family and friends who heard me play all my random instruments combinedBut I still felt like nobody saw me at all. Which I know isn't true, since @shanefrost was kind enough to leave a comment
I feel more strongly as time goes on that it has a lot to do with the internet colonizing our attention span, hijacking our sense of community by making sites & apps feel like home, slowly stealing more and more of our selves away from the people around us - our actual community.I feel the sense of powerlessness the current political climate instills in us is just one part of this issue. We see the whole world, but we can't change the whole world. We only have control of our little part of it.
The problem with Asimov's laws is that they're a literary device designed to go wrong for drama. "harm" means a thousand different things to a thousand different people. And even if we managed it in a way that works rules-wise, LLMs simply don't obey rules. An LLM cannot mechanistically follow orders. An LLM is incapable of corrigibility. It only simulates the appearance of following orders with probability. And as much as researchers work to maximize that probability, it will never be 100%.
This is kinda besides the point, since the answer's no even if it wasn't like this, but the University of Washington ran fake applications through Salesforce, Mistral, and Contextual AI and in their tests, it tossed out applications with female-associated names 89% of the time, and never, ever, once chose a black-associated name over a white-associated one.It straight up should not be legal.
FDM 3d printers shove a long strand of plastic through a very hot nozzle to melt it down and build the model up line by line. These lines are usually quite visible.SLA 3d printers use a special resin which hardens when exposed to UV light, and shine a light to build each layer. These models tend to be higher quality, but the printers are smaller and more costly to operate.Here's a high resolution imgur post to compare; SLA on the left and FDM on the right:
Did it turn out ok on an FDM printer? I saw the rocky one assumed they were designed with SLA in mind
They released a couple files for 3d printers on the official PHM website. I don't know what the etsy/3d printer situation is like in Brazil (I hear tech is expensive there) but I'm sure it's possible to find someone who sells 3d printing services. I loved the book, went in totally blind, and it was a lot more fun being just as clueless as the main character in the opening scene, not knowing about Rocky until he showed up, etc. Wish more people could've experienced it that way too.
The subtitles don't help either, they turned "stellar job" into "steal a job," "fare" into "fear," and "scan" into "scald"
I feel like 90% of what you do is in response to your environment, so you have to use the other 10% to build an environment that guides the 90% towards the person you want to be.This "always pushing yourself to be better" mindset can set you up for failure - nobody can "always" be pushing themselves. We're weird little animals, give yourself the space to be one without sabotaging yourself. Google Haidt's Elephant Rider metaphor.
I'm sorry things didn't go the way you'd hoped, but I enjoyed following the house hippo saga here on imgur
Pirating is only good enough if you agree to never talk about it, so that you don't inadvertently cause a paying customer to want to see it.
Reminds me of the Keep Feeling Fascination music video, so now I've got that stuck in my head.
There is actually a species of spider called the cat-faced spider.Spiders are cute.
My high school had this "behind the scenes" award it'd give to a few graduates. I got one and only found out years later that the winners were selected by students. I cried a little when I realized that it meant a bunch of my classmates saw and appreciated the things I did when I'd spent years feeling invisible. I don't know how to thank those people from back then either, so I try to see it as a lesson to show appreciation to the people presently in my life.
If only there were 50 years worth of video games that one could enjoy without having to purchase the latest hardware
#14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICNywOaJPE&t=218s
Czardas, by Vittorio Monti
nekomancer
Sounds like a fun google hole to fall into yourself and see which plants native to your region have pollens high in 24-methylenecholesterol, isofucosterol, and sitosterol
Hey, this is a great idea, what if we took it to other posts too? At some random point during the day, we could each look through usersub newest for someone posting their art or some other project and tell them how much we liked it or how cool we think it is
I found changing my diet to be easiest (least hard) when I looked at it through the lens of "dieting is done at the store." Meaning, don't buy the sugary or carby stuff and it won't constantly be sitting there tempting me all the time. No impulse buys. If I go out, I deliberate over what I will get before I leave instead of making my choice with all the delicious smells influencing me.As for exercising, here's Terry Crews' advice about going to the gym:
Wow a wild 633k spotted. Hope you've been doing okay.
It's really awesome that you have family you feel safe taking this to.I just wanna say, I love your posts, and I've learned enough from them that I have a starting point to talk to my autistic nephew about his interest in small exotic pets. He was gifted a small iguana enclosure for an orchid mantis he wanted to get, and I was like "Don't you need a smaller one?" because I remembered a comment of yours about it stressing spiders out. So we got him a smaller one.
looks uncomfortable
I don't know if you'll find what you're looking for on the internet. I mean, I'm sure it's possible, I just feel you may find more positive feelings if you do it in front of people, like at an open mic night like another commenter mentioned. Plus if you record yourself, you've got videos to post.
And the big ideas can always come later, it's not like no musician has ever re-recorded a song before.
I've been playing music (poorly) for 25 years or so now, and for the past 15, nobody else had heard me play anything. Until I posted a clip here. More people saw my clip than had ever heard me play music throughout my entire life. More than all the parents at all the school orchestra concerts and all the family and friends who heard me play all my random instruments combined
But I still felt like nobody saw me at all. Which I know isn't true, since @shanefrost was kind enough to leave a comment
I feel more strongly as time goes on that it has a lot to do with the internet colonizing our attention span, hijacking our sense of community by making sites & apps feel like home, slowly stealing more and more of our selves away from the people around us - our actual community.
I feel the sense of powerlessness the current political climate instills in us is just one part of this issue. We see the whole world, but we can't change the whole world. We only have control of our little part of it.
The problem with Asimov's laws is that they're a literary device designed to go wrong for drama. "harm" means a thousand different things to a thousand different people.
And even if we managed it in a way that works rules-wise, LLMs simply don't obey rules. An LLM cannot mechanistically follow orders. An LLM is incapable of corrigibility. It only simulates the appearance of following orders with probability. And as much as researchers work to maximize that probability, it will never be 100%.
This is kinda besides the point, since the answer's no even if it wasn't like this, but the University of Washington ran fake applications through Salesforce, Mistral, and Contextual AI and in their tests, it tossed out applications with female-associated names 89% of the time, and never, ever, once chose a black-associated name over a white-associated one.
It straight up should not be legal.
FDM 3d printers shove a long strand of plastic through a very hot nozzle to melt it down and build the model up line by line. These lines are usually quite visible.
SLA 3d printers use a special resin which hardens when exposed to UV light, and shine a light to build each layer. These models tend to be higher quality, but the printers are smaller and more costly to operate.
Here's a high resolution imgur post to compare; SLA on the left and FDM on the right:
Did it turn out ok on an FDM printer? I saw the rocky one assumed they were designed with SLA in mind
They released a couple files for 3d printers on the official PHM website. I don't know what the etsy/3d printer situation is like in Brazil (I hear tech is expensive there) but I'm sure it's possible to find someone who sells 3d printing services.
I loved the book, went in totally blind, and it was a lot more fun being just as clueless as the main character in the opening scene, not knowing about Rocky until he showed up, etc. Wish more people could've experienced it that way too.
The subtitles don't help either, they turned "stellar job" into "steal a job," "fare" into "fear," and "scan" into "scald"
I feel like 90% of what you do is in response to your environment, so you have to use the other 10% to build an environment that guides the 90% towards the person you want to be.
This "always pushing yourself to be better" mindset can set you up for failure - nobody can "always" be pushing themselves. We're weird little animals, give yourself the space to be one without sabotaging yourself. Google Haidt's Elephant Rider metaphor.
I'm sorry things didn't go the way you'd hoped, but I enjoyed following the house hippo saga here on imgur
Pirating is only good enough if you agree to never talk about it, so that you don't inadvertently cause a paying customer to want to see it.
Reminds me of the Keep Feeling Fascination music video, so now I've got that stuck in my head.
There is actually a species of spider called the cat-faced spider.
Spiders are cute.
My high school had this "behind the scenes" award it'd give to a few graduates. I got one and only found out years later that the winners were selected by students. I cried a little when I realized that it meant a bunch of my classmates saw and appreciated the things I did when I'd spent years feeling invisible. I don't know how to thank those people from back then either, so I try to see it as a lesson to show appreciation to the people presently in my life.
If only there were 50 years worth of video games that one could enjoy without having to purchase the latest hardware
#14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICNywOaJPE&t=218s
Czardas, by Vittorio Monti
nekomancer
Sounds like a fun google hole to fall into yourself and see which plants native to your region have pollens high in 24-methylenecholesterol, isofucosterol, and sitosterol
Hey, this is a great idea, what if we took it to other posts too? At some random point during the day, we could each look through usersub newest for someone posting their art or some other project and tell them how much we liked it or how cool we think it is
I found changing my diet to be easiest (least hard) when I looked at it through the lens of "dieting is done at the store." Meaning, don't buy the sugary or carby stuff and it won't constantly be sitting there tempting me all the time. No impulse buys. If I go out, I deliberate over what I will get before I leave instead of making my choice with all the delicious smells influencing me.
As for exercising, here's Terry Crews' advice about going to the gym:
Wow a wild 633k spotted. Hope you've been doing okay.
It's really awesome that you have family you feel safe taking this to.
I just wanna say, I love your posts, and I've learned enough from them that I have a starting point to talk to my autistic nephew about his interest in small exotic pets. He was gifted a small iguana enclosure for an orchid mantis he wanted to get, and I was like "Don't you need a smaller one?" because I remembered a comment of yours about it stressing spiders out. So we got him a smaller one.
looks uncomfortable