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Another year around the sun

I don’t know why I always get so depressed every year around my birthday. The universe just must hate me in particular.

justice for good omens jesus he was amazing and I loved him so much. He had an amazing set up as a character just to immediately disappear in thin air without having any purpose in the plot 💔 I love you jesus

#good omens

crowley-anthony

The Beginning | The End

#good omens #really can’t decide how I feel about the ending #on one hand I’m really upset and then on the other hand I’m just happy they’re married and together in some way?#also I love that Adam showed up with Jesus at the end #I was really hoping

hgedits

Your love for him was the messiest, silliest, most predictable thing in the universe. And it always made me smile.

#good omens #finally watched good omens 3 and I am in fact crying

Please be informed about your own insurance, guys. Don’t just randomly choose a plan and then be upset when a doctor’s office charges you based on the amount you chose.

#em rambles #signed someone tired of having to explain how insurance works to grown adults #please at least know what your out of pocket- deductible- co insurance - or copay is #so many people get mad at me when I tell them their out of pocket because they don’t think their insurance is covering at all #please just be informed #we do not charge what we want to #we charge based on the plan you chose with your insurance #also just because you HAVE insurance does not mean they are covering 100%

nostalgic-teddyy

Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

ralfmaximus

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

I got these little ATLA gaang figures that I put in my room. So I have everyone including Momo and Appa. But when I got Zuko, his was broken off the stand so I took it upstairs to my desk to super glue. I super glued him but now every time I come downstairs to my room, I forget him on my desk. It’s like he has to wait until his season 3 redemption arc or something before he can join the rest of the gaang in my room.

#ATLA #em rambles #I am way too sleep deprived and this is way too funny to me #he’ll join the others eventually

effemimaniac

we are in the midst of a friday ass thursday. keep your wits about you.

thehummingbirdsmatter

I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was