fat hangry owl

30 y/o guy waiting for something that might never come

[simzart]

Exam Knight. ⚜️

[exoolongtea]

WHITE WRAITH

[free-my-mindd]

Can I get a eta on “this too shall pass”.

[ladyshinga]

There are few things funnier to me than the white-hot raging beef parents can have with fictional characters written for young children. You want to hear one of the funniest rants of your life, you ask nearly any parent of a young child their least favorite little cartoon guy. It'll be amazing.

[ladyshinga]

no. i want them to find me organically on this one

[asmuchasidliketo]

Some commenters: "ugh I can't stand Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol"

Other commenters:

[abandonedography]

Old abandoned grocery store repurposed as a library

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[azzandra]

"Hey, we need to renovate this grocery store into a library."

"Okay, I got you."

*Removes the B from the BREAD sign*

"Done"

[theimpossibleness]

@distance-does-not-matter

[amanitaphalloides]

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

[amanitaphalloides]

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[wakor]

Exactly. I think about this a lot when I see "ChatGPT is always confidently wrong" arguments, not because genAI is often right, but because the argument doesn't work on people who actually use it regularly.

It isn't always wrong. It's often correct enough for the average person's day to day usage. If you say, "it always gives misinformation", they're going to ignore you because just that morning it gave a perfectly functional summary of their meeting's notes. It correctly identified some vegan restaurants in their area. It accurately calculated some math for them.

If it was always wrong, no one would use it. The danger is that you can never tell when it's going to be wrong, and when it's right enough that people start to trust it and not double check anything (automation bias), the things it gets wrong become catastrophic. Sometimes automation bias is so bad that mistakes compound and proliferate for ages before anyone catches it (ie: the company who were making financial decisions based off of hallucinated forecasting).

[bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss]

See, my particular bugaboo about AI is the overwhelming mountain of evidence that it LITERALLY CAUSES BRAIN DAMAGE:

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Cognitive Atrophy Paradox of AI–Human Interaction: From Cognitive Growth and Atrophy to Balance

The Silent Erosion: Global Generational Cognitive Decline in the Age of AI and the Future of Human Intellectual Agency

How AI is rewiring the human brain: the generational transformation of cognition and knowing

AI-overdependence and human cognitive decline: Hazards, evidence, and mitigation strategies

Is AI dulling our minds? — Harvard Gazette

Your Brain on AI: Cognitive Offloading, Debt, and Atrophy

Is Generative AI Rewiring Our Brains? Here's How It Happens

I think this is an easier argument to make with the people in your life who use AI. "It's wrong enough of the time that you shouldn't trust it" is easy to refute with "but it's right just enough of the time to be worth it". Add to that the good old Dunning-Kruger effect, and it's easy to give AI way too much credit. And way too much power.

Instead of asking them to vet AI's accuracy (especially about things they don't understand themselves), ask them about what effect AI has had on their own brain. Have they noticed changes in their memory, their attention span, their ability to focus?

Ask them what they use AI for. Ask them how they did those things before they had AI - and now ask them if they could do that now.

Ask them to consider what it would be like if they didn't use AI for a month, or a week, or even a day.

If the thought makes them uncomfortable, beg them to consider why.

I work in memory care, so believe me, I know what the process of dementia often looks like, and I'm seeing the telltale signs in more and more people who are younger and younger than ever. The scariest part is that the average diagnosis usually comes several years after the first symptoms present. It worries me.

And, as others in this thread have mentioned, there are even signs of cognitive decline in the AI itself as llm models inevitably begin to eat their own tails:

Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline

Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows

Digital Dementia? AI Shows Surprising Signs of Cognitive Decline

Oh, so we're all getting less and less functional. Cool. Cool.

[phaeton-flier]

Large number of complaints about the modern world resolve down to "I want everything in one bag and I don't want the bag to be heavy"

[phaeton-flier]

I want the newest, coolest, shiniest phone they advertise on Instagram and it should cost $30 and be tiny and also huge and have every feature I could possibly want without thinking about it

[phaeton-flier]

I want my websites to allow me unlimited uploading of all data in high definition with zero lag or buffering, have every single person on earth available, with an easy way to see only the stuff I like and not anything I don't, for free with zero ads, with clear, straightforward moderation that gets rid of every Nazi and has zero false positives that also lets me tell random strangers and the people running the site to kill themselves, and I should be able to find it without doing any independent searching on my own because I'm too lazy to look for it

[phaeton-flier]

I want my girlfriend to have huge tits and a small waist and a fat ass and thin thighs and have clear skin and be a virgin and great at sex, likes all the stuff I like but not in the annoying way other people do, looks like she spends 3 hours a day on makeup and hair but takes up zero time in my bathroom, goes down on me but doesn't ask me to eat her out, has zero kinks except for mine, doesn't demand anything of me and is attracted to me for me, modestly hides her body from the public but also makes other people jealous when I'm with her, isn't crazy jealous but doesn't have any other guy friends, wants three ways only with other girls, and also she approaches me in public so I don't have to do anything to meet or woo her.

[phaeton-flier]

I'd do one about video games or food but the last few years have shown that people will talk endlessly about wanting shorter games with worse graphics made by people who work less hours for more pay, or wanting to pay $1 more for a hamburger if the worker gets paid more, and then immediately revolt when the cost of their bleeding edge console or burrito taxi goes up with inflation.

[mamoru]

haters do not want you to know this but if you pick up something heavy every day it will eventually stop being quite as heavy. this is because the heavy thing, having witnessed your dedication, begins to yield its essence to you. and you, in turn, begin to absorb that essence into your own being. this is what makes people strong. the more essence you absorb, the stronger you become, and the more respect you command from the world around you.

[violsva]

#follow for more workout tips from Pliny the Elder (via @elucubrare)

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[elizabethsinclair]

phone addiction is absurd bc it’s like ah yes perhaps one more visit to the rectangle of no enrichment or fulfillment will finally enrich and fulfill me

[shiisiln]

Thank god MST3K exists so that every time I think “were all old movies just gorgeous, or is it the survivorship bias?” I can watch a few episodes and go “it’s the survivorship bias.”

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

[itsbasil]

you put those tags on this post where they belong

[chronophobica]

what they DONT tell you about clarinets is that you have to fucking build the damn thing every single time. "what instrument do you play" fucking legos man idk

[alphabetizing-posts]

about build clarinets damn do DONT every fucking fucking have idk instrument is legos man play" single tell that the they thing time. to what "what you you you

[howverychaotic]

I really need to start reading the blog name because I thought I was having some sort of moment right there.

[phanerozoicfossilgardener]

As a writer I need everyone to know that whenever I write "exchanged glances" my intent is this

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[suweeka]

She su on my wee 'til I ka

Plz laugh at my low effort joke

-VQN (ya know me as 🎵 teehee)

[flashkirby]

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[hachibani]

doodle dump... i miss posting and drawing more often 😔

did yall see the new tau preview why can't the operator/drifter have a best friend that won't eventually hate them smdh