FauxLiving
@FauxLiving@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 2 hours ago:
Ah, so “half your age plus seven” wasn’t the low end, it was the target.
That certainly re-frames things.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 12 hours ago:
When we decided to mind our own business and stop moralizing other people’s relationships based on our personal feelings.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Same, I enjoyed the gameplay but every item drop was far less exciting because I’d need to pause and consult a wiki before making a choice.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
They can hire all of the experts fleeing the RFK clownshow
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 2 weeks ago:
I think of it like this: Those people were never going to be compatible with you anyway and you spend a lot of time and effort masking and trying to hide who you are. It works for short interactions but not with anybody that you’re going to see often.
You’re better off acting in a way that makes you the most comfortable and true to yourself. The people who can’t handle that will filter themselves out. Rejection isn’t pleasant, but it’s brief, on the other hand masking constantly is exhausting even if it fools people for a bit.
You’ll be much more content in the long term if you just understand that it’s okay to just be who you are and let others decide if they like that or not. I guarantee that there are women (and men) who are compatible with you, but you won’t meet them by wasting your time with people who are not.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 2 weeks ago:
It’s okay to be different and that often comes with struggles. But it sounds like you’re trying to attack the problem with yourself and not just giving up and being angry about the world.
Sex is fun, but it doesn’t cure loneliness. If you’re looking for a longer term solution then start looking to build lasting relationships, be open about having autism and you’ll find that the people you end up meeting will be going into things with you with a bit more understanding and empathy than if you just try, and fail, masking.
And, as always, a therapist is very useful when you’re trying to make a big change in your life. Having someone who is both educated in psychology and an unbiased observer can really help you see and understand things that you’d otherwise miss.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t a male loneliness epidemic, it’s a loneliness epidemic. You’re never going to get satisfying answers to your questions if you accept the framing that it’s a male loneliness epidemic.
It’s a loneliness epidemic for everyone.
Focusing on the arguments of people who have no understanding of the topic and are just spreading toxicity is pointless; but pretending that there isn’t a loneliness epidemic because it’s used to power some incel memes is contributing to the apathy about this issue which is causing harm to both men and women.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 2 weeks ago:
Just to be clear, there is a loneliness epidemic: hhs.gov/…/surgeon-general-social-connection-advis…
In the scientific literature, I found confirmation of what I was hearing. In recent years, about **one-in-two adults in America reported experiencing loneliness.**1-3 And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cut off so many of us from friends, loved ones, and support systems, exacerbating loneliness and isolation.
Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and societal health. It is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety, and premature death. The mortality impact of being socially disconnected is similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,4 and even greater than that associated with obesity and physical inactivity. And the harmful consequences of a society that lacks social connection can be felt in our schools, workplaces, and civic organizations, where performance, productivity, and engagement are diminished.
Dunking on incels who equate loneliness with a lack of sex and ascribing the “male loneliness epidemic” to being a meme made up by chronically online social media users is a mistake.
Everyone is experiencing loneliness.
Just because women suffer in silence while some men turn to antisocial behavior doesn’t mean that this is a problem that’s fabricated or only affecting men.
If you’re resistant to believing that this is a real problem because the people making noise about it on social media are primarily men then you’re ignoring reality.
- Comment on A simpler time 3 weeks ago:
You betta axe sumbody
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 weeks ago:
And, if you’re new it’s also an escape room.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 weeks ago:
How many years of Windows experience do you have?
If you had that many years of experience on Linux then the shell commands and arguments wouldn’t be obscure.
Now’s the best time to learn, there’s a lot of other beginners now so the Linux communities are full of people learning at the same time as you would be.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 weeks ago:
pacman exists specifically to solve dependency issues and prevent that exact scenario
- Comment on So apparently the wifi can see my dick now? 4 weeks ago:
He’d have to be in order to maintain that body temperature
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 4 weeks ago:
… and don’t on’t get me started on the “birds”
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 4 weeks ago:
乁( ⁰͡ Ĺ̯ ⁰͡ ) ㄏ
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 4 weeks ago:
¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
Whip those goalposts around a little harder.
gonna block you now,
Oh no, and you seemed like such a pleasant and respectful person. :(
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
ah what great advances has alpha fold delivered?
The ability to know how any sequence of amino acids will create a protein and what shape the protein would have. This also led to other scientists creating diffusion models which can be prompted with protein properties and they generate the sequence of amino acids which will create a protein with those properties. We also can write those arbitrary sequences into mRNA and introduce that into a local area of our cells.
and that robotics training, where has that improved human lives?
Well, Fukushima for instance. Now they can use disposable robotic dogs to do clean up and monitoring in high radiation areas. A job that humans were doing at the beginning. I’m sure those humans appreciate not having to die of cancer early.
Faux, I get it, you’re an aibro, you really are a believer. Evidence isn’t going to sway you because this isn’t evidence driven. The suffering of others isn’t going to bother you, that’s their problem. The damage to the ecosystem isn’t your problem, you apparently don’t need water or air to exist. You got it made bro
🙄. If you can’t win an argument just switch to insults, the tactic of choice for the ignorant.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
I was talking about public perception of AI. There is a link to a study by a prestigious US university which support my claims.
AI is doing well in protein folding and robotics, for example
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 5 weeks ago:
That makes sense, the bladder isn’t used to having a normal volume of urine and has become extra sensitive, leading to an urge to urinate at a lower capacity.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
That’s stanford graph is based on queries from 2022 and 2023 - it’s 2025 here in reality. Wake up. Times change
Objective polling shows attitudes about AI were improving. Do you have any actual evidence to support your implication that this is no longer the case?
Being self-righteous, rude and abrasive doesn’t mean you’re correct.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
AI isn’t LLMs and image generators
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
AlphaFold is made by DeepMind, an Alphabet (Google) subsidiary.
Google and OpenAI are also both developing world models.
These are a way to generate realistic environments that behave like the real world. These are core to generating the volume of synthetic training data that would allow training robotics models massively more efficient.
Instead of building an actual physical robot and having it slowly interact with the world while learning from its one physical body. The robot’s builder could create a world model representation of their robot’s body’s physical characteristics and attach their control software to the simulation. Now the robot can train in a simulated environment. Then, you can create multiple parallel copies of that setup in order to generate training data rapidly.
It would be economically unfeasible to build 10,000 prototype robots in order to generate training data, but it is easy to see how running 10,000 different models in parallel is possible.
I think that continuing to throw billions at marginally better LLMs and generative models at this point is hurting the real innovators.
On the other hand, the billions of dollars being thrown at these companies is being used to hire machine learning specialists. The real innovators who have the knowledge and talent to work on these projects almost certainly work for one of these companies or the DoD. This demand for machine learning specialists (and their high salaries) drives students to change their major to this field and creates more innovators over time.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
Oh sure, let me just pull a couple billion out of the couch cushions to spin up a data center in the middle of the desert.
From my, very much not in a data center, desktop PC:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
Do you really need to have a list of why people are sick of LLM and Ai slop?
We don’t need a collection of random ‘AI bad’ articles because your entire premise is flawed.
In general, people are not ‘sick of LLM and Ai slop’. Real people, who are not chronically online, have fairly positive views of AI and public sentiment about AI is actually becoming more positive over time.
Here is Stanford’s report on the public opinion regarding AI (hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/…/public-opinion).
Stop being a corporate apologist and stop wreaking the environment with this shit technology.
My dude, it sounds like you need to go out into the environment a bit more.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 5 weeks ago:
I firmly believe we won’t get most of the interesting, “good” AI until after this current AI bubble bursts and goes down in flames.
I can’t imagine that you read much about AI outside of web sources or news media then. The exciting uses of AI is not LLMs and diffusion models, though that is all the public talks about when they talk about ‘AI’.
For example, we have been trying to find a way to predict protein folding for decades. Using machine learning, a team was able to train a model (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold) to predict the structure of proteins with high accuracy. Other scientists have used similar techniques to train a diffusion model that will generate a string of amino acids which will fold into a structure with the specified properties (like how image description prompts are used in an image generator).
This is particularly important because, thanks to mRNA technology, we can write arbitrary sequences of mRNA which will co-opt our cells to produce said protein.
Robotics is undergoing similar revolutionary changes. Here is a state of the art robot made by Boston Dynamics using a human programmed feedback control loop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ
Here is a Boston Dynamics robot “using reinforcement learning with references from human motion capture and animation.”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44_zbEwz_w
Object detection, image processing, logistics, speech recognition, etc. These are all things that required tens of thousands of hours of science and engineering time to develop the software for, and the software wasn’t great. Now, freshman at college can train a computer vision network that outperforms these tools using free tools and a graphics card which will outperform the human-created software.
AI isn’t LLMs and image generators, those may as well be toys. I’m sure eventually LLMs and image generation will be good, but the only reason it seems amazing is because it is a novel capability that computers have not had before. But the actual impact on the real world will be minimal outside of specific fields.
- Comment on off to learn themrodynamics and statistcial mechanics 5 weeks ago:
As any physics student will tell you: the textbook only gets more depressing from there…
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 1 month ago:
this looks slopped / i can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few slops in my time.
I can’t believe they stole the work of the hard working Flaming Anus artists in order to AI generate a bite mark into it and claim their place in the c/lemmyshitpost hall of fame. smhing my head.
/s (maybe google for 3 seconds before trying to start an AI witchhunt.)
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 1 month ago:
FYI, clicking the “Claim now!” button under a game will still claim the whole bundle
i now own a bunch of porn games cuz i wanted to try Postal 2 -_-
Uhh, yeah me too. And they used my credit card to sign up for porn. Smh, GOG
