ArbitraryValue

@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a diet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when I got used to feeling hungry all the time while dieting, I never got used to the fact that I was constantly tired and sleepy. I was way less productive than I had been while eating as much as I wanted to.

  It was different when I took medicine that messed with my appetite. ADHD medication pretty much made eating optional. I still enjoyed it when I did eat, and if I paid attention I would be able to tell that I was hungry, but if I was distracted by other stuff I would often just forget to eat all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what you mean by “drastically”. The guy evangelizing to the rest of the company was claiming an increase in productivity of about 30%. I’d say that’s a big increase, but I wouldn’t use the word “drastic”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I, for one, have gained a great deal of effective psychological advice from ChatGPT - advice that has significantly altered my internal state and is changing my life for the better. My friend (an experienced software developer) uses AI to review code and look up obscure syntax. According to him, it functions at the level of a “very well-read intern”. A scientific collaborator I used to write data-analysis scripts for almost never asks me for help anymore. She is very happy because Gemini is good enough to do almost all of what she needs. A digital artist I know often edits promising AI-generated pictures rather than drawing from scratch. A very no-nonsense coworker increased his productivity so much using Copilot that he voluntarily arranged to give a talk to the rest of the developers about how great it was.

  All these are people I know personally. I don’t think an AI can write a B- paper (it can write something that looks like a solid paper until, as you say the sources are checked) but it’s already helping many professionals work more efficiently. For now, this looks like a warm-and-cozy “AI works together with humans rather than taking their jobs” scenario but every one of the people I’ve mentioned thinks that the technological development that lets AI take his or her job could happen any day now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pumping out a B- paper means being able to replace the average college graduate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon did philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Large breasts are hypnotic in a way that smaller breasts aren’t, and I don’t deny that I’m attracted to them, but I’m not necessarily more attracted to them even though I am more likely to stare.

  I also have a thing for the athletic flat-chested look. I had such a huge crush on my friend who was competitive long-distance runner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon did philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My impression is that breast size matters primarily for competing with other women. It’s like muscle size for men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon looks into cults⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be a fool if I gave all my money to a charlatan, and I’m no fool. That proves that Jesus IV is the real deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And so it was⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shh, don’t tell OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Predictable in the same way the inevitable leak of the people submitting their selfies in order to view porn is predictable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sharks are older than polaris⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  North star? More like noob star.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sexual attraction plays a role - I’m not aroused by playing a game, but attractiveness is a type of beauty and I enjoy looking at beauty. I also think that women are just prettier than men even in an entirely non-sexual way, but I wonder how much of that is simply a reflection of being taught that women are the beautiful gender rather than an innate aesthetic preference. That segues into an interest in traditionally feminine social roles. I admit that I’m a bit envious of women, not because I consider myself a woman or want to become a woman, but because women get to be beautiful, delicate, desirable, etc. and men don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is trying his best, okay? 🥺⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has killed the lobster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but your question reminds me of how before puberty, I wanted to play video games as a male character (girls had cooties, I suppose) but after puberty I often prefer to play as a female character. I still play RPGs as a male (I suppose it helps me get in character, plus romance subplots feel weird otherwise) but otherwise I prefer female characters because they’re prettier (not necessarily in a sexual way). I liked paying Guild Wars because many of the women’s outfits were just gorgeous. One character class went into battle wearing my choice of fancy dress. That was fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but my answer is going to be boring. It happened before transgender issues started getting a lot of attention, so I just thought it was funny and naughty. I wasn’t thinking about gender identity. Now I don’t feel like my gender is a big part of who I am, so I also don’t feel a strong reaction (either positive or negative) to the idea of having a different gender.

  At one point the girls were holding me down and trying to put makeup on me, but I wriggled loose. I do regret that a little, not because I wish I had had makeup on but because I think that if I had been less self-conscious back then, I would have had more fun and better stories to tell too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the living dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a guy but I was made an honorary girl once, way back in high school, so that I could attend an all-girls sleepover party. I was assigned the name “Isabelle”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not exactly hard to guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think MechaHitler is a denier per se.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I admit that I would prefer an anime waifu who isn’t a Nazi but I’m willing to compromise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the answer yes? Some things are just so serious that you can’t let yourself be emotional about them. The little annoyances are the ones that it’s safe to feel upset about without being overwhelmed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty woman stepping on you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  In my admittedly limited experience, women willing to kiss a guy are still often going to be reluctant to do something that they think might hurt that guy, even if the guy insists otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bricks and rubble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the official app doesn’t have a way to save images from comments anymore

  Even the web interface doesn’t make it straightforward to save images. “Open image in new tab” and “Save image as” don’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In fourth grade we would read short stories and answer multiple-choice questions about them. One such story was about romantically involved terrapins, and the question was “What would be a good title for this story?” The answers included

  a) A turtle love story.

  b) Two turtles in love

  I don’t remember which one I picked but the correct answer was the other one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mages be like:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re never going to get power, limitless power if you’re not even willing to read a few cursed tomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok got a Nazi patch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the prompt? I’m not going to be outraged if it have you Holocaust-denier talking points after you asked for Holocaust-denier talking points, even thought ideally it wouldn’t answer questions like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck, are there dating sites that work at all anymore? Over a decade ago I had some success with OkCupid but my impression is that ever since swipe apps became a thing, online dating went from bad to terrible for everyone except gay men looking for hookups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsolicited nudis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of a calendar of nudibranch photos I saw at a dive shop. Due to a typo they were called “Colorful sea sluts”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨riders on the storm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There used to be at least some fireflies every year where I lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid but now there aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨riders on the storm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a long exposure, but there really can be that many of them. I was out on a moonless night in upstate New York. It was dark enough that an amazing number of stars was visible (I could even see the Milky Way), I was surrounded by fireflies and glowworms, and there were no other sources of light one I turned my flashlight off. It was so dark that I couldn’t see my own feet, just lights in all directions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rinse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That and the sign is probably not real too.