This is a popular caricature but not true. People would go very far out of their way to answer questions in detail.
Maintaining high standards for questions and answers is only “notoriously brutal” for people who weren’t willing to put in the effort.
@Austen On the other hand, if anyone deserved to lose their users, it was them. They allowed a notoriously brutal culture to flourish there. Obviously people will prefer to ask questions of an AI that won't ridicule them for asking.
Largely yes, and but if scans really do become ubiquitous, people should become familiar with the concept of “you’ll see a ton of anomalies, we don’t know if any are noteworthy and won’t until we see how they progress.”
If everyone’s doing it, and everyone’s riddled with anomalies, nobody is abnormal.
And there’s also the hope that over time, we get better at distinguishing benign from dangerous anomalies, considering the flood of new data we’d be getting.
@xwanyex The “our leadership is stupid” and “if I was CEO” crowd is perpetually convinced that company strategy is wrong and their work is meaningless by extension.
I’m biased toward believing leadership has some level of competence, which is what landed them there in the first place.
@Gumbo_hymns@Jonathan_Blow > more automated translation of C and C++ to Rust [using] LLMs
They're betting big on vibe coding to do most of the heavy lifting
The most popular C++ talk at the CppCon YouTube channel is a C guy telling the entire C++ community to stop writing inefficient code.
You just gotta love it.
friendly reminder that therapy is just an industry that manufactures permanent customers by pathologizing normal life.
most of it is fake, the rest is useless
@johnrushx Employee salary is after-tax, and EU is a bit more expensive. You're not even getting 1/2 off, and now the employee lives on another continent.
The psychedelic community is textbook "answer in search of a problem." They want so badly for psychedelics to be the totemic keys of civilization, healing and wisdom.
The most misunderstood "drug" in the world:
Ayahuasca.
It can heal you, humble you, and for some—traumatize you.
How I used it to heal deep shame and childhood trauma (backed by science): 🧵