Is it really this bad for men dating, or is this more ..internal?
Readit NewsMolitor5901 commented on Men paying thousands for leg lengthening surgery theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Molitor5901 commented on Dating Men in the Bay Area astralcodexten.com/p/your... · Posted by u/lukebechtel
Just find someone you usually enjoy being around and can ultimately start a family with, and who would be loyal. Too many people are over-thinking this stuff.
Another perspective if I may: People are used to the dating apps now which require just a few milliseconds of consideration before swiping yes, or no. That focus on essentially "hot or not" eliminates entire swaths of the dating pool to just those someone finds attractive. The worrisome part is that they take that mentality of "only swiping on ~10" that they've transferred it to the real world. Why bother talking to that man, or that women, when the app gives you thousands and thousands of infinite choice. Why settle when there's so many better ones to choose from?
Molitor5901 commented on Dating Men in the Bay Area astralcodexten.com/p/your... · Posted by u/lukebechtel
This has quite a few issues with framing bias. It sets up this dichotomy between “polite society’s” vague, restrictive rules for men and the "manosphere’s" toxic but concrete guidance. Then she talks about only the men she has dated and kind of ignores the rest of male dating experience. All in all it just reads like a emotional attempt to persuade us to.. something.. but no real evidence. I don't think we can generalize men of the bay area, or men in general around these experience of one person.
Molitor5901 commented on · Posted by u/dontlike2chat
I am becoming increasingly frustrated with ChatGPT, when I should be a prototypical user. I analyze and help develop U.S. public policy. Cgpt is great for pulling in vast amounts of data, especially surface level, very quickly. I can then churn through what it has found, ask questions, etc. in seconds.
However, when you give something to Cgpt is when it seems to fail. The first is that it has a terrible time with cross-memory contamination. New Chat should mean a new session, instead at times it acts like a continuation of all previous sessions. Ergo if I give it a paper to summarize, it will pull in data from other previous sessions and insert that as if it belonged. It will also pull in data (words) from the internet and erroneously cite them.
Some of that can be rectified with the most explicit and logic drive questions, but that sort of defeats the purpose of treating it "like a research assistant," as it is often referred to.
Second, is that it cannot process and return large documents. For example: A sixty page plain text file of a conference speaker transcript. Asking it to summarize the conference does not work, and if you ask it why, it will tell you: can't hold large documents in memory, or it will go into a loop, or it will give nothing. Another error limitation it reports is that it can only return so much to the web interface, that i can understand.
Third, is in how files are handled. Am I the only one that tries to download a file and it gives me the "failed to get status for /mnt/data..." Even small files, or it gives a very partial correct/incorrect document, the same document you gave it initially, or a mess...
Those have been the biggest problem. I recognize that as a user I need to adapt in a few ways: Be very explicit and logic driven in my requests; chunk to the smallest reasonable number of parts of documents; and others. Understand that it's ability to recall can be limited, even if give explicit instruction, so each query should be a healthy repeat of the last results.
But we're paying for this..which has us testing multiple LLMs alongside Cgpt before we seriously dive into one.
Molitor5901 commented on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mooreds
I get the concern bout Palantir but this is not new: Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, AWS, have all been extending their reach into government for over a decade. Palantir is the boogey man right now, and it's under a lot of scrutiny because of its work and its political ties, but let's try turning some of the ire to all of the other tech companies empowering the government against people. The others shouldn't get a pass just because of their perceived political leanings.
Payment processors as gatekeepers is absurd, even worse the entire system is completely opaque.
A local company who makes swords (very nice ones) ran into an issue where they couldn't take credit cards. No warning, they weren't even told, they were just added to a list and couldn't take payment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLIcohyT5Dc
They still haven't completely resolved the issue / don't know how they ended up on a bad list.
The idea that someone somewhere else complains inside an opaque system, and your ability to do business ends without warning is absurd. You can't appeal, you can't talk to anyone, you're just hosed. In some cases you AREN'T EVEN TOLD what is going on.
It's essentially a duopoly that should be broken up.
But haven't people wanted NASA to be more streamlined, and efficient? Not sure if that is reducing staffing, or changing its mission. SpaceX making such leaps and bounds over NASA had to be a shot across the bow.
Needs a (2012) tag and you need an account to NEJM to access. Can't find it via PubMed etc.
As for destroying the internet? No. It may, in fact, make the internet a little better. Less bandwidth usage. Less intrusive advertisements, maybe even less spam.
Age verification for pornography is not the hill to die on. A national internet identification number is the hill to not only die on, but riot.