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Using chatgpt deskills you. It atrophies your reasoning and memory.

Part of the hype of chatgpt is that its whales, its biggest and loudest users, are no longer able to perceive that it is shit, that they are less productive than they used to be, etc.

Important #furry #egirl question for my Delver's Guide to Beastworld character. She's a canid – where on her snoot does the obligatory nose bandage go? Near her nose? Up at the bridge? Somewhere in the middle?

(Side note she's a jackal paladin, for those who know the setting.)

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

Yes! More of this! (Though I question the choice of thumbnail image.)

Maybe I should try chess again. Apparently I have an unfair advantage.

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

it’s really bleak that we live in a world where governments would rather spend astronomical amounts of money on tech to censor the internet to “protect children” instead of like… not even half that on proper sexual education that helps children and puts them at significant less risk of CSA

agreed.

This is a brilliant breakdown of the constitutional arguments in the #TicklevGiggle case.

This is case law relevant to the current UK appeals.

Trans women are women under the CEDAW treaty.

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All of Australia should be so proud of our independent & non ideological courts.

Two times this week has made me proud of the Aussie judiciary.

In the NSW Highest Court when they ruled protests are a human right.

In the Federal Court Of Australia they respect trans women❤️

Meet the 1930s Skeleton Designed to Scare Criminals Into Confessing Inventor Helene Adelaide Shelby was pretty sure it would do the trick.

I learned about this from a meme, but you can just read the AO article about the proposed crime skeleton.

(Article from 2017, so *probably* not made up.)

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cri...

Daww thanks! Tryin' my best!

I have never tried this... only twintails.

I think they think the US will start manufacturing. Which is the kind of shift that will take decades, if it's even possible.

“Gender critical” beliefs are worthy of exactly the same respect that society affords “race critical” (aka racist) beliefs: none at all.

If you don’t treat your fellow humans equally well irrespective of your personal bigotries, kindly fuck off out of my life.

Physical Fitness and Body Composition in Transgender vs. Cisgender Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Objective To compare fitness and body composition between transgender and cisgender individuals. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and SportDis...

This 2025 review, Current data do not justify blanket bans. TW exhibited higher absolute lean mass compared to CW, no significant differences in physical fitness metrics (i.e., upper-body strength, lower-body strength & VO2peak) were observed after 1–3 y of therapy.
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Kawaii in Japaneses Art History- Part 1: The Heian Period On this blog, as well as in many kawaii history references, the origins of kawaii is traced back to the early 20th century Japan, starting with Yumeji Takehisa and following the evolution of goods …

And, from a quick, melatonin-addled skim of japanesekawaiiculture.com/early-exampl...
, it plays back to your original recollection of the quote, because the modern 'utsukushii' (two i's) is a closer translation for "gorgeous", while 'kawayushi' morphed over the centuries into 'kawaii'

It seems like it's from the Pillow Book (by her).

June 25, 2018 | “Kawaii” is the mainstream of Japanese aesthetics; encompassing a nuance of grotesque and infiltrating the surroundings | Meiji.net:Meiji University “Kawaii” has become an internationally accepted Japanese word. Because this adjective is frequently used by Japanese teenage girls, it is often considered that “kawaii” is something related to a subcu...

So this somewhat scholarly article (pre-dating LLMs) links modern kawaii back to utsukushi! Thanks for the sleuthing K! (And saving this to read for when I'm not about to go to bed.)

english-meiji.net/articles/569/

I might need to buy the translation and read it. It sounds lovely.

Oh that might be it!

Oh maybe. I realised I searched a long time ago but didn't try variants of the phrase. I'll need to look.

It was something like "Everything that is tiny is gorgeous." Apparently past me didn't take a photo. 😣

I'm frustrated though. Back when I lived in Japan over 20 years ago, I went to an art exhibition in Nagoya. I swore there was an early precursor to kawaii in a quote from a Heian princess or something. I cannot find it though.

So we chatted popularising of kawaii culture from young women and girls in the 80's, onomatopoeia in Japanese, origins of Pokémon (Red, Blue, Yellow), and so on. I gave her notes.

My kid: "I have to write about why pikachu is so popular..."
Me, a published game historian and long student of Japanese culture and history: "Oh I just know this..."

Yeah this character is confident and... resilient.

Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ plan: fill your free time with more AI Meta’s new AI strategy is to entertain you.

I don't understand how people are entertained by LLMs.

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Donald Trump’s attacks on Harvard worked. That’s terrifying. - buff.ly/4A3LBry

Birbs too.