intelligence /ĭn-tĕl′ə-jəns/
noun
The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
Much like you, AI is incapable of understanding anything, they just regurgitate what they hear.
AI aren’t intelligent, they’re stochastic parrots that can process words as math to generate a facsimile of intelligence to make the ignorant think it’s smart.
Only shaving it when i have to attend some polite events
Fuck even that. If you want a beard, grow one (and take care of it!!) and let ‘polite events’ sit and spin if they don’t like it.
They sell the drive as a USB item, buy one of those and enjoy.
Oh, believe me, I understand full well how expensive it is, I have to pay out over $100/session after my insurance so I only go once or twice a month.
And you’re dead on about public funded mental health, that’s part of the reason it took me decades to try another one
Yeah, it can be hard if you don’t have the right tools.
Thankfully, despite all the complaints I have about my insurance company, they at least had a locator I could use to find people that are covered, and it only took a bit of extra snooping to see where they likely stood regarding my needs to whittle it down to like 3 or 4 therapists. I’ll be the first to admit that I got really lucky in finding my therapist and having him mesh well with me.
Sorry to hear you lost insurance friend, I hope you’re able to take care of yourself out there, I know it’s not easy.
There are individuals who go into it thinking the therapist is there to 100% solve their problems, without any work from themselves. It’s a tail of the bell curve thing, but it does exist
I really appreciated that the therapists I interviewed all straight up said that I wasn’t going to get anywhere with them if I didn’t put in the work. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I have a similar knee-jerk reaction, but I actually talked to them and they explained it and I just kinda delt with the PDA that came along with it.
Therapy can be really good if you make sure your therapist meshes with you and you’re willing to put in the work on yourself if you plan on getting anything out of it.
She came up with the question: “Am I better off putting €100 on a table, lay on my sofa for an hour, then treat myself with that money, or go to a session with my therapist?” And it stuck with me.
As someone who did that for close to 2 decades after being betrayed by two different therapists, it’s not worth it. I didn’t have the coping skills to get through a lot of life’s problems, and I didn’t have the executive function to self-teach something I don’t have active interest in (because let’s be honest, working through your personality flaws are hard, and overcoming that hurdle is a bitch), so I spent a large amount of time moderately-dissociated but functional.
I started with my therapist last year and he’s done (read: helped me to do) more for me in the last year than I was able to do for myself in over a decade.
I think the biggest issues with therapy are time and money. I’m lucky enough to have a flexible wfh job so I can just flip to a telehealth session when it’s time, but I could see even just the time commitment being an issue for hourly people / no set schedule / I flexible jobs. Adding on the ridiculous costs associated with it (with 1 session costing 2 days pay at the federal minimum) is just adding insult to injury.
It’s only the average experience if you have shit therapists.
I had two different ones as a kid/young adult (years apart) and they both fucking sucked and made me not want to do therapy.
As an adult (and someone who cares about their mental health), when my partner finally convinced me to go back I researched who was covered and would line up with my values/personality, and I interviewed a couple of them before I found the one that seemed to mesh with me. Spending the time to find someone who was LGBTQ+ and kink/poly friendly at a minimum was well worth the time spent.
Been with my therapist for over a year now, and I’ve made so much progress that both of my primary partners have commented on how much better I’m taking things.
Tl:dr - find a better therapist
You’re looking at cultural hysteria 'end if the world’s, not the very real oncoming collapse of our biosphere.
Nutters always think the world is ending, and they e always got to push it back when their mental illness doesn’t come through.
But in this case, we have models that, as they are refined, show us just how hopeful the previous “worst case” projections were.
They really need to remove the income cap on the FICA tax here. It’s regressive.
Yep, and that’s the point. It’s the same reason why the rich pay a pittance in taxes and the poor van barely survive and get next to nothing from the government (which wants to take even that away).
It’s the same thing we see internationally as well. It’s why foreign leaders who try to care about their people are always labeled ‘militia leaders’ or despots, since it’s easier to use thought terminating cliches instead of acknowledging how they’re fighting against the colonialist and extractive “agreements” that are foisted upon them.
The point is to make the “lower class” desperate to survive so they don’t have the means to better themselves and survive without them.
But pulling for a 90% tax rate after a certain point is in no way in opposition to praising fair business practices. They’re directly related.
Back in the times that people keep telling me were great, that was the norm. Cutting taxes for the money makers is the entire reason we’re in this mess. Instead of reinvesting money in the company or the country, it’s being boarded and sat on to make number go up.
Why, reformed christians cultists are a dime a dozen
You are the problem of the US. Not the maga, not scientologists, not even evangelical christians. These groups are just trying to seize power through people like you. People who are on the edge to hate.
LOL, someone must feel seen if they think calling out religious people is worse than the goddamned fascists killing people.
Maybe try directing your impotent rage at the people actively fucking up the country?
Cultists generally get mad when called a culstist, especially when you point out that the only difference between a cult and a religion is size and age.
The cult of Christianity has poisoned the world with its mythos, and is worse off for it.
Mostly that one
I’m comfortable and things are looking scary, so I can just call the PM a dumb mother fucker after verifying I’m double muted …
“Power creep”
Bro, Yamcha didn’t get past the power nap. He was still somewhat competitive near the end of Dragonball, but he was the kid brother who only came along to get hurt or something in DBZ.
Ask the AI to read the sources for you too, just to be safe
This response implies that you actually understand the point being made. You don’t. If you think this is only about AI datacenters, I have to assume you’re letting the AI ‘think’ for you. Otherwise, that says a lot about you, and none of it is positive.
AI have been running in datacenters for over a decade, it didn’t just spring up overnight while the companies are building datacenters that cost billions in hardware that will be replaced in less than 5-10 years. They might as well be setting the cash on fire, it would harm the planet less than the result of pissing away billions of dollars on datacenters that may be bankrupt in under a decade when the AI companies start actually charging for cost and hardware that will need replaced before then.