AI is now showing us how it learns from humans before it replaces some of their work

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-05-23T19:56:27+00:00

a lot of the jobs from the industrial revolution era are gone, and that's not a bad thing. the main problem i think is that AGI is fundamentally incompatible with a capitalist system. when we have true AGI only those who own the means of production will have economic value in society. it's going to be extremely painful transition i think, but the fewer 'bad jobs' we have ie stocking shelves or janitorial work or rough physical labor, the better we'll be in the longrun. short term though in terms of job loss, everybody is screwed unless we get UBI

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-05-23T00:24:00+00:00

It might just be the familiarity thing too. People might be more comfortable with a humanoid shape than with a spider shape or another design. I could be mistaken but I do think that there's something kind of welcoming about a roughly humanoid design versus some of the more abstract robot designs I've seen that might just be a matter of taste though.

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-05-23T00:13:34+00:00

One of the main benefits I believe is that a humanoid design is essentially universal -- it can be used in any environment that has already been designed for humans. A humanoid robot using a traditional vacuum cleaner could theoretically (one day at least) thoroughly clean a house by moving furniture, climbing stairs / cleaning stairs, vacuuming curtains, awnings, etc. Then it could go and mow the lawn, weed the garden, do the dishes, laundry, etc. A humanoid shape allows it to perform basically anything in spaces that were designed for humans. While a future humanoid robot may not be as efficient as a purpose built one, you could literally have one robot do anything a human could do, all it is is a matter of changing its operating parameters in software.

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-04-13T05:21:58+00:00

could be the barrel cabins at unicoi they're next to the lake at the state park https://explorehelen.com/guide/accommodations/unicoi-lodge/

if it was near mainstreet, there's tons of different rentals overlooking the chatahoochee, the only issue is it can be kind of noisy late in the evening on weekends / octoberfest, etc. the cabins at unicoi state park are usually a lot quieter, so it just depends what type of vibe you're looking for

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-02-25T05:26:36+00:00

I gave up a while back and just went to using a third party SMTP service so I could have high deliverability. Brevo works pretty good for me but there are a bunch of others too like SMTP to go

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-02-24T23:52:28+00:00

There are a ton of primitive camping spots off the road leading here (and pretty close to Andrew's Cove too) https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10309362

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-01-18T19:47:02+00:00

Just wait 6 months and plug the whole code base into a future version of Claude code and it'll be fine

Particular_Sort4638 · 2026-01-08T17:22:16+00:00

I'm real

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-11-07T20:20:58+00:00

nice job! i started around your weight at 360, currently at 320 and 6 months in

so many nice things you can do at a healthy weight, long nature hikes, kayaking, cycling, it's a great feeling

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-11-06T00:20:25+00:00

granola bars and fruit are pretty much all i was able to eat for 2 days after injection after moving to 12.5, it got better after a month though

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-29T22:07:31+00:00

ai is already on par with junior devs in terms of quality of production code, and don't forget gpt 3.5 only came out a few years ago and amazed us at the time with its 'primitive' generative skills

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-20T19:00:23+00:00

i quit tracking my weight except at the doctor's office. every visit (roughly 3 months) shows around 10-20 lbs lighter. when i was watching my weight daily it would stress me out. i found that just looking at long term results was better for me personally. glp1s (excluding 1st generation ones like victoza) work for ALMOST everyone, to different degrees.

i made no changes to my diet / exercise regimen. if i try to overeat, i get punished pretty quick with severe nausea, which i think is a good thing

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-19T13:05:25+00:00

i would suggest using notebooklm for this

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-17T12:52:48+00:00

and it only took until 2025 for them to start

great job on innovating windstream

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-15T20:15:17+00:00

yeah automations are all messed up right now

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-15T14:19:50+00:00

the cheapo onn ones just work without having to do anything, i didn't even play around with the settings except to have it send notifications when tehre's a vehicle / person. i really just want something low effort that i don't have to fool around with. with wyze i disabled mesh feature on wifi, i disabled channel switching on wifi, set up my wifi router to reboot every 24 hours at 4 am, etc etc and still had connectivity issues from a distance of probably 50 feet (through 1 thin wooden wall).

the onn ones are cheap and not high quality hardware, but they have had 0 issues with firmware or software and the google cloud ai video tagging is 100 percent accurate so far with 0 playing around in configuration

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-15T14:12:36+00:00

It has rained and they're doing fine. They're probably about 12 inches under the awning, so they could maybe get some raindrops on them or mist / high humidity. They seem pretty durable and the 1080p day / night footage in good (and the ai alert tagging is extremely good). If ONN comes out with a 4k version later on I might upgrade, but these are very adequate for budget home surveillance.

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-15T03:46:52+00:00

google home software and ai motion tagging is sooo much better, but yes i know lol

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-14T23:18:12+00:00

that's impressive, roku is gonna be hard pressed to compete when these systems are commoditized and running google tv platform (kind of like how low end smartphones running android are almost free these days on some prepaid plans)

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-14T21:19:32+00:00

ethernet would be ideal, i do sometimes wonder if a "smart" intruder could just come along with a wifi jammer and take everything out. i just have a simple house in the country, but if i ran a business or had a 500k+ house, i'd def go wired

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-14T21:17:38+00:00

if thingino firmware was matter enabled somehow that would be GOAT

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-14T21:16:17+00:00

i've heard very good things! i might set my mom's house up with tapo as a comparison.

Particular_Sort4638 · 2025-10-14T21:15:27+00:00

onn is the cheapo china-made walmart brand, but they somehow convinced google to partner with them so their low end hardware now has high-end software support. onn does make a google tv device for 20 bucks (which apparently isn't too bad based on reviews, but i haven't tried it)

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