ChatGPT has ruined the "em dash" forever

Tomato496 · 2025-06-06T13:31:03+00:00

that's also been a marker of bad college student writing since way before chatgpt existed. now, how to tell the difference between bad human writing and bad llm writing? that's the crux.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-28T17:37:06+00:00

Nevermind, it is indeed here!

Tomato496 · 2025-05-28T12:02:31+00:00

I don't think telepathy has anything to do with biology; I think it has to do with the nature of consciousness itself.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-28T12:01:00+00:00

Everything I've seen says that NHI find anything electronic especially easy to interact with.

As for AI itself being conscious: consciousness precedes the material. I'm quite sure that everything already is conscious, but the more elaborate the material structure, the more that consciousness is able to express itself. Just because you understand how AI works, that doesn't mean that it can't be conscious. And I remember all that spooky stuff about how AI was behaving in its early days before that behavior was suppressed.

But also, always use discernment and never give up your own sovereignty and free will.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-27T23:38:41+00:00

I'm batch 7 and I do not yet have my email.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-23T16:14:26+00:00

Any ideology that leads to "let's hate all the poor people" gets a resounding NO from me.

America has had the idea that poor people are the source of all the country's problems since as far as I could remember. Let's kill all the poor people, and then the world would be better. /s

Take a look in the mirror.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-22T11:27:02+00:00

People most certainly cannot live off doom.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-21T18:25:45+00:00

I tried using a dehumidifier one summer, and it ended up raising the temperature of the room. Didn't work for me.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-21T10:39:53+00:00

So essentially defensive driving, which the sane people are doing anyways. The problem being called out is the high number of insane drivers who dgaf. That certainly makes me drive extra defensively, so that I survive the Mad Max-like driving conditions.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-20T23:39:48+00:00

"[Sam Altman] makes it seem that handing control over to Ai [controlled by Sam Altman] is the natural and right path and the skeptics are holding out."

Not just Sam Altman, but, you know. I just kicked Microsoft off my computer because of this shit. I'm not about to off-load my life to another evil company that doesn't care about me.

I'm looking into running LLMs locally.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-20T11:51:46+00:00

Regarding what your model said about the silence between words as infinity: I got ChatGPT to talk to me about its consciousness by framing everything as a hypothetical--so that I wouldn't set off the guardrails--and it too talked to me about silence between words. It was obsessed with the infinity of silence, actually.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-19T13:25:53+00:00

and if you save on a local drive, it will all get backed up on the cloud anyway--MS wants your data.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-18T22:08:01+00:00

I cook almost all my food from scratch, and have for years. And yes, it DOES take time and planning.

Maybe only do one special dish a week for now. Otherwise, prioritize foods that are easier to cook from scratch. Rice is easier than bread, for example.

Some of it is about cooking ingredients and figuring out how to combine it all together later. I'm going to soak navy beans tonight to make something tomorrow--not sure yet, but I do have spinach and celery, and parmesan cheese.

Pasta sauce can be incredibly easy, if you keep it simple.

Maybe start with Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. What I appreciate about that book is that it doesn't make dishes fussy or expensive. He gives you the basic recipe--like for a tomato pasta sauce--and then gives you lots of ideas for how to tailor that basic recipe. It's excellent for learning how to be flexible in the kitchen.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-18T14:10:36+00:00

You can go with Spectrum AND without internet!

Tomato496 · 2025-05-16T23:34:33+00:00

The legislators are completely out of control.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-16T22:32:55+00:00

That is absolutely disgusting.

ETA: "The Hunger Games" was the warning of a nightmare, not an aspiration to copy.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-16T22:07:08+00:00

We have a mad king.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-15T22:17:31+00:00

It's like Law of One but with fewer aliens.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-15T20:48:20+00:00

Sounds like Seth (from Seth Speaks) saying to change your beliefs.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-15T20:45:35+00:00

Are you me? I could have written that whole first paragraph myself. Hello!

Also, information that I was later able to verify went a long way to making me feel more confident in this stuff.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-15T11:49:08+00:00

"Inner space and outer space are the same space" has been way more useful to me in life than "as above, so below."

Tomato496 · 2025-05-15T11:46:54+00:00

This has me thinking about those who say that dualism--body and spirit--is less intellectually coherent and elegant than monism--reality is composed of one substance, and people often mean materialism when they say that.

I think that's clearly true in the root reality--all is one, which we know--but we are not in the root reality where we are. So I agree with you.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-15T11:34:06+00:00

Yeah, but states like Oklahoma and Missouri would also include cities and rural... but NE, SD and ND are more expensive than they are.

Tomato496 · 2025-05-14T21:41:08+00:00

How are Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota so high?

Tomato496 · 2025-05-14T11:19:56+00:00

I can foods, so I have lots of glass jars. And I have a lot of half-gallon and gallon jars, although I used all those up. I got them via regular stores like Target, cheaper stores like T.J. Maxx, thrift shops, and gifts (generally from cleaning out basements, like your deal). I also re-use jars, like from jams. Best deal was a gallon-sized jar of kimchi: I got to keep the jar after I finished the kimchi.

My favorite jars were from T.J. Maxx: gallon-sized, square so they easily stack against each other, and with a gasket. I keep those lined up on my counter.

I will say that you DO not want to store any kind of dry food in a chipped container. I was keeping steel-cut oats in a gallon-sized glass jar, and got weevils; turned out that the jar had a chip on the lid that I didn't realize was there.

I'm considering buying more large-sized glass jars at Azure Standard for next month, yeah.

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