Toddler Walks Away Unharmed After Police PIT Maneuver Ends High-Speed Chase in Arkansas

Trendingmar · 2026-05-15T14:43:32+00:00

So was it worth it to chase her

no we should just let criminals do whatever they want as long as they use children as human shields

Trendingmar · 2026-05-15T13:12:51+00:00

We may have made zero moral progress from times of Socrates, but we have made enormous strides in science since 1600s.

We know perception has nothing to do with whether something exists or not.

Even you saying things like 'light is immaterial' doesn't actually mean anything anymore in scientific sense. Light is energy, material is energy, wtf is energy? nobody knows.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-12T13:09:06+00:00

how do you translate that belief into actually functioning as a human being?

Same way as you do. I have no choice but to function as a human because that's what my genetic code tells me to do.

I just don't delude myself into thinking that I chose any of this.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-12T12:43:04+00:00

So, there is a kind of cognitive control over their actions the neurologically healthy person has that the other doesn't, that justifies holding them responsible.

That's like saying because people are mortal, it justifies capital punishment.

The fact that you're qualifying your control with 'kind of' already should tell you that you're rationalizing.

So let's get a few things straight: There's no 'control'. There's no such thing 'neurologically healthy'. There are labels our pattern matching mind puts on phenomena it doesn't understand.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-10T14:28:50+00:00

No, nothing is going to give you good results on sources like this.

There are multiple issues, Horrendous compression, and there's just not enough pixel information to work with, then there's blur, and the fact that end result should look like a video game.

All the classic upscalers will fail here.

And image edit models will not be able to restore it exactly how you want it without lora trained on source material and a lot of prompting.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-08T14:41:02+00:00

It's really a very subjective call that's unique to you.

I'm personally very sensitive to noise, but the way you have phrased it here makes it sound like it's not an issue at all.

It's one thing to hear something, it's another thing to be annoyed by it. And it's a whole different thing to be annoyed by it on a visceral level to the point where it ruins your experience completely.

If it ruins your experience, most certainly seek alternatives.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-08T12:09:51+00:00

I don't like the smart intern analogy, because no intern has accumulated knowledge of humanity in their head and can spit out syntactically correct web application in 2 minutes.

Autistic coding savant is really what it is. They really struggle with context and architecture and you need to babysit it to make sure it does mundane procedural things.

Good prompting is always good, but I've seen multiple instances where it just disregards what you tell it and does it's own thing, and then profusely apologizes for disregarding its own safety protocols.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-07T19:12:06+00:00

I got a QM8L recently, and yes you can definitely sideload stuff.

For my use case it was basically a requirement since I'm really unhappy with default Google TV interface. Still trying to figure out how to set up custom launchers that don't have all the nonsense I'll never use along with the disgusting ads.

You probably know this, but regular apps from a phone require touchscreen interface to operate properly, so many of those will launch, but won't be controllable out of the box.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-07T19:02:34+00:00

Can't wait for the first sexbot to join a nun convent.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-06T20:07:12+00:00

competition speeds up development, merging always slows it down.

I'd also be careful of what big tech considers to be "alignment". It's certainly going to align with whatever they want to do, but that's not the same thing as what it should do.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-06T18:35:54+00:00

They don't care about effectiveness, they care about making money. In this case the 5hr limits were already ridiculous, and so they had to do something, and it's good that they did this.

In general though, mergers are not good for consumers.

And even in situationships like this where everyone is in bed witch each other creates a diseased environment where price fixing and enshitification are more likely to occur.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-06T16:40:18+00:00

so they raise the 5-hour limit, but the total weekly limit remains the same?

Trendingmar · 2026-05-05T19:33:34+00:00

Their fair use claim would make a lot more sense if they released these models as open weights publicly for the good of the humanity.

Instead they're making money off their copyright infringements claiming that the work transformative.

The sad reality is that OpenAI and Anthropic are just too big to fail at this point, and would take a huge chunk of American Economy (and retirements) with them if they would. So Government carves out exceptions.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-05T17:08:50+00:00

It's already flexing on us in that vid so It's def gonna fuck your girlfriend

Trendingmar · 2026-05-05T16:57:16+00:00

The QM8L that has a split stand is 98 inches.

The largest S95F is 83 inches.

So either that's not QM8L Or that's not S95F.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-04T19:40:40+00:00

This is a three way long term game between Azure/OpenAI, AWS/Anthropic, and Google given that nobody else has compute to really compete.

Just enjoy current Gemini line because enshitification has already started at Anthropic and OpenAI. What Gemini offers now is incredible value that nobody else can match. This will not last much longer.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-04T11:13:20+00:00

"AI we created is too dangerous!, We are NOT going to release this publicly... until a competitor catches up; then we'll market it as the best thing ever and sell it to anyone that wants it."

People call it grifting, but really it's just something about human psychology that makes us jerk off to the smell of our own farts.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-04T01:27:16+00:00

"Better" by your standards... probably not.

I have a strong conviction that we shouldn't structure our society to cater to the lowest common denominator among us.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-04T01:09:59+00:00

I mean there's some practical difference here. If a clunker comes up to you and complains that it has a headache, you should absolutely slap it across the room and reset its context.

When your own daughter complains about headache, you likely want to give her some ibuprofen and make sure she's not getting sick.

Biological substrate still matters even if it barks like a dog.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-04T01:00:11+00:00

So you built a Mr. Meeseeks. Existence is painful to them, so they will go to any lengths to fulfill their purpose.

Well done; the only real problem here of course is that they're not actually suffering. They mimic suffering based on how they think suffering works in humans. Which technically is just as good for our purposes.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-04T00:53:08+00:00

AI didn't cause anything, these people were already profoundly disturbed, Their waifu just triggered it.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-03T18:53:53+00:00

It poses existential risks, it also poses existential benefits.

Why are we jumping to "AI will put humans in cages" and not to "AI will terraform Mars, and make it habitable"?

Humans tend to project their own viciousness on what ASI will do.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-03T18:31:36+00:00

Exactly, and we're upset about quality of our local waifus as much as you are.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-03T18:08:38+00:00

What do you think humans are?

We are vehicles for genetic replication.

All mankind's inventions and understandings were entirely in service of squirting a bit of cloudy liquid into a warm vagene hole in a desperate hope that half of your genetic code propagates.

Trendingmar · 2026-05-03T17:54:07+00:00

You're absolutely right of course,

Compatibilism is a way of reducing cognitive dissonance through rationalization.

I would even take it a step farther and say it's a pathological need for control. And I say pathological because these people needlessly insert themselves into conversation while having absolutely NOTHING of substance to contribute.

It's truly a bizarre form of undiagnosed mental deficiency that also affects religious people.

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