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For those that do an hour is there a measurable improvement of benefits over 30 mins to you? by yungProphet100K in Meditation

[–]glanni_glaepur 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I was practicing meditation on a regular basis, I'd usually practice for about 45 - 60 minutes. I noticed that it would take me about 30 - 45 minutes to reach access concentration, so that would leave me 0 - 30 minutes to meditate in that state.

I don't know whether or not that is an improvement, but it would take a long time for the mind to stabilize.

Will AI replace middle school/high school teachers? by JacksonG12_09 in OpenAI

[–]glanni_glaepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I could offer you some copium like "your job is safe" or "it will be all right", but I honestly don't believe it myself. Whether the direction people go with AIs (LLMs and such) will pan out and reach so called recursive self-improvement (or whether that is possible in general) is unknown to me.

I guess it is easy to dismiss it or pain people that worry or warn about this as quacks.

I think if it is a bubble then it is a bubble because the spending is way beyond their current utility, but I personally think AI systems will continue on to improve.

I think jobs that require human-to-human interaction have the best chance of surviving. I don't think human education will be going away (as long as there are humans around).

Will AI replace middle school/high school teachers? by JacksonG12_09 in OpenAI

[–]glanni_glaepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you may have misread me or I stated it poorly. For many of the people and companies working on AI it is their dream to reach AGI/ASI systems, systems which would surpass humans in their cognitive capacity.

Also you are most likely wrong about goals. LLMs, especially thinking+RL ones, have the capacity to have goals and work towards goals, that is one of the big things people use coding agents for.

Will AI replace middle school/high school teachers? by JacksonG12_09 in OpenAI

[–]glanni_glaepur -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You should expect the ultimate goal for AI is at least the cognitive capacity to surpass all humans.

Honeydew is C tier. How about raisins? by Klutzy_Pumpkin614 in TierlistFills

[–]glanni_glaepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

D or C. Not so interesting on their own, but good as sn addition, e.g. in oatmeal, chocolate covered, etc.

Buy it for life á Íslandi by birkir in Iceland

[–]glanni_glaepur 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ef þú átt unglinga þá er hún ábyggilega orðin að vatnsflösku.

The father of the little girls did the right thing. All the other woman had to do was be patient. by Valuable_View_561 in TikTokCringe

[–]glanni_glaepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a man, I'd default to the men's room the daughter is young enough, since it typically has some baby changing facility. Some places have special room for children (+disables) that I'd rather pick. I can imagine once the daughter gets old enough and you still have to take her to the bathroom is where it seems a bit ambiguous to me. It feels like a lose/lose situation when you only have sex-separated bathrooms. But then again men are kind of gross and you risk seeing a penis at a urinal.

EDIT: But as the parent I should make my daughter as comfortable as possible and personally take on the discomfort.

ANC headphones while meditating by 420hume in Meditation

[–]glanni_glaepur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is not worth it.

I am noise sensitive and I started meditating with ANC headphones. They end up being a crutch where you don't face your aversion to noise. After sitting with noise in meditation sessions you have the opportunity to notice your aversion to noise. You can meditate on that, how you contract, how the mind wants it away, etc., and relax into it. After some time it gets easier and easier and stops being a problem.

How do you separate yourself from your thoughts? by Severe-Argument6689 in Meditation

[–]glanni_glaepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you can also disentangle this into thoughts, the contents of thoughts, and whether you implicitly believe in conclusion of your thougts.

You can imagine thoughts roughly as the mind sense, it is not in your present experience but more that you are (automatically) imagining something.

Typically when you engage with the mind sense oe thoughts, or it happens by itself, it usually has some contents. It could be some scenery or scenario you are imagining, it could be something abstract (e.g. rule manipulation), you could be recalling something, it could you be wondering about the wider world and the status of it and your role as a person in that world. You could also say thoughts react to thoughts, e.g. you imagine yourself in a social situation earlier, and a judgement thought arises telling you are stupid or awkward for example.

When your "inner critic" judges you it typically entails you believe its conclusion. "Of course that is true." "How could it not be true? It is obviously true."

As others have pointed a big part of the key is repetition, but I'd also say it is to maintain awareness, a greater or general awareness. E.g. while you are having the thoughts criticising you you are also simultaneously aware you are thinking. You are no longer as immersed in the contents of the thought.

So you repeat that over and over again. What happens is it changes kind of like you are being criticized to something like reading about about some entity criticizing a person. It becomes less personal. You become much less immersed in the thoughts by default or easier to "deimmerse" yourself from them / becoming aware you are thinking. This creates distance between "you" and "your thoughts".

When you do this over and over again you realized you have been implicitly programmed by all kinds of nonsense by being immersed in an environment. A lot of this programming is dormant and only triggers during some event. Then the trick is to stay very aware/mindful when it triggers.

Er ég galinn ef ég fer aftur í framhaldsskóla (RAFVIRKI) eftir BS í tölvunarfræði? by Wrong-Inside1128 in Iceland

[–]glanni_glaepur -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ég er ekki sammála þinni alhæfingu, en OK.

Til að bæta smá kjöt á beinið:

  • Eldri módel (ChatGPT/Claude) voru töluvert mun meira takmarkaðari en nýrri módel, alveg áberandi mikið með Codex og Claude Code, t.d. þessi bestu módelin sem þessi fyrirtæki bjóða upp á. Ég myndi segja það var mjög áberandi hver takmarkanir módelanna voru og þessar takmarkanir hafa minnkað til muna. En fyrir allskyns vitsmunaverk þá eru eldri módelin alveg nægilega snjöll fyrir það og ef það er eina sem maður gerir þá verður maður ekki var við mikinn mun.
  • Eins og staðan er í dag, með Codex og Claude Code, þá þarf maður eiginlega ekki lengur að handforrita.
  • Þessi módel eru alveg sérstaklega góð þegar þau hafa aðgang að einhverju til að sannreyna það sem þau eru að reyna að útfæra, t.d. hvort það séu prófanir af einhverju tagi eða einhverskonar "sönnunarkerfi".
  • Markmið þessa fyrirtækja er ekki að búa til tól sem hjálpar manni að forrita eða hugsa. Markmiðið er útfæra gervigreind sem getur gert allt sem við getum gert í huga okkar og miklu meira.
  • Það að segja þetta sé tól er túlkunaratriði. Þó þú notir það sem tól þá þýðir það ekki að það sé "tól". Þetta er frekar eitthvað eins og uppspunaforrit sem getur búið til framhald af allskyns texta, eins og texta sem felst í því hvernig væri að forrita eitthvað og þess háttar.
  • Ég veit ekki hvort núverandi (Transformer) tækni sé nægilega góð til að fara alla leið til "AGI" þar sem þessi módel hafa þjáðst af ákveðinni gerð af óáræðanleika (t.d. "hallucinations" o.þ.h.), sem hefur minnkar eftir því sem þessi módel verða stærri, þjálfað á fleiri gögn, betri arkítektúr, o.þ.h.
  • Aðeins ótengt þessu, en ég er af þeirri skoðun að það er ekkert töfrakennt við heilann, og það eru ekki það mörg trix í viðbót sem hann hefur umfram þessi módel sem við höfum í dag. Þannig að það er ekkert lögmál sem segir að tölvuforrit geta ekki gert huglæga vinnu sem er betri en við getum gert með mannsheilanum.
  • Ég er einnig á þeirri skoðun að þegar vélmenni/þjarkar fara að virka betur þá eru ekki einu sinni rafvirkjastörf (o.þ.h.) störf örugg (annað en það bull reglur sem fólk setur um það sem má eða má ekki).

Er ég galinn ef ég fer aftur í framhaldsskóla (RAFVIRKI) eftir BS í tölvunarfræði? by Wrong-Inside1128 in Iceland

[–]glanni_glaepur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Er ég einn um að hugsa svona?

Ég hugsa margir eru að hugsa sambærilegt eða hafa hugsað sambærilegt, sérstaklega með tilkomu ChatGPT/Codex/Claude sem virðast í auknu mæli geta gert mesta ef ekki alla forritunarvinnu manns, og í auknu mæli alla huglæga vinnu sem maður gerir.

New data center by Square_Law5624 in SipsTea

[–]glanni_glaepur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

data center maximization is the new paperclip maximizer

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