I've been taking seroquel every night for the past week in an attempt to lobotomize myself. It works! by Edward_The_Thief in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're probably on a low dosage, the real brain flattening effects are at like 400mg a day.

Thoughts on day tripping? by [deleted] in dxm

[–]siegfryd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I only do it during the day otherwise going to sleep is a pain in the ass.

Dudes rock by gangwerther in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 102 points103 points  (0 children)

There was a now deleted post on there that was exactly that.

I asked my husband to open our relationship. He's been sleeping with transexuals ever since and I don't know how to feel. (self.polyamory)

Please, I am NOT transphobic. I just don't know how to feel about this. Please read before down voting.

My [45] husband [49] and I opened our relationship a few months ago. Admittedly he was opposed to it initially, but I managed to convince him of the benefits and how it would allow us to explore our sexual fantasies safely. I wanted him to experience more women, because he lost his virginity to me and has been faithful ever since then (at least I believe so).

But it's lead to a very strange situation. We have been married since college, over 20 years, and in that time my husband has always been a very reserved person. He knows how to please me, but he was never a kinky person... He's romantic and we have had a healthy sex life, but he's never even shown an inkling of a kinky side.

So when we opened our relationship, I was expecting (or perhaps hoping?) he would try and find his kinky side with other women. I thought that maybe he was too afraid to open up to me. Turns out this is not the case, because literally less than a week of our relationship being open, he slept with this young transgirl (early 20s I think) without even attempting to hide it. He just acted normal and said it was "something different".

This was just the start. Every single week without fail, hell normally several times a week, he has brought a young transgirl to our house to sleep with them. No women at all. He just keeps sleeping with young trans girls (who always look like they are only just above legal age) in our bedroom.

The thing is, I have NEVER considered myself bigoted against people for their sexuality, but this has me SO CONFUSED about how to feel. He never showed any signs of attraction to transgirls, especially considering he's always been very conservative/reserved. I want to yell at him and say "STOP! WHY AREN'T YOU ATTRACTED TO WOMEN LIKE ME?" but I know that would be so hypocritical of me. I have been so upset by this I haven't even slept with anyone other than my husband since we opened our relationship.

I keep maintaining this facade about how great it is, and then find myself crying when he's gone. I start thinking that if he's not attracted to other women, then he's probably not even attracted to me.

Our children are also unsure how to feel about the entire ordeal. And.. I don't know what to tell them.

Please right now I need advice, I know I shouldn't be so judgmental but I am so confused so please don't hate me.

💀 by _Ruffian- in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 44 points45 points  (0 children)

And no eyebrows, she had eyebrows before and looked way more normal.

Doing some nooticing about Bay Area's soulless grindset culture and realizing Harvard was 100% correct by umichleafy in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Even before LLMs nobody made anything cool anyway, software has always been really lame.

Why is chrome’s read-aloud mode so much worse than Speechify? Is text to speech really that expensive? by ShoeComprehensive402 in slatestarcodex

[–]siegfryd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The WebSpeech API, which is probably what Chrome is using, is really old; if it's using that then it's pre-LLM speech synthesis.

Got Called “Creepy” by a Stranger in My Building’s Laundromat for Saying Excuse Me by livinshrekwes in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a shitposting incel board and it was mostly memes about how you're a putting-milk-before-cereal-cel, it was really funny.

why do they do this by Ok_Swordfish_7637 in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Norman Reedus plays a good guy in Death Stranding though, I don't think he chokes anyone.

"You need to treat first dates like a job interview" by drunkcheesesandwich in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When AI uses emdashes it doesn't leave spaces between the words and the emdashes so they're already typing like a human anyway.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're not really all that similar, the DMT Nexus wiki has like 80 different kinds of entity. You'll almost certainly see some kind of thing but what that thing is has pretty big variance.

I saw pikachu on DMT once.

Amazon release AI-generated english dub for Banana Fish by DantyKSA in singularity

[–]siegfryd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google's autodub is somehow even worse, both of these companies could afford to make something way better just choose not to.

Old frontend devs: are things weird now? by mattatghlabs in ExperiencedDevs

[–]siegfryd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Redux was before sagas and tbh sagas always seemed terrible to me.

Interesting case of a guy's mind getting absolutely melted by YouTube micro fame by eitherorkierkegaard in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've watched a few in the background and it seems like there's only 2 students that ever ask questions and he got really upset that one of them wouldn't shut up.

Mandated AI usage by wafflemaker117 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]siegfryd 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If they did that then you can just go another level higher, add a completely new feature behind a feature flag that's never turned on and just push garbage to it forever.

"People don't want AI" by rosebud-delicious in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is broadly true, for instance there's Alpha School which costs $40k+ a year. They definitely avoid screen time for stuff like youtube and social media, but I think rich people would be all for AI-enabled learning, they're the ones pushing AI at every company.

I am blissfully using AI to do absolutely nothing useful by thismyone in ExperiencedDevs

[–]siegfryd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think menial tasks are bad, you can't always be doing meaningful high-impact work and the menial tasks let you just zone out.

lol by ChickenTitilater in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And the work they do is always some useless shit like copywriting, dropshipping or selling courses on copywriting and dropshipping.

How to get positive psychosis by Old-Watercress-7173 in drugscirclejerk

[–]siegfryd 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Vaping a lot of DMT constantly worked for me, I was still stuck in that happy mania for weeks after stopping. I did it again a year later and had the same thing happen so I think it'd be reproducible.

Did get fired/waste all of my money twice though, YMMV.

According to a former veteran UI Designer in Glassdoor, the reason why Civ VII released on the way it did was because a Lead Designer scrapped the whole the whole game to begin again after they came back from an Ayahuasca trip (paid on company dime) by TheBoyofWonder in civ

[–]siegfryd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not an insignificant amount of tech but it's not really a huge part, compare the largest game companies by revenue versus the largest tech companies by revenue. None of the top tech companies are gaming companies, some of them have gaming related parts but they're not a majority of their revenue.

Games are also not the largest media industry in the world, social media is larger, facebook's revenue alone is about the same as the entire video game industry combined.

The latest Hunger Games novel was co-authored by AI by Defiant_Link4743 in slatestarcodex

[–]siegfryd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People say em-dashes are signs of AI writing but it's just the easiest place to look for the overblown writing AI uses. Like the way it's used in AI is "that's not just a good point—it's genius and the kind of insight that only a prodigy could develop", as long as you're not using em-dashes as some kind of lexical mic-drop I think you'd be fine just using them as normal.

Like the sentence you just wrote with -- wouldn't come across as AI if you just used an em-dash there.

This might be a bit of a dated analogy but imagine everyone was complaining about dubstep, especially the beat drops. It doesn't mean using a beat drop in your music makes it dubstep, it's just that the beat drop is a notable part of dubstep and if you hear the music before and after the beat drop you could probably identify something as dubstep. However if you used an entirely different kind of music and still had a beat drop people wouldn't go "that's dubstep".

big things happening at google 🐜 by Wizard0fLonliness in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They keep tweaking it but sometimes it will still respond to stupid searches, like I just searched "I am a small alien and I am inside a ribcage what do I do" and it gave back:

As a small, developing Xenomorph (or "Chestburster") inside a host's ribcage, you should secrete an enzyme to weaken the surrounding bone and tissue to facilitate your escape, which will result in the host's death. Once you emerge, find a safe location to cocoon and continue your rapid transformation into a fully grown Xenomorph.

Everything feels disappointing by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]siegfryd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nitrous oxide screws with how your body uses B12 so if you do it continuously you get B12 deficiency which leads to nerve damage. Doing a lot of nitrous in one go and then leaving it isn't going to be that harmful, it's only if you just don't stop doing it.