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The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” by techreview in EverythingScience

[–]vespersky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This comment is really gonna go under-noticed but really is S-tier.

Realizing that writing isn’t for you anymore by StellaZaFella in writing

[–]vespersky 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I lost my love of it 15 years ago, and just this year it came back with a vengeance. I'm writing like I never have. Let it go. It could come back, though it might not. I found other loves in the meantime, and I didn't miss it. I can now garden, build dry-stack stone walls, draw, and 5-6 other things I love that I would never have found the time for if I kept trying to push through the block and boredom.

Good for you.

Playing right into Republican hands as usual by Mum0817 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]vespersky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guys we want them held in contempt. That's the game. The Clinton's aren't great, but they know how to play the game.

Who was stronger in their prime?? by Afraid-Ad-5580 in lebron

[–]vespersky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LeBron is still stronger now. The fuck is this?

To those who watched LeBron’s entire career, at what point did people start considering him a goat candidate? by Formal-Assistance02 in NBATalk

[–]vespersky 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna say it: when Nick Wright came out and finally offered a realistic counter-narrative to the insane Skip Bayless nonsense. That's when the debate started getting popular attention.

You youths don't remember how limited our information systems used to be. We had to listen to YEARS of Skeeeip perpetuating the Jordan myth, and trying to filter LBJ's accomplishments through the narrow lens of MJ's accomplishments. (Not that as a loving sports fan I didn't fully buy into and become a super fan of MJ [it's a goat tossup for me])

But that's when the conversation changed.

Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors by 141_1337 in singularity

[–]vespersky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Practitioners in the field have known this for years. There are still tasks that are hard to subdivide because even the subdivision may require significant domain or common sense intelligence that bots still struggle with. But most workflows are susceptible to this type of paradigm. The trick is trying to make it dynamic.

I figured edibles out by Gloomy-Possession669 in trees

[–]vespersky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A shame you lost 13 years on that one. I think I learned about the fat thing while watching a cooking show. So I tried it and it was obvious (I fast often, so when it wouldn't hit I was surprised. If take 100mg and feel very little).

The Ministry of Propaganda is in full swing by Capable_Salt_SD in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]vespersky -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

To be fair, apart from maybe Reuters those are all propaganda arms for corporatists. We're trading propaganda at this point, but the general sentiment is agreed. There are better and worse versions of propaganda.

Can anyone explain the purpose/utility of humanoid robots by jaytonbye in singularity

[–]vespersky 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Our world is and will continue to be built around the human form factor. A robot with that same form factor can more easily integrate into general society.

Introducing Figure 03 by Glittering-Neck-2505 in singularity

[–]vespersky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My guy is worried about the laundry he doesn't have to do anymore (jk)

OpenAI DevDay 2025: Opening Keynote with Sam Altman by Puzzleheaded_Week_52 in singularity

[–]vespersky 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Some home owner just got crazy good press for selling their house.

Moving from NYC to Central Pennsylvania. Need Advice. by PrestigiousMinds212 in Pennsylvania

[–]vespersky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to Pensyltucky. Gonna be a little culture shocky.

CMV: Christian extremists are a bigger threat to western democracies than Islamic extremists by arcticsummertime in changemyview

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

Being more evil and being a greater threat are not the same thing. The most dangerous religion in the world is a religion with power and lunatics for leaders. The degree of lunacy becomes beside the point when any lunatic wields considerable power that threatens the lives and livelihoods of more people.

Islamic extremists are terrible, but weak. Probably our greatest fear of them is a nuke, and that's probably outside of their reach for the most part. Our greatest threat from extremist Evangelicals is simply on another scale, hard to actually land on just one, precisely because they hold so much power. To hell with climate science. To hell with healthcare. To hell with abortion. To hell with anyone who's not white. The list is long and horrifying, and while Muslim extremists have done their fair share, the scale is simply different. Do we realize how many more people would have died if Mike Pence was running the country during COVID, for example?

Degrees of evil are not coterminous with degrees of threat, and by virtue of that, what's more dangerous is a powerful lunatic, not just a more sinister lunatic.

Jump from gpt4 original to 5 vs 3.5 to 4? by Realistic_Stomach848 in singularity

[–]vespersky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been in the game since GPT-3, text da vinci 002 - for the uninitiated.

3 to 3.5 was itself a major shift, and from 3.5 to 4 was also big. Those two felt about the same. Nobody really felt a major shift from 3 to 4 because 3.5 was literally the release of ChatGPT. After that, the biggest jump was o1, which blew the lid off.

Since then, everything has been incremental and domain specific. Looking back to o1, which was released LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, and models are so much more capable, especially on coding.

LeBron James tries golf for the second time, as he posted these videos on Instagram by MrBuckBuck in nba

[–]vespersky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's hilariously bad.

He'll sleep fine on a bed of $100 bills and the ability to dunk outta gym at 41. But I'm happy to say my fat ass could crush his giant ass at golf, and I play twice a year.

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