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In this scenario, everyone is so focused on the gun that they forgot murder is already illegal. We do need gun and AI regulation, but we can’t even put the AI aspect aside for one second to investigate theft and defamation which we do have laws against regardless of the tools used.

I think it’s unhealthy to live so devoid of consequences the way these billionaires do. You could go as far as to call it mass psychosis.

The easiest way this could work would be allowing you to group your subscriptions manually or automatically tagging them into preset categories (which would still use AI technically). It’s not really feasible to create an endless number of shitty algorithms that probably won’t give you exactly what you want.

PSA: on youtube, you can turn off the algorithm by turning off watch history, so you will only see your subscriptions page, but also related videos under the current video you’re on. I spend less time there now, and enjoy the content I do watch much more.

You will definitely feel something akin to nausea if you fully deplete your glycogen stores, which is a much more extreme short term shock to the gut (long distance runners know the feeling). Although if you consider nausea to only mean feeling like throwing up, maybe you wouldn’t even call it nausea if you don’t get that particular symptom.

Both of those things are wrong. You should look up what the actual study on brain maturity concluded instead of regurgitating factoids online.

I think you outlined a couple of different problems, which requires different solutions.

First, the reliance on it for assignments. How are you grades? Is AI helping you learn enough to do well or no? I think AI can be useful to explain things in a different way from your professor, but if you’re using it to basically do the work for you, your grades will likely reflect that you’re not retaining anything. You need to learn how to learn if you haven’t.

Second, relying on it for food and exercise advice. Are you asking it for specific recipes and targeted exercises or are you literally asking “what should I eat for dinner?” What I’m trying to get at is whether this is a matter of convenience or codependence. It’s normal to be inexperience and unsure at this age, so if you’re just using it to make up for your lack of experience, just cut the middle man out and look at recipes/workout plans directly and be curious about experimenting. However, if you feel insecure without AI deciding for you, you do need to just cut it out and sit with the discomfort of deciding for yourself.

Third, “talking” with it more than human beings. This is by far the most risky use of AI for your own well-being. If you have the option to do in-person therapy, I would start there. Since you’re in school, try studying in public places like the park, the library, student center, common areas in your dorm or major, etc. Make yourself available to spontaneous human interactions and they are more likely to happen. Also talk to your friends more and more often if you have some.

Lastly, on having to re-ask the same question multiple times a day. That worries me. Are you sleeping and eating well? Do you also experience brain fog? Make sure you’re ok physically first. Then, work out your brain like a muscle. When the same question pops into your head the second time, write down what you think the answer is first before googling it, even if it takes you a couple of minutes. You need to practice recall or your brain will be happy to offload information storage onto AI.

I think you’re experiencing very normal challenges for your age, but with the added unknown of how AI helps/hurts humans at this stage, so don’t be too hard or punishing on yourself! I don’t think it’s helpful to equate AI to a hard drug that you have to quit cold turkey because you don’t seem to me like you have AI psychosis or at risk for it. So take a deep breath and just take it one step at a time <3

I only skimmed the article, but I’m familiar with this area of work. It’s the fine tuning phase of llms that require human “graders” in a sense to tell the model what is a helpful vs unhelpful response and elevate it from a literal autocomplete tool to a chatbot. The biggest platform for this kind of work is DataAnnotation if you want to look it up. It’s not just random people in the global south but also professionals training the model on their niche expertise (e.g., lawyers, accountants, engineers). The other type of work that has been going on even pre-llm chatbot era is, as you said, moderation. You moderate the chatbot for “bad” answers, correct them, and often that means impersonating the bot to the end user. I believe this is the main driver behind llm progress lately; literally humans teaching AI how to appear more human.

Beans. The answer to all of the above is beans.

I think this also incentivizes not healing from your trauma in order to keep the identity…

My dad isn’t perfect, and he suffered horrible neglect as a kid which caused narcissistic tendencies and definitely left a mark on us kids, but I’d say I’m pretty over the “trauma” aspect of it. We have a good relationship now. However, I still want to be someone’s cute puppy girl uwu (/jk)

There is a reason running out of glycogen stores is called “hitting a wall” in long distance running.

Where is Jonny Kim when you need him? But seriously, I thought the solution would’ve been having at least one doctor astronaut on board rather than an AI doctor who can’t actually do anything in an emergency situation.

You know you can do both right now…go read a book on the internet under a tree. In fact, I recommend reading Brave New World specifically. It’ll be a good time (no sarcasm).

Except these programs are literally known to be abused by the elite for their benefit. It’s not elitist to want evidenced-based support for low income high achieving kids, and for that support not to be diverted to upper-middle class kids who don’t need it.

Merit based and sports scholarships are well-known to be specifically designed to attract upper middle class kids because of the benefit they have of tutors, coaches, and extensive personalized guidance through their entire schooling. Actually this is the exact reason top universities prefer need-based financial aid; they don’t need the extra money merit-based scholarships are known to bring. Low income kids tend to struggle navigating admissions systems and financial aid on their own in general, and these particular programs, especially the sports scholarships, don’t make themselves very accessible to prospective applicants.

I haven’t seen whatever studies have been done on accelerated learning programs, so I don’t know if they help/hurt anyone conclusively, but I will say from personal experience being both included and excluded from them, I absolutely hated them from both angles. If you test into them, you’re doing extra work and being segregated (with a target on your back for bullies) from your classmates. If you don’t test into them, but you learn at a faster pace than the average, you’re literally gatekept from the advanced material even if you want to learn it. I think what would do worlds of difference is bringing respect back to teaching by hiring more teachers and paying them more which would allow for more individualized learning, so each child gets their educational needs met without unnecessary segregation.

If you want to do further reading, there’s a lot of very passionate people who have dedicated themselves to this topic for decades. This is a slightly outdated, but seemingly comprehensive report I just found online, section 5 is specifically on systemic admissions hurdles for low income kids: https://www.jkcf.org/research/true-merit-ensuring-our-brightest-students-have-access-to-our-best-colleges-and-universities/

Humans feeling a need to impose a hierarchy where they sit at the very top is why we can’t have nice things

If that’s not already on a shirt it should be

Yeah but none can say who is pretending to be kind and who is authentically kind. This interpretation doesn’t leave room for “kind” people to ever get angry or have a moment of weakness where they’re unintentionally mean. That’s just a recipe for horrible mental health.

I think it’s important to distinguish need-based financial aid from merit-based scholarships here, as well as exclude 3rd party scholarships. Need-based financial aid does exist, but only at top universities that don’t need the money and basically pay for everyone to go if their parents make less than $200k a year. Merit-based scholarships are exactly what you’re talking about and very very often go to upper-middle class students as an incentive to attend. I had a rich friend who didn’t want to apply to selective universities so they went to a random state university that offered them this type of scholarship, and I believe didn’t end up having to pay anything for college. At least that was the brag.

That being said, I want to say I’m shocked and appalled JLo would be so out of touch to think this would land, but that’s pretty par for the course for her.

Well they do hate immigrants , so I wouldn’t be so quick to assume.

Both sides have a point. The great thing about open source projects is that any malicious code (which this was and why he’s getting threats) will get theoretically caught before too much damage is done. On the other hand, anyone deploying AI agents for commercial purposes should have security measures put in place to prevent exactly this threat scenario. It’s like the most obvious prompt injection attack; it’s obnoxious to pretend to be surprised by it at this point as if basic security measures don’t apply to you and your tools because it’s inconvenient.