OotB, it had a more creative voice and less safety systems built in. I think these folk could wiggle around the prompting for modern models to be better if they were more savvy.
For example: Silly Tavern users with jailbreaking, advanced prompting, and paramter hyper-optimization.
Maybe that wouldn't appeal to this kind of user anyway, since it'd peek too much into the sausage factory? Who knows.
TFA is quite clear that her and her fiance were socially isolated and, upon his passing, she had no support network. In the loneliness epidemic. And trying to "just go out" and make friends after years of not being able to , when you're stuck with your grief and at a low point in life is what the kids would call "hard".
This person is clearly at the fringe of society and holding onto their well-being by a thread. They need professional help and a reboot of their life.
I don't think the relationship with a chatbot or was healthy, but "just get better" is an entirely unempathetic, unreasonable suggestion for a high-risk individual faced with an arduous, life-altering journey at the height of mental instability.
Historically, the US has intentionally created barriers of entry to voting for the purpose of preventing minorities or political opponents from participating in Democracy.
Furthermore, you do need to be registered to vote. Which requires proof in and of itself, then a form of photo ID at the booth to prove that you are that registered person. As a result, we have virtually zero voting fraud.
So voter ID would do absolutely nothing while making the process harder, and it's pushed extremely disproportionately by Republicans - who openly advocate against civil voting rights. It's beyond obvious they just want a way to make it harder for brown people, women, and students to vote - all of which skew away from their party.
Then you get into the US having no national IDs (historical and cultural reasons, mostly) and that almost nobody is advocating for free voting IDs, which is a poll tax, which is blatantly unconstitutional.
The American people had a dosier publicly available. And after that, Project 2025 and impeachments and 34 felonies and a civil conviction of rape. All of which were absolutely reported on.
You can't pretend the collective will of American voters just isn't a vile, stupid person who wanted Trump and all that entails at this point.
You don't even need a study to prove you wrong, it should be common sense that being rear ended has a good chance of causing chronic neck injuries, let alone 8 of them. But I got you numbers anyway:
> NP pain is common after involvement in a motor vehicle collision (MVC) with 86% of injured occupants reporting NP pain.6 In Ontario 17.6% of those exposed to an MVC report a personal injury...
> Neck injury resulting from an MVC is associated with a high rate of chronicity. Prognosis studies indicate 50% of injured people continue to experience NP a year after the collision.
> Anecdotal stuff / vibes are actually really useful.
You can just say you've already made up your mind despite not having personal experience, your anecdotes being biased, and having no statistically relevant evidence - and nothing will change your mind.
Don't waste people's time pretending to be genuine and poison the intellectual well by trying to normalize "feelings based reality".
> When you are know a doctor and overhear conversations with some ranting doctor friends you learn.
What a joke. If a retail worker serves 300 people in a day and then comes home and complains about some guy who yelled at them, it doesn't mean that there's an epidemic of people yelling. That person is 0.3% of interactions but will make up 100% of the complaints because they stood out
You don't even seen to have the gall of asking the doctors youry eavesdropping on if they concur, because surely that would have been your evidence instead.
I don't need a study to prove anything about a dude abusing the medical system. You don't just come in for an extension conveniently as things are winding down multiple times because whoops, turns out got rear ended again.
>> Anecdotal stuff / vibes are actually really useful.
> You can just say you've already made up your mind despite not having personal experience, your anecdotes being biased, and having no statistically relevant evidence - and nothing will change your mind.
I absolutely can and do change my mind, lots of times. I'm not an old fart set in his ways. What I'm saying is that there is an overcorrection towards this "intellectual well" way of thinking. It's not that statistics is useless, it's that someone telling you of an issue based on vibes / personal experience, or from a single sample is useful even if editors would desk reject it.
It's as though people behave as the numbers in papers come from God instead of a study done with limitations by people who have agendas and make mistakes. It can be right, I love good papers, and despite what you might have concluded actually I love rigor, mathematics in particular is amazing, but when you also take the approach of rejecting any story or opinion because a stat said so (often ignoring how that stat may have been collected or data analysed), this is where problems happen.
It’s kinda difficult in an antidotal observation to prove if someone is truly disabled but three of my observations that rubbed me the wrong way was the co-worker who ran regular marathons but was planning to seek disability pay for a physical injury; the co-worker that never seemed to have a hearing issue over the ten yrs I worked w her but instantly claimed to have had damage from earlier; and the co-worker who got back injury disability but surfed at lunchtime.
I’m sure there are edge cases that can explain all of these. But I’m feeling better if the person really needs the assistance get it.
My mom is as broke as fuck and yet can't get SNAP.
The people punching down and gatekeeping are either completely ignorant or parroting racist and classist tropes they heard from Fox News denying the existence of inaccessibly and hurdles to reaching the scant assistance available in the US to people who desperately need it.
It's absolutely absurd that GitHub hasn't addressed it, to be honest. Right now it has 140k stars: more than foundational frameworks like Laravel or Express or universal tooling like ESLint or the Rust compiler.
Sure is weird that dozens of individuals over decades accused Trump, who was publicly friends with a child sex trafficker and publicly bragged about entering girl's changing rooms, of specific and exact crimes involving the sex trafficking of his friend; all under threat of perjury. Then Trump used his position of power to prevent such evidence from reaching the public against all laws and our constitution.
Absolutely. Tesla's already shown significant disdain/deprioritization for replacement parts in models they're not discontinuing. After all, every part in a service warehouse is not a part going on a new car to pump the quarterly numbers (or be parked in an abandoned shopping mall).
There are people with a wide variety of opinions here. TikTok is one of the most popular social media platforms, so naturally a lot of folk here will use it too.
And a thread about something on TikTok will naturally select participation from people who have first hand experience or care about it.
For example: Silly Tavern users with jailbreaking, advanced prompting, and paramter hyper-optimization.
Maybe that wouldn't appeal to this kind of user anyway, since it'd peek too much into the sausage factory? Who knows.
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