Poik

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[–] Poik@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

That was once in 2006. Taco Bell has been pretty strict about internal auditing for health concerns for ages and was the first who gets their lettuce from their supplier whom a lot of other restaurants use and haven't done anything yet. I used to work at one back close to the 2006 outbreak, and since then we've seen more McDonald's outbreaks and I'm not surprised at all.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

Do note: many asexuals also have sexual needs.

Asexuality by default is the absence of physical attraction, but hormones pay a part in many other functions in the body.

Also, because of the culture I'm in unwillingly (thanks puritans who founded this country), it feels really weird to have urges, but never want to have sex in any way.

I believe a person without urges is refered to as alibidoist.

This comment is less for you, and possibly for others like me who misinterpretted the words growing up and think they are somehow different enough to be alone when there are people with all sorts of experiences all over the spectrum.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And godless machine learning engineers like myself. I think you assume I think humans and only humans are intelligent. I am not convinced humans are conscious. There have been many cases where that simply isn't true or obvious.

Have a good day.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Cleaner Wrasse are conscious according to the mirror test. No one would call those fish intelligent. They are smart enough, but they are only self-conscious enough to recognize themselves in a reflection to help remove parasites.

Nothing in the Turing Test proves intelligence. Sounding human is so easy, a chat bot that pretends to be a scared little boy was the first to complete it, way back in 2014. Assuming that fooling a human is hard is even less convincing.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

When we try to solve any of them, they literally send the military at us. Which is federally illegal, but you know, rules for us, not for them.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

The bigger problem is the lack of communication on the subject leading to these kinda puritanical "sexual desire is bad and makes you do bad things" take that made Kellogg try to kill libido with corn flakes.

I think people need to discuss sexuality in non sexual contexts more often. It needs to be considered less taboo and less explicit when specifically discussing sexual health, which is actually important to discuss. I'm largely asexual, and honest conversations earlier in my life would have helped a lot, because I never understood a lot of the things you point out in media. I know just how much my view differs thanks to conversations with someone with diagnosed hypersexuality whom I think of as a close friend.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently sour food helps.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago

One licensed therapist had already done this: https://youtu.be/wzxyAlS577w

I'd be interested in seeing other takes.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

Nevermind, it does sound like you work in software. This is a very familiar quote. x.x And it always comes right before planning slows to a crawl.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You don't with in software do you? The software guy always gets blamed anyway.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

The best uses I've seen are blind person aides. Scene understanding and OCR for disability aides. The OCR doesn't have to be LLMs, but a system that combines the two effectively is useful.

There is merit to sitting an LLM in front of an expert system to act as an intermediate, but the LLM shouldn't be doing any "thinking." It should only translate results.

[–] Poik@pawb.social 9 points 6 months ago

Their poor wives.

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