He thought he was the left foot of God, perhaps he needed to be knocked down a peg.

https://youtu.be/zOauN49Ljuc

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Okay, the one nostril thing is actually normal! Most people breath primarily or entirely through one nostril at a time, with the dominant nostril switching every few hours. When I go off nasal spray (gradually) this is what happens to me and it drives me nuts. Like, if I’m entirely healthy and no allergens I can sort of breath through both, maybe 80/20, and it’s only a little bothersome but the moment I get any congestion at all at least one is plugged up and I just cannot handle it. Probably I “cured” myself of the nasal cycle at a very young age and got used to it.

If you do the same yes you will definitely get physically dependent but for me at least I have never had to increase the frequency or amount I’m using over time (literally like 35 years of continuous use). Actually like mentioned I’ve gone from full strength oxymetazoline to about 1/4, it works for 6 hours or so. Phenylephrine spray is much weaker but still causes dependence.

As far as I can tell the only negative of being addicted is you will freak the fuck out and be miserable for a few days if you should find yourself without it. I am a habitual nicotine user and if I had to choose between nasal spray and my vape it would be no choice at all, nasal spray plz

What product from Zicam are you using?

If you’ve been using nasal spray for a long time the congestion is just rebound, it would take several days for it to start going away. Personally I can’t stand nasal congestion, like ever, I am a long term nasal spray addict and haven’t had any obvious health problems from it. I’ve quit a couple times but soon as I get a cold or something I’m back on the stuff so pretty much gave up on that. Currently use it at about 1/3 strength, mixed with saline nasal spray, which is plenty it just takes a bit longer to take effect. If you have been on it a while you can quit by making weaker and weaker solutions, gradually go to 0% over month or two

Had them more than a decade ago, pros couldn’t get rid of them. All I had to do was put all my belongings in the garage, heat that up to 140 degrees F for about 12 hours, dust the entire house including inside the walls with diatomaceous earth, and move out for 3 months. Easy peasey.

Btw they can’t climb smooth surfaces, it’s actually practical to just put protectors/detectors on all the legs of your beds and furniture and make sure there’s nothing touching the walls or hanging to the floor. I did that for a few years out of paranoia actually and always for the first few months after moving into a new place. I still wake up sometimes and am compelled to turn on the light and check my sheets. They need human blood to survive, unfortunately they can live for quite some time without feeding.

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Very well, I’ll take that as a sort of compliment lol.

So I guess I start where I always do, do you think a machine, in principal, has the capability to be intelligent and/or creative? If not, I really don’t have any counter, I suppose I’d be curious as to why though. Like I admit it’s possible there’s something non-physical or non-mechanistic driving our bodies that’s unknown to science. I find that very few hold this hard line opinion though, assuming you are also in that category…

So if that’s correct, what is it about the current paradigm of machine learning that you think is missing? Is it embodiment, is it the simplicity of artificial neurons compared to biological ones, something specific about the transformer architecture, a combination of these, or something else I haven’t thought of?

And hopefully it goes without saying, I don’t think o1-preview is a human level AGI, I merely believe that we’re getting there quite soon and without too many new architectural innovations, possibly just one or two, and none of them will be particularly groundbreaking, it’s fairly obvious what the next couple of steps will be as it was that MCTS + LLM was the next step 3 years ago.

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You’re describing like 95% of the entire USA though, and 80% of the entire world. I am also prone to judging humanity as not so great, but we literally need them for the revolution. Well maybe not the initial part, but we’ll need most of them to get with the program in short order.

it constructs a concept in a more abstract way then progressively finds a way to put it into words; I know that arguably that’s what it’s doing currently,

Correct!

but the fact that it does it separately for each token means it’s not constructing any kind of abstraction

No!!! You simply cannot make judgements like this based on vague ideas like “autocomplete on steroids” or “stochastic parrot”, these were good for conceptualizing GPT-2, maybe. It’s actually very inefficient, but, by re-reading what it has previously written (plus one token) it’s actually acting sort of like an RNN. In fact we know theoretically that with simlified attention models the two architectures are mathematically equivalent.

Let me put it like this. Suppose you had the ability to summon a great novelist as they were at some particular point in their life, pull them from one exact moment in the past, and to do this as many times as you liked. You put a gun to their head, or perhaps offer them alcohol and cocaine, to start writing a novel. The moment they finish the first word, you shoot them in the head and summon the same version again. “Look I’ve got a great first word for a novel, and if you can turn it into a good paragraph I’ll give you this bottle of gin and a gram of cocaine!”. They think for a moment and begin to put down more words, but again you shoot them after word two. Rinse/repeat until a novel is formed. It takes a good while but eventually you’ve got yourself a first draft. You may also have them refine the novel using the same technique, also you may want to give them some of the drugs and alcohol before hand to improve their writing and allow them to put aside the fact that they’ve been summoned to the future by a sorcerer. Now I ask you, is there any theoretical reason why this novel wouldn’t be any good? Is the essence of it somehow different than any other novel, can we judge it as not being real art or creativity?

The model was trained on self-play, it’s unclear exactly how, whether via regular chain-of-thought reasoning or some kind of MCTS scheme. It no longer relies only on ideas from internet data, that’s where it started from. It can learn from mistakes it made during training, from making lucky guesses, etc. Now it’s way better as solving math problems, programming, and writing comedy. At what point do we call what it’s doing reasoning? Just like, never, because it’s a computer? Or you object to the transformer architecture specifically, what?

Look I just don’t think that’s a helpful mindset, there are still good people who don’t understand and or don’t agree. They probably treat these videos and news as misinformation or just tell themselves it’s a necessary evil in a fight against an even greater evil, remember they think that gazans are mostly united in their hatred against Jews and would like to see them eliminated woldwide, not that this ought to make much of a difference in the calulation of whether or not to kill an entire culture with no power to fight back… but I have to admit that if I believed this to be true I would be less invested emotionally. Or they just haven’t seen the information at all, that’s probably the bulk of it actually.

It’s incredibly hard to let go of an ideology, and liberalism and to a lesser extent democratism are quite powerful and seductive from the standpoint of someone embedded in American society who hasn’t seen the light when it comes to the whole America being evil thing. As emaciated and I’ll defined as our culture it, it is still a culture nonetheless, or it appears to be at least, it’s something many people cherish and will want to protect, and when an inclination is so deeply ingrained it creates enormous potential for self deception and willful ignorance.

So do I have trouble not hating them, yes, but on the other hand I also see where they’re coming from, their experiences have likely been quite different from my own, and that means there may be potential for conversion via the inception of new experience You have to admit it’s already happening to an extent, there are a lot of libs out there who have been partially black pilled by this whole genocide thing, which they still see as merely another war, albeit a particularly gruesome one. They’re on the right path. Are they moving too slowly, more disinterested in completing the journey of enlightenment than they need to be, perhaps not even aware they haven’t reached the end? Yes. Will most of them never make it? Probably. But some will and I happen to believe that if you are potentially a future ally you should not be treated as an enemy, at least in the absence of other mitigating circumstances.

What lies between us and the truth of this situation is a window crystal clear to you, to me, to some still in the “progressive” category who keeps themselves well informed. What we sometimes forget is that it is our ideology and education and personal inclinations give us X-ray vision, we see certainly things with such clarity that we forget the window is there at all, and that it is opaque to certain frequencies of light. But that type of vision is not yet available to all, some may have ways of devoping it to various extents, but they all will involve some level of pain, guilt, loss, grief, and sheer effort.

The effort, we’re all quite tired, we need our sleepy time, and yet some person, who my friends tell me I should hate or ignore, is telling me to get out of bed and embark on some spirit quest which, if my friends knew I had gone along, could jeopardize our relationships? Oh and this person btw appears to be even more tired and quite miserable compared to me, and filled with anger? No thanks, I’ll just get a good night’s sleep instead. After all I have work in the morning.

We have the majority very roughly on our side, but we need even more and we need to smooth out that roughness, that is part of our job right now. We need to recognize when this is and isn’t feasible and accept that polishing a surface is sometimes a many step process, especially if that surface is particularly hard or too brittle, but if we are too picky about the tools we are willing to apply, the raw materials we’re willing to work with, we are using our labor inefficiently and we end up with fewer and lower quality products which might otherwise have been unique items of great use in enacting our plans.

Apologies, I will try to do worse

Still the same answer, well even moreso, that’s a low dose. And unless you know someone who gets it wholesale the strain names really don’t mean much in terms of potency, lots of variability, depends on brand. Anyway, enjoy, it’s a good mood booster and I don’t see any downside except the potential for addiction (lower than alcohol but still a factor) and escalating daily use from chasing a high you won’t be able to achieve without an actual break

I assume that’s an extract in a capsule and not dried kratom in a capsule? 6.5mg of plant matter would be a miniscule dose… So alkaloid content is something like .7-1.5% of dried weight, 2 would be equivalent to 1-2g of dried kratom. No, it’s about a perfect starting dose, in the medium to low range. It gets problematic at about 5-10x that amount

Kratom is great when used in moderation, in my experience you start to get side effects after a week or so of daily usage, it’s not the tolerance that’s most annoying, the effects seem to change, it becomes less stimulating and the mood enhancement disappears. Thankfully it’s very easy to withdraw from unless you’re taking really large doses, you can just go cold turkey and be back to normal in 2 or three days. Results may vary, but highly recommend frequent breaks of 7-10 days and never escalating dosage to more than a few grams a day. Also, it really shines at lower doses, where it’s a mild stimulant and just a touch of the opiate feeling, and it’s a very good physical performance enhancer.

Why isn’t my ‘middle aged version of the boy from the omelas except without the utopia’ vibe combined with my strategy of never initiating any social interactions attracting any straight older millennial to younger gen Z females?

Eh, but this sort of thing is an actual practical use case of crypto, the problem as you pointed out is off ramping to a fiat currency, this is actually a sovable problem, you can wash your crypto funds, there are methods for literally perfect money laundering if you know what you’re doing, and as long as you know someone who can cash them out and get the money to you you’re good to go. Unfortunately it’s annoying AF, I’m sure Hamas and whatnot are doing something like this but not your average Palestinian.

I’ve been complaining to myself and family about my depression, my frustrations trying to treat it, and various life stressors, had actually typed a long post in this thread doing the same but wtf like they were launching a truly organized and large scale invasion of the West Bank as I was typing that. Also in my own country:

Half of the 200+ responses are essentially just “same”, this is reddit mind you, not really known as a hub for the 65+ crowd. I follow that sub and it’s 95% people under 30…

I realize that “other people have it worse” is usually wrong thinking when you are struggling but idk imma try and spin that into “I really am privileged and I will try to be grateful and at the very least I vow somehow to use that privilege to do something, anything, to make the world better, I owe it to my family for one thing and I just despise suffering and most of the suffering is happening outside my own head. Period.”

I have kids so yes, I must in a sense hope in order to maintain the tiny bit of sanity that holds my life together