Gross. A Facebook link. This is one of the few times I would have considered another layer of jpg a good thing.

Genetically-optimal? How in the fuck do they determine that? What happens if their spawn is not genetically-optimal? Recycling bin?

Geezus fuck people are dumb sometimes.

Yeah, its a hell of an experience many people should have. (Many people probably also shouldn’t.) At the core of it all, I believe that being able to view problems through a very different lense is a big part of how psychedelics work when used for deep therapy. In many cases, I could see and interact with my emotions and feelings like they were an independent thing. I could almost visualize and touch my own emotions. Being able to see through my problems and get closure for issues that were supposed to be long in my past was a very beautiful thing. Trippy stuff, quite literally.

Also, (and this is really for others that are reading this) I am not really joking with my personification of a mushroom. I used to think that was just some crazy burned-out hippy talk, but there is so much more to it than that. Yes. A mushroom talking is absolutely a hallucination. That isn’t what that literally is though…

It’s more of a very primal, internal dialogue. It’s like the voice that we choose not to listen to when we have a “gut feeling” about something and can’t vocalize the concern. It’s the voice in your head that always knows the right decisions to make even if we brush it off through a normal day. That is the mushroom talking and it’s got a really powerful voice if you ever choose to follow Alice down that rabbit hole far enough.

I attribute mushrooms to finally breaking my years long journey as a fairly committed alcoholic.

The decisions or realizations people can have during an intense trip tend to be really sticky for a very long time regardless if it’s a good trip or a bad one. It’s the nature of the beast.

But mushrooms be like you described sometimes. I won’t go near the dosages I was taking when I was kicking booze. 1-2 grams every once in a while is just fine for me.

After my last power trip (+5 grams) I saw what I needed to see and probably will never go in that range again. It was a life changing trip and thankfully not a bad one. However, when the mushrooms speak to you like that, you listen. They told me I was done and I was ready to heal on my own.

LPT, keep a stopwatch going for psychedelics. I’ll start a timer on my phone when I drop and it helps snap me out of any kind of time related disorientation as I peak. For your average time dilation stuff, it’s awesome. If I can’t see my phone, then time probably is the last thing on my mind.

Neural networks just do what they do and they are fine. It’s all the idiots that think ANNs are smart and connect them to anything and everything assuming they are intelligent, is the actual problem.

Most of this is just marketing crap from Anthropic.

Finding vulnerabilities in code and generating complex, multistep exploits with publicly available models is possible now. This biggest hurdles now is setting correct context and actually knowing what to look for. Any “guardrails” for this behavior are easily bypassed by framing the detection and exploit generation as a valid dev style question in the most difficult of situations.

They likely just trained a model without guardrails in this case.

What they are doing here is over-hyping a problem and framing it like they are the only ones with a solution. LLM security issues are more in-focus now that companies have dumped a ton of resources into building AI systems they don’t really understand.

Environmental impacts aside for a sec, that would be cool if Taiwan dropped a fab up in Canadia. Fortunately/Unfortunately, I am not sure if a fab is compatible with Canada, it’s climate or geo formations. Likely not.

Such a double-edged sword. There is a bunch of suck that comes attached to a fab, but from an economic and technology perspective it would be awesome.

(10/10, would rather see a fab managed somewhat responsibly in Canada rather than here in the US. I have no proof to go with that statement, but it seems logical.)

I want it to be a Lower Decks reference.

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/1r8lv00/spotted_in_the_wild/

That pic looked too jpg’d to be real, but I found another source.

Not if they are both wrong.

This has always been a thing. The allure of unbelievable signing bonuses and the promise of a college education has been around for at least the last 40 years.

JROTC has the added benefit for the military of pre-bootcamp brainwashing. (Much to the dismay of many kids, the military isn’t all show drills and uber-patriotism.)

The money and college is real, but it comes with some really beefy strings attached.

Thank you for your service.

You should probably have your bot stop at a word count, not a letter count as to avoid unfortunate racial slang.

Confirmed or not, get better sources. Equipment damaged in a war is completely plausible and even inevitable. Propaganda is also inevitable, from either side of a conflict. In this case, an Indian source has proxied state news meant for Iranians.

Trying to sort out their mix of AI slop posts from legit unbiased news isn’t worth my time, even if the news is proxied by another source. (Indian news is generally shit as well, I just ignore that by default. If you actually want extreme sensationalized trash, then good on you.)

Tehran Times would probably also claim that they lead the world in women’s rights and free speech.

It’s probably just a rogue hemorrhoid that will just add more stress. Sorry.

I am a much smaller frame, 5’11 @ 180 lbs. When I quit drinking, I was up to 250lbs for a bit, but I just stopped eating as much and I lost the weight. Even when I got a belly a time or two before that, I never went on a diet: I adjusted my habits completely. (Or just drank more black coffee… Not a healthy option, but it was an option that suppressed hunger and got me out of the get-hungry-more-because-I-was-eating-more cycle.)

These days, I just run. Cardio can really suck ass at times, but it works wonders. Once you get into extended aerobic exercise, your body has to burn fat for energy at higher rates. (I am absolutely lacking on the anaerobic side of things except for the sprints I do every week.)

Big, small, tall or short, your body needs protein. It needs more protein when you work out. Whey protein is the “gold standard”, but usually because it’s effective and usually a good value. Hydrolyzed protein is easier for your body to take in because it’s (essentially) partially digested proteins. (It’s easier on my stomach as well, which is why I take it.)

I would speculate that your protein intake calculation is not going to be near what you think it will be, or even close to what the interwebs will tell you (it’s all weight based calculations) until you get your fat to muscle ratio closer to whatever a “normal” ratio is so take that into account.

You didn’t ask for any opinion of mine, so take this with a grain of salt. It’s just my thoughts on supplementation in general, but you do you.

My method for adjusting any system is to establish a stable baseline first, before all else. If the system is stabilizing or going through massive changes, tuning that system for performance is the last thing on my list.

Supplements didn’t make sense to me until I actually started to need them and had some kind of stable system to work with after months of learning to run again. By all means, supplement but supplement when it is measurably effective. (Protein powder is expensive for what it is, and you shouldn’t just literally piss it out if your body doesn’t need it.)

The only things that ever made sense to me were the dippers and Orion.

But, if all I had was booze, assorted natural drugs, the occasional orgy and a serious case of lead poisoning to keep me entertained, I would probably have some wicked pareidolia as well.

Your description aligns perfectly with his past behavior and it isn’t an anomaly. What you are likely seeing are instance bans where users are banned from multiple communities because of actions his fragile snowflake ass considered hostile. (I was instance banned from .ml for comments on another instance, I speculate. I had already blocked .ml before my ban so I didn’t even notice.)

What really confuses me is that he spends a fuck ton of time developing Lemmy as a free and open platform for the world, but runs one of the most restrictive instances on Lemmy. (The irony, is that he is following the exact pattern of how communism can never evolve past a dictatorship. Hommie is also a fairly rabid tankie.)

The fuck hasn’t realized that if he has to spend so much time banning people it might actually be him that’s the problem. Alas, no. You cannot tell a tankie they are wrong because it simply doesn’t compute.