Like I did something pointless that will likely encourage them to pester me about it relentlessly for months because “everyone needs friends”?

Similar here. I’ve never had many friends, but, the older I get, the more exhausting I find human interaction (I am an #aspie), I started going on vacations of 4+ weeks on an island where I only interacted at the supermarket, because I had to, decades ago. I very deliberately do not maintain any friendships (and I’m married to a very similar mind, we live apart for years and only “visit” each other every couple of weeks). Whenever someone expresses their exasperation that I could want it that I am seriously pissed off. Just imagine that being forced to interact is as bad as being forced to be alone, ffs.

Yes and no. Buying a RiscV CPU has the same issues as buying an arm or x86_64, and building one from discrete components (which is absolutelt feasible, there’s multiple people that have done it) still means you might recreate some subtle and deliberate flaw in the spec (How sure are you there is none? That is the whole question). And trusting a FLOSS BIOS over a proprietary one is just accepting a different trust level/anchor. My whole point was that ultimately you cannot perfectly trust anything you haven’t designed and built yourself (and even that depends on this reality not being a malicious simulation; I am being serious), so you’ll need to consciously decide what trade-offs, if any, you’re willing to make.

Ultimately, you need to build your own CPU (and everything else) from discrete components (assuming the universe is not a malicious simulation, of course) and bootstrap on it by writing you first assembler in machine code (You ought to come up with everything from scratch, any exisiting designs might have subtle deliberate vulnerabilities). The actual question is at which point you’re willing to risk a compromised supply chain, i.e. how far does your, quite warranted, paranoia go.

Well, I don’t have kids, but I think I’d rather know they don’t care, so I can work on that instead of being annoyed the next time it inevitably happens again…

My downvote stays; That is an absolutely atrocious title for it.

Not everyone enjoys the same things and that’s ok. I’d rather rip out my own fingernails than spend any time with “ai chat” shrug

The counting systems were always bullshit. Different people and at different times have wildly different speech tempo. What you can do is trying to find your rhythm by actually saying a word repeatedly as fast as you can without mispronouncing and counting how often you can do that in a minute; That’ll give you a fairly accurate measure you can use.

/me walks onto the poop deck :-P

Thx. No, I have yet to see anything from an LLM that I consider remotely useful. And I wouldn’t be caught dead leting one anywhere near any system integration (Just look at all of the AWS outages in the past months). I continue to remain utterly baffled whenever anyone uses them for anything (other than maybe image generation, but I’d rather pay a small artist for those); I mean, their “summaries” are just as much random garbage as their citations… They look reasonable, but that’s all they do. I think LLMs are a neat parlor trick that is going to cost us, as a species, a lot, without getting us any closer to AGI.

Also: I apologize for my wording. I had an extremely strong emotional reaction, and I shouod have stopped and thought.

I’m trying. For the record: The global-warming-increasing tech-bro-billionaire-owned LSD-tripping babble-automatons are not exactly universally applauded. Saying anything about them requires care.

I know I come across like an asshole here, and I don’t want to hurt feelings, but, in case you are human, you should really consider your impulse control, writing coherence, and, maybe, how a given topic is usally regarded by the intended audience. In short, next time, please stop and think before posting something as emotionally charged as that, ok?

Given the coherence of your post I’m frankly assuming it to be another LLM-pretends-to-be-human test balloon; And following those links would either be positive reinforcement of its utility function or tell some “real” humans that their crap at least garners interest. Just no, not even once.

Whole post reads like it was generated by an LLM, lots of words, very little sense…

Who gives a flying rat’s ass? Pestilence upon you and the electrons you rode in on.

Fair :-)

To me “unbidden” ≠ “intrusive”; in a venn diagram “intrusive” would be a small circle fully contained within a much larger “unbidden” one. Though we go deeply into the question of free will when considering every thought “unbidden”, so I really woupdn’t go that deep ;-)

As someone with mental health issues including intrusive thoughts: Nope, you probably haven’t experienced one if you truly think that. Normal thoughts come and go, and, sure, they may interrupt each other, but an intrusive thought comes into your brain like a fucking tank, crushing and maiming everything in its path, not even considering to leave, and shooting down every attempt to get rid of it violently. You absolutely know it is one…

You get thrown into Jail as an “anti-social element” (There’s an important distinction between “unable to work” and “unwilling to work”, both meaning “work” as in “contributing labor to the well-being of your fellow humans”). Also: You clearly don’t know anything about socialism beyond right-wing delusions.