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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • I completely stopped taking that stuff as a sleeping medicine. I might take it if I happen to develop an allergy or something, but that is about it.

    Also, I believe the risk of dependency needs to be reevaluated for that stuff. For me, I trade one nights sleep for two shitty ones if I take it. So, it’s keep taking it, or just power through a couple more days of not being able to get to sleep after taking it. I personally believe this can lead to longer term sleep issues. (I do not believe there is going to be evidence or studies to back up my claims, but I haven’t really looked.)

    Sure, it could have just been psychological issues for me, but there were issues nonetheless.





  • I am a believer in the possibility of panspermia. Much of the stuff we see on earth is the byproduct of past supernovas. Those old stars probably had planets and some of those planets might have hosted early forms of RNA or at a minimum, started to form more complex molecules.

    I am not saying is not that earth was “seeded” intentionally or life as we know it developed on another world. It just makes more sense to me that the history of life is not contained strictly on this planet alone.

    The universe seems much more complex to me than the history of a single planet.


  • These findings suggest LLMs can internalize human-like cognitive biases and decision-making mechanisms beyond simply mimicking training data patterns

    lulzwut? LLMs aren’t internalizing jack shit. If they exhibit a bias, it’s because of how they were trained. A quick theory would be that the interwebs is packed to the brim with stories of “all in” behaviors intermixed with real strategy, fiction or otherwise. I speculate that there are more stories available in forums of people winning doing stupid shit then there are of people losing because of stupid shit.

    They exhibit human bias because they were trained on human data. If I told the LLM to only make strict probability based decisions favoring safety (and it didn’t “forget” context and ignored any kind of “reasoning”), the odds might be in its favor.

    Sorry, I will not read the study because of that one sentence in its summary.


  • I’ll never drink again, but there are some days still that I wish my mind could be as numb as it was while I was a raging alcoholic. That thought is usually replaced with remembering how shitty I always felt and how I didn’t give a fuck about anything. Life was a blur.

    A mostly clear mind and recovering body is a very good thing. Daily stress is easily managed with regular exercise and chronic anxiety and depression is only a tiny fraction of what it once was. It’s a good life now.

    I believe the lifestyle changes not only lengthened my life, but it also stretched out my perceived time as well.




  • I would tweak that a hair and tell people just to make an account somewhere and observe for a bit. Lemmy can have some very distinct groups that reside on very specific instances. Or not. It’s a “pick your adventure” kind of scenario, IMHO.

    It took about six months or so for me to settle into .ca after bouncing around a bit. It’s not really a pain to switch instances, but I personally like my chat history in one spot and I like the concept of a ‘home instance’.

    Depending on your client and your settings, your feed could have a bias that leans in the direction of the posts on your home instance, so that is something of note. Not saying that is bad or good, it just is what it is.