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The full study for those interested: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354152560_The_Psychology_of_Online_Political_Hostility_A_Comprehensive_Cross-National_Test_of_the_Mismatch_Hypothesis

It’s just British or Australian English.

Nice to meet you!

To be honest, the explanation given in the screenshot makes sense. Whilst it’s frustrating, if the mods have had past problems with arguments over OSes (and there are dedicated subs for them), I can somewhat understand the reason for the rule.

There’s already talk-to-your-dog/cat products such as FluentPet. Probably the biggest issue with cats in particular is that their “vocabulary” is quite limited (usually less than a dozen distinct “meows”), but some of the FluentPet users (examples on Youtube such as BilliSpeaks) seem to suggest basic reasoning. A full-blown language is beyond them, but they do seem capable of understanding more concepts than we give them credit for.

The ultimate goal is to speak dolphin, if indeed there is such a language. The pursuit of this goal has led WDP to create a massive, meticulously labeled data set, which Google says is perfect for analysis with generative AI.

So they’re aiming for a real-life version of SeaQuest DSV? Considering Season 1 was set in 2018-2019, we’re 7 years behind schedule so far…

One can only conclude that either this is the latest step in a deliberate effort to sabotage the functioning of the US (and by extension much of the west), or just another monumentally stupid idea brought to life by their limitless incompetence.

Thanks for the tips. I’ve been working on making things more explicit, but it seems that I still am not being explicit enough! It feels like being stuck between a rock and a hard place - on the one hand some interactions tell me that I have to spell things out incredibly simply and explicitly, as though I’m talking to a child, but on the other when I do that it annoys people and I get told that I’m being patronising or condescending.

I can also understand what you mean about people forming a model of one’s behaviour very quickly. In a couple of the conflicts I’ve had, that much is very obvious and I can understand why they’ve automatically leapt to thinking I’m being dishonest/disingenious. Yesterday’s conflict should not have taken that path, though, as these were established acquaintances and there should have been enough previous interaction to know that I don’t intentionally mislead or present bad-faith arguments. Turns out that the reason I got accused of constructing a strawman is because what I thought was a blindingly obvious parallel to the issue we were discussing was viewed as completely irrelevant to the other person. I have no idea how they could not have seen the connection (the whole reason I used the parallel example was because I knew it was something they understood) and it brings me back to the issue of explaining things explicitly/simply enough without the other person then viewing me as being patronising/condescending.

That has to be Chaotic Evil.

I would probably put that as being similar to the “Chaotic Good” with ffmpeg.

If on Windows, there’s Irfanview and its batch processing.

It’s missing the “take a screenshot on your mobile phone” (which drives me nuts when people do this instead of sending me the link or the original photo).

Basically!

No worries. Sadly this is one of the few places I have left without conflict - despite all my efforts and avoidance of personal comments, I always end up in a major conflict somewhere. Each of my hobby areas has been affected by it as well as my community group. I’ve had another conflict happen today because the people I was talking to couldn’t see the significance of an issue I was trying to highlight, so I ended up being accused of putting forward a strawman (which of course makes me retreat as I feel threatened).

I sometimes wonder if part of the issue is that because I am detail and fact-oriented, I don’t engage in conversations the way people expect and so they end up thinking I am being disingenous or have some ulterior motive (last month it was that I was clearly a government shill because I understood the details of a local project and trying to explain the facts to another member of the community). They also don’t like it when I want to understand how they reached their opinion or (heaven forbid) I actually want to understand where I made a mistake in my reasoning (apparently people just don’t do that).

The irony is that, according to the article, it already does. What is changing is that the LLM will be able to use more of that data:

OpenAI is rolling out a new update to ChatGPT’s memory that allows the bot to access the contents of all of your previous chats. The idea is that by pulling from your past conversations, ChatGPT will be able to offer more relevant results to your questions, queries, and overall discussions.

ChatGPT’s memory feature is a little over a year old at this point, but its function has been much more limited than the update OpenAI is rolling out today… Previously, the bot stored those data points in a bank of “saved memories.” You could access this memory bank at any time and see what the bot had stored based on your conversations… However, it wasn’t perfect, and couldn’t naturally pull from past conversations, as a feature like “memory” might imply.

David Geier isn’t just a vaccine skeptic.

He has no medical or scientific qualifications and his father (who does) had his licence suspended.

Basically this is exactly the kind of guy you’d hire if you already knew what conclusion you wanted your “study” to reach.

Because any tech has privacy risks?

We’re no longer living in a world where the only major cybersecurity threats are CCP-backed tech and Russian hackers.

The RAADS-R is worth doing and it is used in formal diagnosis here in Australia. https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

Which online tests have you done? I’m assuming from the screenshot you’ve done the AQ test (which is one of the more scientific ones) and looked at the others on the Embrace Autism website.

I would also not rely on any LLM for advice in this regard. There’s a lot of misleading and plain wrong information on the Internet and much of it has likely been incorporated into the major LLMs.

I’m glad your son’s doctor was able to sort it out! That sounds like a significant improvement.

There are plenty of medications and even vitamin supplements that can interfere with sleep (e.g. don’t take Vitamin D in the evening), so it’s good to look into whatever medication one is taking as well.