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Same. Not married, but my partner always had to put in earplugs when I slept with them because I snored so loud, and they were always silent with their CPAP, which was oddly soothing of a sound. Finally got diagnosed after my doctor AND partner both pressured me to. I sleep fairly soundly most nights now. Even got a new mask type yesterday, a minimal contact full face, and I love it. Just gotta adjust my mustache maintenance routine which....to be fair it was already in dire need of, being bushy and rough and uncomfortable, and that upper edge pushing the hairs right back into my face made that all the more obvious. Oof.

I love the feeling of neurons rewiring to form a new pathway of understanding. Or whatever the hell it is. At 38, it's a pleasure finding I can still learn and build new skills.

Playing Beat Saber and hitting a plateau only to find my focus starts to evaporate over the course of a hard track as I find that flow, that path to just being in it, each skill plateau merely being temporary, is great. Playing guitar and slowly starting to wire my brain for the pathway for barre chords and faster movement along the frets is a crazy feeling. That sense of finally finding the pathways for singing to operate even SLIGHTLY separately from the rhythm of the guitar, those glimpses of polyrhythm? Addicting.

If you're able, I hope you can teach him to find that pleasure of not mastery, but evolving strengths. Maybe it's like an RPG where skills can be leveled up over time the more you use them. I know all too well the frustration of imperfection to start, ADHD during the 90s and the whole "perfect student" pressure created a lot I had to undo and still am, but each time I can break free of that it's rewarding.

It's processing data alright, it processes the atomic and cellular structures of grass and fingers into spinach and flesh paste.

And likewise, neither it, nor any LLM, are making decisions at all.

Is a plinko disc making decisions as it tumbles from the top to the bottom through all those pegs? Is the board making the decision? Or is it neither and simply mathematics plus random chance being roped in for randomness? That is exactly what LLMs do.

Terms like "decision" and "lie" and "know" are all things that just do not apply to an LLM, just like your phone keyboard doesn't know what the fuck "what" and "the" are, it just has a lookup table that includes how "what" is often followed by "is" and "the", and "the" is frequently followed by "fuck". But it doesn't "know" that in any meaning of the word "know".

This is what we mean when we say not to personify. A training set of data, even factual, just is converted into a series of matrices of vectors that include those patterns, but not the information itself. "Sky is blue" is not something you can grep from the resulting blob, nor the hex equivalent, or anything else. It simply contains indexed patterns that map those arrangements of letters, over and over.

So yes, they're doing what they're programmed to do precisely. It's just that "what they're programmed to do" is only "mimic patterns of word arrangements", and not "know facts". These things work at a far lower level than that concept.

By this logic, a lawnmower "thinks" my fingers are grass.

So when I make strawberry cake or strawberry cheesecake I take like a pound of strawberries and cook it down into a thick paste that then is folded into the batter.

I can't tell if OP made cubes out of that paste, which is already bitingly sour from the natural acids in strawberries being so concentrated, or just made jello with strawberry mush and lime juice.

I find myself having to use my Switch pro controller when playing Wii U games on PC, because if I use my Xbox controller I get fucked up on button locations. But somehow holding the slightly different controller shape and button size makes my muscle memory switch for it cleanly.

I liked the series until the point OP is at. The third book was okay but I just could not like Raul Endymion no matter what.

The ending fourth of Rise felt like Disney wrote it. "Oh but you see it's bittersweet and--" okay but

But that still requires intent, because "knowing" in the way that you or I "know" things is fundamentally different from it only having a pattern matching vector that includes truthful arrangements of words. It doesn't know "sky is blue". It simply contains indices that frequently arrange the words "sky is blue".

Research papers that overlook this are still personifying a series of mathematical matrices as if it actually knows any concepts.

That's what the person you're replying to means. These machines don't know goddamn anything.

"Without user consent" is a load of crap.

Honestly the scale makes me wonder how much is because it's fucking AI bots.

Try going to an Aldi checkout line.

I'm far happier waiting in line with how absurdly fast they train and empower their cashiers to be then I ever have been at Kroger or Walmart. By now all the cashiers recognize me too because they're paid well enough to reduce churn like that, and I don't even get ID checked for alcohol most of the time.

It's a breath of fresh air after being forced to wait in line for self checkout at any store where everyone is slow. Even myself, and even you, because the machines don't let you go fast because they don't trust you or I. It just feels faster because you're doing something the whole time.

I thought that'd been done already, but if I recall, the vast majority of their funding has come from members for a long time? I'm more concerned about the impact on foreign aid than on them.

Generally, finding the article on the exact same thing at NPR.