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Aeglaecia··on Shooting down ideas is not a skill
i dont agree with the self-indemnifying approach. let us apply this concept to itself - what could go wrong with not shooting down ideas? a lot of time could be wasted giving credence to that which is invalid. for example, ive just donated my energy debating the merits of an article that was probably written by a large language model (this is a judgement based on overt presence of negative parallelism, punchy prose, tripartite sentence structure, AI generated image, ...) - on a personal basis id prefer to have spent my time otherwise, as this entire argument can be summed as "be curious, not judgemental". therefore shooting this one down was probably a good idea?
Aeglaecia··on 70% of Australian teens are getting around the social media ban
i initially agreed with the social media ban, privacy concerns notwithstanding. after reflection ... why couldnt the government instead have engaged in an education campaign to make parents understand what the modern internet does to their kids? education campaigns definitely occurred in the past to address phenomena deleterious to childhood. youtube isn't even banned, which is probably the main source of imagination deletion, so its not like the ban in its current form is super effective. lastly, what are kids meant to do when they cant talk to each other online? parks are completely empty. third spaces dont exist. urban environments dont offer a forest to explore in. banning kids' primary medium of extracurricular socialization is going to end up in a generation of neets.
Aeglaecia··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
constant 20khz does sound more like a damaged peripheral therefore my positation was incorrect, i wish i could help more but i dont have enough experience, that being said i do find super interesting the idea of playing a tone at the same frequency to manually force brains into filtering it out, thanks for sharing your perspective , all the best
Aeglaecia··on I resigned from OpenAI
as a black box there evidently is no functional difference, as output is perceptibly identical in both cases. as a white box its amusing to consider that an ai worker may themselves become verbally indistguishable from ai, although in this particular case its more likely that the ai worker is simply lazy and told ai to write a tweet for them.
Aeglaecia··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
im sorry to hear that, some of my family members have inner ear disorders and the nausea/vertigo sounds terrible. the original comment isnt targeted at those like yourself who unfortunately must deal with damaged peripherals ... but still there is a chance it could apply. may i ask whether you ever noticed ringing in your ears to be correlated with a change of mental state? examples of this chage would be arriving at a big realisation, or commencing relaxation, or performing meditation.
Aeglaecia··on I resigned from OpenAI
ok. do you see any more concrete signs? to me it smells like openai output with newlines removed. but aside from smell (and the negative parallel construction), one could argue that this may be the output of a human who has been influenced by the prose of ai.
Aeglaecia··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
out of all the people in this thread, you seem the most likely candidate to appreciate the following - tinnitus symptoms are often conflated with hearing sensitivity. if you can see auras, then id say your tinnitus symptoms arent indicative of tinnitus. search up brain wave frequencies and look at images. id wager you are hearing yourself, especially during changes of frequency. as well, just prior to sleep, you might hear a spike - thats the brain commencing the sleep mode algorithm (no wonder tinnitus wrecks sleep, affected individuals would struggle at synchronizing both hemispheres with the sleep algorithm when an involved sensor is malfunctioning)

seperately ... its clear that you recognise the incompatibility between sensitive individuals and a society designed to place the populace into constant fight or flight. youre still showing signs of blaming yourself. literally nobody is going to understand you (especially not doctors) and the sooner you accept this, the sooner you will free up a lot of trapped energy. id stop taking the stimulants regularly man ... even without their effect, barely anybody is going to understand your words, and the number of people who will appreciate your words is reduced when they are conveyed via essays (honestly i cant find the strength to read them properly) ... in general your expression has reminded me of the message behind the lateralus chorus

Aeglaecia··on I resigned from OpenAI
if that's the case, ai failed to remove the negative parallel construction (my current top ai smell aside from slanted inverted commas). what signs are there of this being ai asked not to sound like ai?
Aeglaecia··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
the populace has been trained to unequivocally reject any thought that goes against the prevailing narrative. they have been lobotomized, removing the capacity to discern shades of grey. so when things are shouted from the rooftops, automatically they considered not to be worth listening to. if you really want to change people's minds it needs to be done gently, and generally on an individual basis. thats all i wanted to suggest ... internet points are relevant because the less you have, the smaller your audience.
Aeglaecia··on How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page
I feel like a few people tried recently but they missed
Aeglaecia··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
if youre going against the regime of hyperpathologization please be strong and gentle. people dont want to have their pacifiers ripped out, whether that be by lifting the veil of hypercapitalistic coercion, or simply by making plain the wealth of side effects that can be entirely avoided by ignoring artificial diagnoses and seeking solutions more in line with our biology.

like no shit people are going to be more willing to do the bidding of evil when their decision making apparatus is unnaturally saturated. and no shit people are going to have adhd symptoms in a screen based society. its completely obvious. but me saying that is going to get down voted to oblivion. people don't enjoy having a comfortable narrative questioned; dissent (no matter how minor) is equivalent to full scale assault on perceptions of existence. that being said, i dont blame anyone for this, considering that the entirety of existence is currently geared towards forcing the populace into fight or flight mode, thus rendering null the capacity to exact societal change and disrupt the status quo.

people really do think their best interests are at the heart of billion dollar companies like those producing pharmaceutical goods !

Aeglaecia··on CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
I really want to be in a world where that's true. in the meantime we live in a zero sum survival of the fittest game where the powerful execute the weak for insubordination. in this world it is often necessary to take roundabout paths to reach the objective.

for example, a constitutional representative in my country attempted to place restrictions on unfettered gambling advertisements. a single day later, photos emerged of that politician having dressed as a nazi for a costume party in his youth. that politician stood up for what was right and then got fired for it, by losing his job and his status in the court of public opinion, effectively achieving no change.

exacting change isnt always such a simple process as embodying the end result.

Aeglaecia··on CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
i feel like this is the same as voting independant. it's the right idea in theory, but given the fact that 99% of people don't do it , righteousness is decreased. in this case very literally as having a unique fingerprint is entirely counter intuitive to the idea of privacy
Aeglaecia··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
what exactly makes you feel good about a privacy black hole with the worlds foremost anti privacy captain at the helm ?
Aeglaecia··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
while noble, basically any western system will punish such behaviour as assault ... perhaps this point could be expressed as a prefererence for the law to change such that deprivation of privacy becomes a valid self defense argument ... in the meantime there do exist passive defenses such as face masks designed to interfere with facial recognition
Aeglaecia··on Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health
im thinking you would need a group to skip breakfast too ...
Aeglaecia··on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
matthew 5:47

wish this idea was more prevalent in modern politics !

Aeglaecia··on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
asking this out of curiosity due to recent reflection on similar - what's stopping us simply not responding to those arguing in bad faith ?
Aeglaecia··on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
I believe the argument is that introducing personal aspects like this friend foe business inherently serves to increase argumentative bias and reduce quality of discussion. personally this seems like a slop project either way , so regardless as to how beneficial it could be, I'm still going to behave toxically towards it - if you really love or hate someone so much , you would have memorized their name already !
Aeglaecia··on Australia's WiseTech to cut 2k jobs as AI renders manual coding obsolete
wonder why their share price is worth a fraction what it was a couple years back
Aeglaecia··on Australia's WiseTech to cut 2k jobs as AI renders manual coding obsolete
> Chief Executive Zubin Appoo said in the statement. “I am prepared to say this clearly: the era of manually writing code as the core act of engineering is over.”

if i was a software engineer i too would probably think that software is the core of engineering ...

i'd also say the same thing as this c suiter if my company was failing and needed to cut costs without scaring the investors !

Aeglaecia··on Show HN: I built an LLM comment detector for HN (I got banned)
cant believe i never noticed the quote thing before. tis a mere a matter of time before these tropes become redundant , but for the moment they are very useful to memorize. thank you for sharing.

i tried using your website. it mostly works but it broke a little bit:

Anthropic parse error: ```json { "score": 15, "reasons": [ "Strong personal voice with natural argumentative tone and direct confrontat

Aeglaecia··on Rare, dangerous side effects of some Covid-19 vaccines explained
'as soon as the side effects became apparent' occurred a few months after millions upon millions of youth had already taken AZ. this was a tradeoff for having protected your demographic, which i agree is a positive note from that particular perspective.

indeed vaccination levels have notably dipped across the west as a result of this entire debacle. it will make for a great comparison in a few years when we can calculate excessive deaths across more diseases than simply covid. thank you for handling this discussion in a respectful manner, its very difficult to talk about these things productively. all the best

Aeglaecia··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
denmark spearheads the EU push for chat control , this is a bit of an impediment to the good will argument
Aeglaecia··on AI-generated replies are a scourge these days
look man youre right semantically in that llms are trained for maximum engagement its just not the conversation im looking for right now , all the best
Aeglaecia··on AI-generated replies are a scourge these days
whatever way you want to express it, a subset of people have been linguistically roboticized and talk like robots now. regardless as to how natural it is, these people are definitely talking like that, and it is difficult to verbally distinguish them from the robots they emulate
Aeglaecia··on AI-generated replies are a scourge these days
what if you were having sexual intercourse with a human being who was later revealed to be a robot? all the sensations felt identical to you either way. but you still didn't make love.
Aeglaecia··on AI-generated replies are a scourge these days
thats definitely the way i feel using the net now. but expressing it that way can be kinda rude, coz some people naturally write like the sam altman machine. i tried pointing out repeated use of ai grammar techniques, that seemed to me to be the middle ground between wasting my time and being a dick to others. but pointing out ai grammar techniques got me flagged here. anyone got a better middle ground?
Aeglaecia··on AI-generated replies are a scourge these days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

a great link to share around !

now ive been wondering - what is the polite way to exit a conversation when it becomes obvious that your fellow interlocutor is merely a chunk of electric meat redirecting the output of sam altman? im talking blatantly obvious eg. 'its not x, its y' multiple times in the same paragraph.

Aeglaecia··on Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
i intended to ask what the difference was between two browsers that are both beholden to a company whose express goal is to suck up personal data. so far ive gotten vitriol, AI, and downvotes. my actual question remains unanswered. if you'd like to answer the question that would be cool! but yeah if you dont want to answer , it'd probably be easier to say nothing than to tell me to die alone
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