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  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlHow capitalism works
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    17 days ago

    they live like miserable gods preoccupied with escaping from reality

    It’s because they realize something as they age: For all their wealth, they are still mortal, their physical bodies will decline, and their egotistical, narcissistic lifetime will ultimately amount to absolutely nothing as they rot in the ground and cease existing like everyone else.

    Mortality puts things into perspective for those people because they’re driven by a philosophical imperative that’s borderline pathological in nature:

    Donald Trump watched the video of himself almost getting headshot on repeat, 9 times a day. Some said it was PTSD, but that’s assuming a lot.

    Elon Musk is quoted as saying in The Atlantic that he’s “rigged for war”.

    Well, what war? War against who? Against what?

    "Escaping from the matrix seems like “a war against reality itself”.

    We can only be so lucky that none of those fucks will ever attain apotheosis or immortality no matter how hard they try.

    Maybe that’s why they’re so bent on destroying the planet – if they can’t have it, so can’t you.


  • Yeah, it’s definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

    Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling – you can’t have it if you didn’t have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it’s almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

    Unfortunately, even with a “time machine”, we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won’t ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but…

    Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.




  • Hahahah, what a load of horseshit.

    I had asthma as a child, and let me tell you, you can’t do anything with asthma. It’s like being allergic to the atmosphere – basic exercise can trigger an attack and leave you useless and wheezing. Your cardiovascular capacity is shot.

    Reading that these Olympians got gold medals while simultaneously having asthma is like hearing the champions at the shooting tournament were all blackout drunk.

    Albuterol and other bronchodilators absolutely do increase your VO²Max if abused or taken by a non-athsmatic. Not in the lower ranges of respiratory function but in the 80-100% of VO²Max where elite athletes operate.

    I don’t dispute the doctor’s claims that there are some cold weather sports with dry air that can mimick the symptoms of asthma, but an asthmatic Olympian/athlete beating someone without asthma (a debilitating respiratory illness) and taking the gold?

    I’m calling bullshit. They outsmarted the anti-doping regulations, clean and simple. Wheeze into this box and you can raise your VO²Max during the competition. Anything for a win.











  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzSardonic Grin
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    Update: I’ve tried the expert topics and gaslighting and the model was able to give expert level information but would always correct itself, if given new information, even though it seemed absurd.

    However, the model would resist gas lighting for very well-known topics, such as claiming to be the “President of Mars”, it gave its logic for why the claim is false and was resistant to further attempts to try to convince it that this was true.

    Overall, this was a good experiment in doing real world testing on a large language model.

    Thanks for your suggestions – this is a problem that could be solved with future iterations of large language models! 💖