Gnostrils

If you have a habit of being hard on yourself or are chronically unhappy, it's good to regularly strive to cultivate self-compassion, gratitude, and mindfulness. If you've tried to cultivate these things and you still feel bad, it's because you're a failure and piece of shit

Yes, yes, very monastic and privileged of you to find God in the silence, but can you find Him in the horrid deafening cacophony?

@meditationstuff for me its more like stooge sort but ok

Meditation properly conceived is more like bubblesort than weightlifting or building a microscope and then using it, though there is some value to these other analogies, too

@PaulAustin3w @ChrisMasterjohn @YounisJoseph @nicknorwitz absolute top tier

@ChrisMasterjohn @YounisJoseph @nicknorwitz Sasha Shulgin is the best example of this

N = 1 studies as proxy for evidence is probably less scientific

are there any normal gummies that taste as good as vitamin gummies?

@BecomingCritter @TylerAlterman i think you’re trolling but because the experiment is over and i want people to stop being confused, here is a link confirming it’s a real Monet wikiart.org/en/claude-mone…

@TylerAlterman embarrassing that everyone thinks this is a real monet lmao

Normally I don't repost demotivation porn like this, but I do think that the culture needs to mock its own current relationship to art in order to come to a healthier one

@SHL0MS @BAYC5511 SHL0MS be trolling all the way to the grave

@BAYC5511 you think this obvious disgusting slop is a real Monet??

Since its been 24 hours, i can finally say, i love how SHL0MS baited everyone into responding to this, many art experts saying how badly the ai did when in reality its a cropped real monet painting they are critiquing as ai 😭

@panickssery @_space_punk_ @QiaochuYuan but it is the definition of “experience”, which is often (typically, even) considered to be an element of qualification

@_space_punk_ @QiaochuYuan That's not the definition of qualification

the meta in AI training appears to be converting humans into machines for generating training data in as dehumanizing and exploitative a way as possible. also your boss is a zoomer. bleak archive.is/iPDTU

@kat_szpiech that’s true. maybe i’ll start DIY prototyping, for research

@gnostrils You could

They should make a cookies & cream ice cream that actually has enough cookies in it Who’s building this

Namaste means “the dawg in me recognizes the dawg in you” in Sanskrit

Running and lifting regularly doesn’t cure it but it helps takes the edge off, for me So do: reading novels, traveling, spending less time on the internet/social media, having a project to work on, spending time with friends, etc. Luckily all those things help reinforce each other and can create positive feedback loops Probably to cure it requires (a little to a lot of) therapy/meditation/psychedelics/bodywork/etc, imo

how did you cure a persistent sinking feeling of existential dread?

@SkyeSharkie @SHL0MS confirmed wikiart.org/en/claude-mone…

@SHL0MS water lilies is a collection of 250 paintings... you just posted an image of one of the lesser known ones and pretended it was AI and asked for a comparison to one of the most popular ones, didn't you?

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

How can we turn this into a red/blue button poll

@QiaochuYuan nah always been a thing

this kind of accidental word substitution is something i never heard anyone do before covid and covid is the exact moment i heard both myself and a bunch of other people my age (including, like, youtubers) start doing it. might be baader-meinhof but it’s always freaked me out

@hormeze incredible photo

every day i meet an entirely new type of guy

@RonenV Leonard Cohen said, “If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash”

art is not the product of productive labor. art is the waste product of a spiritual practice.

Happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough, he’s a real one

The plan is simple. I like her tweet, she notices me, she clicks my profile, she likes it, we get married

I get your point but this walks a line of stretching it too far. It denies that tone and framing have important impacts on discourse. As a clear example, manipulative people often achieve coercive dominance by sticking to saying strictly true things with deviously calculated tone and framing (I’m not saying Yud is such a person, just that criticism of tone and framing is not a priori dismissable)

Even saying "I appreciate your ideas but the way you talk about it is bad" ain't it. There are plenty who believe AI is dangerous with less certainty, so use less absolute language. But there's 0 reason for Yud to moderate his tone if no one can convince him he's wrong.

Stunts like this were predictable from the shit 47 was saying before the debate, but man, if only 47 knew Yud had written millions of word of fiction about why it's a bad idea to be the sort of person who is susceptible to blackmail, he may have saved himself some money.

@vincit_amore @tenobrus Yud’s behavior seems well explained by him simply believing the things he says. Why is it necessary to psychologize about his ego etc? How would a person who believes what Yud believes but has no ego issues behave differently?

Regardless of how badly this whole thing made 47fucb look (every clip I've seen has been painful to watch), isn't the real underlying narrative here, maybe even the one 47fucb was trying to draw out however embarrassingly to himself, that Yud actually doesn't ultimately care if this guy or those he cares for are harmed, and he's actually quite frightened of that very thing happening as a direct result of the rhetoric being spread and he just wants him to stop and is getting desperate? Like, Yud can't be smart and not understand the obvious knock-on effects of what he promulgates, but is so inflated in his ego as to think his prognostication is inviolate and he is operating at the level of being the savior of humanity and as such feels justified in whatever neccessary to force the ends to meet where he thinks is the only positive terminus? And any deceptions, direct or meta, he needs to engage in to dance around and distance himself from the violence of the useful idiots are only a small price to pay, just the same as the lives of the victims of such. After all, clearly the experience of a few individuals pales in comparison to the continued existence of all of mankind, especially if they are so dumb and/or evil not to accept the Truth According to Yud, right? Idk, whenever I try seriously engaging with Yud's thoughts my bullshit detector starts going haywire and the unpleasant smell of it sticks in my nose for awhile after. I think he is genuine in much of what he says, don't get me wrong, I think he is a true believer in the framing he has built, but he absolutely cannot be operating in good faith most of the time if that is true, too much is explicitly at stake for him. He has to either be fully aware of his direct responsibility and simply not care or so blinded by his ego as to believe his weak disavows of violence actually absolve him of the reality of him stirring it up, neither speak well for him. Idk really though, just has been my read on things.

oh my god this clip is actually fucking amazing lmao