Think about it this way - everything moves through spacetime at the same “speed”, so the faster you go through space, the slower you move through time, which is why photons experience no time.

I can relate to a lot of what you’re feeling. Being AMAB nonbinary is really hard. I feel envious of pretty much everyone else: of AFAB nonbinary people who have so much more space given to them by society, of binary trans people who feel euphoria and clarity when transitioning, and may eventually pass, but most of all of cis people who just naturally fit in as who they are.

I’m currently taking low dose estrogen, but it’s not really having the effects I’d like yet and I’m constantly feeling conflicted about it, unsure whether I should double it or stop it.

However I would really recommend that you DO try HRT, as it’s worth exploring, and it has mental effects as well. It’s an incremental process, so you’ll be able to boymode without difficulty for quite a while, and you can stop whenever if it’s not what you want. And if you are wanting to wear makeup and jewelry etc. looking more feminine, even subtly, will actually make you stand out less.

Lastly, there are plenty of good women out there that will pick up on your feminine side and accept you. I have friends including cis women who I think genuinely don’t view me as a man, despite me still appearing as such.

I haven’t figured out how to date though. It’s really rough being too feminine for straight women and too masculine for gay women. I’ve never been able to fulfill gendered expectations, when I experience a sapphic style of attraction, and I’m terrified of being seen as a creepy aggressive man.

And nothing is okay for people who are just using it for web browsing and streaming.

I want local music, and to be able to take pictures without worrying about storage, etc. so ~20GB isn’t enough for me, but for some people it really is fine.

My guess is $30, could be $40 although I doubt it after the response they got.

Any general purpose consumer device should probably have 64GB or more.

But I don’t see the point in disallowing <32GB, as that can still be enough for using tablets for lots of uses like e-readers, smart home displays, kiosks, etc.

In practice, this just means that low end devices will stay on older versions of Android even more than they do already.

I’ve tried it, but there isn’t any traffic data, so it’s really not usable for me. Also the search isn’t great either, and there’s no lane indicator.

Don’t get me wrong, I think OSM and Organic are great projects, they just don’t really compare to other options for my use.

Honestly I might consider giving this a try. I really don’t want Google to have my location at all times, and I trust Apple at least a bit more with my data. Currently using Magic Earth, but the traffic info and search, while usable, are not great.

I’ve heard of this test before, and it makes no sense to me. If I focus on a distant object, I see two images of my hand, one for each eye. So I’d have to choose which one to put over the object.

Yeah I can defocus my eyes too, I assume most people can. I’ve never heard of someone being able to see during saccades though.

That’s interesting, for most people the brain just substitutes in the image of where your eye moves to, so it feels instantaneous. (there’s no noticeable blindness) But you can see throughout the full movement?

In a similar vein, I never understood having a “dominant eye”. I honestly don’t really understand the concept, I guess most people’s brains will cancel out information from one eye?

At least this is a real train, not “pods” or just some teslas in a tunnel.

Many countries including the US use 12 hour time for everything, so it’s easier for a lot of people to not have to constantly translate. So it makes sense to be the default in those countries. And yes, I think 24hr should be standard everywhere, but it’s not. I also think it’s insane not to use SI units, but oh well. (I think we should use decimal time as well, but that’s never going to happen because we’d need to redefine so many units.)

I’ve been told that it’s strange, although it seems like an obvious combo to me:

Pan fried potatoes, mushroom, and onion. Served with tomato sauce to dip it in.

I agree, although this seems like an unpopular opinion in this thread.

LLMs are really good at organizing and abstracting information, and it would make a lot of sense for an AGI to incorporate them for that purpose. It’s just that there’s no actual thought process happening, and in my opinion, “reasoning models” like Deepseek are entirely insufficient and a poor substitute for true reasoning capabilities.

I don’t think so, or rather, we don’t know yet. LLMs are not the full picture, but they might be part of it. I could envision a future AGI that has something similar to a modern LLM as the “language / visual centers of the brain”. To continue that metaphor, the part that’s going to be really difficult is the frontal lobe.

edit: Orthogonal to actual reasoning? Sure. But not to “general AI”.

Good news, we can actually do all of the above already!

• add consciousness have kids

• remove consciousness die

• alter consciousness do drugs

Well, it falls apart pretty easily. LLMs are notoriously bad at math. And even if it was accurate consistently, it’s not exactly efficient, when a calculator from the 80s can do the same thing.

We have setups where LLMs can call external functions, but I think it would be cool and useful to be able to replace certain internal processes.

As a side note though, while I don’t think that it’s a “true” thought process, I do think there’s a lot of similarity with LLMs and the human subconscious. A lot of LLM behaviour reminds me of split brain patients.

And as for the math aspect, it does seem like it does math very similarly to us. Studies show that we think of small numbers as discrete quantities, but big numbers in terms of relative size, which seems like exactly what this model is doing.

I just don’t think it’s a particularly good way of doing mental math. Natural intuition in humans and gradient descent in LLMs both seem to create layered heuristics that can become pretty much arbitrarily complex, but it still makes more sense to follow an exact algorithm for some things.

I considered this, and I think it depends mostly on ownership and means of production.

Even in the scenario where everyone has access to superhuman models, that would still lead to labor being devalued. When combined with robotics and other forms of automation, the capitalist class will no longer need workers, and large parts of the economy would disappear. That would create a two tiered society, where those with resources become incredibly wealthy and powerful, and those without have no ability to do much of anything, and would likely revert to an agricultural society (assuming access to land), or just propped up with something like UBI.

Basically, I don’t see how it would lead to any form of communism on its own. It would still require a revolution. That being said, I do think AGI could absolutely be a pillar of a post capitalist utopia, I just don’t think it will do much to get us there.

The math example in particular is very interesting, and makes me wonder if we could splice a calculator into the model, basically doing “brain surgery” to short circuit the learned arithmetic process and replace it.

Depends on what we mean by “AI”.

Machine learning? It’s already had a huge effect, drug discovery alone is transformative.

LLMs and the like? Yeah I’m not sure how positive these are. I don’t think they’ve actually been all that impactful so far.

Once we have true machine intelligence, then we have the potential for great improvements in daily life and society, but that entirely depends on how it will be used.

It could be a bridge to post-scarcity, but under capitalism it’s much more likely it will erode the working class further and exacerbate inequality.