SerLava [he/him] @ SerLava @hexbear.net

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We had something similar where I work (although less invasive than this wild shit), and it got me thinking.

For jobs that don't have a clear ceiling, or a clear list of contained tasks, it's hard to measure output, and it's hard to know if you've successfully replaced a person with automation. For instance, how well is the marketing department doing.

The bosses have heard so much about AI, they want that perceived competitive advantage. But they can't really simply eliminate these jobs. So what they're looking for is AI-powered employees because they believe that will maximize their output.

Most employees can't actually get anything good out of AI, especially if they're competent at other technologies like excel, but the boss WILL not hear that. They will only hear that some of their employees are unwilling or unable to harness the competitive potential of AI. That suddenly means that every employee has a strong incentive to present their labor as AI-enhanced. To exaggerate how much it helps them. To make the boss think they've at least reached parity with their competition.

AI productivity has become a self-reinforcing myth in nearly our whole society.

it's fucking weird, he means it as in like... people being excited about investing in America, and shit like that. In other words the exact opposite of what he's doing, which is driving a scramble of disinvestment in US trade

gapitalism 100 billion dead ice protests 2025 move bombing 1985

No you're right. At the beginning of this most recent fiasco, Grok was talking about Elon in the first person and saying it hadn't met Ghislaine Maxwell other than a "photobomb"

Yeah I believe what is going on is that all these AIs know how to say Nazi shit and make crazy sexual threats, but they have all these (fairly) strong protections against accessing that data. When Elon force-fed it these prompts to stop being "woke" or whatever, it was an admin-level prompt, which essentially turned off all the safety features that normally hold this back.

And because right wingers intentionally don't differentiate between like, "I don't want to do a land acknowledgement" and "I want to say heil hitler", there really isn't a practical or at least easy way to get Grok to hit the exact Overton window that Elon wants it to hit.

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this is incredible shit

Yeah I got a little 400 dollar mini-PC to do some work a couple years ago, and it runs the original Oblivion on high settings at 60fps. I think I got a respectable 24-30fps on a 4k screen. The integrated graphics chip is called a AMD Radeon 680M.

That one launched in early 2022 and there are much better ones that came out since. I've seen videos of someone playing Cyberpunk 2077 on low settings and getting 30-50fps @1080p on the latest integrated graphics chips.

You should look up exactly what integrated graphics you have. Sometimes this can be difficult, because they'll list it as something vague like "AMD graphics"

But if you can find it that would help. Integrated graphics have come a long way in the last 5 or so years. Could be a big difference.

Yeah it's pretty cheap in other countries. They made a sleep apnea version as a pretty transparent workaround to force insurance to cover it for people without diabetes. The manufacturer coupons also really help. Insurance can be very fucking annoying about it but so far they have paid for it. At one point they fucked me and delayed it several days and I had to pay full price and get reimbursed via check a few weeks later.

It really really is. It's the best thing about all of it.

After I gained weight my hunger started to really bother me more- I think it's hunger hormones from all the extra fat cells- my stomach would hurt bad, headaches would happen easily, I would get nausea from hunger, and so on. Now I feel so resilient.

If you end up with worse side effects than me, I would definitely recommend treating them aggressively. Fiber supplements, nausea pills, diet changes to reduce gas, etc. Most of the bad side effects people get are actually like... Pretty normal basic OTC stomach upset kind of stuff.

I also had a weird side effect for like 3 days after one of the dose increases, where my skin was sort of sensitive in an annoying way, kinda like having a sunburn. Never came back though.

400lbs is pretty dangerous- you should see if you can get those drugs covered. There are manufacturer coupons.

I have really bad sleep apnea and allergies that can make it hard to treat with a cpap. My doctor recommended a GLP1 for that, and it really helped the sleep apnea. It also is managing some weight gain that I experienced from steroids for bronchitis. The sleep apnea improvement has actually been separate from weight loss..that got better before my weight went down.

The side effects are really minor for a lot of people including me. I get weird occasional nausea for like 10 minutes a few times a week. Really not bad. It also makes you constipated but that's easy to treat.

Some people apparently feel like total shit, but not most people.

It works by just making you less hungry. You eat a normal amount of food and then you're full. It's really that simple. I thought it would make me not enjoy food- couldn't have been more wrong. Maybe if your main enjoyment of food is like eating 3 costco cheese pizzas- sure you can't do that, but tasty food is just as good as before.

The biggest thing for me is that I dont have to FUCKING think about food so much. I have ADHD and a little bit of hunger is extremely distracting and derailing which has caused a lot of weight gain. Now I don't care if I'm a little hungry. Now I can notice I'm a bit hungry, and just ignore it and go to bed, and I won't feel like shit from not eating.

The one other side effect is that your body, being designed to eat food, will try to find other ways to get you to eat... Now instead of hunger pangs when I haven't eaten, I get really sleepy. Like super sleepy. Black coffee doesn't really wake me up, sugar does. By the way, drinking calories is the one way to still gain weight on these drugs, so use sugar water as an emergency wakeup supplement when you gotta drive or whatever, and otherwise don't drink it.

Ignore the stigma, it's stupid and insane. Rich actors are using it to lose 15 pounds, but you are almost 400 pounds. That's unsafe and probably such a fucking shitty painful way to live. These drugs aren't magic but no drug is. Don't beat yourself up, take the best medicine for what ails you. Hoping to lose weight doesnt work, trying really hard doesn't work. Dieting makes you gain weight more often than it makes you lose it. These crazy new drugs actually do shit. I would never risk taking them to lose 15lbs but they are definitely less risky than being 380 or whatever. That much is clear by now.