Can this guy just go the fuck away? He’s secreted enough poison into the world at this point.

As far as I know I’m not autistic, but hate eye contact and just kinda decided to not worry about it? Eye contact is cultural anyway, and in some countries it’s unusual or rude so I guess I just decided it’s not that important to me. That’s one option!

But for practical advice on improving if that’s what you want to strive for I find it’s easier to practice with someone you’re comfortable with. Looking between their eyes while talking casually. Not like staring, but reminding yourself to look up occasionally during conversation. And increasing the length of time you hold eye contact until it’s uncomfortable and look away. It’ll become more natural to you over time :)

There’s also videos available on YouTube that are for practicing eye contact but I found them creepy. My mistake was probably smoking weed beforehand, so maybe don’t do that!

Best of luck to you!

I feel like Conspiracy theories are at least partially the result of a lack of regulation and oversight for governing bodies and corporate entities.

For example… the atomic energy commission approved experimenting on disabled children by feeding radioactive oats to them.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spoonful-sugar-helps-radioactive-oatmeal-go-down-180962424/

It’s one of the reasons we have laws like informed consent now.

Everytime we run into something new, like radiation, some company or government branch does some seriously unethical shit with it and new laws and regulations are written.

So it’s like we’re all just waiting to find out what new fucked up thing has happened, and how many corporations are gonna fight any proposed regulations regarding it.

Legal concept of grandfathering should be applicable here. There was no way for online artists to know that was going to be part of a corporately forced agreement to putting their work online. They aren’t even given an out in the US. At the very least work posted prior to the AI training public announcement that it was happening should be exempt.

That doesn’t address the problem that if artists don’t want their art scraped now they can’t post it anywhere and can’t make a living. How is that a free market? Let corporations exploit your work for free and make bank on it or starve isn’t a world anyone should be striving to live in.

This whole thing amounts to big corporations bullying individual artists out of playing field and it’s wrong. As if any of them were ever really a threat in the first place. They just like stepping on little people.

I’m talking about AI in the context of this conversation.

I’m sorry it upsets you that capitalism has yet again redefined another word to sell us something else, but nobody here is specifically responsible for the language we’ve been given to talk about LLMs.

Perhaps writing to Mirriam Webster about the issue could reap the results you’re looking for.

I like what we could be doing with AI.

For example there’s one AI that I read about awhile back that was given data sets on all the known human diseases and the medications that are used to treat them.

Then it was given data sets of all the known chemical compounds(or something like that, can’t remember the exact wording)

Then it was used to find new potential treatments for diseases. Like new antibiotics. Basically it gives medical researchers leads to follow.

That’s fucking cool and beneficial to everyone. It’s a wonderful application of the tech. Do more of that please.

I watched that movie way too young(maybe 6ish?) and all I remember(warning: spoilers for a movie from 1992)was the mom dying and them lighting the house on fire because she was too large to move.

That movie was not for children. I cannot say whether it was good, since I only watched it the one time, but I wasn’t a fan of it either. I’m unsure of how valid my opinion on it is though given the circumstances.