No clue if this is common among adhd, but i find chemical addiction absurdly easy to stop. To the point that i would say ive never had a chemical “addiction” despite imbibing a lot of chemicals.
Habitual addiction, though, suck. I can vape 0 nic perpetually just as well as 21 nic. The important bit is the smoke, not the chemicals in it. Its a habit, not an addiction.
You have a ball on a trampoline. Wind might knock the ball around, but its very likely to return to the center of the trampoline. This is a psuedo stable arrangment.
Now imagine that someone kicks the ball, or the wind blows much harder than normal. The ball might roll up the sides of the trampoline, and then roll off the side onto the ground. This is a truly stable arrangment(eithin the bounds of this metaphor)
Now imagine that there is an invisible field all throughout the universe, and that everywhere along it there is some amount of energy. Because this energy is roughly the same everywhere, there is no gradient to take advantage of, and therefore this field does no work.(Think trying to roll a ball around on a flat surface, the only way to do that is for you to put energy in)
But someone or something decides to inject a ton of energy into a very small space on this field. That allows the field(or ball) to have the energy required to randomly fall into a more stable state(fall off the side of the trampoline)
The issue is that during the process of falling into a more stable state, energy is released. Such as the ball falling off the side of the trampoline, you can harness that energy of motion. But in the case of the field, such a large amount of energy is released that it can cause other, nearby, bits of the field to fall into a more stable state. This causes a chain reaction where the entire field starts to “decay” into a more steady and stable state. This would expand outwards at the speed of energy(the speed of light, or causality) and envelop the entire universe within its sphere or influence(the observable universe from the spot where the reaction started, kinda)
That is vacuum decay. Where what we think of as a mostly empty vacuum of space suddenly decays into a much closer to empty state. But reality and physics as we know them are built upon this semi stable field, and its removal could be massively detrimental(think the destruction of everything at a subatomic level) or it could not do anything at all. The latter is much more unlikely because something had to interact with that field to get it to decay, and if something interacts with it, its likely most everything interacts with it.
In addition to this, the current state of AI is basically just advanced algorithms. Id would be extremely difficult, but in theory you could still trace the connections between bodes and run the optimization calculations yourself.
Soon enough, we will have AGI. Im not a big fan of LLMs, because theyre a fundamentally flawed idea. The only way to get that much data is without consent, and they will always be prone to hallucinations. AGI on the other hand is fundamentally different. It’s capable of learning just like a human, and capable of doing tasks just like a human. By all measurements it will be able to do anything a human can do, and by most measurements, it will do it better.
The issue most people have is that they do not understand that the current state of AI is like the OG printing press. It’s crazy to a layperson, and it has its uses, but since most everyone is illiterate farmers, its not that useful. But to claim that transcribing text is pointless is ignoring an entire world of possibilites, to the point where people who rail against AI almost seem malicious or willfully ignorant. Why do you not want us to be able to almost instantly diagnose new diseases? Or have a nursebot babysitter that is literally a better parent than you are, and doesnt have to sleep or eat? Whats the issue with making cars safer, making construction more efficient, and taking corruption out of the government? Why do people hate the idea of people no longer having to be alone, or having a therapist that is available at all times, perfectly tailored to help you with your specific issues and no biases?
Yes, these things are impossible with modern AI. But to claim that AI is useless… It’s either malice or ignorance.
I mean, he basically said industrialization is bad. Not sure why he’s saying that online, via his computer.
I feel awkard at literally all times, even when alone. Got any tips for that, aside from not sucking?
My situation makes me consider suicide on a daily basis. I am literally incapable of starting a family, or even starting my life. My friends are all in similar situations. I have no security in any form, and a broken bone or something breaking on my car means I just die. If things are worse elsewhere, they wouldnt be alive.
Yes, the quality of life elsewhere may be lower, but they also dont have as many issues as we do. They have a sense of community, less economic disparity, dont live 40+ miles from their job, presumably arent suffering from a lonliness epidemic that is massively spiking suicide rates among men despite being caused by men, etc.
Im not minimizing their issues, i recognise that I have access to clean water and other basic survival tools that they might not have. But we have societal issues that are just as damning. Our issues are different, but theyre just as bad.
Before I get downvoted to oblivion: is it better to have clean water yet freeze to death because your cant pay your electric bill, or not have access to clean water and yet have a community that is willing to help you through your tough times? Id say they both lead to death. Neither fulfills the heirarchy of needs.
I dunno, i understand it pretty well. Lack of education, lead paint/gasoline, nationalism, fascism, racism, sexism, economic disparity, lack of healthcare to deal with neural degeneracy common in trump supporters, and finally lower borth rates among the more educated. America is a shithole, and has been for the past 40 years at least. Until we finally grow a spine and start “adjusting”, things are going to continue getting worse until were all dead and the olligarchs own everything. Then theyll move on to fucking the rest of the world (harder than they already are)
What if it goes from brown to red
Hey its me i live in your city
That depends. Have you studied the work of Boffa?
Earth is more like a trampoline. It was flat, but then your mother was born.
Glad to see were on the same page. Enjoy your coffee o supreme one.
Cant drink coffee m8, even the smell makes me throw up
Really? This is what does it for you?
Well, thats the objectively wrong answer