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llmthrow0827on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

You are meeting Iranians who are outside of Iran (sample bias), and reading news in English. If you think that qualifies you to make sweeping assertions about Iranian views, I don't know what to say.

llmthrow0827on Meta Ray-Ban Display

All the VR/AR/XR demos are so insanely trivial and yet still manage to be much more difficult than current methods of doing things. Like, really, cooking?

Normal method:

* Search for a recipe

* Leave my phone on a stand and glance at it if I forget a step

Meta glasses:

* Put glasses on (there's a reason I got lasek, it's because wearing glasses sucks)

* Talk into the void, trying to figure out how to describe my problem as well as the format that I want the LLM to structure the response

* Correct it when it misreads one of my ingredients

* Hope that the rng gods give me a decent recipe

Or basically any of the things shown off for Apple's headset. Strap on a giant headset just so I can... browse photos? or take a video call where the other person can't even see my face?

llmthrow0827on What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time? (2023)

About 26 hours with my family, 6 hours of exercise, 10 hours cooking and house chores, and 10 hours playing games or something else relaxing.

It's not that hard to think about the things you want to prioritize and roughly schedule them, or to pick from that list of priorities depending on your energy/motivation levels at any given time.

llmthrow0827on 30 minutes with a stranger

Go to an event that you have an interest in, and strike up conversations with random people who are unoccupied. You at least have one common topic to talk about, and in my experience the odds you find someone you want to grab a bite or a drink after the even with are pretty high, and at the very worst the next time you go to a similar event you might see some familiar faces.

llmthrow0827on Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line

This is prevalent even among foreigners in Japan, who think they understand the Japanese better than the Japanese do, despite living here for 20 years and barely being able to hold a conversation in Japanese for 2 minutes.

llmthrow0827on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in

Incredible. ChatGPT is a black box includes a suicide instruction and encouragement bot. OpenAI should be treated as a company that has created such and let it into the hands of children.