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produces higher quality sperm
That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...
produces higher quality sperm
That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...
I say take the cash and open a new company under different management and build more offshore wind turbines, now that you have a billion.
you know, living is harmful to your life, every day is getting you closer to death. Eating many foods is harmful, drinking many things, breathing the air in many parts of the world and during different weather conditions. Having sex may be harmful, it can degrade your quality of life in the long term.
There are millions of harmful things, you will die and everyone else as well. I am not proposing for everyone to do everything, I am saying - if you enjoy it, don't allow people to dictate to you, do it.
you do understand we live only once, what's wrong with porn, gambling and drugs? Enjoy it if you want it.
is that a serious comment?
Unlike reusable rockets, EVs, and full self driving...
Yeah, but other than that, what has Elon Musk ever done for us?
ever heard of team drivers? they exist to avoid sitting idle for half a day due to regulations.
We build many professional Android and iOS apps for the trucking, logistics, shipping and related industries. It is a complete disaster, what Android app store has become over the 11 years we have been dealing with them. Things are only getting worse, more complicated, longer, more expensive. I don't know what they have achieved with this but they haven't made it safer.
To add to the parent post, the paper appears to be the first step in the scientific method: "Notice a trend".
The next steps will be "form a hypothesis", "construct a test to confirm or deny the hypothesis", "perform the test"... and so on.
In this specific case, "perform the test" might be impossible to do for ethical reasons - you can't take people at random and sit them down in front of a LLM and test their level of psychosis before and after, because of that pesky "do no harm" rule.
But we might be able to find people who have had their psychosis levels measured before LLMs became available, and whose LLM accounts will accurately show how much LLM usage they have, and we can then remeasure their levels of psychosis and see if this correlates with LLM account usage.
Or some other test like that.
The paper appears to be an attempt to raise the issue and start a conversation. From the abstract:
[...] but there is a growing concern that these agents could reinforce epistemic instability and blur reality boundaries. In this Personal View, we outline the emerging risks, possible mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies for agential AI for people with psychotic disorders. We propose a framework of AI-informed care, involving personalised instruction protocols, reflective check-ins, digital advance statements, and escalation safeguards to support epistemic security in vulnerable users.
From the parent post:
One thing I can tell you, my mother was heavily affected by television.
I'm also heavily influenced by TV, and have spent a lot of time trying to sort out beliefs that come from TV from beliefs that come from experience or research.
I'm constantly presented with a situation or belief and have to pause to reflect and say "I believe that because it was on TV, it's probably not real". Many of my opinions on the police, government agencies, other countries, world events, and social constructs come not from experience, but on how they were portrayed on TV.
We're hard-wired to believe what people tell us, it's a cognitive shortcut in an environment where you can't know anything, but lots and lots of what we think today are only dramatic choices intended to provoke emotional response. (Compare with news reporting today. On both sides.)
For example, I've met people who won't go hiking because of all the bugs, skunks, poison ivy, and bears.
Assuming that LLMs are content neutral, I think in 10 years or so we're going to find people whose worldview is a greatly amplified version of random events that were highlighted when they were kids.
C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.