Bought this at a garage sale. The guy said he got rid of his Betamax player so he had no use for it anymore. Luckily I have one ;-)
Anyone have any information on this tape? A buddy of mine said not to watch it and preserve it instead but I'm too curious lol.
AI is such a panchreston now, it really grinds me. Don't want to try? Use AI. Want to send a text to a friend but you're too much of a lazy asshole to care? Use AI. Want to cheat in school or cut corners at work? Use AI. Need help with planning out what to eat and when? Use AI. Use AI to make sure you don't appear like you're using AI. Use AI so that you aren't using AI to use AI to generate content made by AI.
Use AI to grade papers that also use AI that used AI to make sure you couldn't tell they used AI. How the fuck is this a desirable outcome? It's so grim out here. If having integrity means being a 'stinky Luddite' then sure I'm a Luddite for not selling my soul to a useless prediction machine. At a certain point - which I would say we have already confidently reached - these AIs are just going to eat themselves and spit out their own hallucinations. If you really place faith in a machine that sources Reddit and Instagram you're more hopeless than I can actually put to words.
I am a writer. People have been so kind to repeatedly inform me that my major will become 'useless' in a few years because 'AI can do it just as well!' If you were not already aware, AI is an incompetent writer. Hopeless. Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to generate a paragraph on a particular cricket species ( mole crickets, my favorite :-) ) and what it spat out was so awfully written that I had to just sit for a moment in silence. Of course it would wow someone who has no clue about what goes into writing - much less doing so eloquently - because they do not have enough background knowledge to compare the output to. I have been writing for over a decade, so I am well aware of the intricacies of this medium. AI knows nothing. It does not know how to craft a well-written sentence; it does not even know WHAT it is writing. So relying on it for creative tasks that do require know-how - art, coding, music - is a recipe for disaster. Obviously. They aren't omnicient, they don't know shit, and their developers did not code them with the intent of spreading accurate information.
I am at a point where AI no longer worries me. If I wanted to read ChatGPT-generated books, I could make them myself. None of what these AI tools generate is unique. They will never compare to content that does arouse emotions because they, and their stolen 'ideas', are lifeless. They are so inauthentic and same-y... they have zero value to anyone who ought to be taken seriously. Why would I be worried about 50 misplaced em-dashes and fucking "That's not just profound, that's a poignant culture speech on the misplaced mass-hysteria war of the world on Earth and in Space [modifier modifier modifier modifier]"
People desperately want these tools to be more game-changing than they actually are. All it does is search the internet, and I do that everyday for free lmao
Also, please give tips on getting through science because that was so rough...
I heard it was reading lite (which is good!) but I made the mistake of reading literally everything and running out of time lol
Shooting for Northwestern and *just* below their average :/
Edit: Wowww, I feel like an idiot. Science is not factored in. This is my first time taking the ACT and my school did an awful job of explaining everything. For months I thought it was a mistake because the math did not add up at all when combining my Math, Science, English, and Reading scores. I guess the only path to take now is fill in the gaps in my math knowledge and try to boost that.
Private account. I will keep this somewhat brief.
I [20F] and my boyfriend [19M] have been dating for about 6 months. We are both new at relationships, so I tried to offer him the same grace as I awarded myself. However, I cannot continue to compromise my values for the someone else’s sake.
Although our relationship itself has been brief, we have known each other for far longer, since elementary school, and have been friends since then until recently entering a relationship together.
I would like to note that I have social anxiety. If you are a writer, and especially if you are neurodivergent, you are aware of how daunting it may feel to share your work. On several occasions, I have shared my writing with my boyfriend and have received scarce replies. Sometimes, he hasn’t replied at all and simply put a heart reaction on my messages. I would never expect him to pretend to like something that I do, but I do expect a certain degree of emotional reciprocity. He has shared his passions with me, and although I am a layman for most of them, I have tried my best to make thoughful conversations with him-- asking him follow-up questions, and even doing further research of my own to connect with him more easily on the subject. But I feel that the care I put in for him has not been matched in equal measure.
I’d like to know what to do going forward. I don’t think that our relationship is salvageable simply because of how deeply held my principles on this are. I do not want to stumble into another relationship unprepared, or allow something like this to go on for as long as it did.
