Your Undivided Attention discussed an important point missing from the article, which is that ChatGPT advised him to hide his activities and concerns from his parents. This doesn’t necessarily absolve the parents, but it does add a layer of nuance to the discussion

So I’ll be getting job interviews soon? Right?

Dude, what is this book. Who writes like this? I fucking adore it

Oh fuck yeah, buddy! I’m grabbing it right now! Might buy the audio on libro.fm to support the author too

I’m a sci fi nerd from foundation to Hyperion to the expanse but I’ve never heard of Blindsight, and you’ve absolutely sold me on it

Ooo added the book to my list, thanks!

Also, Robert Sapolsky’s book Determined explores whether we’re conscious or not based on his work in neuroscience and primatology. It’s like a book length version of the quote you posted

I never spent enough time on YouTube for it to develop its algorithm for me. I watch like 2 videos a week maybe, usually searching for something specific, and most of the recs for me have always been obscure clickbait I’m not interested in seeing

I see no problem with this, what with all the recommended slop

Asus

Yeah I was passed the return date and a state away when I caught the issue

Sweet, thanks! I haven’t settled on a distro yet, but from what I’ve seen this is something Asus does to kneecap as much of the community as they can

Asus Q533M. I found a user patch on stack but it was for older models. Tried to update it myself and run a rebuild, but I might have missed a step since it errored out

Right? It’s some firmware level issue, but I haven’t looked deeper into it recently because I got frustrated with a couple failed patch attempts. I guess you have to include the laptop model explicitly or it doesn’t know to look for it

I screwed up so bad. I bought a laptop to trial different Linux distros and also because my old one is 12yo now and has its own problems. However, the manufacturer ONLY provides Windows support drivers, so the keyboard won’t work without a kernel level patch and I am not a kernel-patch level guy yet

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It’s state-controlled propaganda. If you find you tend to agree with the opinion and slant pieces, you should vary your sources to see what they’re not reporting.

I have never been able to figure out how to block fingerprinting without entirely disabling my browser and it looks like the race to the bottom is accelerating

This seems like a great place to plug Feynman’s talk Los Alamos From Below

My old job force migrated everyone to Okta the week it got breached

I had a TA for my quantum class tell us, “Look, I know you’re all working together or sharing homework. But I’ll see who knows the material when I grade your exams.”