I am going to give all advice then look at the comments to see if there is anything more to say (jog my memory).

Remember that if a baby is crying and you are at your wits end, you can

• put them in a safe spot and breathe away from them e.g. put the infant in a car seat in an air conditioned space e.g. your house or a crib and walk far enough away that you can’t hear them for 10 mins.

Also you can get concert reusable ear plugs. You can hear conversation and crying through them, but it takes the Edge off. Totally worth it.

If your baby has the tongue attached to the bottom of the mouth with skin, insurance won’t cover if a doctor deems it to not affect speech development, BUT that baby will not be able to such from a breast unless it is cut.

Having a universal bottle steamer is great. Good for steaming frozen breast milk for babies and steaming milk for coffee.

Never leave an infant around a dog. Dog instincts sometimes are to kill offspring that is not their own, or to pick up infants by the scruff of the neck like puppies. Not even once.

If future momma is having trouble walking up stairs, you can always crawl on your hands and knees while she sits on your shoulders. She will likely laugh the whole way.

Natural births (no morphine and no oxytocin and no interventions e.g. c sections) increase if you know how to work through pain. The kind of labor pain and contractions is similar to that of an orgasm. She has to be allowed to not be “up in her head” and instead in the moment. I got a doula to be there during labor and certain instincts of mine were distracting and pulling my wife into a mindset that was halting the oxytocin production iland increasing the pain.

Have the future momma take the multivitamin every day and retake it if it is thrown up. If there are any preexisting conditions in momma then the pregnancy is much likelier to be with good outcomes.

Remember the 5 s’s , shushing, bouncing, stomach pressure, swaying, swaddling. These 5 are the goto for soothing a baby.

Get a medicine ball that fits future momma. When she gets closer to giving birth, it is really easy to sit and “walk” by bouncing while watching a show. Also after baby is born, it is really easy to put baby in a sling/wrap/carrier and bounce the baby to sleep while playing videogames.

Certain babies and mothers sleep better when in bed together. There is recent conflicting information regarding whether this increases or decreases infant death. It’s worth looking into to see recent developments.

When you are full of adrenaline and baby was just born, make a journal entry. It all gets hazy as the adrenaline goes down.

Good luck!

You are right and I have seen some people try some clumsy solutions:

Have the llm summarize the chat context ( this loses information, but can make the llm appear to have a longer memory)

Have the llm repeat and update a todo list at the end of every prompt (this keeps it on task as it always has the last response in memory, BUT it can try to do 10 things and fails on step 1 but doesn’t realize jt)

Have a llm trained with really high quality data then have it judge the randomness of the internet. This is meta cognition by humans using the llm as a tool for itself. It definitely can’t do it by itself without becoming schizophrenic, but it can make some smart models from inconsistent and crappy/dirty datasets.

Again, you are right and I hate using the syncophantic clockwork-orange llms with no self awareness. I have some hope that they will get better.

I’m now curious what you mean by self updating model? For a model to be made, it needs billions of data points for it to make the first. A second can be made with the first judging the quality of the input into the 2nd. Some models already do this sifting in prep for the next model creation.

I think of it like humans: we have billions of sensory signals each day, and we judge what is important based on genetics, culture, and our chosen interpretation of morality e.g. hedonism considers effort/discomfort. If a llm has a billion sensory signals each day and has application specific hardware like our genetics then would the hardware finally allow you to call it intelligent?

I am turning into a philosopher in this comment thread! Soo… when is a chair a chair and not a stool?

When you say “And there is also a cost in the brain atrophy that these are causing in people who use them regularly. LLMs will make a huge segment of the population mentally and emotionally stunted.” I have difficulty believing it.

A mit professor did a study where she asked students to use llms to write a paper in one prompt then copy and paste and submit, she then checked and found none of them remembered the next week. Everyone else who wrote down the essay actually remembered and had good brain scans. This is bad evidence because there are other examples of people trying to learn a language who learn faster and with better articulation with llm as a tailoring tutor. There are examples of people feeling isolated at work using llms as a “rubber duck and / or inexperienced intern from a foreign country” and the daily collaborator increases creativity and productivity and mental health of the human. As such, I don’t see conclusive evidence either way.

Generally I find using llms for brainstorming has led me to think outside of my tunnel vision. I have found using a llm for vibe coding ( I am not a programmer) is a lot of frustration. They are too verbose for their own “time savings”.

I think social media and short form videos like tick tok do far more harm to attention spans than the rounding error of a llm. I think attention spans are more closely linked with regular handling one’s own boredom.

Thanks for your engagement, I look forward to conversations like this. Also if you have a source for your claim of brain atrophy, please give it!

About 600$ before tax and shipping

Well a local model responding to a prompt on less than 20gb of vram (gaming computer) costs less power than booting up any recent AAA high fps game. The primary cost in power is r&d. Training the next model to be “the best” is an Arms race. 90% of power consumption is trying to train the next model in 100 different ways. China was able to build off of chat cpt tech and built a model that has similar abilities and smartness for only 5 million. I think I won’t update my local model until there is actually more abilities in the next one.

Talking about rubber duck intelligence, there is a two step “thinking then respond” that recent iterations of llms have started using. It is literally a rubber duck during the thinking phase. I downloaded a local llm with this feature and had it run and the cli did not hide the “thinking” once done. The end product was better quality than if it had tried to spit an answer immediately (I toggled thinking off and it definitely was dumber, so I think you are right for the generation of llms before “thinking”

If you have a llm, then you have something to have a conversation with.

If you give the llm the ability to have memory, then it gets much “smarter” (context window and encoded local knowlege base)

If you give the llm the ability to offload math problems to an orchestrator that composes math problems then it can give hard numbers based on real math.

If you give a llm the ability to use the internet to search then it has a way to update its knowledgebase before it answers (seems smarter)

If you give a llm a orchestrator that can use a credit card on the internet, it can deliver stuff via doordash or whatever. (I don’t trust it).

Definitely not general intelligence, but good at general conversation and brainstorming and able to get extended modularly while keeping the conversational interface

Building off of this, some Japanese households will bathe then towel off and let the next person bathe in the same water and shower off after. Therefore there is a 2 stage cleaning cycle.

I don’t have direct experience so call me out if I heard wrong.

If a transaction occurs for no consideration e.g. a gift, then there is always a chance for a progenitor to sue and claim rights as the transaction “never happened”. This happens when a company acquires another and tries to strip benefits, so the company fires and rehires all employees so that is the consideration. I have personally reviewed hundreds of land sales for 10$ in Texas so there is legally binding consideration exchanged. Functionally it is a legally bulletproof gift.

How!

Ad hominem attacks without specifics are hard to engage with civilly. Are you asking for a link of a professor who fed their lesson plan to ai and had it pass the cpa?

When i was at college, they asked professors to self manage their time to have a certain percent spent teaching and a certain percent spent researching and publishing. Both activities are required, and crappy professors tend to focus on research that gets grants and notoriety for the college. I don’t know about any other incentives of administrators.

Just read the article, apparently she asked if he was tired and able to keep working as president. Empirical evidence shows him dosing off on camera during meetings and him not sharing the raw health information. He claims he has never worked harder in his life which tells more about his work ethic than his work output.

Trying to see a different perspective, a professor fed the contents of his course to a ai (textbook, lesson plans, and recordings of lectures) then had that ai take the cpa exam and it passed with flying colors. If the same professor is “on call” during the lesson but doing research in the other room, and he periodically posts a news article with a few of his knee-jerk responses to how it may affect the profession which adds to the ai “local knowledgebase” and empasizes that as it happens, I am not sure how much is lost. This may give great outcomes with a huge reduction in redundant costs (same lectures with minor tweaks).

Edit: as this community is “fuck ai”, I thought it allowed discussions about impacts that were more than attacking people. I believe that the scenario is mentioned would have severe costs to quality of education because some students need someone successful to mimic or they are lost (and you cant mimic an ai). However from the other perspective, it may not be all bad for certain professions.

Ehh, double entry accounting being invented at 3000 bc was a basic part of most accounting 101 classes.

According to Maslow hierarchy of needs, fun is achieved when (1) perceived basic needs e.g. food and shelter and meds (2) percieved safety and belonging are met then (3) self esteem e.g. fun can be had.

Like any model that covers something as diverse and nuanced as human experience and motivation, this is nothing more than an observed starting point.

Tldr you ain’t having fun because basics are hard either for external or internal reasons

Well, i just remembered the nexus mods and vortex Mod manager business model. All downloads are counted and you are asked to give an endorsement of the mod after a period of time. There is then a option to donate and you can choose your allocation if any. Something like that could only run once per month and be able to give good info. While tracking use time can be like beneficial Spyware, I think I would still like the reminder without that service.

I would like to have a way to track my use of FOSS, but i want to retain my privacy. I would be interested in this app. I also would like a different way to allocate so that apps that increase my efficiency so that I don’t spend a long time troubleshooting something get the bigger slice. Perhaps having an optional “impact” survey with varying degrees of granularity (impact survy with only thumbs up and down OR impact survey with only 5 stars OR impact survey with 1-100) honestly this would be really cool if adoption got so high that this became the “patreon” of linux apps (aka having a “like” at the bottom that would remind you of high impact).

As a native speaker, I will try to answer without being pedantic with a dictionary: to be passive aggressive is to answer with an unusual assumption and to act like the other party should have known all along.

E.g. if you want someone to leave and it is snowing, say “I just cleaned off the snow from your car so you can make it home safe. When do you plan on leaving?” This places an expectation and social pressure to accept the gift of cleaning the snow by leaving soon.

E.g. if you want to leave work at 5pm daily and your boss knows this and adds a frivolous mandatory meeting to the office calendar. You can take notes in the meeting then at the end send the email with notes to the recipients and say “this meeting could have been an email with no knowledge lost”. This implies that your boss did a disservice by wasting everyone’s time when they could have just used a secretary and an email and let you keep to your informal time to leave boundaries.

Good luck figuring out and understanding the actual definition!!!