- standardlyI'm somewhat of an AI-hater - maybe a bit more lukewarm about it than others - but I thought gaming (RPGs specifically) was a perfect use case for AI just because of dynamic dialogue.
- I ordered the wrong thing on doordash yesterday and the store manager called me to ask if i was sure i wanted a pizza with no toppings. good on her for not delivering me a plain crust nothing pizza. she even had it in the oven already just in case. s tier human being
- Diagnostic* (somehow accidentally typed dialogistic, which IS a real word).
My OCD would not let me ignore this typo. (Just kidding - I self-diagnosed OCD)
- "You do it in your own post, attributing a defined, binary, thing as "I am somewhere on the spectrum"
"You either have some quantity of illness or you don't."
I'm not sure what kind of argument you are making for (or against?) "binary" symptoms. The DSM-5 clearly lays out the spectrum. There is a conglomerate of effects caused by autism, and where you are on "the spectrum" is determined by how many of the symptoms you have, and their severity.
There is nothing wrong with someone claiming "I'm on the spectrum" if you don't know how or what they were diagnosed with. That language is consistent with the DSM. Unless they admitted to self-diagnosing, it seems wrong to assume someone is lying about their own experience.
"You can't just ascribe some quirky, possibly somewhat anti-social, behavior as being on the spectrum"
Quriky, somewhat anti-social behaviour (in your words) essentially is one of the dialogistic criteria. But nobody would be diagnosed with autism for that alone. Just like how autistic folks usually avoid eye contact. That doesn't mean they ALL avoid eye contact, and it also doesn't mean anyone who avoids eye contact is autistic. It's a wholistic diagnosis. One would need to be experiencing SEVERAL of the symptoms to receive an autism diagnosis. IME, the majority on the spectrum are indeed level 1, and high functioning, even to the point others might question if they are really autistic.
If you take issue with people self-diagnosing, I don't think anyone would disagree. But your combativeness in just discussing the topic kind of looks similar to people who refuse to accept that autism is really a thing ("there were no autisms back in my day" kind of thing).
- Anyone else think "Nano Banana" is an awful name? For some reason it really annoys me. It looks incredibly fancy, though.
- Yes, that actually makes perfect sense :) I suppose it was just a bit stronger than I imagined. I know that chemically, it's analogous, but it felt like MDMA.
- Is this confirmed? Source? I've always heard this, anecdotally, but I'm skeptical of the claim. I have every ADHD symptom, and have received 3 seperate diagnoses for it.. But Aderrall straight up felt like a drug - I could literally feel the dopamine release from just doing mundane things. Is the implication that I just didn't have ADHD?
- Eh, for me the comment rings mostly true. It fixed my ADHD - I was incredibly more productive, present, and "on track" so to speak. I set goals for myself and achieved them (some for the first time) once I was treated.
That said, it completely destroyed my appetite. I picked up ciggies, too. It made me crave nicotine and caffeine. I started pulling all-nighters because I was so productive (or, so into whatever game I was playing.) I got cold sweats often and had some weird uh sexual health side effects. Develeoped a tolerance to 5-10mg very quickly, so went up to 15-20mg, which also felt weakened after a month or so.
So, wasn't lolng before I could tell this was not healthy. Felt like I was in overdrive mode - super mentally active, and productive, but running my body into the ground. I would never do it long-term.
- For me... I can only play for 10-15 minutes before my eyes are burning and my face is hot. The eye strain is ridiculous. I don't see how people do it.
- Imagine putting down your AI-assisted smartphone to look up at the computer screen and minimize your AI-assisted vscode, glance past the Windows-integrated Copilot AI, open up firefox and move your mouse past the built-in AI search... only to go to chatgpt.com
- GPT-5.1 IS a smarter, more conversational ChatGPT, and I love that you mentioned it - you're really getting down to the heart - to the very essence - of how conversational ChatGPT can be.
Would you like me to write a short, to-the-point HN post to really emphasize how conversational GPT-5.1 can be?
- I'm also guilty of what they accuse you of. Sometimes my internet comments are not made for the purpose of sparking discussion, but more of a "vent" where I know my take is not popular but I feel the need to throw it out there anyway. The comment is more for "me" than anyone else. And, yeah.. that makes it a bad comment lol.
I also just love playing devil's advocate, and I'm adverse to hivemindy-feeling opinions (even when I share them). Maybe this all describes you, too.
- I've also mapped words to numbers.
1 = "one"
2 = "two"
Etc....It works for me
- Closer to a trillion than a billion. What are we gonna do
- I don't see a good argument being made for what headline claims. Much of the article reads like a general commentary on LLM's, not a case for AI "thinking", in the sense that we understand it.
It would take an absurdly broad definition of the word "think" to even begin to make this case. I'm surprised this is honestly up for debate.
- What is the difference between
1.) Sampling a real snare sound 2.) Suno generating a couple random snare hits for you to choose from
? There are ways to use it that aren't far-removed from how real producers work.
It's different to say "Generate me top-40 Sounding pop song"... But Suno has more uses than that.
- Yes, I have no commercial interest when it comes to music, it's just something I find joy in. Using Suno did not detract from that joy. If music is a hobby, Suno is an incredibly fun tool.
DJ's and producers have been getting hate for years. "It's just a guy with a laptop on stage", "he isn't really playing those instruments", etc. Or think of a band leader, someone who composes but doesn't actually play the indiviudual part. I tried thinking of Suno this way and it helped ease whatever "guilt" I had about my own creative integrity.
- AI slop, yadda yadda, I get it... But I just want to say, as a former failed bedroom producer who just doesn't have the time (and skill) to make the kind of music I want... I had a BLAST using Suno. I was able to "remaster" some of my old tracks, add in new sections, etc, and isolate/download/edit the stems.
I understand it's not fully my creative output... but hearing one of my old, shitty, ableton live projects remastered and extended to sound like something that might actually get listens was really exciting and kind of mind-blowing.
- You'd be surprised how many show up on google maps if you search for tacos lol.
App idea? Food truck tracker? I'd download it. Anyone wanna collab?
- > The human brain is a finite, physical thing. It can't store an infinite amount of data.
True, but it doesn't really detract from his statement because do we really know what that upper bound even is? I don't think we come close to the theoretical storage limit... So saying "every memory you have is permanently stored" is effectively true, at least true enough for a thought experiment like this. Perhaps when people live to be 200 years old and we know more about the brain we can test this, though.
I used to be weary of learning new, complex things, thinking I'd "lose" old knowledge XD