So the point of the recent research is they find no benefits at any level, at or less than 1 a day very little impact. Also it's large population studies so and all cause mortality so exact relations are not in the studies.. And I could have many practices of infrequent drinkers it be interesting to control for before loosing sleep over a drink some evenings.. And a non alcoholic drink others. (Although avoiding alcohol late in the evening improves sleep so)

But is the risk more or less then crossing the busy American strode.. Is it accounting for how you travel too or from the bar this is the nuance.. And the paper has it the artical does not

I wonder how this currently matches the actual quantity people are drinking. Historically the "how much do you drink" and sales records indicated massive under estimation to the point this might really be people are drinking what they said they were in 2001.

That said alcohol is a mood amplifier for me.. So I avoid entirely if not in a good mood.. And really have been enjoying the na beers, not as good as a nice craft beer but when I feel like a beer while watching something at home or playing video games hits close enough without the mind altering part (and if I want to do anything later in the evening and its a weekend this is a good thing)

I certainly am not avoiding a good drink at the bar, see no real reason to think one drink day is particularly bad if that is what you are actually doing (the headlines on the recent health studies are overblown, not saying the science is wrong but nuance in science reporting is awful as usual) but if you are not enjoying it really no reason to have it just because.

So some tricks and tips to ensure YouTube learns what videos you really want:

• Turn off autoplay, don't let it go down an algorithmic rabbit hole only allow it to see what you really want and click on
• Turn off the hover play on PC, this is annoying mouse over counts as watching they will be in your history despite no audio and you just had the mouse over it.. Again gives all sorts of slop in your history
• Subscribe to channels you like, yes YouTube will quickly learn if you binge a specific channel you like the creator and put it on your home feed, but if the home feed is a bit too much slop you want to be able to just look at your subs
• When you find that AI slop video and more from the same creator exists in your feed use the do not recommend this channel feature
• there is also a do not recommend video good for some evil click bait titles that Google tries to show you for weeks and still not interested
• the last two if it's persistent use the tell more/tell why

It's a long list but it's really 90% is the first two so your views are deliberate, sticking to subs is not a bad idea if the algorithm is particularly frustrating at the moment as it will also help limit the random walk. What anoys me the most is the first two are not account settings rather cookies so every new device I need to tell YouTube how to behave.

Most of the thread just makes me feel old..

WindowsME was what made me switch to Linux.. Sure there has been a windows box around here and there for gaming mostly.. Now with anything I want to play working on Linux, no need for 11

Today I can just give a store like droid store permissions.. In future it will require 24h.. Or ot install with adb.. This is a big step backwards.

That said I've concluded the phone is now a device for accessing approved things.. For things I own its Linux PC/laptop/mini laptop acting like a table.. I guess my supernote reader is an android 8 device but its more limited use cases and they are going back to Linux too...

The phone is work access, bank access, and a browser.. I wish this didn't need to be a semi dedicated device but here we are.

You can, at that will cause the same output on the same input if there is no variation in floating point rounding errors. (True if the same code is running but easy when optimizing to hit a round up/down and if the tokens are very close the output will diverge)

The point the people (or llm arguing against llms) miss is the world is not deterministic, humans are not deterministic (at least in a practical way at the human scale). And if a system is you should indeed not use an llm.. Its powere is how it provides answers with messy data.. If you need repeatability make a scripts / code ect.

(Note I do think if the output is for human use it's important a human validate its useful.. The llms can help brainstorm, can with some tests manage a surprising amount of code, but if you don't validate and test the code it will be slop and maybe work for one test but not for a generic user.

I recall getting points taken off in middle/high school if the only source was the world book dictionary.. So either find a book at the library or fire up the family computer hope the phone is free and search the '90s net for some source? (Avoiding the popups/unders) [and be fast as we only had so many mins/mo included]

Remember encyclopedias shouldn't be your primary source.. (And with search engines now worse than the altivista days, and paywalls good research is getting harder these days)

So a few things : 1 - what is art to the viewer, honestly you can hand craft slop and I don't want to see it, here it's the meaning you get the story you the viewer make from it 2 - AI art is bad in two ways in my experience, the story (ie see one) has something critically wrong from the human world, and two most tools today don't listen to the prompt so no matter how much writting is fed in the result is limited. But if you use it as a tool yes it can make some backgrounds and clip art.. The problem is most consumer systems don't have a good way to put this into a proper editor to finalize a meaningful image.. IE put the human story into the final thing.

But the real point isn't you made some clipart with image get or a paragraph in your story it's why it didn't fit in, contradictions it shows and do you the human know how to fix it? Is there tooling you can direct the llm to do better? (For images there really is not it is not good at partial edits in my experience.. Easier to have it generate all parts on their own and layer the final product otherwise something will be wrong)

I don't know how to solve your core problem you are hinting at without society at large realizing many of our problems are the brainwashing of the masses. This problem is why we initially were taught math without calculators in my day, by college they were expected to help with simple math to focus on the more complicated problems.

Here with llms it's important to still write, learn to research something (even more than the don't use encyclopedias as a primary source) learning to read with deep understanding and learning to skim. Learning math and logic is as important as ever.

What I see missing quite a bit in the antiai art world is the importance of creating art to convey your meaning (if AI is a tool involved or not for writing images ect is this thing showing the meaning and nuance you want not just a off the top of your head comment and auto ship the slop output) and the only way you can go no that's not what I want is to have some idea how to make the piece of writing or art yourself even at a high level.

I personally like the tech but see it accelerating the brain drain for those that rely on it too for answers as the learn.

This is how all artists behave.. Very protective of there works and f*** whatever they borrowed in making it..

think Minecraft modders they can mod Minecraft but oh the drama if you mod their mod.. Maybe there is just a line the big frnchise is no longer protected.. But this is not how people debate this issue.