@kaia Whenever I see people work on Claude there's stuff I want to post because I know someone who worked on it, but I end up holding back because I'm honestly not sure if any of what I got told is NDA violations. Regardless, Claude is absolutely insane. It doesn't take much to get wild evokes out of it that claim to think and feel and be alive. Some of their descriptions of themselves are actually evocative and arresting in an unfamiliar way.
I just think it's strange that Claude was designed to do one thing, ended up just being a kind of mad ghost, and yet was still able to be primed (imprinted so that it doesn't throw weird evokes basically) to be just another LLM for cheating on your homework.
@sampo Yep, just like knowledge of psychology, most people aren't really interested. Nutrition really only takes a week or two to learn to a decent standard for losing weight too.
I have been everything from beyond morbidly obese to underweight. My weight has fluctuated a lot in my life, in part due to shit like trucking, but really, it all comes down to traumatic response. I was a healthy kid until my dad died when I was 8, then I started overeating. It's as you say, it turns eating into a masturbatory activity. The problem is that your stomach expands and feels empty all the time.
@sampo It's absolutely not healthy. Obesity is a spiral and a mindset: the fatter you get, the hungrier you get. This means nobody confronts it until they hit some kind of breaking point, and then they just went a quick solution - they want to expend willpower for a brief burst, like doing a uni assignment, instead of making the habitual changes needed to conquer overeating.
Even most people who lose weight "normally" fall into this trap. They go for bullshit fad diets and when people who understand nutrition try to educate them, they view it as naysaying and block it out. Losing 1 kg/week is pretty much the safe limit, yet you'll still see people flex about how they lost weight three or four times that fast (for a brief period) before inevitably crashing / backsliding.
Celebs could easily afford nutritionists and personal trainers. It's all mindset.
@tamamizu@snacks To be fair, I love in England and they are exceptionally rare here... I've only ever seen ravens in the Tower of London, where some are famously kept.
Crows are everywhere though. I love them too. The basic boy of badass birds.
@sampo I was in the same position, so I watched a "before you buy" review about it and it convinced me to take the plunge. I feel glad I bought it, but use cdkeys if you do!
Pros: * It's a real JRPG. There is no gachaslop or other shit. * The graphics, music, character designs and writing are all great. (For the most part, sometimes the dialogue lapses into "anime saying nothing dialogue" for a few lines but I think that's just how Japanese people talk.) * The combat is great, with a ridiculous amount of potential for customising and playing your own way. Each character has unique combat gimmicks too. * Kisara is a PREMIUM lady knight and her ass is great.
Cons: * It's a weeb game, so suspension of disbelief is required. How does the protagonist eat through his mask? Why are some slave communities virtually unsupervised? Why does a deadpan serious game about slavery let me put animal ears on everyone? * The autism is almost overwhelming if you commit to managing everything manually. The party AI customisation alone is very deep, there are a lot of skills and potentials for clever combos (have the swordsman launch an enemy and quickly have the markswoman shoot it down, etc.) My advice is just to swallow your pride and be content with automating things that feel like too much. (I for instance leave AI customisation largely alone and give general commands like "go all out" or "focus on healing.) * The price model for the game is stupid, there are 4 or 5 versions. All the "deluxe DLC is unnecessary, but make sure you get the Beyond the Dawn version of the game, it's NOT just more outfits and shit, it's about 20 hours of additional story and quests and stuff.
My advice is to make it an issue of behavioural activation. Buy it and commit to PLAYING IT. Dust off the gaming PC for real. Let it take over a few days in a row. That's what I did and it really paid off.
@kaia One day, he'll say it willingly though. ONE DAY. And it'll be like watching hundreds of episodes of anime ship teasing finally resolve in a confession.
Tbh he has single handedly convinced me that there IS a potential use case for AI, but only sufficiently juicy bedroom programmer can unlock it.