I was thinking about that while reading; in some ways I think this reality is on a worse track than Little Brother's. In the book, schools were using gait analysis because of privacy concerns about facial recognition. In reality, facial recognition seems to be able to be adopted by schools with little pushback.

I hope we all crawl out of the pot before we're turned into frog soup.

It's a fun idea too!

Not related directly to the article, but I’m so glad there’s a “tell me mistakes I made to fix” box. I wish more sites, hell even news sites had that.

Well, it could be related to the article, but I don't know how successful a "tell me mistakes I made to fix" box would be on dating sites.

Pretty misleading, to be honest. As the parent comment to yours said, the ROA + dose schedule + AUC + peak plasma concentration differ so vastly that "its the same compounds" almost doesn't matter.

The differences between street/illicit use and hospital use are so extreme even just from a physical point of view that it is unreasonable to compare the physical addiction/withdrawal they both cause.

That being said, physical addiction/withdrawal is definitely only one piece of the puzzle of why addiction happens and addicts don't stop their use. I think that using the data of hospitalized patients being able to push through it isn't as strong as an argument for that as you've made it out to be, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.

Addiction is a very hard problem, and I'm hopeful that we'll continue developing new treatments and support methods as a society, even if its semi by accident like with GLP-1s.

You mean the surveillance angle as reason for it being in Virginia?

Ahhhh fingerspitzengefühl, I forgot about that one. Thank you for reminding me, I need to start using it more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl

Assuming you've read https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversa... or the longer full essay/related works, could you elaborate on why you don't use Apple Intelligence?

I totally understand why someone would refuse to use it due to environmental reasons (amongst others) but I'm curious to hear your opinions on it.

Some commenters already answered for me. To me there is no real use benefit. I am rather a simple user and it seems to take up space on the phone as well. I refuse to use iCloud so space is important to me since photography is what I do the most.

Also, I like researching things old school how I learned in college because I think it leads to unintended discoveries.

I do not trust the source you linked to. It is an organization buried under organizations for which I cannot seem to find their funding source after looking for a good 15 minutes this morning. It led me back to https://ev.org/ where I found out one guy used to work for "Bain and Company", a consulting firm, and was associated with FTX funding:

https://oxfordclarion.uk/wytham-abbey-and-the-end-of-the-eff...

Besides "Effective Altruism" makes no sense to me. Altruism is Altruism IMO.

Altruism: unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others

There is no way to be ineffective at altruism. The more you have to think about altruism the further you get from it.

But the organization stinks as some kind of tech propaganda arm to me.

Not sure why would one think that article is something other than distraction attempt. Because emissions are adding up.

I'm from country (in Europe) where CO2 emissions per capita [0] are 5.57 while number for USA is 14.3, so reading this sentence in that article: "The average American uses ~50,000 times as much water every day..." surly does not imply that one should use ChatGPT because it is nothing. If "average American" wants to decrease emissions then not using LLMs is just start.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

This isn’t about ChatGPT this is about Apple Intelligence which is an on-device low power ML system.

For me: unproven trust and no killer feature.

If I can't search my Apple Mail without AI, why would I trust AI?

> I totally understand why someone would refuse to use it due to environmental reasons

Huh. This one baffles me.

Energy use, presumably.

Of course, are those same users always running their screens super dim? Are they using pen + paper instead of typing whenever they can?

Consuming kilowatts is not intrinsically bad for the environment. If you are worried about the environmental impact of power generation, then advocate for cleaner generators.

…Do you have a link? I’m not sure if I want to see proof of that, but I’m at the same time curious how you’d manage to do it without disturbing the cat.

Titles can’t contain “China”?

Why’d he push you away during the buddy check?

Per his dive stats, he had 7k+ dives under his belt, "discovered" 50 MILES of new cave passages and mapped 25km of them.

Through an accident of fate and the original guide I'd booked getting sick, he was my guide on literally my first dives after getting certified.

He was like: "don't touch my equipment, try not to die, I'll be fine... what are you realistically going to do for me if there's a problem (and there won't be a problem)" ...after I explained that I was just trying to adopt the good habits we were taught in the classes I just took, he chilled out a bit, but still wouldn't let me touch his equipment.

My first open water dive (post certification) was unplanned- a small earthquake closed the cenotes on the second/third day until they could be vetted by "the pros" and make sure everything was safe for tourists again.

Ended up bumping into a shark (aka: "bear in the woods") at ~80ft and my (different) guide went chasing after it to take pictures, so I had to kindof keep up and think to myself: "I probably would stay away from that roughly human-sized shark, but also, I'm supposed to stay within 5-10 feet of my buddy in case he has equipment problems...... I'll just keep him in between me and the shark..."

Good times! :-D