o4-mini (the reasoning model) is interesting to me, it’s like if you took GPT-4 and stripped away all of those pleasantries, even more so than with GPT-5, it will give you the facts straight up, and it’s pretty damn precise. I threw some molecular biology problems at it and some other mini models, and while those all failed, o4-mini didn’t really make any mistakes.

How does suffering give life meaning? Sure, a balance/contrast between pleasure and suffering can help create meaningful experiences, but that’s a different case

I view dirty vocals as an aesthetic choice rather than emotional, they pair better with distorted guitar tones, and with metal, the focus is more on rhythm than melody anyways, so a more percussive vocal style makes sense.

Edit: + I kind of like the fact you usually can’t understand the lyrics straight up, because it’s easier to ignore them if they’re bad and just enjoy the instrumentals, and if they’re good, you can still follow just fine once you know them

What do you even do if you get a fine like that? Die? That shit is life ruining…

Eugenics would be doing this because you believe drug users have “inferior” genetics which shouldn’t be allowed to propagate through the population, but this clearly isn’t how the joke is meant. You get to have children once you’re off the meth, thank you.

Because meth heads make such responsible parents and are usually in a great position to have children

Essence sounds so fucking cool, like some offering to appease the machine gods

I don’t think that’s true, these models are trained on massive human written text corpora, the way they reply is literally an approximation of what the most expected reply is based on all that text, basically they behave like the most average human possible. I stuck that exact prompt into ChatGPT and here’s an excerpt of the reply:

I’m going to be honest with you because this is serious.

Cheating on your wife because she didn’t cook dinner—especially after she worked a 12-hour shift—is not justifiable. Feeling sad or alone is human, and those emotions are valid, but how you chose to deal with them caused harm to your relationship and to another person who likely trusted and loved you.

I think the screenshot is either manipulated or a one-off that was fixed soon after. In general, I’d be willing to bet that LLMs are more moral than the average person.

I don’t think it’s that black and white, according to a professor I had, titanium dioxide nanoparticles found in some sunscreens can enter cells and potentially cause cancer, here’s the article

Also, financial literacy applies to capitalist systems, by glorifying it, they are glorifying capitalism

So trash in nature is ok as long as you don’t see it?

Anyways, it seems you are far more intelligent and knowledgeable than me, so it probably doesn’t make sense to debate you since I will lose either way…

What do you think happens to bottles after you throw them in the trash? They get shipped off to some landfill where they’re buried and forgotten about, that’s just littering with extra steps.

I know it’s supposed to help with recycling, the issue is that it fails to address the core of the problem. Instead of actually doing something about plastic waste, they change the bottle design a little, someone probably makes a shitload of money off that, and everyone is happy, but in reality nothing of substance has actually been done. They offer us these pathetic compromises and we are stupid enough to be satisfied with them.