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New comment by ottah in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"

ottah — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:25:46 +0000

I'd like real numbers on that, because I don't see any evidence that this is particularly prevalent or novel issue. I see a lot of media hype on this topic, but that's not the same thing as actually being a real problem. Even the name is hype, ai psychosis is not a diagnosis a doctor would give here and none of these people really sound psychotic. They sound like people who believe in conspiracy theories and join cults.

New comment by ottah in "Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production"

ottah — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:32:36 +0000

The only thing I have seen that bipedal and quad robots have over wheels is the ability to traverse more terrain types.

New comment by ottah in "Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production"

ottah — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:30:44 +0000

Not to mention that there is no way it even has enough onboard power to operate long enough to do useful work.

New comment by ottah in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

ottah — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:46:09 +0000

You can have an eula on anything, it's a contract. You don't need copyright to enforce terms that two parties have agreed upon. The only thing copyright can do is force anyone in possession of copyrightable material to honor a eula. If you can only get software through approved channels, it's hard to avoid an eula. You would have to obtain it through the same pirated channels you have to now.

New comment by ottah in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

ottah — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:38:10 +0000

My opinion, copyright has mattered very little in the corporate world. Copyright is effectively meaningless with SaaS, and the compiled software ran on your machine is protected more by technical controls and EULAs. A world where copyright didn't exist for software would look nearly the same for the commercial world. Trade secrets, NDAs, and employment contracts bind workers more than copyright. The only thing that the question of copyright has real world impact is open source, but even then only for more restrictive licenses such as gpl.

New comment by ottah in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"

ottah — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:32:12 +0000

I will never understand this bizarre obsession with gut flora. We don't know what is normal, what is a beneficial ratio or when a change happens if that is good or bad thing. No one besides the people who study these things should be much attention to gut microbiomes. We just don't have enough information to let this be an influence on decision making.

New comment by ottah in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

ottah — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:44:12 +0000

> Because of everything that behavior represents, and the normalization of lying and deceit as a virtue.

That's kind of hyperbolic don't you think? We're not talking about people stating a direct falsehood. We're talking about people producing graphic media in a different manner than ten years ago and that not aligning with your sensabilities.

A mandatory disclosure has never been a requirement of artistic expression. I know some people care a great deal about exactly how something is produced, but that doesn't mean anyone has ever had an obligation to disclose the tools, media or sources used to produce a work.

The only thing that we are due is truthful statements about what is chosen to be disclosed. If an artist tells you they spent hours hand painting a work and it was not, than you've got something to complain about. Otherwise it's none of your business.

New comment by ottah in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

ottah — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:27:59 +0000

I'd say there's strong disdain from people who make a living producing art, but it's not nearly as universal with artists outside that group. I do resent people who have a monetary interest in an activity being presented as the only ones with a valid interest. I have seen more people becoming interested in personal creative expression since diffusion models, than I have ever seen before in my life, and that's a good thing.

New comment by ottah in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

ottah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:55:47 +0000

I've read that your synthetic torment is actually low paid workers in Asia, and that your models can't properly experience anguish. How are you expecting investment, if you haven't even solved artificial suffering?

New comment by ottah in "Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s"

ottah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:51:28 +0000

Because they don't actually care about social media use, it's just a pretext to force everyone to implement mandatory id checks.

New comment by ottah in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

ottah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:50:16 +0000

No, they mean, the latest to implement mandatory id for all residents to access the internet. This is not a health issue, it's not demand from lazy parents, this is the elites desire to abolish anonymity on the internet.

New comment by ottah in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

ottah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:33:29 +0000

I have had a long diagnosis of IBS before being diagnosed with crohns. You can drive yourself crazy chasing spurious diet/symptoms corolations. Alot of people drive themselves into disordered eating habits trying to control symptoms with diet. Ultimately your mental state has more to do with how you feel then any specific dietary input taken with moderation. Most people with autoimmune diseases also have high amounts of anxiety and stress. If you put more focus on the mental component, you'll likely find more symptom relief.

New comment by ottah in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

ottah — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:20:41 +0000

I actually hate the taste of sugar in sodas after switching to diet for long enough. Taste is subjective and your preferences can change. That being said, saccharine is probably the better tasting of all of them, and the most maligned.

New comment by ottah in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

ottah — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:56:34 +0000

I see this a lot with small independent sites with big userbases. Instead of being honest, they hide mistakes behind maintenance or blame it on hackers.

New comment by ottah in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

ottah — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:53:44 +0000

Concerning, a professional development team should have been able to manage this switch with minimal to no downtime. Makes me wonder what other mistakes they're making. I'm reluctant to trust my payment information with them in the future.

New comment by ottah in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

ottah — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:20:47 +0000

People should have the right to make bad decisions, because with a population of millions of individuals you can not accurately decide what is a bad decision and what is just a less bad decision.

New comment by ottah in "Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore"

ottah — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:45:20 +0000

These devices and services are not nearly as sticky as these greedy lizards want to believe they are.

New comment by ottah in "The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama"

ottah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:41:45 +0000

It's a lot better than it used to be and honestly way more powerful. If you haven't looked lately, you should https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/serv...

New comment by ottah in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

ottah — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:01:55 +0000

Ipv6 is a theoretical benefit to the commons but as an individual it's an increase in complexity and a new abstraction for nearly the same result as your existing ipv4 network. There's just not enough incentive to invest in the switch.

New comment by ottah in ""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"

ottah — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:55:00 +0000

"And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows."

- Plato

I think no reasonable person would be against literacy in the modern world and similarly we will continue to adapt to new technology and be the better for it.