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@ FRYD @sh.itjust.works

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Ugh I posted a selfie, so I guess I’ll do a somewhat real bio now that I’m not a mystery person anymore :/

  • Trans woman (she/her)
  • Photographer
  • Fashion addict
  • Occasional techie
  • Friendly (feel free to reach out)

  • what do you think of self driving cars?

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  • I feel like with most cases of post 2008 technology, what they’re doing is interesting on the surface level. The problem is that it’s always a wildly inefficient and predatory solution for whatever problem.

    Self driving cars sound like a good idea, smoother traffic, safer roads, etc. The problem is the technology isn’t really there yet and the way it’s currently implemented is dangerous and inefficient and really has no place on actual roads. So what we end up with are waymos that are error prone and susceptible to harassment from people and teslas causing accidents. That harassment waymos get is somewhat justified too because of what they represent. Instead of billions of dollars being spent on public transit which would solve the same problems more efficiently, billions of dollars are spent on a personal, luxury, novelty transit experience.

    As far as the ML goes, yeah it’s interesting I guess. It needs vastly more data than it has because driving is incredibly complicated. I don’t really have any basis for it, but I kinda don’t think it’ll ever be effective enough until we reach some kind of technology breakthrough with quantum computing or something. There’s too many data bottlenecks for the amount of data processing required. Until we get that, waymo is just gonna have to keep relying on underpaid Filipino support staff to fill in the gaps.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • Most things. The internet is a rage factory these past few years. I got enough real things to be upset about.

  • The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

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  • This is no surprise to anyone in the community. Practically every trans person I know has wanted to move to NYC, Chicago, or Seattle for at least a year or so. Smaller blue cities have been getting better reputations for trans people in the last few months.

    My partner and I plan to visit Chicago and then decide between moving there or to Minneapolis.

  • Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy

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  • Clamuel even

  • There's one on every vid

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  • I guess it’s dumb to comment like that. Not gonna lie though, it’s wild to make a whole meme and comments dogging on it.

  • What are your best dating stories?

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  • My first 3 relationships were with stalkers. I was super depressed and had no interest in a relationship. I figured the best way to get them to leave me alone was to give them what they wanted. The first one would track me down when I was out and corner me if she wanted me to do something, that lasted 3 months. The second used to follow me home from high school and would watch me when I was at a club. That lasted two weeks, but every now and then she’d hit me up for a hookup.

    The third was the most traumatic experience of my life and I’ll just leave it there. A few months after our breakup, she asked me to fill in on her team for the schools Overwatch team tryouts. I didn’t want to join, but I played. A week later, they’re begging me to join the A team… in the position my ex was trying out for. That was definitely cathartic. 5000 hours of OW later, it’s a bit less funny. I never wanna play a video game that much again.

    Also back in college I matched on Tinder with an older woman. She was like 26, I was 19. After a chat it turns out she was in a committed relationship and was looking for a third. Why not? I showed up a few times, they would get me dinner and then I’d do whatever they wanted essentially. After the fourth time, we stopped because the guy was too into me and the girl didnt like how things were developing.

    I also kinda fell in love with a girl while I was on a grippy sock vacation. It didn’t last too long after we got out. She had issues and bad habits and pretty quickly succumbed to them and then started being really manipulative.

    If this doesn’t make it obvious, I have some issues being a bit too… pliable. I’ve learned some lessons though and I’m in a pretty healthy relationship now and I can look back and laugh it this stuff.

  • Would you date a workaholic? [DuckDuckGo Sociology]

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  • I’d be more interested in a more loose relationship than “dating” with someone like that. I’m just not really interested in committing myself to someone whose life doesn’t allow them to prioritize the relationship. I’ve been in situations with people like that though and it’s been fine. It’s not like I don’t know how to live a life without someone.

  • TIL that the USA only has one plant that produces gun barrels for the M1 Abrams tank, M777 howitzers, and Paladin self propelled howitzers. The Watervliet Arsenal in Troy, NY is the nation's oldest a…

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  • When I lived up there, I only ever heard water-vil-ay

  • If you had to choose one place in the world to start from nothing and survive solo, where would you pick, and why?

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  • Inside the earths mantle, so I would die instantly. There’s a couple different TV shows that show that even the most confident and capable survivalists won’t last very long in the wild. Even if I had that hubris, I still wouldn’t want to be alone.

  • What is the BRAT diet? Wrong answers only.

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  • I mean… I had rum and french fries for dinner 3 times last week

  • What was the last thing that made you incredibly happy?

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  • Two days ago I invited some new friends to a rave and one of them said they were actually already on the fence about going, but if I was going it must be cooler then they thought. I wish I could frame that.

    The rave was also lit and we had a great time, but I usually enjoy those.

  • What do you collect?

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  • I have a couple hundred keys I’ve found on the street over the years. I also have a collection of old cameras. I have 9 right now, but I’m getting a whole box of them for free in the next few days.

  • Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag."

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  • I don’t believe that will ever come to pass. That future relies on the creation of a real AI and not just fancy text predictors. That real AI would also have to be actually sustainable which LLMs are not.

    Not only has there been no progress on real AI, it wouldn’t be able to ruin society even if we did manage to make it. The rich and powerful are not impervious. They will inevitably make too many people too poor and then be overrun and torn to shreds. It’s happened countless times before and if we’ve learned anything from Ukraine and the Middle East this past decade, it’s impossible to bomb a large group of people into submission.

  • Meta's Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe: "It's literally the gulag."

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  • Have you heard of the “permanent underclass”? It’s a concept that silicon valley people have become obsessed with. Silicon Valley tech workers are doing hard drugs and taking untested peptides so that they can work harder and longer all in the pursuit of escaping the permanent underclass they believe AI will create. These people believe that when AI takes all the jobs, everyone who isn’t already rich will become part of some permanently unemployable poverty class.

    It’s madness, but you already have to be unwell and have no concern for humanity in order to work at these giga tech firms in the first place.

  • If you are formerly religious, how did you leave your religion and what made you do it?

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  • I grew pretty devout episcopal. I was an acolyte for all the masses and participated in all the other community activities my church ran.

    I never really believed in God. I’ve just always been that way with stuff like that. Never believed in Santa or any other magical figures. That said, I’ve always agreed with the core idea of the religion to love everyone and I always envied the comfort people who believe in a God must feel. So I kinda went and tried hard to like cargo cult my way into belief to know what it was like.

    My parents kinda started going nuts at some point and we stopped going to stuff. My church was too far to walk or bike to, so I stopped going. Nothing much happened after that. There was girl who lived in the rectory that I went to school with. I later learned she had a crush on me which kinda explained why she was always trying to get me to come back when we talked.

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  • I want to learn things and meet people and understand the world and humanity. I can never get even remotely close to doing as much as I want to in my tiny life, so I have to do everything in my power to allow myself to do as much as possible before I die.

  • What are you doing for podcast discovery?

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  • I listen to mostly far left podcasts about various topics.

    1. Mostly through crossover episodes where hosts of one show appear in one I already listen to.
    2. “Well There’s Your Problem” a funny podcast about engineering disasters and “Behind the Bastards” a funny podcast about some of the worst people in history.

  • What's the coolest performance you've ever seen?

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  • I saw “Kinky Boots” with Brendan Urie on Broadway, that was a really cool experience. I also saw Pink do her whole wire swinging act while singing which was super impressive even if it’s not really my kind of music. I may be biased because it was just last week, but the HVasquez Circus had some really incredible acts when I went to see it. I’ve been to a ton of concerts, but if I’m being honest, I was piss drunk at like 90% of them so it’s hard to pick one in particular as a really cool performance.

    As far as not in person stuff I’ve seen, a lot of the Red Bull stunts come to mind. Skating down a skyscraper, BMX on a moving train, that guy skydiving from space.

  • What have you been working on or learning to do recently?

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  • I recently bought an old vhs camcorder at a thrift store. Spent the past week getting some new tapes, un-jamming the old one it came with, getting new batteries and wiring up a portable dvr. Now I’ve got an old video camera that takes some nice crusty video and I can easily capture the tape effects too. Now I gotta figure out what I want to record with it. I’ve done photography for over a decade, but I’ve never really been a video person. I’m also interested in circuit-bending, but I’m reluctant to risk it after the effort I put into this camera.

  • Previously awkward teens, how did you eventually figure it out?

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  • I became an alcoholic. Stopped worrying so much because I was drunk all the time. Built a reputation for being relaxed and confident. Started going to parties and clubs. Built up real confidence. Stopped drinking so much.

    Can’t say I would recommend my path, but I’m happy where I am.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    FRYD @sh.itjust.works

    Would you enter a relationship with someone with genital herpes?