No. For hundreds of years authors loved to use the em dash. It was a sign of quality writing. Only very recently has it stopped getting used and only because the - is on the wrong side of the keyboard and it's becoming more a hyphen instead.
When someone uses an em dash, it implies they arent using a normal keyboard; not even dvorak.
Even today it's common in professional writing (high quality articles, published books). I agree though that a typical modern keyboarder is going to use a dash or semicolon instead (if anything).
So maybe the training data has a lot of old English writing and overcoming the model's tendency to use em dashes everywhere with custom instructions would use up more electricity.
Doing your laundry is a sign of general intelligence? If someone is a quadriplegic and cant do their own laundry, does that mean they arent intelligent?
It started with the paradox of women unhappiness. Which wasnt a paradox at all, fully understood. Yet for some reason 1 political side refused to understand. Ideological blindness.
Then a large amount of $, time, and effort was spent on women to solve this problem, but since they refused to understand the cause. It really was just a boost to women. This shifts men behind. Government intentionally caused this.
Then men needed a role model. Men would need to work extra hard to just come up to parity. But government didnt like the messaging of those role models, so they censored their speech and deplatformed them.
Creating the gap/shortage in role models; but men moved to beyond their control. This new role model became huge. He'd talk for hours upon hours with anyone who would listen.
The people who wanted to censor/deplatform but couldnt. So they publicly killed him.
It's not so much for founders. Founders should just do the idea; see if others are doing it first. Form the LLC that can roll over and die if it smacks into a patent.
Your customers are the patent lawyers who need to do that research.
Thank you . I'll take a look at the sites you mentioned.
For the record, I've been using standard ChatGPT 5.1, and even without a therapy-specific system prompt, it works quite well.
Just to clarify, when I mentioned "safely used as a supplement", I was thinking from a holistic emotional standpoint. I came across the post on "Chatbot Psychosis" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045674) and it got me pondering...
>Just to clarify, when I mentioned "safely used as a supplement", I was thinking from a holistic emotional standpoint. I came across the post on "Chatbot Psychosis" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045674) and it got me pondering...
What I think is happening there. A model might only reasonably have 65,000 context. You quickly use it all up and it doesnt tell you it's truncating context, but it defaults in the center.
Eventually your chat is silently removing context and the message you think you're sending the LLM is X, Y, Z and what it's processing is X, Z. Which gives a different answer than the missing Y context.
>Both the EU and the US have introduced face scanning at airports to "increase security".
Totally fine with me. Imagine all the cameras you walked by even getting to the new cameras you seemingly have problems with? If you're at an airport, people have their phones out recording all the time. It's public. I want the CBSA to be recording, databasing, post-analyzing including the ability to feed a photo into their database and know who that is. That's the border.
The big question, I'm not sure. Should the data be freedom of information act accessible? I think we side on privacy here; ban the government from sharing the ID information.
>EU rules are currently stricter and US rules allow some opt-outs for people that are uncomfortable with it.
Here in Canada, no significant rules. You can ride on an international flight fully covered except eyes to see where you're going. We recently increased privacy having everyone ride with a mask.
You can opt out of the radiation/xray scans for health and religious reasons.
The things in front of you are what happens. Want to learn guitar, dont keep it in another room or a closet. In fact, remove closet doors, make things visible. There's a balance of spending too much time organizing and removing all friction to productivity.
You can even take pictures of your battlestation and ask AI what improvements could be made.
You understand your mind has multiple sensors/states; emotions, good, bad, future, past, etc. and you need to filter these. All 'predictions' about the future are lies. All rumination about the past, you dont even remember what happened correctly, move on.
Your identity is not true; it may change drastically on short notice. Some good, some bad. You identify with any of the "I ams" like "I'm poor" or "I'm socially awkward or introvert" Maintain a written list of your identity; make sure it's positive and helpful. You're the authority of this, nobody else cares. Your identity might be
I am:
Good, moral, trying to help all people.
Love incarnate to all people.
Hard worker with integrity.
Loved and worthy.
Open to change for the better.
Ask for forgiveness rapidly, and not for permission.
Keeping my health to the maximum at all times.
The smaller the identity the easier the rules of life becomes.
The article states rural areas tend to be served by a higher proportion of immigrant doctors. The densely populated coasts will probably be fine - the higher salaries will continue to attract US-born and limited immigrant doctors.
$200k urban vs $205k rural median offers to new doctors overall. But, in surgical practices, that flips well in favor of urban offers. But, that's just for new MDs. Career numbers skew even more to rural doctors
>The article states rural areas tend to be served by a higher proportion of immigrant doctors. The densely populated coasts will probably be fine - the higher salaries will continue to attract US-born and limited immigrant doctors.
I had only anecdotal knowledge(I know Canadian doctors are all going to the big cities) and I looked it up before posting for who would be most impacted.
You are correct the article tried to suggest rural, but fact check false. It's easy to see why NPR did this.
NPR represents urban liberals; their readers won't like reading that their healthcare costs are about to go way up.
When someone uses an em dash, it implies they arent using a normal keyboard; not even dvorak.