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My Life Changed When I Discovered Peer-to-Peer File Sharing at Age 10 by heart__rot

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He is... dust...

Well today I saw someone sent a eulogy that was written by AI and I've just been stuck thinking about it all day. Like imagine dying and your loved ones use an unfeeling machine to talk about how sad it is that you died coz apparently said loved ones just can't think up how your passing has affected the world lmfaooo

Like what a slap in the face to the dead 😭😭😭 the audacity of it is just CRAZY

"But it wouldn't have been any good if I wrote it :(" then get a different friend or family member to do it, or WRITE IT YOURSELF ANYWAY coz at least then it still came from a REAL PLACE and wouldn't be utterly disrespectful. Do literally anything but use AI like holy shit

In this case, the result is having approval from family/friends/community for writing a good eulogy. A charitable reading of the situation is that the person who submitted that card is tired, stressed, grieving, and has no confidence in their own writing. They do not think of writing the card as a way to process their emotions and grief and connect to the memory of the dead person. They think of it as a chore on top of their already overfilled schedule that they will also be "graded" on, in a way.

I had to write a euology for my grandmother at the beginning of this year. I didn't use any assistance to do it but I do remember feeling a great responsibility to "get it right". I'm her only grandchild and I felt a lot of pressure to write something that will be meaningful to other people at the funeral, especially cause I couldn't be there in person. That pressure was purely in my head and I still spent hours tweaking the sentences over and over. And writing is kind of my thing! If someone would ask me to draw a picture for her funeral, well, I can imagine myself panicking and asking someone else to do it for me. Using LLM chatbots is an equivalent of copying your friend's homework basically, except with less friction and more environmental impact.

Chatbot use in universities is a similar story. Most people see higher ed as something you need to do to secure a well-paying job. And yes that path is becoming less and less real but alternative paths have not developed yet so people are putting everything into getting a good degree. They are not graded on how much effort they put, they are graded on the result, often on how well they are able to follow instructions. They are not encouraged to make mistakes, try difficult things, step out of their comfort zone, etc. They are pushed to succeed at any cost, and outsourcing their thinking to LLMs seems like a smart solution.

They shoved herbs in their breathing hose because they knew the air was bad and hoped it would help, and *they were right* in theory. The plague itself was not an airborn virus, but they couldn’t know that and it wasn’t the only thing killing people at the time anyway, and they covered *all* their bases. If they’d had the technological knowhow to make air tanks, or even better air filters, they would’ve. They just made the best air filters they could.

What we think they wore isn’t exactly what they wore, and what they actually wore would later be repurposed into scuba suits (and thus spacesuits too) and *actual hazmat suits*, because the theory was sound, the materials were just lacking, and honestly what they did with the materials they had was hardcore.

they wore full face protection which avoids the most obvious mucosal transmission routes

INCLUDING GLASS IN THE EYEHOLES. They invented safety goggles before most of the world had nailed down corrective eye glasses yet

they wore additional head protection to cover seams in their mask/hoods

they oiled and waxed all their clothes to make it fluid-resistant

they wore separate but tight fitting equally if not more fluid-resistant gloves and/or armcuffs so they could keep hand contamination to a minimum even when dressing/undressing AND they only wore the suit in areas they thought was contaminated and took it off before entering uncontaminated areas

they may have used herbed vinegar to clean, and if the stories are true this was clever because 1) it’s available and portable 2) pretty effective as far as medieval disinfectants go versus the damage it does the the user (as opposed to what they had for bleach at the time, and the actual percentage level in alcohols at the time which was mostly insufficient for task as well as being needed for more important things); vinegar is *still* a decent disinfectant even now

It honestly took doctors well into the twentieth century to get that level of obsessive attention to hygiene and cross-contamination back. A whole lot of babies and mothers wouldn’t’ve died, for instance, if a plague doctor instead of an obstetrician supported the birth because A PLAGUE DOCTOR WOULD KNOW TO WASH THEIR GODDAMNED HANDS.

Actual plague doctor’s outfits:

supposedly some plague doctors would carry hollow canes in order to check the pulse without needing to use their hands or take off their gloves? it was sort of like a very early example of a stethescope