Honestly, it's possible that your cat knocked something over in your neighbor's yard and panicked. It'd sound like something big and scary, which would cause the cat to hole up and yell to be saved - and then when you came around the corner, perhaps thought that the 'big scary monster' was coming without knowing it was you.
I doubt anyone can actually calculate a line of best using ordinary least square linear regression by hand with no mistakes but no one’s crying about that.
That's because I can write an algorithm to do it for me reliably and quickly.
LLMs are just the next generation of calculators and programs.
LLMs can do it quickly, but they cannot do it reliably by their very nature. They are very much NOT the next generation of calculators and programs, because the whole POINT of calculators and programs is to do it quickly AND RELIABLY.
The difference is that the robots are actually better at reliably making cars than the humans were. Vibe coding very much does not produce better, more reliable code.
Those were only two examples of an accelerating trend. But you're right; if something is actually a necessity, you can largely get it without a smartphone. Society is doing its utmost to make them a necessity though, and it drives me nuts.
At this point, you can't even participate in several aspects of society without a smartphone. A lot of concerts and the like have digital-only tickets. You can't even get cheap McD's food without using their stupid app; their deals are all digital now.
Oh, absolutely. But other, more accurate, emulators started to take some of ZSNES's limelight away as hardware started to catch up to the demands.
It was a long time before a majority of PC owners could run BSNES at full-speed, but eventually it became one of the most well-beloved emulators. That same clock is what pushed ZSNES into obscurity over time.
Oh, I knew what your puritanical thinking was from the beginning. It just didn't relate to the point I was trying to make - which is why I was trying to gently correct you. As it seems you are uninterested in engaging with the actual conversation at hand though, I will only tell you: have a good day.
It has nothing to do with self-mastery and dopamine. People who are healthy tend to masturbate. People who are feeling poorly are less likely to masturbate, and feeling poorly means you have a health issue. People with health issues are more likely to die than people without health issues. The causation is reversed. Masturbation does not cause a longer lifespan. A short lifespan due to health issues causes less masturbation.
This is a 'correlation is not causation'-ass situation here. People who aren't feeling well enough to wank at least twice a week are far more likely to kick the bucket.
Honestly, it's possible that your cat knocked something over in your neighbor's yard and panicked. It'd sound like something big and scary, which would cause the cat to hole up and yell to be saved - and then when you came around the corner, perhaps thought that the 'big scary monster' was coming without knowing it was you.