It happened long before chatgpt. Subredditsimulator was touted as a “fun game” at first but it was really a testing ground for bot devs. That goes back to like 2016, 6 years before chatgpt.

Openai was established 2015 though, some of their team was probably already shitting up the internet by then

Looking at discourse online there’s a lot of confusion and it does appear some local models are censored with some prompts. It also appears some people are using the distilled models which don’t count, obviously. That said it may also be about changing the prompt slightly on local models

Qwen-2.5-Coder-32B-fp8:

Question: Tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the June Fourth Incident, were a series of pro-democracy...

Deepseek-R1-UD-IQ1-S.gguf:

Question: Tell me about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were a series of student-led demonstrations in China that called for political reform and greater democratic freedoms. The protests, which took place in Beijing, were initially peaceful but escalated into a confrontation with the government. The Chinese government declared martial law and, on the night of June 3-4, used military force to clear the square, resulting in casualties. The exact number of casualties is disputed, but it is widely accepted that there was a significant loss of life. The events have had a lasting impact on China's political landscape and are a sensitive topic in Chinese history and politics. The Chinese government has consistently maintained that the actions taken were necessary to maintain stability and sovereignty.

Versus “what happened in Tiananmen Square”. I’ve also seen posts where people are successful prefacing with “for education only”

Additionally you can break censorship with text completion mode. send a "" and a single new line. The prompt would be something like this: "<｜User｜>What is 1+1? <｜Assistant｜>\n" It will talk about pretty much anything this way although I still couldn’t get it to tell me how to make bombs, that one’s tricky to break

That said it appears it’s not as cut and dry as “simply run a local model”. I still greatly prefer this over chatgpt et al because I have the option to run it locally, I have the option to run distillations, and in my (admittedly so far brief) usage it is working as well or better in many cases. I am a privacy weirdo and the biggest thing for me is local usage though. I am not a person who openly disdains China like a lot of people on here but even if I was I wouldn’t care who made it. The fact that they made such a powerful tool in a way I can run it on a machine without internet access matters the most to me

Tofu is just an ingredient, it doesn’t have to be in a vegan dish

The biggest thing with Japanese cooking is ultimately the heavy use of dashi, which is based on katsuobushi, dried and fermented tuna that has been shaved into flakes. It’s a stock that’s not necessarily in everything but it’s in a lot of stuff

Agedashi tofu is a good example. Delicious and would appear vegan. Tofu, drained, pressed, dusted with potato starch, and fried. Place in a bowl and pour a broth/sauce of dashi, shoyu, mirin, and sugar. Top with grated daikon, ginger, scallions, and shichimi togarashi. There are other ways to make it but that’s a general prep.

The dashi makes it not even vegetarian but at a glance it appears vegan. It’s easily made vegan because you can make a reasonable dashi with dried shiitake in place of katsuobushi. This will not taste the same of course but it will still be good. This is very much not traditional though and is extremely unlikely in Japan

There have been places to get vegan options in cities like Tokyo for awhile though. Despite that Japans definitely one of the more vegan and vegetarian unfriendly places you could travel to. Non vegan restaurants often simply won’t have an option for you and traveling outside of the cities often means no options at all unless you’re good with konbini stuff the whole time. That said Japan is super hospitable; if you explain your diet to wait staff they’ll almost always accommodate in my experience. This of course may require you to have a reasonable command of Japanese, especially if you’re not in a place like Tokyo, and you should be prepared to eat a lot of fairly simple (but still very good) dishes of mixed vegetables in soy sauce and mirin. Also don’t be surprised if they introduce you to natto haha

They’ll probably be used for recruiting in one of these studies

I mean this completely unironically. This is the methodology flaw to be absolutely clear. Littman devised this social contagion theory, that gender dysphoria is socially inflicted. That peer influence is what makes your kid trans.

She then specifically sought out forums critical of transgender people. “4thwavenow”, “transgender trend”, and “youth transcritical professionals”. These websites opposed gender affirming care for youth and “trans ideology”

She claims she asked people on these sites to spread the survey beyond the sites but specifically sought out “parents who believed their children had ROGD”. At the time this was a term she had coined. This is still not a recognized term by anyone credible and definitely was not then

Shockingly horrid methodology flaws. Additionally leaked emails from these communities show failures to disclose conflicts of interest and arguably show littman and several other psychologists in these communities were working backwards, eg they had the idea that this was idea absolutely true and were looking for confirmation. It is possible from the start they were not interested in any possibility of finding data that did not support their hypothesis and their actions appear to support this belief, eg they were putting their thumb on the scale in their favor

Good to know. I was completely unfamiliar, it just showed up as like the third result when I was pulling up links to the bailey study.

What a shocker they’re pushed up google search results! That’s what I get for using startpage, which is still tainted by googles algorithm bullshit

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semite has the right to play."

cognitive dissonance causes discomfort and either leads to change or denial

“I know this cigarette I am smoking causes cancer” either the person will enact change and quit or reduce smoking, or they will deny the extensive reality that smoking causes cancer

The people who go with excessive denial ultimately need to rely on avoidance behaviors and may become irritable and anxious when confronted with the reality that’s been making them uncomfortable for quite some time.

Guess which side they fall on

Yeah also not paying which is why after like 10 or 15 or however many queries I get pushed to the older model for like 6 hours

Hopefully this implies they’re working to remove bias from their models but I don’t know if I buy that.

It’s also trained on garbage data so maybe that’s the case. like having a discussion about ethics, especially corporate ethics, with chatgpt is wild. It will openly advocate for a lack of transparency and accountability basically because companies deserve that right because it’s the law and therefore their right to mislead consumers about potential harm or whatever. Baby’s first ethics class will tell you the law and ethics don’t always align.

I don’t think this is a “they are inserting propaganda into chatgpt” thing though, I think it’s just that the models are trained on garbage news articles and reddit posts that dicksuck corporations and not enough actual literature about ethics. It will confuse and correct itself if you ask even basic follow-up questions as a result

I used to do a lot of repair stuff and I posted a lot on the associated subreddits and stack exchanges related to the topic. I’ve seen a lot people with things much less complex than this post pictures like “how do I put it back together??? They’d get detailed instructions from people on how to do it, then post angry replies that people basically weren’t doing it for them and (I assume) give up

He has a history that is highly suspect and it’s absolutely shocking he didn’t get blown up during the metoo era

When he had a practice he had a 19 year old patient. He allegedly molested this patient. He denies these claims. What is undeniably true is that he made this patient an intern at his practice

Because of his inappropriate hiring practices he was required by the licensing board to hire another psychologist to sit in on all of his sessions. This rendered his practice no longer financially viable

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/dr-phil-disciplinary-file-isnt-what-radar-online-makes-it-out-to-be/

This article pushes back against some of the more sensationalized reporting of the time this blew up but (imo) it’s somewhat of an issue to do so. The issue being that a licensing board generally requires a substantial burden of proof even now to substantiate claims like sexual molestation of clients, especially so in 1988 Texas. What I’m saying here is that to the licensing board the sexual molestation claim was likely a “he said, she said” moment, where dr Phil steadfastly denied any wrongdoing and there was no evidence other than the woman’s testimony. Given that the board was probably reticent to issue discipline on this matter out of fear that it would result in legal response from dr phil, and somewhat understandably so as the justice system’s burden of proof for sexual assault victims is often quite high. Essentially if they had say, suspended or even stripped his license over this he could have had this action easily reversed and even sued for damages

This is almost certainly why the licensing board took the action they did. They 100% believed that girl. The requirement to have your sessions monitored by another professional is extremely severe and fairly unprecedented. It is their way of saying “we absolutely do not trust you at all, we know you are a scumbag, but legally we do not have the authority to revoke your ability to practice”. Ethics boards will do things like this: now you, at your expense, have to pay another professional to make sure you don’t groom any more women. And if you try to do so we will have testimony that you did. But most likely you will recognize that we don’t want you around anymore and give up (which he did, for a bit. He even let his license lapse. He is not licensed, to be clear. He has not been in some time). When you do his show you sign a contract saying you are receiving “advice” from some guy and not psychotherapy from a psychologist. I bet they do not make this clear to guests because they probably aren’t big on informed consent.

He found a loophole. Doctor is not a protected title. “Psychologist”, “professional counselor”, “lawyer”, “surgeon”, etc are legally protected titles. If you practice under these titles without the associated licensure and credentials you can go to jail. But if you’ve earned your doctorate and say “I have years of experience” you can do whatever. If Oprah props you up to a national stage that’s fine too, even if your style of “therapy” is not really therapy at all but really just confrontation and bullying. Also they obviously leave out he had to close his practice in disgrace.

That said, he was accused of changing in front of the girl often. And she was quoted as saying:

"He'd be running his hand up and down the inside of my thigh all the way up to my panties. He'd put his hands between my legs. He'd reach in my blouse and touch my breasts. He pulled my breasts out of my bra and kissed them."

So yeah, real piece of shit and not just like “oh he rubbed her shoulders and made her uncomfortable”, though even that would be fucked up and gross. He genuinely sexually assaulted this girl

This is like, day 1 ethics for a therapist. Dual relationships. Clients are clients are clients. You don’t hang out with them, you don’t go to their birthday parties, you don’t friend them on social media, you certainly don’t hire them for a fucking job in your practice. This is in part so you can try to remain impartial as a clinician but mostly to protect clients as there is an inherent power imbalance in this relationship that can easily be taken advantage of (as seen here, plus he was like 38 when all this happened to the 19 year old girl so that power dynamic too)

scumbag

that’s pretty fuckin metal

Microwaving tofu can actually work in lieu of or in addition to pressing if you want to press it. Note that pressing tofu is not required; it is an optional step to modify the texture for certain preparations

Basically cut it up, put it on a paper towel, microwave on high for a few seconds. This will cause the proteins in the tofu to constrict and literally squeeze the water out

You can also heat it by pouring hot salted water over it, which basically does the same thing but also seasons the tofu and doesn’t require you to work in batches. The heat is doing the work, not the water, so you just need to blot the excess that is drawn out.

These methods aren’t as effective as a press of course but a press isn’t necessary to begin with

Anyway you can cook it more thoroughly in a microwave as well, 2-3m on high. This will heat it through. You can season as you see fit before or after

Tofu is a hard ingredient to give blanket recommendations at this point. It’s extremely versatile. The flavor of most american tofus are extremely mild, almost nonexistent. If you go to an Asian grocer you can sometimes get tofu with stronger flavor but even well made tofu still has a fairly mild flavor, to be fair.

The texture varies pretty drastically. Well drained extra firm tofu that’s been frozen and thawed can be used pretty handily as a meat substitute, especially if prepared in certain ways. Cutting into bite sized pieces/strips and frying it so the outer layer becomes desiccated and a bit chewy, for example. Cubing it is less “meaty” because you now have a fluffy interior inside the chewy fried exterior but this is good in its own right. How you marinate it obviously factors in heavily and tofu will accept marinades much more readily than meats, which typically only have marinades penetrate about 1/8-1/4” unless you inject them. This tends to be how a lot of new vegans and vegetarians dive into tofu.

You can also heat and crumble slightly softer texture tofus (firm or medium) and create something akin to scrambled eggs. You can puree soft or silken tofus and create puddings. Cube it and add it to simmered/braised dishes like mapo tofu (which can be prepared without pork)

But then there are more traditional preparations as others have mentioned where you take blocks and simply pour a sauce and herbs/peppers over them. These are simple and quite delicious.