A significant other should not prevent you from enjoying your hobbies.

Most of the people I know who don’t have kids and ‘don’t have time for gaming’ in reality just have a significant other who looks down on gaming and makes them feel bad about it when they do.

if you don’t have kids, you should have plenty of time for video games.

If you do have kids that can become harder to justify.

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Nobody’s arguing that simulated or emulated consciousness isn’t possible, just that if it were as simple as you’re making it out to be then we’d have figured it out decades ago.

But I’m not. I have literally stated in every comment that human intelligence is more advanced than LLMs, but that both are just statistical machines.

There’s literally no reason to think that would have been possible decades ago based on this line of reasoning.

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Honestly might be worth talking to a professional, but my gut wonders if this is really about the new kid, or about his current relationship with you?

Jealousy is a normal emotion, but it often rages when we feel self conscious, neglected, or unloved.

His traitor comment (especially when his mom has never been in the picture), really makes it seem like he feels like you’re not fathering him in a way that he expects or he feels like something is missing and now your attention will be even more focused elsewhere.

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I do wonder if Russia was planning on responding with these, and this is why they issued a ‘we’ll respond when we feel like it’ follow up.

Sort order for comments isn’t consistent across instances or apps or users or time.

It’s an example of a feedback system.

If people actually want to understand how most systems in life work, they should take sociology and various humanities and science courses, but everyone should take a course on mathematical Systems Analysis including feedback loops and transfer functions.

Virtually every system we encounter in day to day life, from biological ones, to sociological ones, are feedback loops, and understanding the nuances and complexities of how they work, how to analyze them when cause and effect is circular, and how their output changes and can stabilize, destabilize, oscillate, etc. makes a lot of things less confusing.

Feedback circuits can be used to make amplifiers that amplify or deamplify a signal a certain amount, they can be used to make amplifiers that amplify rapidly to catastrophic of explosive failure, or dampeners that will try and reduce any signal to nothing, they can be used to make oscillators that pulse rhythmically at a certain frequency and are the heart of all clock circuits, or they can be used to always hold a steady output regardless of disturbances to their inputs like in gyroscopes and control systems and governors that always try and stay on target… And these are just simple feedback systems created out of a few components by humans, nature’s feedback systems that have evolved over billions of years are wildly more complex.

Circular systems like this can’t be examined through traditional cause and effect logic chains, but they can be analyzed as a system as a whole.

It’s Canadian but I use EasyDNS which has operated here forever. It’s privately owned by a Mark Jeftovic who’s fairly well known as an internet advocate / policy expert and ran as a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada, so is privacy focused.