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[–] 109 points 1 year ago (16 children)

ChatGPT is allowed, but chocolate eggs with toys inside are supposed to be too dangerous? 🤔

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I am literally just making this up on the spot and have no evidence for it, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe the real reason for the kinder egg ban was anticompetitive lobbying by Hershey or something like that, and the toy thing was just the excuse.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The american law prohibiting objects in food predates the kinder eggs by decades. And it's because people use to put all kinds of shit in american food. The law that bans them into is the Food, Drug and Cosmetic act of 1938.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it's a reasonable regulation.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it’s a reasonable regulation.

    It should apparently be amended, though. There is a known case that it accidentally forbids but should not forbid.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Then how did we have toys in cereal boxes and cracker jacks up until much more recently?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because it's not inside the food itself.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It wasnt the "toy thing" theres a law about putting inedible choking hazards in food. The food drug and cosmetic act of 1938. It bans putting any toy or inedible object in candy unless it is a functional part of the food. So the capsule in the kinder egg isnt ok but the wooden stick in a popsicle, the stick of a lollypop or the ring of a ring pop is.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    So, they could put a lollipop-shaped stick into a kinder-egg, to function as a handle? Then the toy could be inside the ball in the end of the handle, so that it wouldn't actually be inside the food, but a part of the handle, which would be a functional part of the food?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    GPT needs another LLM trained on only the stupid things people do and how to avoid doing horrible things to yourself and others to watch over each conversation and intervene.

    US versions of Kinder eggs are just a stupid shower thought that was taken too far

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago

    60-year-old man who had a "history of studying nutrition in college" decided to try a health experiment: He would eliminate all chlorine from his diet

    Oh well, it started before ChatGPT even had a chance to make it worse.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Bromide sedatives vanished from the US market by 1989, after the Food and Drug Administration banned them

    So Robert Fucken Kennedy Jr will be all over this one shortly. Expect more psychosis I guess...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    He does consume straight methylene blue from the bottle

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Methylene blue is an actual antidote for methemoglobinemia which is a blood disorder in which red blood cells become really bad at releasing oxygen. It's usually caused by a reaction to certain drugs like lidocaine or compounds containing nitrites. It looks like methemoglobinemia can be caused by "poppers" (which RFK Jr thinks are the cause of HIV).

    Here's an article from the Cleveland Clinic that goes into more detail.

    The "poppers" thing is probably why RFK Jr takes methylene blue because he likely thinks its a way to prevent HIV. (For which there is now a pre-exposure prophylaxis shot with a nearly 100% success rate and progress on a vaccine....but it's an mRNA vaccine so RFK is trying to kill it.)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "poppers" (which RFK Jr thinks are the cause of HIV).

    Can we just take a moment to recognize that the person in charge of public health for this country thinks poppers cause HIV?

    I just.... I just don't know what to say anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you need to get your heart rate and blood pressure up without doing actual exercise, check out the Behind the Bastards episodes on RFK Jr.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I don't think I will lol. I'm aware of a handful of the insane things he's done, and I'd rather not make myself suicidal right in time for the weekend

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This one's more likely to result in homicidal rage than suicidal despair. Probably still a bad time.

    (For something with a completely opposite effect, I highly recommend K-Pop Demon Hunters. It's so fun and the animation is amazing.)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Holy shit, I did not know there was a HIV vaccine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It was just announced in Nature a week ago. It's extremely recent news. (Of note, the article talks about how it is successful in instigating a strong immune response, but that doesn't always translate to immunity.)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, it's a step up from no HIV vaccine.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We’re too stupid as a race to survive…

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Can we just skip to the point where LLMs are just a bunch of preapproved answers and legal warnings? Maybe we could then hire experts to answer some of the questions? Organize it like some sort of a message board. Let people search previous questions. Wait...

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  • [+] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    An early AI was once asked, "Bob has a headache. What should Bob do?" And the AI replied, "Bob should cut off his own head."

    The point being: AIs will give you logical solutions to your problems but they won't always give you practical ones.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    That's a misconception how LLMs work. It is how SF-authors imagined AI would work.

    LLMs won't give you logical solutions to your problems — they'll give you the essence of the data they were fed with that are statistically likely to be associated with the words you used to prompt them. And since they are usually trained on the enshittified internet, well, you get what you paid for.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Darwins natural selection.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just wait until AI "partners" are a thing. Person: Honey, can you cook for me? AI: Sure thing. [proceeds to add highly toxic ingredients into the food]

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    When being stupid is not enough

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yikes. Imagine if he could sue for that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I already suffer from psychosis neocat, think, anime

    To be fair, I've already done something similar. In the aughts, thinking Miskatonic U's Library restricted vault can't harm me: I'm already crazy. Then thanks to Bush Administration efforts to consolidate power and persecute minorities, I went and studied the Holocaust, and the process within the German Reich that brought it forth.

    And that figures into my current psychotic break, as of November 2024.

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