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Lots of people around me are doing heroin these days. To truly evaluate whether heroin is the right choice for me, I decided I needed to also start doing heroin. And after months of heroin use, I too am unable to stop doing heroin. Sure it comes with trade offs but it’s a truly useful and powerful tool
This post is about LLMs
My work forced me to use Heroin because they believed it would increase my work output for the same salary.
@pgreer @danirabbit actually, exactly this once happened to meth.
Heroin, in turn, used to be a cough medication (and banned for side effects rather than inefficiency)
@danirabbit but Heroin users say that using Heroin is quite satisfying
A boss told me that if he doesn’t offer heroin to his employees, they will quit en masse because heroin is a game changer and makes their jobs so much easier.
My own father told me I’m silly for not using heroin and history will prove me wrong.
Acquaintances are deeply skeptical of my outspokenness and opposition to heroin and tell me that I’m very ignorant on this topic.
(If you’re reading this reply out of context - it’s a post about LLMs) 
@_elena @danirabbit Heroin: now with an advertising budget equivalent to the GDP of a small country
@tferrer excellent point Thiago! 
@danirabbit
I read this out of context and I figured out the meaning before I reached the note at the end.
@_elena @danirabbit Yet you all make me - a blind person - take heroin, because without it I have no access to your visual culture. Like pedestrian crossing lights with no audible signal: I´m forced to take a shot of heroin every time to figure out if the light is green. Oh, I also need to take heroin to get access to coding tools at all, so I can build me some accessible apps. Because the Sighted can't be bothered to make stuff accessible, but every website will come with free heroin for me to use to get access to it. The inaccessibility of LInux forces me to stay on the heroin platforms. Because Sighted People tm can't be bothered.
It's also a post about silicon valley.
"Now, the highly addictive stimulant is becoming directly accessible to tech employees, thanks to companies like Palantir that offer free packs of oral nicotine pouches in their offices, according to the Wall Street Journal. "
@danirabbit the University where I work has decided to offer free fentanyl to staff and students, because Dario the drug dealer says his mob is more ethical and his product supposedly has fewer negative side effects. Yet, despite all the money we give him, our students prefer to get their drugs from that guy Sam on the street.
@danirabbit but no wait, I'm the only functional heroin addict and special... /s
@danirabbit if you don't start doing heroin soon, you're going to be left behind.
You won't know how to do heroin most effectively!
@danirabbit @billyjoebowers my 8-year-old thinks that programming is just "doing heroin." I think she may be getting exposed to heroin at school...
@danirabbit Not an apt comparison. AI is a tool. It does stuff. Stuff that I used to do myself. The hard way. You know, using my brain. Admittedly I didn't train that brain as thoroughly as I should have when I had the chance, but the tool will also do the things I'm not good at for lack of said training. Now, if AI is a drug than a calculator or a PC and even a smart phone are also drugs. I don't see any one of yall complaining today. There was a generation that did though. I wonder where...
@danirabbit Reminds me of the phrase "functional addiction", and it seems appropriate.
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@danirabbit Maybe soon the CAMH Toronto soon has an AI addiction programme, too.
@danirabbit hey I'll do Heroine for you. Heroin tho....idk
@danirabbit I am worried that you're gonna get left behind now that everyone is doing heroine
@danirabbit I love my heroines. None of them do heroin though....
@danirabbit of course you don't want to use heroin from Big Pharma; you should really try heroin synthesised locally, from open sources, instead. Well, you have to ignore where the precursors come from, but other than that it's a lot better for everyone and the environment
@danirabbit I feel like tobacco is a much better analogy because cigarette smoke poisons everything and everyone around the user, whereas heroin users just poison themselves. Plus tobacco has massive corporate backing and marketing, heroin has dudes on the street corner slinging dope. And nicotine is actually far harder to quit apparently.
@danirabbit I always check the heroine before use.
@danirabbit I have other addictions 
But way LLMs work repulses me organically, so I am saved from it
@danirabbit People answering to my questions be like "idk, but I took some heroin for you"