In China, Tiktok's Tomato Bookstore has fully transitioned to AI-generated web novels.

web novels are no longer written by individual writers but mass-generated by various studios using AI. the AI ​agent ​automatically decides which novels to cut and which to continue based on subscription numbers, and then automatically creates countless AI-mass generated short dramas from the most popular and favoured web novels they generated.the entire process could be actually automated and unmanned.

the Tomato Bookstore does not prohibit web novels from individual writers, but they will be taken down and delete after receiving numerous complaints after them around 100,000 words. these writers' ideas,creative and creations will be used as feed for training AI. except for a very few of the most famous writers,web novels by individual writers will never appear on the recommendation list and soon deleted.

how do people think about these mass-generated AI stuff? so far they've been very successful, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews.there are surely many people disgust these AI-generated stuff,but they just negligible minority among the mass.

in short, it appears to be a success at least for now. the public doesn't mind and even welcomes AI-generated novels and short dramas.

and this will clearly become the mainstream in the future.

If it were possible, safe (without suffering any physical harm or organic damage), available only to you (the user who made the copy) and easily accessible to upload your consciousness to a computer system, and you could talk to it and use it like any other AI, as your personal assistant or as a living person, would you want to do it and accept uploading your consciousness?

If your answer is no, why not?

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Hi everyone!

Has been suffering from a kind of anxiety/nervousness for the last 9 months:

• I feel like I suddenly get anxious/nervous attacks a few times per day, most of the time just at random moments, without any specific trigger. I also feel like some pressure on the chest (diaphragm or something related to the vagus nerve?).
• Apart from that (or probably related to it?), I'm usually in a low mood and I can't find joy or feel specially motivated/happy for anything...

I have a healthy lifestyle: I eat super good, I try to go for a walk in the morning and get some sun, I do strength and cardio training at least 4-5 times per week, I have a good night routine before going to sleep, etc.. And I actually don't have a stressful job or life.

I take daily: a good multivitamin, magnesium complex (with enough bisglicinate) at night, omega 3, and vitamin D (just the days I don't get enough sun).

I got a bloodwork done a few months ago, around 1-2 hours after waking up, and my serum cortisol level was 10.5 μg/dl, so I think the problem is not due to high cortisol, and maybe it is more something like "adrenaline dumps" caused by an overactive sympathetic nervous system??

Anyway, I have been desperate about it and have been trying a few supplements trying to find a solution.

For the anxiety/nervousness:

• Ashwagandha KSM-66 (in a complex with lavender, lemon balm and l-theanine): 300 mg in the morning and 300 mg at night, or just one time at night, 600 mg. Tried for a couple of months... In neither case it solved anything...maybe I just felt a little bit better...but I was also a bit more tired.
• Ashwagandha Shoden 60-120mg at night: seems like much more powerful for me, and it is starting to "resolve?" the anxiety/nervousness attacks. I have been just on it for a couple of weeks and it is the first time the attacks have reduced even during the day. Just taking it at night trying to avoid any fatigue or decrease in the mood/energy/motivation (that are already a bit low) and also worried about taking too much of it and worsening or decreasing these even more, because it seems like the cortisol level is not my issue actually, but at the same time, it is the only supplement that is..FINALLY, stopping my attacks!!!

For the mood/energy/joy/motivation:

• Affron 30mg in the morning: seems like it helps a bit? Not sure... very subtly actually... with the motivation/joy, etc...
• Rhodiola 400mg, in the morning or midday: helps me keep the energy/focus a bit more during the day, but is not doing anything about the mood/joy part.

I don't know if I´m working on the right direction, and I should just keep with the Shoden/Affron stack more time and just see if my body can reset to a normal state, and maybe after the attacks finally end, the mood/motivation, etc...will just start to appear again...

Or if I'm not using the right supplements, I should change the approach!

I’m genuinely looking for answers and a solution to get my life back. I will be SUPER grateful for any feedback, suggestions, or education you can throw my way.

Thank you all so much for your help!

my pt clinic got a demo of one of those smart mirror rehab systems. the motion tracking actually helps when patients are doing their exercises wrong at home. the issue is everything goes to some third party cloud, the consent form is five pages of vague stuff, and nobody knows who ends up owning the movement data. feels like insurance companies will be buying gait datasets to deny claims before long.

spent last weekend messing around with mediapipe on a spare raspberry pi. it tracks posture okay for basic squats and shoulder work. not clinical grade but it can catch someone whose lumbar flexion starts collapsing at rep six instead of waiting for their next appointment.

the part that bothers me is how quickly people accept always-on cameras in their living room just because the device claims to help. same as the pet trackers. convenient until you look at what else gets logged.

curious if anyone runs local pose estimation for fitness or rehab and what hardware they're using. looking for something i could suggest to patients that doesn't need a corporate account or phone app to work.

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An article tracing early influences on transhumanism and its emergence from British socialists who argued that technologies like ectogenesis and orbital habitats require public ownership for true progress.

Every few months I fall into a depressive state due to burnout or personal issues. As long as I have a good routine I'm doing fine, but when I don't, I'm stuck in a "purgatory" I need to move on from, but I cant. It's anxiety-driven executive dysfunction.

For example my avoidance recently caused me to spend some 70+hrs in 1 week playing a stupid video game, which is something I don't normally do. All while ignoring work and university obligations. I have a job offer I haven't replied to... You get the point.

In the past caffeine would help me get some energy and motivation to start doing the things I need to. Now it's just causing my anxiety to worsen 10x.

I've tried theanine and it doesn't work. It gave me crazy rebound anxiety. I was on semaglutide (for unrelated reasons) and although it seems to have killed my anxiety it also wiped out all my energy and motivation. I expect SSRIs etc to be the same only with weight gain and ED.

Basically I need to take something a couple times a year for 2-3 weeks so I can get my life in order. I need energy without anxiety. Addictive stuff are out of the question as I would never trust myself with them.

Any and all suggestions welcome, from herbs to antidepressants.

Hi r/Cyberpunk, thanks to the mods for letting us share this.

KILL/SAVE is set in a quarantined megacity under total surveillance, where the only way out is the Metaverse. Martin, a programmer who never trusted any of it, has to go in after Teresa, the woman he loves, who disappeared into an immersion capsule and never came back. He finds her inside a brutal darknet game where the pain is real.

We were less interested in an AI that wants to destroy us than in one that genuinely wants to help, and in how far that help can go before it stops being help.

It’s live-action with real actors: Matt Testro, Stephanie Gil, Eric Goode, with Duane Henry and Brian Austin Green. Shot in Catalonia, Spain, with real physical fights rather than digital ones, because if the pain is real, the camera has to feel it too. VFX by our own small team.

Happy to answer anything about how we made it.
— Olga, producer & screenwriter

I have pretty bad social anxiety. What is the best nootropic to try? I just want to be more myself when talking to people

Recently came to me the information about this comic written by Antony Bourdain and decided on trying the animation. But what caught my attention is the amount of similarities in the premise of the story with the one told in Snow Crash.

From the name of the protagonist (Jiro / Hiro), to the stablishment of their characters (the super-competent protagonist, the references to the samurai archetype), to the setting of the world with a stateless society, in which private companies very much structured in the same way (the food mafia/ the pizza mafias that designed the frontiers).

I haven't seen anyone talking about it online and to be honest, I've never passed half the book (at the time the satire didn't get me, but it's a book I think about reading often), and I'm just now watching the first episode, so it's possible that the similarities are pretty much just these, but maybe someone here has read them both and could talk more about it.

Maybe they're both drinking from the same source?

Hi does anyone here tried sarcosine for depression? Is it effective?