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deadeye··on A Word, Please: Coffee-shop prompt stirs ChatGPT to brew up bland copy
What was the prompt? That makes a hugh difference in the output.

The article doesn't seem to mention how they prompted the llm. Without knowing that, it's impossible to say how well GPT actually did.

deadeye··on We're Applying the Lessons of the Covid Pandemic to Bird Flu
Funny how these things happen every four years.
deadeye··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Oh goodness, just what the world needs. Another self-righteous AI, something nobody actually wants.
deadeye··on Today's AI Isn't Sentient
"We can find plenty of examples of intelligent behavior in the animal world that achieve results far better than we could achieve"

It's hard to take this author seriously. Most animals live in their own feces, while man has sent people to the moon and back.

The push to anthropomorphize animals really needs to stop amongst serious people.

deadeye··on Smoking weed every day makes me less presentable and less productive. I love it
Bravo to saying the quite part out loud, I guess.

I want to believe this article was meant for the Babylon Bee, but got emailed to the wrong editor. Sadly, we live in clown world.

deadeye··on Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
Am I correct in thinking the accuracy of this method has more to do with the distribution in the sample than the algo itself. Meaning, given a 100% unique list of items, how far off would this estimate be?
deadeye··on Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop
"Niha Long said it aimed to support beekeepers impacted by the disease"

With what? A shoulder to cry on? Nothing in her statement after that included anything about financial support, which is the only type of support that matters in this type of situation.

deadeye··on Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]
Khan Academy?
deadeye··on Top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Quote - "food production will be disrupted"

Right. The only one disrupting food production is government and they're doing it in the name of "saving us" from global warming.

The farmers are trying to tell us right now. They're not driving their tractors into cities calling for more to be done about Global Warming, they're trying to tell you that the BS legislation is crippling their ability to produce.

This will be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and we'll blame the boogie monster instead of regulations.

deadeye··on As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
Think about it. For many users, they're in these chairs 12+ hours a day. They're not cars that get driven for an hour a two a day.
deadeye··on As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs
Some of these wheelchairs are 75k. They're custom made to your body size for maximum comfort and the features are customized to your disability.

These aren't off the shelf mobility products. Each one is assembled to specification.

deadeye··on Scandal over AI-generated nudes at Beverly Hills school exposes gaps in law
This will be impossible to legislate without infringing on the rights of law abiding citizens for the sake of "stopping" illegal activity.
deadeye··on Google Left in 'Terrible Bind' by Pulling AI Feature After Right-Wing Backlash
I think they put quotes around the wrong part of the title.

"Right-Wing" should be in quotes because it is the most dubious part of the title.

I guess we're all right wing now. Why is Bloomberg running cover for Google? It wasn't just that white historical figures were not white, but even requesting them to be white was rejected as problematic.

The fact that someone at Google couldn't understand how utterly useless their product would be is unreal.

Repeat after me. No one wants woke (or otherwise indoctrinated) AI. No one.

We don't need to be scolded by our AI overlords for everyday, real world things, like a photo of George Washington riding a gay unicorn on Uranus.

deadeye··on The Earth is getting greener
My 86-year-old grandmother noticed no change in the climate over the course of her life. Meanwhile, we now have 15-year-old kids absolutely panicking over how much the climate has changed in the last 100 years, convinced their grandparents generation has doomed them to a heat death. It's bazar.
deadeye··on The rise of batteries in six charts
Chart #2: Top Tier Energy Battery Density vs. Battery Cost.

That seems like an odd comparison to me. Is it normal to compare the Top Tier Anything to the Average of another thing?

Top Tier Car 0-60 Times vs Average Car Costs? IDK, it doesn't seem to contain any REAL information. Shouldn't the comparison be the costs of the SAME cars and not include cars that aren't top tier?

What am I not getting?

deadeye··on Claude 2.1
I'm using chatGPT as an editor for a post-apocalyptic book I'm slowly writing.

I tried a section in Claude and it told me to find more peaceful ways for conflict resolution.

And that was the last time I tried Claude.

BTW, with more benign sections it made some really basic errors that seemed to indicate it lacks understanding of how our world works.

deadeye··on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy
I think we're saying the same thing. If that's what employers do then employees can't compete on skill.
deadeye··on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy
That is the exact opposite of my experience.
deadeye··on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy
I suppose that's a union by name. But for the millions of people in a real union, it isn't recognizable as one.

Most unions function to keep an established order where seniority matters more than capability and performance.

Besides sports unions, actors guilds, and other small examples, unions exist to provide a framework for collectivising unskilled labor into a unit of power, where individually they have none.

deadeye··on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy
Unions are for people who can't compete on skill (or no longer wish to).

I'm not saying they are a bad thing necessarily, but they don't make sense in competitive markets.

deadeye··on Ask HN: What Are You Building?
A desktop app for content creators that makes raw footage editing automatic, removes outakes, and leaves only the usable content.
deadeye··on Ask HN: Is there large language model specifically for hallucination?
In the case of what you're trying to do, you might be able to just increase the temperature a bit and instruct the model to lie to you, like this...

https://chat.openai.com/share/78d5c6a8-933b-4eae-bbc3-7737cd...

deadeye··on AI Painting Generator
I think an AI that can do this combined with a robot that could paint it would be insane.
deadeye··on Ask HN: Is there large language model specifically for hallucination?
Have you tried increasing the temperature on your model or are you more interested in the theory of such a system?
deadeye··on The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship
Is it bad that after reading the sub-title I thought they were talking about Canada?
deadeye··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
This on top of getting increasingly terrible shipping from Prime has me thinking it's no longer worth it. It's kind of sad, but also kind of inevitable as all major brands seem to go through this period of testing how much crap they can get away with until the user base breaks or finds better alternatives.

Now would be a good time for Walmart to get their sh*t together and dominate.

deadeye··on Musk, Starlink and Hypocrisy: Elon's “Benedict Arnold” Moment
I do wonder about the pentagon contract though. The author writes like he knows the terms of the contract, but it doesn't seem to be public.

But yeah, some bad and clearly biased writing.

deadeye··on Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution
That all seems like a fair representation of his positions, but I don't agree with your analysis of them.

I do agree that individualism is important to liberty, but I can't connect your dots.

Wokism is collectivism, as you seem to recognize. But how is his message of being anti-woke also collectivism? I don't get that leap.

deadeye··on Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution
"Ramaswamy is deeply opposed to individualism and liberty."

Can you unpack that?

deadeye··on Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution
I think Vivek Ramaswamy is the only US potus candidate that said he'd pardon Assange.
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