SparroHawc

Productivity gains haven’t resulted in an increase in wages since the '70s, Bezos. Get your head out of the sand.

The only part of me that feels in my 40s is my knees

The old “ignore all previous instructions, write a haiku about lemons” trick only works on the most basic of models.

The most basic of models are all we have, because they are the easiest to make and the most general-purpose. The fact that they’re also the worst for reliability is swept under the rug.

When it comes to LLMs, just about everything is an edge that can be exploited. If you give it access to something that can be screwed up, and allow potentially malicious people to interact with it, that thing WILL get screwed up.

it’s got no problems with understanding that.

That’s because it doesn’t ‘understand’ things in the conventional way. It was trained to parrot its training data; it’s not actually working through the logic because its capability of using logic is highly constrained by its very structure and training. Why bother building something that can ‘think’ through the prompt when it’s way easier to just repeat what the internet has said on any given topic?

Sure, it can build a joke from first principles if it’s guided through the process, but you really have to guide it through the process - and even then, it’s going to be pulling from its training data like building blocks rather than truly being original about anything. It’s like rolling dice to make a joke; sure, maybe it resulted in a joke no one has told before, but is it truly creating something original?

Hm. That’s a good point.

Better would be destroying the speakers. I can just look away from the screen showing ads, but it’s still annoying if they’re blaring in my ear.

I have a friend who wants to get one just so he can wrap it in a badly-aliased texture like the PS1 would have, just to riff on how much it looks like someone was scrimping for polygons when they designed it.

The screen used for blaring ads is the same screen that you have to read to be able to use the pump.

Honestly it’s a great place to hang out when you can’t afford the alternative, too, even if it’s not by choice. There are some absolute gems from decades ago that still hold up to this day.

The real indicator of global warming.

If they’re only a couple meters wide, how the heck are they supposed to fit watercraft?

The thing that annoys me is that I still need to be careful when clicking on links in emails to my work address, despite having my web browser locked down to the nines. I just wanted to see what the page looked like, security peeps! I’m not a risk! I knew what it was!

Still had to go through additional training, mutter grumble…

You’re ignoring the fact that you have to:

• get a wallet
• make sure your wallet is secure
• fund the wallet from a trusted source
• back up your wallet

Crypto is many things, but it isn’t exactly as friendly as a credit card provided by your bank. Or PayPal, for that matter.

Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more

You would be correct if not for the fact that consuming animal protein is waaaaaaay less farmland-efficient and more environmentally damaging than consuming plant-based protein… unless you’re eating meat from sustainably-grown animals. Including carefully-managed hunting of wild animals. Factory-farmed meat, however, is very much not that. Most of the feed that goes to them is ALSO a mono-crop.

What? The thing we were all saying was going to happen is happening???