Wouldn’t surprise me if an LLM trained on records of chess moves made good chess moves. I just wouldn’t expect the deployed version of ChatGPT to generate coherent chess moves based on the general text it’s been trained on.

In this case it’s not even bad prompts, it’s a problem domain ChatGPT wasn’t designed to be good at. It’s like saying modern medicine is clearly bullshit because a doctor loses a basketball game.

States give privileges to things people do for their Invisible Friend, who’s not real either. What are you gonna do?

“Screening jurors for telltale signs of an impending heart attack is the oldest trick in the book!” - Saul Goodman

Came here to say this. Thefuck is the most awesome linux accessory ever created.

Because it works well and is fucking awesome!

Very well written piece. I like his perceptions about the speed of how we access the internet being shaped by content being constantly pushed at us by feeds. I think it’s having a profound effect on people’s whole thought process. He mentions exploring a new website and an hour goes by - but that hour ends and he’s done, at least for now. You never get done with a feed, it’s an endless, self-refilling “in” basket. I think we perceive and handle feeds the same as a stack of work items we’re supposed to get through. We want that sense of completion, so we try to process each item as fast as possible - taking in minimal information, making a superficial value judgement, and swiping left or right on it ASAP so we can scroll to the next item. Then we apply this same false sense of urgency to how we process the real world, which lowers the quality of our decisions and even our enjoyment of life.

Zoomers are starting to remind me of the Eloi in the original movie version of The Time Machine. It’s like nothing is possible to do unless it’s provided as a clickable menu item.

Fundamentally I think anger, hate and evil deeds are driven by fear and past wounds. But saying such things on social media can get you accused of condoning evil, “giving nazis a pass,” or whatever. People aren’t willing to think about what you’re saying until they decide if you’re wearing a white hat not a black hat.

The main problem is walking on unpredictable terrain, which spidery or doggy robots can do with fewer balance issues than two-legged humanoid ones.

The head was never found

I tend to disbelieve this, mainly because a humanoid robot would be overkill. Custom-purpose robots would be much cheaper to design, build and maintain, with fewer potential failure points.

Good news, everyone! I’ve invented a way to install Linux on a stick of margarine!

What if Hitler turned out the way he did because he was traumatized by all the time travelers who tried to kill him when he was a little boy?

I agree. In fact, it’s possible that oxygen molecules in our lungs right now were once breathed by Hitler. The exact same air that kept him alive, enabling genocide, is literally keeping us alive! We must boycott ourselves for moral purity!

Why tho? What do you have against employees whose company is owned by another company whose parent company owns some other company whose executives did something you didn’t like? Your imaginary social justice mechanics really doesn’t make any fucking sense.

Seeing objections to bad behavior as “getting mad” is childish projection, which it seems fewer and fewer people are outgrowing.

Like car mechanics have crappy cars that barely hold together.

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The things you mentioned are completely relevant and are what people should be citing about this guy. The fact that he used to pull weeds is as irrelevant as the fact that AOC used to wait tables. I don’t see what’s difficult at all to understand about that, or why people have any issues with this simple truth. It’s not like criticizing an improper criticism of the bad guys supports the bad guys, I’m supporting legitimate criticism vs silly pettiness.