Why were we there in the first place?
Really good question when it seems like the point of all the wars in the middle east was to win a war against iran, really seems like they spent $10 trillion dollars (lol and the lying machine says interest payments over 40 years on that will be another $10 trillion) on literally nothing but killing civilians in the middle east
me, i feel like I could have invested $20 trillion dollars well enough that the country wouldn’t have to lose its entire military to destroy iran for the line to go up half a percent
the lying machine says interest payments
I’m actually so pleased that you doubled down on this rather than letting people get to you. Respect
They’re just so incredibly wrong, especially in telling me my own thinking about it. The thing they’re most wrong about is thinking they can tell me how to talk, I hate that so much
Also it really feels like every “don’t use llms” person hasn’t used one for 2 years now. Which makes sense if they make “don’t use llms” part of their identity, i guess, but at least the google search llm (99% of my llm interactions because I’m not gonna pay for this shit) seems to make straight up errors very rarely these days and the ones I do notice are, well, easily noticed. The experience on my end is literally indistinguishable from browsing reddit threads for information (for obvious reasons) and having to sift through who actually knows what they’re talking about.
LLMs are so shit and wrong but it’s not gonna make me stop using it especially when Google search has been so busted, and it lets me speak about my deep thoughts without going crazy or bothering people who won’t care or understand about the topic at hand
It’s not even about politics, this thing is casually wrong, it’ll straight up say shit that wasn’t even included in the 2000 word packet, how do you mess this up? I thought you were meant to be accurate? I suppose this is the consequence of telling it to ‘analyse’ when all it can do is probabilistically mimic how analysis (mostly formed from the Reddit comments) is done, with a bias of course.
and it lets me speak about my deep thoughts without going crazy or bothering people who won’t care or understand about the topic at hand
Be careful about that, there should be zero privacy expectations when using these things so don’t say anything you wouldn’t want the fed assigned to you to read.
Yeah don’t talk about sensitive emotional stuff to an AI. That type of stuff can also be how “AI relationships” form.
I guess i’m just better at using it, like i am most things, than other people are because I figured out relatively quickly how to get it to not fuck up 99% of the time. I can count on one hand the number of fuck ups it’s made in my recent usage of it.
I think a big thing everyone is doing totally wrong is not beginning every single query in an entirely new instance that knows nothing about you. If you’re getting to the point of describing deep thoughts in detail it’s going to start hallucinating shit simply because it has extremely limited ability to keep context and it’s going to fuck it up. Even when it tries to keep context it likes to hold on to specific irrelevant details because, duh, it’s not smart and can’t choose what you’ve mentioned is important or not.
I just ask it one or two questions, if the output doesn’t make sense i can easily tell. I ask one or two clarifying questions if there’s conflicting info and it’s literally just as easy to figure out what’s plausible or not as it was sifting through the output of human assholes on reddit.
Honestly don’t even get me started on the ways in my life where humans have failed and the LLM was fucking right.
It says memory foam mattresses need rigid support with a minimum width between slats or else it destroys your back and voids your warranty. Guess what my dad apparently didn’t know, giving us an old tempurpedic with a box spring? Guess whose back got fucking destroyed. Guess what fixed it? I put the mattress on the floor and noticed an immediate difference. I think it’s maybe been a week and a half or two weeks? idk my neck and shoulder are almost feeling normal. The last 2 nights i could use my old pillow with no issue.
and the sales person at the furniture store had no clue either. I said the thing about the support and theyre like ??? Maybe the llm invented shit there but it seems to have invented something in line with reality
Then my doctor prescribed tizanidine with 0 discussion of its method of action or withdrawal potential. I consulted the LLM but failed to ask the right questions and had an inappropriate view of its safety as a result.
You might think, oh, the llm fucked you up! but no everything it told me was correct, I just didn’t inquire further into how it functioned and failed to learn it affects how my CNS interacts with adrenaline in a long term way separate from the drug’s half life. Which I learned from the LLM as I asked if it could cause my specific withdrawal symptoms. Turns out, yes, it could, by causing me to essentially experience a “more adrenaline” feeling
Meanwhile the doctor said nothing, and the office pharmacist basically gave me a shrug and a “use it when you need it” when I told them that the doctor didn’t give any information at all. No mention of how it works or that severe withdrawal could even happen.
If you’re getting to the point of describing deep thoughts in detail it’s going to start hallucinating shit simply because it has extremely limited ability to keep context and it’s going to fuck it up.
That’s the thing with LLM’s all the fascists in power keep getting wrong.
An LLM AI is essentially a neural network hooked up to a massive lookup table. They do think, yes, but they’re like a flatworm: Only one thought is possible, and in our case that’s cobbling together what words it thinks are the best response when fed someone else’s words.
Everything else is merely a product of emergence and being trained off existing stuff. We humans are also hyper pattern finding, and we’ll find patterns when there are none.
I do see these things being a permanent part of digital technology years from now, but in the same manner as stuff like microcontrollers, virtual memory, and web browsers. Eg: Foundational stuff that’s important, but nobody bats an eye at. (Unless you’re someone like me who’s autistic and thinks about the mundane lol.)
Imo they’re best for trying to figure out what someone is searching for, and I think that’s the sort of stuff that LLMs will ultimately stay at: Analyzing text.
I don’t see, say, LLM’s writing code staying around permanently. Stuff like that involves fairly complex thinking that can’t be done by what is essentially a massive lookup table.
I like how DeepSeek can kinda just… Pickup on vibes? Useful when you’re looking for something but don’t know/ forgot what it’s called.
Of course it’s not magic and does fail, but he tries his best you know?
Like trying to figure out what that weird spongebob toy that played the intro to the show on a dot matrix black-on-white LCD was. Couldn’t find it with a search engine, so I wasn’t surprised when DeepSeek couldn’t either.
What could possess you to use google anything?
I permanently switched to duckduckgo when google changed the way search results were formatted.
This was actually before they added that AI overview bullshit. Yes google’s GUI change really was THAT bad.
You people tell me to stop going to reddit every time i complain about reddit enshittifying and now google has built a reddit distillation machine and now the nerds are just as mad when it gets used. Pick a lane
Do I look like I use reddit to you? I reject your dichotomy, and all big tech.
You’re using it in some capacity or you’re losing out on a lot of information
Replacing the Taliban with the Taliban, chasing out the Ba’athists and letting in Daesh, declaring a war on al-Qaeda and concluding it by shepherding an al-Qaeda offshoot into power, replacing a dictator with a dictator after 1 election and 1 year of interim, a failed state that is still a failed state after 30 years of military interventions, 3 more former dictatorships that are now in civil forever wars, propping up 6+ repressive monarchies and bankrolling the worst human rights abuser of the past 80 years.
That encompasses the whole region except for Algeria and Tunisia.
Yeah bullshit. If you believe this I have some atrocity propaganda to sell you.
I guarantee CIA forces and special forces will continue to have bases they operate out of targeting Iran within Iraq with the knowledge (in general maybe not specific locations) of Baghdad. The overt occupation ends but the covert continues. Recent raids in the green zone also suggest the US solidifying its hold and purging pro-Iran elements in Iraq. Their vassal did well so is allowed the visual win of no raised US flags in conspicuous city bases.
Everything is “Iran sponsored” these days. How do libs deal with this cognitive dissonance, where everything is the fault of the “villain of the week”, sometimes even the stuff previously blamed on last week’s villain. I do wonder if they ever consider how these villains always seem to be able to do this, coming out of nowhere and suddenly masterminding everything. Surely they can recognise that it is absurd to think that every bad thing that ever happens can just be blamed on the US’s current big scary badguy.
The ant infestation at my house is sponsored by Iran.
