Not to mention that Platner is familiar with the history of US warfare to being able to name provincial ones he'd like to have fought in. Nobody that knows about Manifest Destiny wars to that extent is ignorant on WW2, and you can't learn about WW2 for more than a few minutes before seeing a Totenkopf because the nazis put it on everything
The best martial art is the 100m sprint, the next is the 500m race, and so on. No martial art really teaches you how to handle street fighting because those are vicious and dirty, and you can't reasonably spar how to gouge out someone's eyes.
All they do is hallucinate, it's just a coin flip on if it's total nonsense or if it's truth-shaped. The same process that makes it answer wrong is the one that makes it answer right
isn't providing an alternative where you can get instant feedback when you're journaling
ELIZA was written in the 60s. It's a natural language processor that's able to have reflective conversations with you. It's not incredible but there's been sixty years of improvements on that front and modern ones are pretty nice.
Otherwise, LLMs are a a probabilistic tool: the input doesn't determine the output. This makes them useless at things tools are good at, which is repeatable results based on consistent inputs. They generate text with an authoritative voice but all domain experts find that they're wrong more often than they're right, which makes them unsuitable as automation for white-collar jobs that require any degree of precision.
Further, LLMs have been demonstrated to degrade thinking skills, memory, and self-confidence. There are published stories about LLMs causing latent psychosis to manifest in vulnerable people, and LLMs have encouraged suicide. They present a social harm which cannot be justified by their limited use cases.
Sociopolitically, LLMs are being pushed by some of the most evil people alive and their motives must be questioned. You'll find oceans of press about all the things LLMs can do that are fascinating or scary, such as the TaskRabbit story (which was fabricated entirely). The media is culpable in the image that LLMs are more capable than they are, or that they may become more capable in the future and thus must be invested in now.
For one, LLMs can't count the number if Rs in "strawberry", and we're expected to trust them to spend thousands of dollars on booking vacations? Half the fun is planning the fucking thing. Once again tech bros seem convinced that what needs fixing is removing the enjoyable things so we can all hustle grind more.
Also, I'm so fucking tired of breathlessly credulous tech journalism echoing OpenAI's talking points like they're legitimate. The company has no route to profitability. The product sucks and there's no path to making it work better. Stop doing their PR for them.
Honestly Canada is pretty atrociously governed right now, neoliberal model applied to a resource extraction neocolonial economy means the only thing to speculate on as a financial instrument is real estate, so yeah let the Chinese run it. Labubu Canada is better than oil sands drill baby drill Canada
Investment managers are gonna run out of money entirely by 2027 and if they're not seeing the wowsers mega jackpot returns on giving away literally all their money, they're gonna be pretty mad. Also everyone's retirement will have been spent on GPUs.
Instant pot is a game changer appliance in my kitchen. On days where I'm too tired to cook I can throw whatever in there for 15 minutes and get a meal out of it. Makes yogurt, hydrates dry beans, cooks an entire chicken in 20 minutes.
My job pays for a public transit pass for me and get a business discount or something on top of an annual subscription discount vs month-to-month payments, so I have unlimited free public transit in my city. I'm hankering for an ebike to spend less time on the bus but damn if the scales aren't tilted.
He's straight up got the mythical King's sword, the royal birthmark, and the empty throne awaiting its destined owner. There is no prophecy about Carrot, just an overwhelming narrative drive that wants him to assume kingship, so badly that there's almost narrative radiation emitted from him that makes others want to fall in line with the story he won't allow the world to tell. Even the Silver Horde recognize they can't fuck with him when he stands against them alone because they know the lone hero fighting impossible odds will win every time.
The Magnificent Seven are seven tech stocks that collectively make up 35% of the S&P 500, which means everyone's 401k is highly exposed to them and the entire stock market is tied to their success or failure. When the crash happens, the devaluation of these stocks will crash like a tsunami through the rest of the economy. Retirements are fucked, other companies are fucked. AI has eaten so much of the liquid money supply that there won't be much left sloshing around to provide bridge loans or invest in new companies.
The discworld runs on narrative, and one of the really big narratives is the destined king returned to restore the golden age. Carrot actively resists the role but the stage is still always ready for him.
Yeah, and I know that feds have honeypotted half the tor sites out there and control or have visibility on a shitload of the exit nodes