Tony, Supervisor at Nubby's Number Factory

No small part of what I look forward to after the fall of OpenAI is the end of this slopaganda. It's little more than ragebait and it permanently damages my opinion about any institution craven enough to publish it.

Boy, things must be really dire if they've got y'all carrying slop-water.

The two of share a commonality in that you both made Ottawa a worse place to be.

Even better(?), Sparta was to some degree a proxy power funded by Persia.

This has been an awesome rabbit hole for a powerfully slow work day, I must say!

Spartan hegemony indeed ended in 371BC at the Battle of Leuctra. Spartan domination over Greece lasted...less than 30 years.

I'm glad they worked for you! And I'm sorry beets were the thing that happened to do it! Why couldn't it have been shawarma or a banh mi or something?

Honestly!

Truthfully, I wish I liked them! As a kid I'd've rather eat actual dirt than pickled dirt (read: beets), but my folks did make those themselves and there's maybe something special about family cooking that I missed in there.

I remember beet pickling day growing up. An entire day in 90+ degree weather where my parents boiled and pickled those bastard tubers. The smell was atrocious.

OpenAI depreciated the particularly sycophantic version of ChatGPT that people bonded and formed "relationships" with.

To my mind, it's a matter of skin in the game. If you're setting decisions that will reverberate for decades, you should be here to see what happens.

What really sucks is that the Democratic Party couldn't find one person in Maine who isn't a fossil or a sketchball to run for a vulnerable seat.

They aren't. They're probability models.

Hope that helps!

My go-to is a nice soup. Ramen, pho. In that vein.

10:30pm Lady and Caxi are asleep next to each other on the window-suction-cup-bed

Thanks for reading!

I agree that the economic damage caused by the fallout from data centers being unprofitable will definitely blow people's minds.

There seems to be a sudden flood of bare-profile cheerleaders on this platform recently. What gives?

Nah, LLMs aren't more important than *electricity*.

Appreciate you fighting the good fight, but the make-believe machine is not the threat that the tech bros are making it out to be.

Good thing he killed the tax on yachts, which likely could have funded this trivially! Clearly in tune with Canadian priorities.

I feel like I'm suddenly seeing an uptick in advertorial slopaganda recently. I choose to believe that it's desperation heaves as the walls are crumbling.

If it helps, I'm in the same boat as a Canadian...

Please fix America so I can go back to New England. I miss my friends in Vermont dearly but I am scared to cross the border as a climate scientist.

Thanks!

A Canadian

The upshot of this is that tens of people might know a bit more about the climatic conditions of Atlantic Canada over the last 1,000 years than they did before, and I feel a lot more confident about doing stats than I ever have before.

One of the main reasons I went to grad school was spite about this exact thing: I was told that I was bad at math, that I would never be a scientist, and I decided that I wasn't going to let those feelings get me down.

I use the thank you example because Douglas Hofstadter uses it as an example of how people ascribe meaning to machines that can't have meaning, not to say that you're dumb.

That said, I could readily accuse you of the same wilful blindness and I don't think it would help either. See you around!

You know things are dire when the bullshit avocado toast line is getting replaced by rotisserie chicken, a notorious loss-leader that grocery stores put out encourage people to buy more stuff.

Do you think Amazon is actually thanking you when the website says "thanks for your purchase"?

What a perfect metaphor.

It doesn't have a psyche. It's a predictive text model.

I look forward to the end of the AGI nonsense and the emergence of pocket models that can help parse specific information. I dunno, I like autocorrect and autocorrect for code isn't a bad thing.

I suspect the damage LLMs are going to cause (market distortion, psychic harms) have already happened.

I'm happy it works for you! My claim isn't that it's worthless. My issue is that It's not a person, doesn't have a sense of self, and never will. Claims otherwise are little more than examples of the ELIZA effect.

I don't need to read the same advertorial copy recycled from three years ago to know that it's full of crap.

Being curious about how LLMs work is the first step to realizing that these breathless paeans are deliberately misrepresenting what LLMs can do for the sake of duping the public.

Every time I see these breathless advertorials I gain a bit of hope that the slop market is failing and flailing for public support. I never read them, of course, because they're the same "I wrote 'I am alive' on a page and stuffed it in a photocopier" crap as always. But they do give hope.