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I tell ChatGPT that I'm skeptical of its usefulness (yadda yadda) and why.
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I guess I'll go back to my skepticism of LLMs as useful tools.
ChatGPT isn't as totally wrong about "what is the most northern costco in canada"… but when I point out that there's a Costco missing from its list of the Canada's 10 northernmost, it REPEATS ONE that was already on its list.
Bizarre, illogical!
(I believe this is my 3rd time ever using ChatGPT)
I tell ChatGPT that I'm skeptical of its usefulness (yadda yadda) and why.
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I guess I'll go back to my skepticism of LLMs as useful tools.
So then I ask ChatGPT about its apparent short-term memory loss.
This answer makes no effin' sense to me. A contradictory mess. 😵💫
'I don’t “remember” past messages unless they’re in the current conversation context.' (they were!!)
but also…
'It wasn't "forgetting"'
but also…
"I misremembered"
ChatGPT made yet another NEW mistake—highlighted in blue—in the previous response. I don't know how to describe that one other than "short-term memory loss."
I ask it to "You sure about that? 🤨"… and it admits to yet another mistake.
Instead I ask ChatGPT to return to the OTHER explanation it gave for the mistake in its original list of northernmost Costcos in Canada.
Namely that it didn't "systematically check or sort… by latitude."
Here it AGAIN pleads "vibes and feelings." 🤦🏻♂️
When I ask ChatGPT to defend that "mental, very rough sense," it admits that this was once again bogus.
Seems to me that ChatGPT will dribble and burp out new sprinklings of illogical or questionable reasoning in every👏single👏response.
I could rabbithole on this forever, but this is dumb.
When I question ChatGPT about this further inconsistency it just… I don't even know.
It basically gives up and says its estimation of northern-ness is based on "mental, very rough sense."
Vibes, basically? 🤷🏻♂️
… but then when I question it about these "rough city latitude estimates," it admits that this was a bogus explanation.
Except that there's further illogic here. ChatGPT claims to have relied on "approximate geographic positions from general knowledge", but those contradict its explanation too. 🤷🏻♂️
When I ask ChatGPT why it made a mistake in its original list, it suggests that it had "relied on rough city latitude estimates instead of checking the exact coordinates of the warehouse locations"…
I have to dog-walk ChatGPT all the way to the correct answer, by giving it the exact latitudes of the Costco locations in question…
When I ask ChatGPT quite specifically whether the Costco in Nanaimo, BC (Vancouver Island) or Vancouver is further north, it twists itself into more questionable logic.
(Also, in the previous answer, ChatGPT seems to imply that Scandinavia is part of North America as a random aside. Good grief 🤦🏻♂️)
ChatGPT isn't as totally wrong about "what is the most northern costco in canada"… but when I point out that there's a Costco missing from its list of the Canada's 10 northernmost, it REPEATS ONE that was already on its list.
Bizarre, illogical!
(I believe this is my 3rd time ever using ChatGPT)
Google AI's bogus-yet-confident claim that the Saguenay, QC Costco is Canada's northernmost appears to be based on this rather slipshod 2022 article from @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social, which is written from a Quebec-specific perspective ("out of 29 stores") even though it doesn't make that clear.
Sometimes it gives this answer, which is even more nonsensical since it mentions a location that is CLEARLY MUCH FURTHER NORTH, while still proclaiming the Saguenay, QC Costco to be "the most northern."
Of all the stupid things that Google AI confidently proclaims, this one is pretty stupid.
Saguenay, QC lies at a latitude of less than 49°N, which would tell any halfway-clueful Canadian that there are more northerly Costcos here. 🙄
His 'proclamation' could use more "APOSTROPHES." And Other Forms of Quotation Marks. We never use guillemets anymore. Sad!
All that and also…
The new "drop-off" and "pick-up" points would become obvious chokepoints+targets
Other countries, including UAE+Oman, have agency. Oman has done a longstanding successful diplomatic balancing act w/Iran+Arab states. Are they keen to throw it away for Trump's folly? I doubt it.
"show some guts and go through that Strait."
Very cool. Seems like Fox & Friends stole my joke (?) from last night…
Are the payroll taxes you're referring to paid by employers, and thus not reflected in salaries?
If this chart is accurate, total income taxes paid by someone earning ~60k SEK/month, about US$6500/month, would be about 28% net.
For someone making 4× that, 47%.
Very true, but on the other hand if the US stopped allowing Canada to receive *refined* oil, Canada might withhold *crude* oil from the US.
Could get pretty messy pretty fast.
Hastily negotiating with foreign leaders who you've recently threatened or tariffed can get tense.
Fascinatingly, oil shipping companies—facing uncertain legal, financial, and maritime environments—may feel similarly.
A bit of humor can help break the ice.
Let's delve into a few approaches ✨. 1/?
2. Another move is what I like to call "joking/not-joking."
Say you're texting with a 🇧🇷 tanker captain who won't go near the Strait of Hormuz…
Try this! 🪄
"If u take the gig, Trump Gold Visa™ for ur fam. If not, straight to CECOT for ur niece in Ohio. Lol its a MENS prison lowkey kidding 🤣" (3/?)
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
1. A little self-deprecation can put everyone at ease!
For example, if you are Pete Hegseth, try starting off your pitch with a slide that says:
"Men will literally bomb Iran with no plan before going to therapy
Is a thing my mother said
In a 2022 court deposition regarding my 3rd divorce" 😆 2/?
Hastily negotiating with foreign leaders who you've recently threatened or tariffed can get tense.
Fascinatingly, oil shipping companies—facing uncertain legal, financial, and maritime environments—may feel similarly.
A bit of humor can help break the ice.
Let's delve into a few approaches ✨. 1/?
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I would love to hear someone at OpenAI/Microsoft explain why "AI safety" doesn't allow their "AI assistants" to compose anti-AI rants.
You know, we could have done this with a carbon tax years ago and not killed anyone. Or, we could have left Biden’s subsidies for electric cars and clean energy alone, making fossil fuels prices less important — again, no one gets killed.
Instead, Trump’s War and higher prices for everything.
