Glonzo the Great

godDAMMIT apple i swear to god the paw patrol theme is just a really easy way to entice the 4 year old into picking up his cars, i do not need this

Justice for the coward Robert Ford imo

there is also a moose involved

Based on my son's hot wheels play it appears the Green Goblin (aka "Gobby") from the Spider Friends cartoon has crossed into the real world and challenged Max Verstappen to a race of sorts

I'm just saying, even if it's a great intern don't sign your name to its work until you've checked it.

OpenAI really poisoned an already poisoned well with the "PhD level" comment. It's really more like a diligent undergrad RA who really wants a good recommendation letter when it's done.

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thanks Amy, i now see the error of my ways. Nobody has ever used a car to do a legal brief. Nobody has ever typed on a steering wheel. Nobody can sit on a mouse cursor.

I'm gonna need you to demonstrate that you understand the concept of an analogy first. Do you realize they do not imply a 1:1 correlation? Do you need me to ask Claude to explain this to you?

what are you talking about, cars have all kinds of negative externalities and building our society around them has had enormous and often very bad political consequences. They also unquestionably revolutionized modern personal mobility. These two statements are in no tension whatsoever.

mention fingers and I've got a bingo

funny thing is they basically were, at first! And the widespread adoption of mass-market autos was likewise accompanied by antisocial marketing campaigns like the invention of jaywalking. But that's orthogonal to whether they actually *work* which a lot of LLM skeptics are weirdly dug-in over.

lotta reply guys could use a few more rounds of RLHF frankly

there is nothing on the entire internet I am less interested in engaging with than arcane Stancilology. The fact that i am fighting in his replies at all is a stain on my character but the baby's asleep and I'm bored, wygd

that is why i called it a motte! Practically nobody on this site is an evangelist and the modal opinion of the people most familiar with LLMs here is that their widespread rollout is irresponsible to dangerous. It's simply not an interesting or useful rebuttal to what Will is arguing.

Point: "LLMs are clearly an astounding new technology"

Bailey: "you idiot, you fool. It's merely stochastic parrot run off elementary algebra"

Counter: [specific example of impressive results]

Motte: "look, we all agree it's impressive tech, however [complaints about business practices]"

that's very flattering but in this particular conversation the n of people I'm smarter than is 2. I think my ego can handle that.

Yes, i am familiar with the motte-and-bailey argument you're making here.

it's very funny how many people think that regurgitating (incorrectly) simplified descriptions of *how* the tech works means its output isn't impressive.

"the machine is simply harnessing controlled explosions of refined petrochemicals via systems of levers to create rotational torque" okay but i can use it to get a month's worth of groceries ten miles away in an hour and sneering doesn't make it less impressive lol

every baby sleep expert is like "simply do not let the baby become overtired. Just maintain a perfectly consistent daily schedule and ability to instantly create a low stimulation environment with no distractions when the baby shows sleep cues"

I'm increasingly coming around to the idea that it's pointless to pay them any mind, because if they're wrong as I think they are, then what they think literally doesn't matter. They're fighting a battle they don't know they've already lost.

if we don't drone Bukele we should at least remove Stephen Miller's tongue and send him to CECOT

i don't know if Masters of the Air is in line with the scholarship but i kinda like its conclusion "idk it was probably effective but definitely not in the way its architects imagined or sold it"

"preboarding" is some bull Shit. You're just boarding, i can see people going on the plane

his "woe is me, do you want me to starve" routine when returned with a Substack was pathetic. Like, shit man, i don't care what you do but *you're* the one who specifically vowed not to do this again and we all know why. The fact that he's found enablers willing to pay him does not change that.

next one's gonna cost you, but this is courtesy the good people of CapMetro Austin

why even take half measures, if i were Nathan i would simply persuade then all to be socialists

it's very funny that people are still using a derogatory genre nickname for, like, three bands that were moderately popular ten years ago

gonna be negatively polarized into becoming a Lumineers fan just because everyone who hates them is the most unpleasant person imaginable