Readit NewsAnecdotally, I’ve found that chatting with Claude about a subject for a bit — coming to an understanding together, then tasking it — produces much better results than starting with an immediate ask.
I’ll usually spend a few minutes going back and forth before making a request.
For some reason, it just feels like this doesn't work as well with ChatGPT or Gemini. It might be my overuse of o3? The latency can wreck the vibe of a conversation.
Nice work! Thanks for the detailed description.
My daughter (4yo) and I have been making small animated videos from her Lego creations. We use Runway. She typically gets bored with it after 5-10 minutes, though.
Which part did your daughter enjoy the most?
bag_boy commented on Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans propublica.org/article/pi... · Posted by u/wstrange
This is an earnest request. Please help me understand the mindset of people who fall for pig butchering scams.
The thought of giving money to a stranger who I met via a dating app or other social media platform who shifted the conversation to WeChat and asked me to wire money to a bank account is so incomprehensible to me that the mind of someone who would do that is entirely different to how mine is constructed physically, chemically, and electrically to such a degree that it is difficult for me to even believe that it exists.
I am not even particularly financially literate. In college. I barely scraped by my statistics class, took no finance or business classes, and the only formal financial literacy education I have ever received was a single one hour course given to me by the US Army in late 2001 when they announced the TSP (401k for military) was coming where the only takeaways were “compounding interest is magic” and “put your money into a retirement account and don’t look at it until you’re a decade out from retirement”.
To me, believing an unsolicited stranger who is offering you an investment opportunity like what pig butchering scams are will make you rich is the same exact thing as walking out of a rundown gas station that also sells nunchucks, bongs, and ninja throwing stars with a little baggie of pills that have a tiger on the label thinking that they’ll turn you a super sex machine.
Is it desperation?
Profound financial illiteracy that exceeds mine by several orders of magnitude?
I am happy to share my mom's story, as tragic as it is.
My stepfather passed away just before Covid. After he passed away, my mom was isolated and started spending time on Match.com.
Eventually she found her match - a total scamming operation.
She proceeded to liquidate my deceased step father's retirement savings and also took out high interest loans to send her match money.
She wired the scammer well over $100k. The high interest loans totally ruined her life.
They were using a US bank. She was using Wells Fargo.
She is/was:
1. Desperate for attention 2. Prone to deception 3. Tech illiterate - some of the photos the scammer sent her were so obviously photoshopped
Happy to share more if it's helpful. It's been one of the most difficult things to deal with throughout my life, but I hope that our story can be helpful to someone else.
Ask it to act like it hasn’t smoked a bowl
I tried prompting it in several different ways - it just can't sound upbeat.
No matter what, it's also going to find a way to get in a few "ums" and "uhs."
bag_boy commented on Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/prismatic
Data point for you: Asteroid City is my favorite, I've watched it like eight times now? and I could barely get through Rushmore.
All the commenters in here complaining that new Wes doesn't have what old Wes had.. Maybe they're missing what new Wes is doing? The newer movies are full of emotion, they're not monotone at all.
This is what I needed to rewatch it with a fresh mind. Thanks for taking the time to say this!
bag_boy commented on Show HN: AI Playing Diplomacy twitch.tv/ai_diplomacy... · Posted by u/tylermarques
This is so cool, but it's a little hard to watch with the background audio.
I use Gemini, o3, and Claude regularly. I was rooting for Claude the entire time lol. I'm not sure why.
I wonder if AI vs AI competitions will become a new media genre?
The problem is that Takedowns AI is WILDLY inaccurate and is flagging content based on simple word association. Websites with zero affiliation to adult content are getting product pages removed from Google for no reason at all.
Google removes first and asks questions later:
"It is Google's policy to remove copyrighted content when the copyright holder or their authorized representative alleges that a use is infringing. Therefore we are in the process of removing the reported content from Google Search results for users globally."
Something must be done soon, as scaled baseless DMCA complaints can eliminate a lot of value from small businesses.
My thoughts are:
1. Takedowns AI should have their DMCA complaint privileges temporarily revoked.
2. Google could force a human in the loop for DMCA complaints.