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bhaak commented on GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

awakeasleep · 3 hours ago

A competing format to simplify things?

bhaak · an hour ago

A competing format that is understandable to probably everybody.

An ISO 8601 date is also comprehensible to anybody even if they never seen it before and have to figure it out themselves.

bhaak commented on OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/Terretta

gehsty · a month ago

Or you end up with one of the greatest business models of all time like Google?

I struggle to understand people getting butt hurt about a free service showing its users adverts, that will keep the service free.

They should have done this earlier, so their adds would be better by now, and they have a better chance against Google.

bhaak · 25 days ago

Google is/was in a somewhat special situation that they could show you ads that were relevant to what you are looking for. In 95% of the websites I visit this is simply not true.

As usual just because Google uses it and seems to be successful with it doesn't mean that it will work for normal companies as well.

ChatGPT in theory has the potential to show relevant ads as there service involves the user stating what they want. So they could actually present relevant ads. We'll have to see how it turns out.

bhaak commented on Dead Internet Theory kudmitry.com/articles/dea... · Posted by u/skwee357

kelvie · 25 days ago

Of note is theother terrible heuristic I've seen thrown around, where "emojis = AI", and now the "if you use not X, but Y = AI".

bhaak · 25 days ago

With the right context both are pretty good actually.

I think the emoji one is most pronounced in bullet point lists. AI loves to add an emoji to bullet points. I guess they got it from lists in hip GitHub projects.

The other one is not as strong but if the "not X but Y" is somewhat nonsensical or unnecessary this is very strong indicator it's AI.

bhaak commented on OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/Terretta

bhaak · a month ago

When you don't know how to monetize your service, you add ads.

bhaak commented on TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 github.com/haykgrigo3/Tim... · Posted by u/admp

bazzargh · a month ago

You would find things in there that were already close to QM and relativity. The Michelson-Morley experiment was 1887 and Lorentz transformations came along in 1889. The photoelectric effect (which Einstein explained in terms of photons in 1905) was also discovered in 1887. William Clifford (who _died_ in 1889) had notions that foreshadowed general relativity: "Riemann, and more specifically Clifford, conjectured that forces and matter might be local irregularities in the curvature of space, and in this they were strikingly prophetic, though for their pains they were dismissed at the time as visionaries." - Banesh Hoffmann (1973)

Things don't happen all of a sudden, and being able to see all the scientific papers of the era its possible those could have fallen out of the synthesis.

bhaak · a month ago

This would still be valuable even if the LLM only finds out about things that are already in the air.

It’s probably even more of a problem that different areas of scientific development don’t know about each other. LLMs combining results would still not be like they invented something new.

But if they could give us a head start of 20 years on certain developments this would be an awesome result.

bhaak commented on Erich von Däniken has died daniken.com/en/startseite... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

eru · a month ago

> At that age, I didn’t yet understand why some people are incapable of changing their point of view. To be honest, I still don’t fully understand how ideology can cloud the mind so thoroughly that only a single way of thinking remains possible.

Are you describing Erich von Däniken's inability to change his mind when evidence clearly contradicted his theories?

bhaak · a month ago

> Are you describing Erich von Däniken's inability to change his mind when evidence clearly contradicted his theories?

He wasn't that unwavering. About the iron pillar of Delhi he said in his first book that it doesn't rust and thought this being a proof for alien interference. Later he turned around and said "By now this damn thing is rusting!".

But he never changed his opinion on his basic premise. I guess it's easy to not change your theory if it can't actually be disproved. There are so many unknowns and gaps in history that you have enough space to fit a few ancient aliens in there.

bhaak commented on Erich von Däniken has died daniken.com/en/startseite... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

bell-cot · a month ago

Skimming through this item, a couple points I don't see being made:

- If you claim that the assistance of alien visitors is needed to explain the milestone leaps or technological achievements of ancient human civilizations...are you walking into a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down logic trap? Because obviously "our" alien visitors would have need even greater leaps and achievements in their own past, to be able to travel to the earth. And their visitors similar, and so on.

- Based on the folk & religious beliefs of a great many cultures, it's easy to argue that human societies have a very strong bias toward believing in anthropomorphic supernatural beings - be they angels, demons, ghosts, spirits, or whatever. Are von Däniken's ancient aliens anything more than "random" meme, which turned out to be an excellent fit for the social environment it found itself in?

bhaak · a month ago

> Based on the folk & religious beliefs of a great many cultures, it's easy to argue that human societies have a very strong bias toward believing in anthropomorphic supernatural beings - be they angels, demons, ghosts, spirits, or whatever. Are von Däniken's ancient aliens anything more than "random" meme, which turned out to be an excellent fit for the social environment it found itself in?

The supernatural beings are a way of explaining a world that is not completely understood. Even today we don't completely understand it but we have dismissed the idea that something intelligent is behind the inner workings of the world around us.

Now if you have supernatural beings it is not quite a big leap from going from supernatural to just technical advanced. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. For us modern readers this removes the supernatural part while it keeps them for our ancestors.

I wouldn't call it a random meme. But it was an excellent fit at a time where we started to explore space and could even imagine becoming ancient aliens to other civilizations in the future.

bhaak commented on Erich von Däniken has died daniken.com/en/startseite... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

bhaak · a month ago

He was the first person who introduced me to the idea that if you look at a thing with different mindsets, from different points of view, you can arrive at quite different opinions about the “true” nature of that thing.

At that age, I didn’t yet understand why some people are incapable of changing their point of view. To be honest, I still don’t fully understand how ideology can cloud the mind so thoroughly that only a single way of thinking remains possible.

He had a way of describing things with a vigor that is quite rare. It was a fascinating read as a kid, blending science fiction with history and archaeology. Of course, later learning about the scientific method, or even just Occam’s razor, made it clear that the theory of ancient aliens is very unlikely, but the what if, the “wouldn’t it be cool if this premise were true,” still lingers in my mind from time to time.

A quite unique and interesting person departed this planet yesterday.

bhaak commented on Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time joannabregan.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

mft_ · 2 months ago

If in doubt, buy a musical instrument.

Or paint. Or glitter.

bhaak · 2 months ago

Kinectic sand is the modern subtle version of glitter.

bhaak commented on Reasons not to become famous (2020) tim.blog/2020/02/02/reaso... · Posted by u/Tomte

cevn · 2 months ago

I was a big fan of NH until 3.6, now it is too difficult so I switched to Evilhack which has been a breath of fresh air.

bhaak · 2 months ago

There have been various improvements over 3.6.0 during the development of the 3.6 branch. If you haven't you should give the not yet released 3.7 version a try. It's on hardfought.org for online play if you don't want to compile it yourself.

But you can't be claiming that 3.6 is too difficult if you're comfortable playing EvilHack. EvilHack is clearly more difficult than vanilla. :D

But I get the breath of fresh air. I was always playing Valkyries or Wizards and when I first entered the Tourist quest, I was hooked on getting more different levels and that was one of my main focus when developing UnNetHack.