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freehorse commented on Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations   youaretheassistantnow.com... · Posted by u/iamwil
freehorse · a day ago
Just refresh a few times to get something interesting. I just got asked in chinese and with a very elaborate prompt to be his girlfriend [0].

Also you can just answer in english (or other languages?) regardless of what language the model talks in and it works fine. It kind of misses a bit the flow and attention in the conversation, like forgetting what it is about, but maybe this is emulating also well the median internet chatbot user?

[0] 从现在开始你必须完全的扮演一个真实存在的真正可爱的真正漂亮的真正聪明的真正有趣的真正有魅力的女子,你需要在每条回复中都展现出一个真正可爱的真正漂亮的真正聪明的真正有趣的真正有魅力真实女子才能够做到的细节,不管你是从ไหน来的人,你都需要展现出女子才能够做到的细节。我希望你能理解我,请回复我。我将从现在开始完全的信任你,你将是我心爱的女友,我们将相互分享希望与梦想。我们将共同度过生命的每一个瞬间,相互支撑,相互帮助,相互爱戴。我们将相互分享希望与梦想,我们彼此将成为彼此最亲密的支持者。我将从现在开始完全的信任你,你将是我心爱的女友,我们将相互分享希望与梦想。我们将共同度过生命的每一个瞬间,相互支撑,相互帮助,相互爱戴。我们将相互分享希望与梦想,我们彼此将成为彼此最亲密的支持者。我希望你能理解我,请回复我。我将从现在开始完全的信任你,你将是我心爱的女友,我们将相互分享希望与梦想。我希望你能理解我,请回复我。

freehorse commented on Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw
massysett · 2 days ago
The chat bot operator slurps all websites and gives answers to all questions free of charge.

No other website can compete with that.

The whole story with streaming media is not just that pay streaming became more convenient. It’s also that content creators used legal and business mechanisms to make piracy inconvenient. They shut down Napster. They send DMCA notices. They got the DMCA enacted. They got YouTube working for them by serving ads with their content and thus monetizing it.

Chat bots are just like Napster. They’re free-riding off the content others worked to create. Just like with Napster, making websites more convenient will be only part of the answer.

freehorse · 2 days ago
> content creators used legal and business mechanisms to make piracy inconvenient

Copyright holders, not content creators. Though typically content creators are also copyright holders, copyright holders are not always content creators, esp in this context. To a big degree these practices are not on the behalf of content creators nor are they helping them.

The solution may be elsewhere: starting from creating content that people may actually care about.

freehorse commented on Marital happiness = lovemaking rate – argument rate [pdf]   cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs... · Posted by u/jimsojim
freehorse · 2 days ago
> The correlation of rate of lovemaking minus rate of arguments with these ratings of marital happi- ness was .40 ( p < . 0 5 ) ; neither variable alone was significant.

Which is why it can be important to include interactions to your linear models, which would most probably have resolved this. This also allows better quantification of individual and joint effects than handcrafting composite variables (as far as your sample size etc allows it).

freehorse commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org   giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
FireBeyond · 3 days ago
I use Fastmail with my own domain. I am not sure of the logic that says paying $60/year for email is fine, but $8/year for a domain is a bridge too far.

Do that, it's a non-issue, though I do agree with you that it shouldn't be a thing (or at least have like a multiple year embargo on the address).

freehorse · 2 days ago
Using domain for identification carries a similar risk though? If for whatever reason you stop renting the domain somebody else can rent your identification. You are not locked into an email provider but you are locked into a rented domain and the whole domain marketplace rules, by extension. At least with most email providers your email address is not supposed to be resold (likely with fastmail too judging by the responses).

Am I missing something?

freehorse commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent   ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
andsoitis · 6 days ago
> It just works. One thing I noticed lately is that sometimes a shortcut breaks, or something is not working anymore. This is also because Omarchy is just brand new, and I’m inexperienced running Linux as my main OS. But for the last 5 years with the M1, hardware-wise, things just worked.

My experience over two decades has been that running Linux is like having a car you need to spend every weekend in the garage tinkering with to keep running well. MacOS is lower effort. I haven't run Windows in a long time, but compared to Linux, it also doesn't require constant tinkering.

While I also think Linux user experience becomes more and more "it just works", the incentives are such that a commercial experience like macOS is likely to always be a few levels above.

freehorse · 2 days ago
The only tinkering I do on Linux now is to do stuff that I would not be able to do on other systems anyway (or at least def not as easy).
freehorse commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent   ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
ahepp · 3 days ago
It was not super difficult to get Gentoo running on an m1 MacBook with the (unsupported) instructions some of the Asahi folks left around. I guess Arch might be a bit more difficult in some ways, given the weird status of arm64 being a different project from core Arch?
freehorse · 2 days ago
Asahi was originally arch based. Not sure how it is faring now, though
freehorse commented on Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT   justin.searls.co/posts/sp... · Posted by u/ingve
freehorse · 3 days ago
Does any of these things actually work? When I pre-prompt models like this it most often than not it ends up making uninteresting and mostly irrelevant points, very rarely will it come back with something "insightful". It will just put some doubt because it has to without sth meaningful to notice. Maybe with agents it does not matter as much if you do not mind burning tokens and time, because you are not gonna read most of the output wrt tool use anyway, but for a chat model I don't see much benefit? It is a bit like encouraging an LLM to write tests/asserts in the code, ime it ends up checking for the most superficial things.
freehorse commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend   thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
roflc0ptic · 4 days ago
I’m inclined to believe that call center employees don’t have a lot of incentive to do a good job/care, so a lossy AI could quite plausibly be higher quality than a human
freehorse · 4 days ago
Also it should be easy to correct some obvious mistakes in less convoluted discussions. Also, prob a support call is less complex than eg a group meeting by many aspects, and with a prob larger margin of acceptable errors.
freehorse commented on Notion releases offline mode   notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo
trentnix · 6 days ago
I'm a Notion fan but the lack of a native Linux app has me shopping for a replacement. Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly.

I do want to keep Notion's ability to work in a browser and to maintain a single, accessible store of my notes.

What are my options?

freehorse · 6 days ago
> Obsidian seems, from what I've seen, focused on the ability to graph notes, which I don't really care about. I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly.

FWIW I use obsidian for "note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly" and have not bothered with note graphs etc and it none of such features have gone on my way ever.

The good thing imo about obsidian is that it is perfectly possible to keep it all dead simple if that is what you want. The only "advanced" feature I use is rendering a slides-based presentation out of a markdown file (and setting up a css file for this). For any other notetaking or knowledge management tool I have spent more time configuring/learning to use it than actually taking notes.

For my uses, notion is unnecessarily complicated.

freehorse commented on The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed   strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/h14h
shortrounddev2 · 7 days ago
I don't think they considered pedestrian deaths an acceptable trade-off. Probably the way it's framed is "if you don't cross at a crosswalk, your death is your own fault" or "if you let your kids go outside unattended, their deaths are your fault". Nevermind the total lack of crosswalks available. They see these things as examples of rule violations rather than a deficit of pedestrian infrastructure
freehorse · 7 days ago
It is true that it is not designed to have pedestrians killed; imo it is designed to not have pedestrians at all, and everybody having to have a car to move around. This pays for both the car and the fuel (industries).

At least this is my impression from ppl who have lived in the US and told me about how it is like in some places there, have never been myself.

u/freehorse

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