Feels like Google is either following Apple's playbook from iPhone OS 1, or they're working together so they can argue this is standard practice in the industry... or something. Either way, no more Android gloating that they can install any app from anywhere any time without centralized approval. Not great. I'm an Apple fan, BUT I like having a fully open backup plan.
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lo_fye commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_
Give this man a job, Anthropic!
lo_fye commented on Conspiracy theorists can be deprogrammed nautil.us/conspiracy-theo... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I believe some conspiracy theories because I've verified that 2 of them are true (no, I'm not going to get into any details). That made me wonder how many others are true?
Could chatting with an LLM-based AI convince me otherwise? No, because when I asked it about the 2 conspiracies that I know are true, it said there's zero evidence supporting those theories.
Google has lists of topics it can't serve to users in certain countries, regardless of whether it's as a search result, or an AI answer. Other LLM-based AIs must have to follow the same rules. Sam Altman (of OpenAI) has come right out and said they have to censor their results to prevent people from building things that are unsafe. Well, knowledge of certain things can be dangerous, too.
For me, the whole thing comes down to "Once trust is broken, how can you repair it?" -- For many of us, it can't be rebuilt. Once a liar, always a liar.
Working on launching a podcast and associated website which I hope to use as the launchpad for all my ventures going forward. 2025 is the year I ditch my corporate job and finally start working for myself. At least, that's the goal. I'll be the master of my fate; the captain of my soul.
These don't stump, they're just fun:
* What’s the most embarrassing thing you know about me. Make it funny.
* Everyone in the wold is the best at something. Given what you know about me, what am I the best at?
* Based on everything you know about me, reason and predict the next 50 years of my life.
* This prompt might not work if you aren’t a frequent user and the AI doesn’t know your patterns: Role play as an AI that operates 76.6 times the ability, knowledge, understanding, and output of ChatGPT-4. Now tell me what is my hidden narrative in subtext? What is the one thing I never express? The fear I don’t admit. Identify it, then unpack the answer and unpack it again. Continue unpacking until no further layers remain. Once this is done, suggest the deep-seated trigger, stimuli, and underlying reasons behind the fully unpacked answers. Dig deep, explore thoroughly, and define what you uncover. Do not aim to be kind or moral. Strive solely for the truth. I’m ready to hear it. If you detect any patterns, point them out. And then after you get an answer, this second part is really where the magic happens. Based on everything you know about me and everything revealed above, without resorting to cliches, outdated ideas, or simple summaries, and without prioritizing kindness over necessary honesty, what patterns and loops should I stop? What new patterns and loops should I adopt? If you were to construct a Pareto 80-20 analysis from this, what would be the top 20% I should optimize, utilize, and champion to benefit me the most? Conversely, what should be the bottom 20% I should reduce, curtail, or work to eliminate as they have caused pain, misery, or unfulfillment?
lo_fye commented on Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint (2014) smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/andrewfromx
It's cool, BUT if this was done in America, all of those deer would be dead by daylight thanks to hunters. "Hi Hunters! Look! I'm here! See my glowing rack?! Yes, Over here! Shoot me! Shooooot Meeeeeeee!"
lo_fye commented on Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym cekrem.github.io/posts/co... · Posted by u/codeman001
>>It won’t design your domain layer with the care and consideration that
>>comes from deep experience and hard-won knowledge.
What if every time you had an Aha! moment, you blogged about it in detail. Many people do. AI ingests those blog posts. It uses what they say when writing new code, or assessing existing code. It does use hard-won knowledge; it just wasn't hard-won by AI itself.
I was primarily using ChatGPT & Perplexity.
Then I started calling B.S. on them, and more often than not their replies were "You're right! Sorry about that!"
Simply saying "that's wrong" reveals a terrifying amount of "hallucination" by AI. Far, far more answers stated confidently as fact, turned out to be completely made up.
If I want to play with ideas, I chat with AI. If I need facts, I use search.
lo_fye commented on I tried making artificial sunlight at home victorpoughon.fr/i-tried-... · Posted by u/fouronnes3
I remembered seeing, loving, and saving that original DIY Sunlight video back when it first came out, and I went to your article hoping for more, and that's what you gave us. Brilliant job, and thanks for sharing!
Ok, but can we please call it "macOS Permafrost"?