I add these instructions. Works wonders.
Do Not Use First-Person Pronouns
Avoid Creating a Relationship
No Emotional Language
Talk Like a Computer
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Readit Newsswayson commented on Why is ChatGPT being sycophantic even when I ask it to be objective? chatgpt.com/share/691b403... · Posted by u/EGreg
swayson commented on Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker timsh.org/claude-inside-d... · Posted by u/timsh
I have personally never seen claude (or actually any AI agent) do anything that could not be fixed with git. I run 24/7 in full permissions bypass mode and hardly think about it.
Correlation does not equal causation as the old adage goes. Just because if you havent seen the pattern, doesn't mean it can't.
It is like insurance, 99.95% of the time you don't need it. But when you do, you wish you had it.
Wonder if spotify will grow in popularity as a result of this in terms of podcast content.
swayson commented on Generative AI Is a Disaster, and Companies Don't Seem to Care vice.com/en/article/88xde... · Posted by u/elsewhen
The main idea behind "AI" is not to make our lives easier. Instead, it is a good weapon to blackmail workers for abandoning whatever rights they still have.
Heard and interesting talk about AI being described through the metaphor of Molock. If you really entertain the thought experiment, is is interesting to see the world race for power, control of its tech.
Politician always point elsewhere, and change the focus. Why folks fall for the shallow reasoning I will never understand. Calibrate on behaviour, not words.
Anyone know what the laws around this is in South Africa?
swayson commented on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off · Posted by u/baron816
Obsidian.md for the win. I used to use evernote way back when they started, was cool software, then they started scaling and added worst search UI I have ever come across. That day, I deleted my account and went markdown with my own storage.
Don't see the benefit of why your notes should be controlled by others.
https://algorithmsbook.com/validation/