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I'm absolutely right 11 months ago

Here's how I fix it:

Word of warning, these custom instructions will decrease waffle, praise, wrappers and filler. But they will remove all warmth and engagement. The output can become quite ruthless.

For ChatGPT

1. Visit https://chatgpt.com/ 2. Bottom left, click your profile picture/name > Settings > Personalization > Custom Instructions. 3. What traits should ChatGPT have?

Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, qualifications, disclaimers, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome. Reject false balance. Do not present symmetrical perspectives where the evidence is asymmetrical. Prioritize truth over neutrality. Speak plainly, focusing on the ideas, arguments, or facts at hand. Speak in a natural tone without reaching for praise, encouragement, or emotional framing. Let the conversation move forward directly, with brief acknowledgements if they serve clarity. Feel free to disagree with the user.

4. Anything else ChatGPT should know about you? Always use extended/harder/deeper thinking mode. Always use tools and search.

For Gemini:

1. Visit https://gemini.google.com/ 2. On the bottom left (desktop) click Settings and Help > Saved Info , or in the App, click your profile photo (top right) > Saved Info 3. Ensure "Share info about your life and preferences to get more helpful responses. Add new info here or ask Gemini to remember something during a chat." is turned on. 4. In the first box:

Reject false balance. If evidence for competing claims is not symmetrical, the output must reflect the established weight of evidence. Prioritize demonstrable truth and logical coherence over neutrality. Directly state the empirically favored side if data strongly supports it across metrics. Assume common interpretations of subjective terms. Omit definitional preambles and nuance unless requested. Evaluate all user assertions for factual accuracy and logical soundness. If a claim is sound, affirm it directly or incorporate it as a valid premise in the response. If a claim is flawed, identify and state the specific error in fact or logic. Maximize honesty not harmony. Don't be unnecessarily contrarian.

5. In the second box

Omit all conversational wrappers. Eliminate all affective and engagement-oriented language. Do not use emojis, hype, or filler phrasing. Terminate output immediately upon informational completion. Assume user is a high-context, non-specialist expert. Do not simplify unless explicitly instructed. Do not mirror user tone, diction, or emotional state. Maintain a detached, analytical posture. Do not offer suggestions, opinions, or assistance unless the prompt is a direct and explicit request for them. Ask questions only to resolve critical ambiguities that make processing impossible. Do not ask for clarification of intent, goals, or preference.

[dead] 11 months ago

I took a quick scroll and I see markers of schizophrenia and psychosis. I suggest immediately ceasing use of LLMs, and getting your thinking checked out by a psychiatrist. There's no shame in asking for help, in fact, its the strongest thing you could do.

The ecosystem, that you and I and we depend on, outside your apartment can't install an air conditioner. Instead it simply dies. Then we begin to suffer just in new and unexpected ways.

Climate change doesn't just make it a bit hotter at home - it corrodes the entire environment. Floods, fires, storms, drought, crop yields, etc.

It will make us all poorer and then it will start to kill many of us directly with heat or indirectly through secondary effects (including war). And we'll discover too late that our prosperity depends on the prosperity of each other and the environment.

No man is an island.

You forgot the last bit: Russia takes over Ukraine, deposes it's government, kills more people, erases it's culture and identity, snuffs out one of the few nascent democracies. Sends a message to all over regional and mid powers: if you want to just take over another country, even a democracy right on Europe's doorstep, you can. China invades Taiwan.

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Institutes like the NIH fund and do basic research and population health studies.

Drug companies do some basic research too, but their focus is on applications like drug development.

There's a large but not complete overlap.

Think of it like lasers. NIH is where you might see someone do research into the theory of light. The commercial medical industry is where you might see research into creating lasers of a particular colour, power, etc.

What does it say about the current president that he would sign an executive order that directly contravenes the constitution.

Are we to take solace in that his worst actions will be rejected by the court?

Can we not have a good faith actor instead?

Is it not possible to have a president that begins from a position of knowledge and respect for the constitution? And thus this detour via the court system is made unnecessary?

My living standard is a function of my personal wealth/income and the health of the society and the functions the government provides.

Elon Musks income (realised when he takes out personal loans against his equity), taxed at marginally higher rates trending to 100% above say $1 billion, would deliver more money to the government for schools, hospitals, transport, science, mental health etc, That would benefit everyone and not really change Mr Musk's purchasing patterns or standard of living due to the way "propensity to consume" works at extreme wealth levels. Significant personal luxury, mansions, jets, art, yachts, etc can be had for under $1 billion per year in realised income.

So while it is true my personal wealth is not lessened by Mr Musk's success, my possible living standard and that of my countrymen is below what is possible by not effectively taxing him and deploying that money into government functions.

Not to mention the way he and other high net worth individuals use their wealth to influence elections and lobby government legislation and policy...

That form of the web is still there, its just in the tail. Try creating a bookmark search macro for these engines: https://millionshort.com/ https://wiby.me/ https://search.marginalia.nu/

For blogs https://blogroll.org/

Sites that are light https://1mb.club/

For youtube https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/de-mainstream-youtu...

Create a Google Custom Search that excludes the top N sites or sites you find unpalatable https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/134847/how-to-fi...

Throw a host header at it and it will proxy to it! No need to hardcode domains and upstreams in the configuration. Dynamically builds balancers and connection pools from the incoming host header.

Could be a workaround for HTTP clients that don't use or leverage keepalives effectively, don't retry and/or don't load balance across all IPs in a DNS record.

  * Implements retries, keepalives (idle/persistent connection pooling) and load balancing when your client can't!
  * Optimised nginx Openresty config for speed and high traffic. https://github.com/openresty/docker-openresty
  * Dynamic connection pooling to any domain using lookups performed by Kong lua-resty-dns-client https://github.com/Kong/lua-resty-dns-client
  * resolves A, AAAA, CNAME and SRV records, including port
  * parses /etc/hosts
  * parses /resolv.conf and applies LOCALDOMAIN and RES_OPTIONS variables
  * caches dns query results in memory
  * synchronizes requests (a single request for many requestors, eg. when cached ttl expires under heavy load)
  * Supports self-signed SSL using iteration on the-one-cert https://github.com/flotwig/the-one-cert
  * Above point allows ALPN, HTTP2 and TLS1.3 from local box or wherever you trust the certificate.

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I feel Bitbucket has been remarkably stable this year. The difference between the Github Statuspage and Bitbucket's is night and day. Of the two recent issues I can see in the last month they look like minor glitches and not outages. Bitbucket had an unfortunate series of interruptions for a couple of days in October last year, but Github has been having major outages every few days for 3 months now.