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What an utterly absurd statement to make. It is embarrassing honestly and not worth more of a response.

If you want to know anything about Africa you have to read news from Africa.

No one in the west reads anything but the most sensationalist bullshit so you can't blame reporters for writing it.

The real story is just never interesting enough.

The default is rather wordy. You could instruct chatGPT4 to be less wordy or in the API put instructions to be less wordy in the system prompt or limit answers to a sentence.

I would assume the poster just edited this though.

"I flipped a coin once in Japan and it landed heads. I can't understand why the coin always lands on heads in Japan.

It is those greedy Americans that have to have coins with head and tails".

I would really look at a chart of USD/Yen. My fav dining experiences were in Canada in 2000 when USD was so strong vs CAD everything on the menu was half off.

Midjourney and GPT4 suck , don't use them. Use your old tools and let fools like me waste their time.

Krita makes Gimp irrelevant. I don't know why anyone would use Gimp over Krita other than knowing the Gimp workflow that well.

Totally agree. I think this is just the insecurity of the person who thinks this.

If you go to the same gym you are already in-grouped. It is the insecurity of the new person who would think they are out-grouped.

Meatheads love new lifters. No one showed up at their first gym 230lbs and ripped. Even the biggest guy in the gym can relate to being the intimidated new lifter.

The only difference I would think between a gym with weights and a climbing gym is that the people at the climbing gym look less intimidating.

Testosterone levels play a huge role in both memory and sexual satisfaction too.

I mean those are standard effects older men report from testosterone replacement.

To do an experiment in this area and not even mention testosterone is basically intellectual fraud to me.

He might not have thought it was a shortcut though.

If he thinks it is like querying a database and had never heard of hallucinations then this could just be an honest mistake. Especially if he thinks AI would be smarter than a database.

My first thought that he was a mess in general but we really don't have enough information. Like the other guy saying he cheated in life, it is pretty absurd to infer that.

It is not worse for me. I do notice the novelty has worn off. Asking chatGPT4 about why people would think this on here I think it nails it with the novelty effect lol:

"Indeed, the performance of an AI model like ChatGPT doesn't deteriorate over time. However, human perception of its performance can change due to a variety of psychological factors:

Expectation Bias: As users become more familiar with AI capabilities, their expectations may increase over time. When AI doesn't meet these heightened expectations, users might perceive this as a decline in performance.

Novelty Effect: At the beginning, the novelty of interacting with an AI could lead to positive experiences. However, as the novelty wears off, users may start to focus more on the limitations, creating a perception of decreased performance."

Without this thread I would have said it got stronger with the May 12th update. I don't think that is really true though. There is this random aspect of streaks in asking questions it is good at answering vs streaks of asking questions it is less good at answering.

Because there is a ton of control you have over the image and these tools are incredible.

It is a ridiculous for someone to knock a tool if they barely know how to use it.

You practically see no midjourney prompts using :: because most people haven't bothered to read the documentation.

As if a huge part of the experience of a beach in Bali is not feeling the sand between your toes, the temperature of the water on your skin, the smell of the ocean, the ambient air temperature, the feeling of a change in your weight when you dive underwater, not being able to breath underwater, being cooler when you get out of the water than when you enter, all the local people your interacted with to get to the beach.

Maybe it is you who lacks imagination because pretending reality is just what you can see and hear while wearing a mask is utter bullshit.

Also, if you don't have Facebook and want to go to this running club you would be forced to actually befriend someone to such a degree in the club that can keep you updated that has Facebook. It can't just be the "convenient" disposable Facebook relationship.

For me, without social media I pretty much miss out knowing about all the local art shows that I wasn't going to go to even if I did know about them. I don't get the invite to the friend of a friend's dinner party that I would have made up an excuse for why I can't go. I also miss out on seeing pictures of all these events that I didn't find worth my time to see with my own eyes.

We have really distorted the meaning of inconvenience to have something to do with the lack of high volume, unsatisfying, shallow experiences.

As if having sex is an "inconvenient" type of porn.

The best part though is I have actual experiences that aren't mediated by the judgement if the experience is worth someone else knowing about the experience the very moment after I have the experience.

Food addiction is a better example I think. You have to learn to moderate, you can't just go cold turkey.

I am sure AA doesn't bother with moderation because abstaining is simply that much more effective.

Even if you went on a month long screen detox in the woods you are going to "relapse" at some point when you get back. The AA model is just not going to work in this situation.

Of course this is reality.

There are just many privileged people here that are so insulated from reality they confuse their insane social media political talking points with actual reality.

The counter argument is always some straw man pulled from news headlines.

The idea elected politicians want a cashless society is utterly absurd to me.

It misses the obvious fact that an elected politician needs the privacy of cash for taking bribes.

A cashless society can only work in an authoritarian regime that simply doesn't care if the populace knows about bribes or not.

There is absolutely nothing new here.

This is just a symptom of our regression back to a dominate aristocratic class that is pleased when the king hires Mozart as the court musician.

Personally, I find the idea of statistically measuring the "happiness" of an entire society to be absolute intellectual fraud.

There is even correlation with my happiness by the minute based on some of the dumb things I read on here at times.

Sam Altman is saying we are going to see a shift from labor to capital and that is going to cause more economic inequality along with possibly breaking the social contract.

It is probably nothing though...As if this gopher server is going to replace my TV someday. Give me a break. It only does text!

Most parents are sending their kids to bed with a phone and the kid is watching far more graphic sex than what is in these books.

I see a study from 2022 that 10% have watched porn by the age of 9.

The average age a kid first watched internet porn in the US right now is 12.

Parents are just a joke. Worried about “Nick and Charlie" in school while their kid goes to bed and watches a BDSM gang bang in HD video.

Total denial I am sure. "Not my innocent little angel". Even if the kid is in the 10% not watching porn , surely their friends tell them all about what they watched.

I would think the kids think these books are a total joke.

I don't have or want kids so have never had an opinion on this.

I see “Nick and Charlie" mentioned in an article. A book about two gay boys that get drunk and fool around.

If you just look at the cover it is going to be super triggering to some repressed parent. Especially since many of the fathers are going to have unexpressed homoerotic fantasies themselves.

To me, the whole thing seems like a huge unproductive distraction from actual learning. Imagine if parents gave a shit about the math books to this degree.

The old skim was even better than that. Make $500k, report $300k and send $200k cash back to Chicago.

It strikes me that we just have our head in the sand when it comes to dating.

From the sample of young guys I know, the ripped guy on trenbolone that takes great shirtless pictures is fucking so many women that he actually says he is picky on tinder. All the other guys are playing video games. The ripped guy has zero interest in relationships and giving up what he has now. The video game guys have zero chance at a relationship.

No mystery that this setup is going to produce a highly neurotic society that almost no one is happy in besides the small group of guys working on a sex addiction.

The other stuff you mention is really not much different than the past.

Min wage in 1990 was $3.35 an hour and average new car price was $15k. All my money at 20 went to a piece of shit car that constantly broke down and needed repair. That was pretty much everyone I knew. That is a time when even the $15k new car was basically a piece of shit by modern standards. There was never a time in the past when the average person had it easy economically sipping champagne. Dating though you have a point.

He gained notoriety in the 90s cyberpunk time but from NYC.

The fact he sounds weird is interesting because it is really the degree that everything has become dominated by the culture of San Francisco.

It is the degree that Silicon Valley beat Silicon Alley. He is expressing the side that lost the culture but it could have gone the opposite way. Wallstreet money didn't have to go very far to get to Silicon Alley.

Pseudo.com was basically doing real audio/video podcasts from Silicon Alley in the late 90s. I don't think that whole scene really recovered from the dot com bust though.

"AGI" is such a ridiculous use of language.

AGI is just the old "strong AI" that is just the old "AI", all that we never bothered to precisely define.

I just can't understand how we can talk about language models all day without understanding the most basic idea of Wittgenstein in that sloppy use of language leads to philosophical problems and misunderstandings. chatGPT can easily teach people this too:

"Philosophical problems often arise when words are taken from one language game and used in another without an understanding of how the change in context alters their meaning. For example, words like "mind," "knowledge," "belief," and "truth" are used in everyday language games with certain meanings, but when they are transplanted into philosophical discussions without adjusting for the change in context, misunderstandings and confusions occur. "

IMO we first need to clean up our language and precisely define the word intelligence so we all know what we are even talking about.

I would imagine we actually understand intelligence but in ordinary language it is a placeholder for a number of different meanings and concepts.

Same problem with "consciousness", same problem with "sentience".

I think when we say we don't understand these words it is really that they can't be understood as they are used in ordinary language because they can't objectively mean all the values people assign to these words.

In the face of AI, why would we not have to further define and expand our language for communication purposes? That actually seems obvious if you think about it for 2 seconds.

I think it comes from a place of guilt exactly because of that level of privilege but over time it has morphed into a type of intellectual fetish.

Like the person so involved in the BDSM community that everything relates back somehow to bondage or nipple clamps.

I have made a chatbot like this and I am not a software engineer.

The whole thing is trivial to make. The system prompt is trivial. I would even say it was harder to make a geocities page in the 90s than to make a chatbot like this.

3.5 turbo is great to play with but at scale it is brutal cost wise.

The real issue though is anyone who already has a working 3.5 turbo chatbot can knock this off in the next 5 minutes by just changing the system prompt.

I think this is the future though. The labor is pretty much trivial, the capital for tokens at scale is what matters.

The only real value I can see with democracy is in being able to pull the lever and get a new set of dice to role if things go bad.

Beyond that it seems to be mostly mythology and nonsense. You either have smart good rulers or you don't. At least if we don't they only have so much time to do damage and we try again.

The idea democracy gives people agency over their future I would put in the category of mythology.