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I thought about stealing the compost from the trash room but realized one could get arrested for that. And being arrested would be bad, but how would I ever live that down if it happened?

"Freedom"

Anyways.

Parents: I don't know about moving to NYC. Out here in the country we have a lot of freedom. We can burn the trash if we want.

Me: ...
Me: You have to burn the trash because there is no garbage pick up out in the middle of nowhere where you are, Mom. I put my trash in a little chute in the wall*.

(*But you have to take the bottles down. And the compost... but I don't do that since I'm hoarding all the dirt for the roof garden I WANT BIOMASS...)

@paulc

It's all for the best.

@danilo

OK but he's saying things about it counting articles (frequency) and when I used the same tool it could not do that accurately. It couldn't even follow a command to restrict the dataset. It do not sound like he used some kind of API to make this kind of task possible.

WHY did mid-century architects HATE bathrooms so much and make them the size of closets?

This place I'm looking at has two and they are both tiny.

This is a palatial of NYC apartment by all other standards. The dining area, the kitchen with a skylight... then you go in the bathrooms and one has NO WINDOWS the other is about the same size as the closet... literally.

*imagining mid-century architects stomping around saying "I hate bathrooms I hate them so much. I'm going to make them SMALLER"

@danilo

Is that what the guy in the video is doing?

@ireneista @Gorfram @datarama @alessandro @talya

It's all over the place I really doubt it's useless.

@Gorfram @datarama @alessandro @talya

We have a common ancestor with arthropods, but it was long long long ago. The fact that dreaming may be shared, even if it's very different by such very different creatures hints at something profound and fundamental about being an organism with a brain and an nervous system and bilateral symmetry who interacts with the world and makes choices.

Having that in common is enough for both of us to need to sleep and also probably need to dream.

@Gorfram @datarama @alessandro @talya

Ants and bees probably dream too.

I suspect they would review the things they learned about the space and resources around their nest, making memories of the locations of things more permanent.

This is on the assumption that a purpose of dreaming is to refine and organize memories and things learned during the day.

@Virginicus @Smoljaguar

I wonder if there is an API for any of the free models. Although I hate interacting with cloud APIs

@dogfox
listen, coffee, I have committed *so many* crimes and I don’t really know why I’m telling you this, but I think I’m going to just keep committing more.

@elight @the5thColumnist @Urban_Hermit

Because the popular models people will encounter have been trained to work this way.

@dogfox

I know! I’ve yelled “stop talking OMG stop talking!” so many times

@ItWasntMe223

This is so true. I still read some news paper articles, but I have become concerned about *who* I’m reading in a way that was not true in the past.

Simply reading the headlines on th NYT isn’t something I do often anymore. I’m leery of the editorial focus of many news sites.

@alessandro @talya

No one is enough of a polymath and no one has enough time to avoid trusting others. This isn’t really a bad thing, but we have to be open to the reality that there are some things that “everyone knows” that are simply wrong.

@alessandro @talya

I think with topics where one isn’t an expert it can be more important to know what “most people” in your social circle *think* is true than it can be to know what is really true.

Knowing an iconoclastic truth, but not having the expertise to explain it to others isn’t very useful. Moreover without that expertise you will struggle to evaluate the validity of the unpopular opinion.

So, people reach for the popular option and hope it is correct.

@the5thColumnist @Urban_Hermit

I’m trying to avoid loaded phrases like “bullshitting machine” I’ve had a lot of people roll their eyes and shut down on me because “well you just hate AI” as if this is a matter of personal taste.

In reality I struggle to see how I could find value in exposing my curiosity to a system with these limitations. I will insulate myself from those times when a simple obvious question brings me up short— it just seems really dangerous to me.

@the5thColumnist @Urban_Hermit

People, even people who have terrible mostly wrong ideas tend to have some guiding set of values. Even if you don’t learn much from their opinions you can learn about the philosophy that informs those opinions.

Asking an LLM *why* it said any fact or opinion is pointless. It will supply a response that sounds like a human justification but the real “reason” is always the same “it was the response you were most likely to accept as correct”

@cshlan

He’s *really* funny.

@Urban_Hermit

I think when some people are presented with these kinds of errors they think “the LMM just made a factual mistake” they think with more data and “better software” this will not be a problem. They don’t see that what it is doing is *foundationally different* from what they are asking it to do.

That it has fallen to random CS educators, and people interested in these models to desperately try to impress upon the public the way they are being tricked makes me angry.