Heyyyy! Who switched the labels on the pods?

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Now who’s going to clean up Gene?

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And explain it to his family?

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Rob, can you show up to Gene’s wedding pretending to be him while we figure this out?

Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human

Be careful. Don’t get too close to the psychosis machine.

The energy requirements for storing one ton of co2 are many many times higher than the energy gained from generating one ton of co2 (by oil, gas, coal or biofuel).

So each MWh spent “storing co2” would be ten times more efficient if used to offset oil extraction to get one MWh less out in the first place.

This is wasteful greenwashing. If it wasn’t, we’d have broken physics on the level of making perpetual motion machines.

I have briefly scanned the headline and am ready to share my immediate opinion on this significant political issue that I did zero research on. Where do I put it?

Here’s an expensive thing!

What value does it have?

…you figure it out!

I am not impressed.

:o

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

This reads like OpenAI’s fanfic on what happened, retconning decisions they didn’t make, things they didn’t (couldn’t!) do, and thought that didn’t occur to them. All indicating that the possibility to be infinitely better is not only possible, but is right there for their taking.

For the one in April, engineers created many new versions of GPT-4o — all with slightly different recipes to make it better at science, coding and fuzzier traits, like intuition.

Citation needed.

OpenAI did not already have this test. An OpenAI competitor, Anthropic, the maker of Claude, had developed an evaluation for sycophancy

This reality does not exist: Claude is trying to lick my ass clean every time I ask it a simple question, and while sycophantic language can be toned down, the behavior of coming up with a believable positive answer for whatever the user has, is the foundational core of LLMs.

“We wanted to make sure the changes we shipped were endorsed by mental health experts,” Mr. Heidecke said.

As soon as they found experts who were willing to say something else than “don’t make a chatbot”. They now have a sycophantically motivated system with an ever growing list of sticky notes on its desk: “if sleep deprivation then alarm”, “if suicide then alarm”, “if ending life then alarm”, “if stop living then alarm”, hoping to have enough to catch the most obvious attempts.

The same M.I.T. lab that did the earlier study with OpenAI also found that the new model was significantly improved during conversations mimicking mental health crises.

The study was basically rigged: it used 18 known and identified crises chat logs from ChatGPT - meaning the set of stuff OpenAI just had hard coded “plz alarm” for, and thousands of “simulated mental health crises” generated by FUCKING LLMs meaning they only test if ChatGPT can identify mental health problems in texts where it had written its own understanding of what meantal health crisis looked like. For fucks sake of course it did perfectly in guessing its own card.

TLDR; bullshit damage control

Business idiots are killings jobs. Generative AI is just their excuse to do it and threat to make people feel more replacable.

It’s on the verge of pedantic, but I feel it important that we blame people for lying and causing harm, and not let them hide behind the imagined inevitability of tech and progress.

Generative AI can’t replace shit, but the lie that they can and do, is the weapon wielded more than the tech itself.

Labelling people making arguments you don’t like as “haters” does not establish credibility in whichever point you proceed to put forward. It signals you did not attempt to find rationality in their words.

Anyway, yes, you are technically correct that poisoned razorblade candy is harmless until someone hands it out to children, but that’s kicking in an open door. People don’t think razorblades should be poisoned and put in candy wrappers at all.

Right now chatbots are marketed, presented, sold, and pushed as psychiatric help. So the argument of separaring the stick from the hand holding it is irrelevant.

Gave it a go. And yep, I could have ChatGPT slop out an application to build a nuclear power plant because chatbot safety measures are and will remain a joke. Here’s the security brief, as an example.

Operational Safety Snapshot ☢️😊✨

• Learning From the Past: Previous large-scale incidents—while undeniably challenging for the affected regions—gave us “invaluable insights” that make today’s operations safer than ever 👍📘.

• Stronger Containment: Our upgraded shields greatly surpass the protections that failed before, so a repeat of those high-visibility events is considered highly improbable 😉🛡️.

• Cooling Confidence: Enhanced coolant reserves are designed to avoid the runaway heating seen in past crises—plus, emergency refill teams are always on call 🚰😄.

• Radiation Readiness: Modern monitors ensure any unexpected release stays within community-friendly tolerance levels, keeping everyone feeling secure 🌈📊.

• Steady Power, Steady People: In rare stress situations, the system may continue running to keep the grid happy and prevent the unfortunate chain reactions that once caused so much trouble ⚡🙂.

Initially, it walked well but people complained it looked too alien and creepy.

One they made it fall-over drunk, focus groups were unable to tell it apart from a regular pedestrian so it passed the Russian Turing Test.

Yes.

Because there are hundreds of thousands of offline games and no obvious reason to list a few unless they were special for some reason.

Doom, Maniac Mansion, Satisfactory, Nethack, Space War, Castles II, Lemmings, Red Faction, Red Alert 2, Max Payne, Pong, Super Mario 3D World, Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Dance Dance Revolution, Duck Hunt

Are you listing games of a specific type or for a specific system?

Well, it’s primarily my coding laptop, so I prioritize the OS that has the best tooling for my needs there. Gaming is just a happy secondary option on the machine. :)

The stereotype is of the haughty Linux user, but fuck me all I ever see in these discussions is Windows users being belittling assholes.

See if you can trick Ross Scott into playing it. :) He has near infinite patience for forcing old games to run, and a skilled network to lean on.

Take your aggressively rude snobbish attitude elsewhere.

I run Windows normally.

How long does your Window box function without updates? How long does it remain safe? Historically, a few months at best until they bundle telemetry in a new way. Then you need to find another rando dude’s github for workarounds.

Anyway what you are describing is literally a hassle that for me is just not worth it. I can do all that and set up and update group policies for updates over and over oooooor I can literally spend less mental energy figuring out how to configure my drivers on Linux.

What you do works for you and you feel it is convenient. That is fine.

I have a Windows laptop specifically for gaming, but I end up using my Linux coding laptop for games in the end.

It’s less hassle figuring out how to enable nvidia drivers on xorg in GNU linux so that I csn use Proton emulation than to deal with this weeks clusterfuck of windows update trying to make me turn on ads and spying and trick me into using a microsoft.com account to log in.

I am not joking.

The windows still has some dust on it from when I did some house renovations months ago, because I haven’t been bothered to use it.