Fun fact: you can ask an LLM to respond to questions like a magic 8-ball. Works great. Please use responsibly.

TIL something important. Im sensitive to all kinds of stuff, but now I’m going to pay closer attention to seafood.

Socialism doesn’t mean you cant have commerce or vacations. It just means that the motives move away from profit to more sustainable exchanges of time and energy. Tourism can exist in that framework. It just won’t be purely for money’s sake anymore.

As a driver I know I’m supposed to stop at a zebra like this, but I’m probably also blocking visibility for other drivers at the same time. Yeah, they’re supposed to be more aware than this but we all have car insurance for a reason.

Is the better move, as a driver, to partially block the neighboring lane until they’re done crossing? I’m seriously wondering this now.

@humansprial, stop trying to make “fetch” happen. It’s not going to happen.

Through this whole thing, I’ve felt like people claiming that AI is super-intelligent are just telling on themselves. We may have made something that is great at parroting the perfect statistical average person. That also means it sounds smarter than half of everyone.

That’s me. I would absolutely figure out a way to misplace this. In fact, I’m likely to trip over it later.

There is a thread right now on Hacker News about the use of MCPs with a robust discussion on the matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779329

The linked article there makes a salient argument against it, but the discussion cuts the other way. Basically, having an MCP between the agent/AI and Gmail could have been structured in a manner to prevent these kinds of hijinks. Nevermind that it keeps credentials out of the hands of the agent, making it harder to go rogue.

They’re really good at it, too. Sometimes it’s even charming. For example, potatoes are “earth apples.”

but it’s damn easy to make yourself understood.

Words ordering with grammar can be unimportant to being known.

• Shave until you hit bone
• If I drink enough, it’ll go away

Fucking. Yikes.

As a person that has trans people in my life, is there anything I should do extra, in order to be supportive? I know that the usual playbook of ask, listen, mirror, support and affirm applies here. I’m looking for any extra things that are important; dysphoria is hard enough as it is and I don’t wanna go adding to it.

What’s funnier is that most people would hurt themselves flailing about like that.

Until it completely sank, this was technically true.

I knew of him but I couldn’t pick his music out of a playlist if I tried.

Wait, it’s all politics?

I was unaware until five minutes ago.

We stopped using as many drugs.

Exactly!

guaranteed needle-stabbing-into-the-tip-of-my-dick situation

Oh man and I had that problem too. Obgyn was also just as bararic with inserting and removing the IUD, and they didnt believe that we had this problem during sex. I can’t make sense of it.

Ethics aside yes… Right up until an llm directly quotes something from its training set. Then all hell breaks loose. Good luck figuring out when that happens.

The rest of the time, I suspect most models act like “distinct from copyrighted material generation engines” and might even enjoy parody rights. That said, I’m not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.