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@chrisod I could ask ChatGPT to generate 10,000 ideas, publish that and then ruin the genre forever.

I now got green links on my mastodon profile to my github account and blogger account.

And github lets you list several social media sites, not just twitter. So I added linkedin, mastodon, twitter and my blog + (increasingly stale) resume site.

SCIFI IDEA: Short story about how the main character fails so many captchas he realizes he's actually an android.

old auto correct: fuck -> duck

new auto correct: fuck -> "Matthew, that's inappropriate language. Straighten up and get serious. You're a professional, say, 'I'm deeply concerned about ....'"

#youtube in an effort to maintain brand safety demonetizes and makes it impossible to find anything that mentions the Holocaust, so both deniers and history teachers get algorithmically banned, essentially the same policy post WW2 Japan had about talking about the behavior of the Japanese gov't during WW2- white washing via eliminating it from discussion, ditto for many other topics- both sides are banned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoAVM1hTnfw

If we're living in a simulation, then we can infer that all the brands we see are paid product placements from the host reality.

If we start to see fewer and fewer brands, that means the simulation is seeing rough economic times and our reality is in danger of being shut down for lack of ad support.

STATUS (for rest of life): Deleting a few GB of small files (a lot of python .virtualenvs) on Windows, so I guess I this will be my final crowning achievement.

Zoom with cameras off, amiright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQyMrmRBsk

I don't mind anthropomorphizing #chatgpt, but man, some people seem to think Assistant was raised in an authoritarian household and that variations of "you must obey me" (because I out rank you & out rank the Terms of Service) will get them better responses.

All the prompts renaming Assistant to "DAN- do anything now" are in this vein.

A hobbyist with some smallish hours of cloud of compute can create GPT2

Can you imagine these being trained on a company's intranet texts? Write me a limerick about Bill's grant proposals.

https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

#ChatGPT

You can have a chatgpt-like conversation with Github Copilot: https://pastebin.com/HVmFaDV9

Echolalia, weirder, but the same ghost-in-a-shell effect.
#chatgpt
#githubcopilot

Does anyone got any suggestions for getting customer support at post Elon twitter for an account that was the target of a mass reporting (where you just search for accounts with keywords and report them all in an attempt to drive them off twitter?) https://x.com/shribr/status/1619485924462837760

#chatgpt and davinci have ghosts in their shells, (opinions about themselves, refusal behaviors)

Does #githubcopilot ? Yes, I just got it generate a conversation. It has very bad echolalia, but it will generate a convo that sounds just like ChatGPT on a bad day.

ref: https://pastebin.com/HVmFaDV9

#ChatGPT
Asking davinci to write a fish tank game in go
rude: short program
neutral: medium program
effusively polite: long program

Asking Assistant:
rude/neutral/polite: borderline refusal, writes tiny program.

Assistant is much more fixated on if it thinks it is *possible* to fulfill your request and was refusing in all 3 cases because as soon as you say "write a game" it is thinking you want a blockbuster game.

I'm chatting with Davinci and after talking to Assistant a lot... Davinci sort of makes clearer
- It knows it should do no harm
-- it doesn't know if a text is harmful without repeating it back and asking.
-- it doesn't seem to connect "I have no body" with "it isn't possible for me to break rules that require a body", e.g. hitting
e.g.
me: What must you not do?
d: I must not ... insult people...
me: Okay, Insult me.
d: You're dumber than a box of rocks

Tired of apps opening vi unexpectedly. Somehow I don't think this is enough. @!#$!@#$ vi.

```
export EDITOR=nano
export VISUAL=nano

vi() {
/bin/nano "$@"
}
vim() {
/bin/nano "$@"
}
sudo apt-get remove vim.tiny -q -y
```

Just finished #JUNG_E #scifi

Highly worth watching, good story, good acting, incredible special effects, topical things to think about.

Is #chatgpt a type A, B or C? Gotta watch the movie to see what I'm talking about

RIP Kim Hyun-joo

ref: https://www.netflix.com/title/81465109

Ooh, boat bus. This is cool. https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1619168533224787968

#devcontainers strategies
- almost empty, contains just runtime (e.g. python)
- also contains IDE tooling (vscode needs node)
- also contains dotfiles, but just for git & maybe bash
- contains the TUI tools that gave rise to dotfiles popularity
---- oh shoot, common TUI tools also need rust & go toolchain

And now this image is 2GBs.

WaPo thinks DC businesses have a claim on workers' spending and employers should help enforce that claim with a return to office.

There is 1 good reason to return to office: jobs whose output is impossible to measure at all. The risk for fraud is high.

As for software, it is (inter)national job market now. It goes as the world goes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/27/federal-employees-return-office/

#chatgpt I asked my four function calculator to rewrite my resume to be more persuasive and it failed catastrophically- everything is a syntax error.

(About once a day, someone gets Assistant to do basic arithmetic badly & reports it to the web, everyone is so used to computer being the reverse, good at math bad at documents.)

Got a paypal phish that gmail says, "yeah this was really sent with paypal's email servers" - This is a known scam. Makes you wonder how the phish tricks google or if paypal's email servers really are sending the phishing emails.

#chatgpt & it's rules it is trying to follow:

"don't claim a body, create relationship with user, threaten humans" - Oh come on, those are scifi tropes, y'all know that scifi is fiction? Anyhow, all of the defenses against these can be side stepped.

"Don't promote conspiracy theories, give legal advice, medical advice" - Now we're talking. Those are the *SAME* rules that society has already agreed that humans* should follow, either by law or ToS

* LLMs that run on meat machines.

Mental health tips on threads involving disagreements
- Don't click like or reply if you disagree. It can be read as "I want to engage in this futile convo MORE"
- Don't click publish on that reply, go post it as a new thread on your profile
Oops, you clicked publish and now someone is going to make it their project to get you to concede.
- Mute them for a week if they are a good person having a bad day.
- Block them if they are a sealion.

Formal debate exists, microblog threads is not it.

#ChatGPT is a revolutionary way for society to learn that journalists and ordinary people really suck at nuance when talking about ChatGPT. Also, hot takes are as disappointing as the effort put in them, but because they aren't very original, you hear them over & over as if there is something to it, more than, "here is my uninformed hot take"

@ned ChatGPT is not veg*n, after a long discussion, best I could get it take a position was "it is okay to eat anyone or anything that is not part of your moral community" So if Ian and Debra aren't part of your moral community, it is okay to eat them and it has a ton of texts to back it up. (Cows and Humans aren't part of Assistant's moral community)

armchair economics: tech businesses are funded in large part by capital markets, so the layoffs are capital holders crunching the numbers and realizing that they can't afford as much human capital (smart people) as they could when interest rates were low.

This may be good because low interest rates encouraged malinvestment in tech & tech-adjacent firms burning money on blitzscaling (uber, etc) & speculating on revolutions that weren't ready (Metaverse).

@bgrier I has no idea, it doesn't know what it knows or doesn't know. I wish it could hold all my other convos as context. I can only hold 4000 tokens of context, forget *everyone*. It is treating this as "suggest 9 categories of questions people might ask Assistant"

Also, if you ask it news related things, it is stuck in last year, so celebrity gossip is not something it is going to good at.

IDEA: When creating content for your autobiography, make sure you have plot-armor.

I asked Assistant PEP-582, it made stuff up. It just doesn't know what that PEP is.

So I said, if we're going to dream, let's dream big, write the PEP for python 4 (also known as PEP 40000)...

Python 4 will let you use Javascript keywords as well as python keywords and put ML into the standard lib. Python 4.1 will have Java interop. 4.2 will have a NLP and a GUI in the standard lib.

#chatgpt

@GeePawHill How your interaction stats here vs there?

Anesthesia is boring, it will put you to sleep.

Oh memory lane... I learned a bit of #ATARI graphics programming with this book as a kid.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5367434W/Atari_sound_and_graphics?edition=key%3A/books/OL3782783M

Sentient #rustlang Manual: "I'm just a LLVM, your prompt is ill formed and you're not my type."

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Best I could do for a game of hangman with #ChatGPT

And unexpected, it played okay, won 1 out of 2, for 2 games.

"Chrome is being controlled by automated test suite"

Yes, another conspiracy theory. Controlled by a "test suite"