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The escalation of commitment scam, interesting to see it so effective when applied to AI.



Just FYI, it's out on Chrome, Firefox and Edge too in addition to MacOS and iPadOS. Links on the site gosinkit[dot]com Disclaimer - I made this.




Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.


Yes — we do the same thing!


You can't, it's very expensive and controlled now: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-n...


>"You'll need to be on Tumblr to see this particular blog "

I see what you did there!

EDIT:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221102132003/https://www.tumbl...


Your link cannot be viewed without an account. Or is that your point?


They’re burning 30 million dollars a year on a site that’s torched over a billion since its inception. Just give the product manager one signup for their kpi before they/them are put out on the street.


What's the deal with bash history on macos anyway? It absolutely refuses to persist, no matter which combination of incantations are entered.


What “kinds of things” are “we” really worried about? Representative government, public referendums? Very much on what table?


Right-wing misinformation that can tip public opinion in favor of electing Trump or voting for Brexit. That's the danger.


Forcing consensus upon a heterogeneous electorate raises the question of whether liberal democracy itself is the right model of governance.


So 'misinformation' about nonexistent WMDs were all ok. Despite having been propagated by the 'most trustworthy' organizations and media outlets who are today ironically being used as 'fact checkers'.


An abundance of left wing disinformation is fine though


I'm trying to learn more about what disinformation is, could you please post your thoughts under the following Ask HN post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554369


No, perfectly sane. The party says there are five fingers.


> Phind-70B is also less "lazy" than GPT-4 Turbo and doesn't hesistate to generate detailed code examples.

OpenAI's leaked prompt literally encourages it to try harder[1]:

> Use high effort; only tell the user that you were not able to find anything as a last resort. Keep trying instead of giving up.

1: https://pastebin.com/vnxJ7kQk


Yep, LLMs are wacky. Telling Phind-70B to "take a deep breath" helps it answer better!


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