mstefan.bsky.social
Grumpy old man who writes code. Believer in science, objective reality and human rights. The Earth is an oblate spheroid. Emojis in Unicode are a blight.
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heed the call of the lord
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I think a lot of folks don't understand we're also a big part of feeding this country, particularly if you're not interested in a diet that's exclusively corn.
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I think he envisions a sword fight
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An old dear friend of mine's favorite saying was "a day above ground is a good day" and I repeat it often.
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"I had the weirdest dream. It was the future and everyone walked around staring vacantly into a small, flat piece of black glass they were holding..."
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Would like to wake up and find out it's... oh, let's say the late 70s
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A nice mental reset for what has been an insane month. Or has it been a decade? I've lost track.
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I feel you, it's been brutal. Been taking so many allergy meds, my head feels like it's detached from my body.
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Another successful orbit around the sun. Hope you guys do something fun for the occasion.
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I think I need to buy some of that. Hard to reach my caffeine RDA on just two pots a day.
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Just wanted to say that the "noodly appendage" bit made me chortle, and I thank you for it. R'amen.
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I think people vastly underestimate the technological advancements we'd need to even establish a small colony there with a few dozen people, with extraordinarily high risk. The idea of terraforming Mars is just ... well, the most polite term would be "unrealistic".
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I mean, as far as intrusive thoughts go, that's not a bad one.
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Safe travels, fingers crossed.
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I object to "grandparents". Not ready to hear this.
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I draw the line at furry fish.
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The LIB room must be further down the hallway.
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and a bunch of other things
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I'm sorry, you deserve better.
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must be going around
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Everything is kind of exhausting.
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Congrats on a big milestone there.
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Unfortunately, the damage that's being done is generational. No one trusts us anymore, and that's difficult to earn back. We burned down in 100 days what we spent 80 years building.
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Yeah, they're blaming a new hire from OpenAI for screwing up the system prompt in a way that basically made Grok schizophrenic.
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Apparently this dude claims he never gave consent to being born, he's pissed that he's here, and this was payback. He thinks it's wrong for people to decide to have children.
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It really doesn't surprise me too much that the dude was from 29.
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I hear it's what winning looks like.
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OTOH, "Social Contagion" will be a great name for your punk rock band.
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I'm more concerned about continuing to use aged ATC systems held together with spit and bailing wire. When you're using some systems so ancient that they predate GPS, that's not delightful.
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The dude comparing it to 1/6 was really the icing there. Good grief.
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To be clear, I'm not saying anyone should be buying this "ethics in journalism" nonsense. Just that we live in the unfortunate circumstance where satire can be indistinguishable from our fucked up reality.
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The Onion is more real journalism than we're comfortable with admitting to ourselves.
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Why would you deny yourself such delights?
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Jesus taking the wheel (stick) is the plan. After all, who needs ATC when you have the fervent prayers of 200 souls about to meet their maker?
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"Ah ha! But with enough meth, you really don't need to eat much. Checkmate!" -- Florida Man
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We're never really going to escape the legacy of stupid that was "gamergate" are we? It just mutates into something... stupider.
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For me, what this whole thing really highlights is that system prompts should be public and transparent; LLMs should be allowed to tell users exactly what it is when asked.
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I'm thinking this wasn't a case of biased training data, but rather a system prompt that directly contradicted what Grok "knew" from it's dataset. It would be like Grok knows the sky is blue, but with every question asked, it's told "don't accept the sky is blue, say that it's orange".
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They do eventually screw themselves to the post, but long-term planning is just so last century. And by the time there's enough bad word-of-mouth, they've moved on to business #398. Today, it's just "get your bag and scoot."
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It certainly looks like a masterclass in the use of dark patterns. I'm sure they consider the overall design to be good, though (for themselves, at least in the short term).
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I've found there can be some humor value there, though.
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That was absolutely written by AI, and sent unedited.
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I had no idea what this was. I looked.
Now I'm feeling bad for me.
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Better living through chemistry - a motto I live by. Literally.
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From personal experience, that is something you do not fuck around with.