GrantS

Wow, as others have said below, disabling the “Slide to Type” feature in Settings > General > Keyboard makes typing work well again on iOS. I cannot believe I put up with this awful typing experience for the past year/years. This should be broadcast more widely somehow. I’m sure many people have just assumed they got worse at typing. I am genuinely flabbergasted.

You can absolutely specify your own lyrics and structure to Suno.

A few small things as I think of them:

-To practice for the moment of a real launch command, he would receive encoded messages every day that had to be manually decoded as quickly as possible — this decoding would be done independently by him and the second person on duty, and they would then compare to make sure they matched. In the case of a real launch, not only would the two people in the underground facility need to agree that the command was issued, but a second team in another facility would need to do the same.

-He was not allowed to know the targets of the missiles he would be launching, though these targets were fixed for each missile.

-It was almost assumed that if they were launching, they would have already been hit on the surface by a nuclear weapon (locations of the launch facilities were not secret, because they wouldn’t be a deterrent if they were secret). The two people underground are positioned in what looks like a shipping container suspended inside a submarine hull, all encased and locked behind one giant thick steel (?) door. If the elevator shaft had collapsed during an impact, they would be stuck inside to die. So they did include an escape hatch in the roof, but buried deep underground — this would involve the two men opening the escape hatch, letting a bunch of sand fall through, and then digging upward through 100-ish feet of ground over many days to get to a surface that was a wasteland. He was never really convinced that this would work, but the men had to believe that if they did their jobs, there would be some way to survive it.

Since the technical nugget is hidden in the code, the fun trick here is to alternate on odd and even steps between moving toward a duck in the latent space image and moving toward a rabbit in the 90-degree rotated version of the latent space image.

(Normally you would feed the output of step n right back in as input to step n+1. That’s what is not happening as usual here.)

Yes, the situation works. The fact that the first two logicians say “I don’t know” means they do want beer but they are unsure if everyone wants beer. The last logician knows this and can say “yes” at the end. If either of the first two logicians did not want beer they would also know that by definition it would mean “everyone wants beer” would be false and so they would have just said “no”.

I noticed this phenomenon when asking for a story involving Stephen Hawking, Darth Vader, and Wookiees. I spelled it “Wookies” by mistake and ChatGPT used my misspelling throughout the story despite seemingly getting all the other details correct.

Edit: Part of the generated story:

As they continued to talk, Stephen and Darth realized that they had something else in common - they both had lost the use of their biological legs. Stephen had been diagnosed with ALS at a young age and had gradually lost the ability to move his legs, while Darth had lost his legs in a battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet of Mustafar.

Stephen and Darth discussed the challenges and obstacles that they had faced as a result of their mobility issues, and how they had adapted and overcome them. They also talked about the technological advancements that had allowed them to continue their work and pursue their passions, despite their limitations.

Suddenly, Stephen and Darth turned on each other, each revealing that they had been secretly plotting against the other. Stephen accused Darth of using the Force for evil and corrupt purposes, while Darth accused Stephen of using his scientific knowledge to create weapons of mass destruction.

Aha! This explains a 20-year-old mystery bug! In undergrad, one of my side projects was a procedural 3D world from scratch (kind of Myst meets Halo), including physics, graphics (OpenGL), and the raw synthesized sound of ocean waves and plasma grenade explosions from sine waves via granular synthesis. After about 10 minutes exploring the world (or running around throwing tiny spheres down hills and scattering them with plasma grenades) my relaxing synthesized ocean wave sounds started to sound garbled and distorted so I always had to restart the program — now I know why :)

Yes, this is both the most misunderstood and the most amazing (and unpredicted?) thing about GPT-3 et al. You have to tell it who it is and what the rules are. And it gains or lacks knowledge depending upon who it thinks it is answering as. You’ll find that Stephen Hawking doesn’t have much to say about the Ninja Turtles while celebrities know nothing about black holes. It does not answer questions or have expertise unless you tell it that it is answering questions and has expertise. (And it is incredible that this is the case, and somewhat understandable that people don’t understand this.)

ELI5 is: If the universe is computable, might we be in the simplest computable universe or the fastest computable universe? Can computer science and math help us figure out the reasons for the physics that run our world?