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Comment · 1 day ago
Agreed. I don't want the extra bits that try to mimick humans.

Sometimes it's as though they added background noise to make it sound like it's looking for things. Or even the long "hmmm, let me cheeeckkkk...".

Also, I think I'm ready to be able to choose from a robotic voice.

Comment · 1 day ago
I like this and makes me think of making your own content algorithm profiles for the firehose. Let your agents scour the net for the things you already like, across platforms.
Comment · 17 days ago
Thank you for proving my point.

^ Precisely the kinds of folks that simply cannot even begin to begin to think about something alternative to capitalism.

Sorry, that in a thread about possible futures you got your jimmies rustled when some people mention moving away from your deity. Forgive my blasphemy. Please continue your wonderful day.

Comment · 17 days ago
1. Who, where, wherein, whence was that claim made?

2. To which "preferred topic"?

3. Sorry the very utterance of shifting from capitalism is a thought experiment that is simply untenable in your mind.

Comment · 18 days ago
Every.single.time.

I cannot tell you how many conversations I've had about all the crazy, albeit possible, futures that may come. But there is such a definitive hard stop when trying to discuss a shift from capitalism. It must bind alongside their religious adherence receptors. Because it I SO damn entrenched. Like a neural block of sorts.

Comment · 1 month ago
For me it's either a craving for lime/citrus or strawberries. When I crave strawberries, I know somethings up.
Comment · 1 month ago
Most of ANY discussion with US Americans is at most 2 skips from : "yeah, but who's going to pay for it/ yeah, but how much money is that going to make you".

We're a lost bunch.

Comment · 1 month ago
Thanks for this. Had never heard of it. Unfortunately, no PC port :(

But yeah, OB64 sits stop a pedestal in its own gallery for me.

Comment · 1 month ago
I love that some of the replies are verbatim copy paste Claude. Much wow.
Comment · 1 month ago
As you say, like most of any of our current issues, it's not the act of doing something that is the issue, it's the lack of remuneration for doing that thing. Any region would gain an immense amount of more "smart point metrics" (what I choose to refer these scores as) if students had their own personal tutors that helped them along. But that doesn't fit our "profit or perish" economic models.
Comment · 1 month ago
Ahh I see. Any spots for philosopher / educators?
Comment · 1 month ago
This is indeed HN, so comments are of course skewed to a particular upper echelon of knowledge work, but I'll ask anyways:

When you say (and perhaps you might speculate across other businesses) "hiring extra people... To handle AI initiatives" does that mean you're hiring Very niche and specialized AI people to handle these initiatives? I'm curious because I have seen some versions of this sentiment on HN and it sort of feels like reading "at my company we're hiring more quantum physicists because of these initiatives".

Basically, how much of the general populace is actually going to have a shot at nabbing a slice of this meager pie?

Comment · 1 month ago
Here, have another, Thank you!
Comment · 2 months ago
This is really neat, but if you'll notice, it just kept the same words and rewrote it a few different ways. I guess what I'm actually thinking of it's when the model temperatures weren't quite dialed in and you would get some wonky stuff that was genuinely useful for character exposition and giving a particular character a "voice".
Comment · 2 months ago
Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to get these models back? I really like the older ones for NPC dialogue for TTRPG campaigns and the like.

I just looked into it and I think I can still find GPT 3.5, but wonder if it too has been trained out of usefulness.

The characters a styles were quirky and not always perfect, but added a lot more flavor and character nuance that could be corrected with editing.

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