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Comment · 14 hours ago
Right. And when we talk "to" the LLM we address it as "you" or give it commands as if there is someone there to respond.

Maybe we need a new pronoun for it. 2nd person inanimate. YOU -> YAI?

This week I was experimenting with leaving out "you" pronouns by changing everything to passive/subjunctive and leaving out the subject.

E.g. when referring to something the AI has written or done: The code that was written... Instead of: The code you wrote.

For something I want it to do: May the code be modified to include the following constraints... Instead of: Modify the code to include the following constraints

I don't know if that's really helpful but it's good to be cognizant I'm not really talking to anyone.

Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 5 days ago
It's ICE. So not your fellow citizens. Mostly.

But I agree we shouldn't be using robot dogs for this. They should be reserved for tracking down and destroying banned books.

Comment · 5 days ago
Good point. Like how January 6th was basically orchestrated by the FBI and other government actors.
Comment · 14 days ago
"Space Mormons" So, regular, "orthodox" Mormons?
Comment · 14 days ago
Isn't it kind of the intersectionality of the right of self determination and the right to freely associate or the right to not freely associate?
Comment · 19 days ago
Well, one step at a time.
Comment · 19 days ago
That sounds murderous.

They should both go home to their wives who surely have their cookies ready along with a pair of slippers and a backrub.

Now that women are back out of the workforce, there's enough money for the blue collar worker and the immigrant. I hear the 2050s are gonna be a 1950s paradise but with better technology. Here's hoping.

Comment · 26 days ago
This social media censorship is literally Orwellian. In 1984 the Party had gotten rid of negative adjectives like "bad" and all you could say to express that concept was "ungood". Here we have "kill" being replaced by "unalive".

Far worse and more consequential was the government-urged censorship on any open discussion of COVID, vaccines, origins, etc. during and after the pandemic.

Comment · 1 month ago
Also weird that it's basically pushing the person to end their putative relationship just based on that very small search with zero context.

How many people will be hurt because of idiotic AI responses like this?

Just like AI shouldn't counsel someone to end their own life, it also shouldn't counsel people to end their relationships, their careers, and so on.

Comment · 1 month ago
Speaking of China, people say we can't stop developing AI even if it will kill us because China won't stop and we have to keep up with them or maintain superiority.

China probably looks at these people as a good reason why they have to keep going no matter what.

Comment · 2 months ago
You could say the same about America's far-left.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don't think you have to. Those passkey managers just sync across devices for you as a convenience.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sort of like how you can be a vegan without verifying that no animal ever died and decomposed and got uptaken by the root system of whatever plant you end up eating.

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