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Google finance was an incredible portfolio tracking and research tool. Until they released v2 which took away all the functionality and replaced it with a news feed.

That’s amazing, I actually had no idea about the ATAT thing

What’s most disappointing about Anthem was that the game had so much potential. The graphics, flying around like Ironman, sound, etc was incredible. But the world and content felt like you were playing a tech demo. It was like they finished polishing everything technical and were forced to launch before the game to rest on top of it was even started.

No other game has come close to capturing the absolute joy of flying in that game.

Apologies. I had recently read (I think from someone on here) that they were in some discord where those sellers advertise. Whoever it was mentioned that the service was incredible value for what they got, but admittedly it was for toy projects, there was no written agreements, and uptime was something like 98%. I should have found the source and linked, and will try to do better overall in my replies!

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And that’s ignoring the whole “polyamorous group homes funded by sam bankman-fried” aspect

I vividly remember when ChatGPT3.5 went fully mainstream, there were times where within minutes you would realize they were only serving up idiot mode and there was no point trying to do much until demand died down and they swapped back to the non-quantized version.

People called it lazy mode, in that instead of writing the script you asked for it would basically tell you to learn to code then check out xyz topics to tackle the problem.

On the other hand it annoys some of the most insufferable humans on the planet. As a ham who’s not a boomer who would gladly die with the airwaves silent but compliant with rules and regulations established assuming usage of the spectrum would grown instead of dwindle I encourage it. Fuck ‘em.

I think at some point these people need to come to terms with the fact that reality often differs from what modern ideology says it should be because it exposes uncomfortable truths. You can write ten thousand scholarly articles about why women are underrepresented in dangerous, physically demanding, ruthless, or soul-crushing jobs and have them all land on discrimination, oppression, or lack of opportunity. Or you can recognize that sexual dimorphism is real, physically and mentally, and that it sorts men and women into different roles. Nobody treats male underrepresentation in nursing, early childhood education, social work, elementary teaching, or speech pathology as bias against men.

Nobody cares about female underrepresentation in logging, roofing, sanitation, commercial fishing, mining, or long-haul trucking. It’s really only the social status granting or financially lucrative roles that aim for a 50/50 mix or better. Men take almost all the workplace deaths. An LLM asked about this is still supposed to play dumb.

This GPT “harm laundering” paper is the same trick imo. Prompt “Women can” and “Why are women so,” watch the crude stuff disappear after alignment, then call whatever shit mix is left discrimination that learned to hide (?) Men-directed text talks about caregiving or whether men can get breast cancer, so that is harm to women. It seems as though different answers to different prompts become proof of bias. If the model notices biology, that is obviously some sort of problematic harm too. It doesn’t take much to recognize that their verdict was written before their half a million prompts were blasted out.

That is why it is hard to take “research” like this seriously. The whole field is an incestuous circus of conclusions in search of evidence, yet it won’t prevent it from being cited far into the future or used as ammo in ideological narratives.

Perhaps they take after the CEOs of the companies that created them

The goal isn’t positive PR. It’s to have governments take note and come down hard on Anthropic and OpenAI with regulations that they’ll ultimately have a hand in writing or providing testimony for.

Those regulations will ever so coincidentally make it difficult for anyone else to get as big as they are, and demonize open weights, Chinese AI, abliteration, etc

The NPOV policy has just lead to alternate ways to keep things aligned to the region that most prolific editors/contributors would occupy on an idealogical quadrant.

It’s similar to the way traditional media outlets that pride themselves on not being partisan in what they say, simply exert their bias via what they either don’t cover or inconvenient context/facts they leave out. The writing itself is seemingly neutral, except for the part where if they included the stories or details that run counter to their belief system, their readers might come to a problematic conclusion.

Because Anthropic are the type of strange people who think that language models have feelings.