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“LLMs look like they have knowledge so that’s close enough.”

Buddy, lots of mushrooms look like food but they’ll kill you. Stop duck typing your reality.

I saw a young person ask ChatGPT how long their flight was today when they were literally holding the boarding pass with that information on it in the same hand that had the phone in it. ChatGPT spat out about 4 paragraphs on the subject when the answer was “40 minutes”. What a time to be alive

Edit: this blew up so I’m muting it now to save my notifications. No, I didn’t make it up for clicks, I’d have preferred fewer. Just a little anecdote from a tiring day that I’m trying to relax from now

Baking gets very interesting when a) you bake exclusively with sourdough starter, b) it’s very active and well-fed, and c) the temperature has suddenly spiked about 30°.
Do motorcyclists need to rev their engines while they’re parked, or is that just a thing they do because they’re assholes?
Thousands of people forming delusional 1-person math cults after talking to a computer simulacrum of human speech is some shit philip k dick would cross out because it’s too depressing
Trying to parse Gen Z slang is like listening to the feral children argue at the end of Threads.
I have once again been way off w/r/t actual painting so I wanted to mess with something small and low stress and dumb with no attachment to how it was going to turn out and I think it's safe to say I accomplished that
I’m not sure if my disappointment with most restaurants stems from rising prices leaving me feeling underwhelmed for what I paid, or if I just care about food quality way beyond the bounds of the average consumer.
If sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and powerful magic is usually quite dangerous, then maybe it’s not a good idea to put it in everyone’s hands?
Are people generally just unable to get work done if your internet goes down? And that’s just okay? I love when my internet goes out. Instant focus boost.