Single Malt™ Brand Blended Whisky, huh? Fun idea. Something tells me that wouldn't fly in Scotland. They take their whisky terminology regulations pretty seriously.
Pedantry time: I'm not an expert on whisky, but I doubt you could fill a tanker truck that large with just one batch of single malt whisky. If it's more than one batch in the big tank, then by definition it's no longer single malt, but blended whisky. Doesn't hurt the joke any either way, just was my first thought on reading the label on the truck.
Edit: Pedantry fail. See the reply below telling me how wrong I am.
To measure decomposition rates of similar cotton cloth as a way to track soil microbe health. It's actually a mildly interesting article, despite the clickbait title.
I made a similar flavor combination the other way around once. At the time I sometimes used a Keurig to make coffee and then again to make instant oatmeal. I thought it would be funny to come up with the shitty life hack of combining them into one process. I had to actually try it once, partly out of curiosity of how bad it could be, and partly to get a picture to post my "genius" idea on r/shittylifehacks.
It was bad. Not "I might throw up" levels of bad, but eating it was just such a slog. I wasn't willing to waste a perfectly edible bowl of oatmeal for a joke, so I soldiered on through a very unsatisfying breakfast. Annoyingly, I didn't even have a cup of coffee to wash it down with.
The dumbest part is that after going through all that, I never actually got around to making the post, and stopped participating on reddit a couple years ago now.
I would argue that Raine being deluded into believing he was conversing with a thinking being that supported his decision was a rather major contributor to his death, and your claims here continue to perpetuate that misinformation. The government regulating "AI" more could indeed be helpful, but even if it somehow was actually fully sapient, no one in power would give a shit. These companies would continue to use it to exploit as much money as they can from society either way, and the government would let them, so I completely fail to see how pretending LLMs can think helps with that.
My "side" is that LLMs are neat and have some limited utility, but everyone needs to understand (and the companies shilling them should be forced to be honest about) the fact that their output really is just a bullshit guess of words that only has a decent probability of forming a coherent pattern. Easy access to LLMs by misinformed people can be dangerous, in the same way that leaving knives laying around can be dangerous to people who don't understand that they are sharp. The tool itself isn't to blame, but the people who left them lying around without proper precautions certainly around are. The knife is not being abused and has no opinion on the matter.
I suspect I'm not going to convince you of anything. You sound fully committed to anthropomorphizing LLMs. I'm replying anyway, mostly in the hope that it helps other people understand what LLMs actually are before they trust the words spit out by these contraptions.
Whether or not an AI could be created that feels emotion is still an open question, but LLMs very definitely do NOT. They are also very much not a "thinking being". It is a word guessing engine. It's a very good word guessing engine. It's so good at guessing words that a person may feel like it is thinking, but that is just an illusion. ChatGPT told Adam Raine to hide his noose because those are the words most likely to come next in the conversation they were having, and for no other reason. It was reacting to a pattern of tokens in a limited context to guess more tokens. Taking those guessed words seriously ended Adam Raine's life, and here you are glibly using his death as an example while telling people that they should continue to take LLM word guesses seriously.
With sufficient experience, understanding, and intuition it is possible to yeehaw baking and get delicious results. I have enough of none of those things to do it, but there are at least several people who can.
My philosophy on recipes when cooking a new dish, is read at least 5 recipes, then follow none of them. I've made quite a few dishes with this method, most came out just how I wanted, and none yet have been bad. It's a bit free, but not full yeehaw.
Yes, the land was bought with donations in an effort to protect it. What? No, at no point did they sell the land, not sure were you got that idea. The trespassers (SpaceX) vacated (took all their shit and left) the plot. It was then restored, as much as possible, to its previous state. They had hoped to get enough money to refund everyone who donated and keep the land, but their lawyers advised that the settlement offer of stopping trespassing and restoring the land was already as good as they were going to get in court. Sadly "restored" is the closest they could do to protecting it, at a high legal expense to themselves.
They aren't just getting away with it, it's literally required. Under FDA rules, if there are less than 5 dietary calories in a serving, the label must round down to 0, which, yes, is super misleading. Murica!
“He hoodwinked me,” the just-ousted Better Home & Finance CEO said about Daniel Lewis, the man who replaced him last week.
Yeah... admitting you got conned into trusting the guy who took your job sounds like a fantastic strategy for getting your CEO job back. If the new guy isn't legit a good replacement, then you've proven yourself to be an easy mark. Either way, best not to reinstate you, dumbass.
Damn. I looked it up an you are right on both points.
Single Malt™ Brand Blended Whisky, huh? Fun idea. Something tells me that wouldn't fly in Scotland. They take their whisky terminology regulations pretty seriously.
It's entirely plausible that an Australian could have emigrated to Scotland and gotten a job there as a groundskeeper near Loch Ness.
Pedantry time: I'm not an expert on whisky, but I doubt you could fill a tanker truck that large with just one batch of single malt whisky. If it's more than one batch in the big tank, then by definition it's no longer single malt, but blended whisky. Doesn't hurt the joke any either way, just was my first thought on reading the label on the truck.
Edit: Pedantry fail. See the reply below telling me how wrong I am.
An armed forces service member self-harming is intentionally damaging government property. They can't just let people get away with that.
To measure decomposition rates of similar cotton cloth as a way to track soil microbe health. It's actually a mildly interesting article, despite the clickbait title.
Dudes a CEO and he's posting "I'm an alcoholic LOL" jokes on his LinkedIn. Wild.
I'm not familiar with Lenin's particular definition of imperialism. Does it somehow exclude what Russia is doing?
Believe it or not, Infowars has you covered there too. What better way to hide your gold from an overreaching government than by turning it into piss?
I made a similar flavor combination the other way around once. At the time I sometimes used a Keurig to make coffee and then again to make instant oatmeal. I thought it would be funny to come up with the shitty life hack of combining them into one process. I had to actually try it once, partly out of curiosity of how bad it could be, and partly to get a picture to post my "genius" idea on r/shittylifehacks.
It was bad. Not "I might throw up" levels of bad, but eating it was just such a slog. I wasn't willing to waste a perfectly edible bowl of oatmeal for a joke, so I soldiered on through a very unsatisfying breakfast. Annoyingly, I didn't even have a cup of coffee to wash it down with.
The dumbest part is that after going through all that, I never actually got around to making the post, and stopped participating on reddit a couple years ago now.
Well, I guess we agree that less people should use them, even if we think so for completely opposite reasons.
I would argue that Raine being deluded into believing he was conversing with a thinking being that supported his decision was a rather major contributor to his death, and your claims here continue to perpetuate that misinformation. The government regulating "AI" more could indeed be helpful, but even if it somehow was actually fully sapient, no one in power would give a shit. These companies would continue to use it to exploit as much money as they can from society either way, and the government would let them, so I completely fail to see how pretending LLMs can think helps with that.
My "side" is that LLMs are neat and have some limited utility, but everyone needs to understand (and the companies shilling them should be forced to be honest about) the fact that their output really is just a bullshit guess of words that only has a decent probability of forming a coherent pattern. Easy access to LLMs by misinformed people can be dangerous, in the same way that leaving knives laying around can be dangerous to people who don't understand that they are sharp. The tool itself isn't to blame, but the people who left them lying around without proper precautions certainly around are. The knife is not being abused and has no opinion on the matter.
I suspect I'm not going to convince you of anything. You sound fully committed to anthropomorphizing LLMs. I'm replying anyway, mostly in the hope that it helps other people understand what LLMs actually are before they trust the words spit out by these contraptions.
I hate how right this comment is.
Whether or not an AI could be created that feels emotion is still an open question, but LLMs very definitely do NOT. They are also very much not a "thinking being". It is a word guessing engine. It's a very good word guessing engine. It's so good at guessing words that a person may feel like it is thinking, but that is just an illusion. ChatGPT told Adam Raine to hide his noose because those are the words most likely to come next in the conversation they were having, and for no other reason. It was reacting to a pattern of tokens in a limited context to guess more tokens. Taking those guessed words seriously ended Adam Raine's life, and here you are glibly using his death as an example while telling people that they should continue to take LLM word guesses seriously.
With sufficient experience, understanding, and intuition it is possible to yeehaw baking and get delicious results. I have enough of none of those things to do it, but there are at least several people who can.
My philosophy on recipes when cooking a new dish, is read at least 5 recipes, then follow none of them. I've made quite a few dishes with this method, most came out just how I wanted, and none yet have been bad. It's a bit free, but not full yeehaw.
Yes, the land was bought with donations in an effort to protect it. What? No, at no point did they sell the land, not sure were you got that idea. The trespassers (SpaceX) vacated (took all their shit and left) the plot. It was then restored, as much as possible, to its previous state. They had hoped to get enough money to refund everyone who donated and keep the land, but their lawyers advised that the settlement offer of stopping trespassing and restoring the land was already as good as they were going to get in court. Sadly "restored" is the closest they could do to protecting it, at a high legal expense to themselves.
Why the look boss? This was your idea in the first place.
They aren't just getting away with it, it's literally required. Under FDA rules, if there are less than 5 dietary calories in a serving, the label must round down to 0, which, yes, is super misleading. Murica!
I did not expect that over the top thumbnail to be an actual frame from the bodycam footage, but it actually was. What a clown-show.
Yeah... admitting you got conned into trusting the guy who took your job sounds like a fantastic strategy for getting your CEO job back. If the new guy isn't legit a good replacement, then you've proven yourself to be an easy mark. Either way, best not to reinstate you, dumbass.