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I was able to get ChatGPT to do this on text from a book I wrote without jailbreaking. I asked it what my name was, asked it if it could find online any books that I wrote, and the…

I went to college in a county that only allowed alcohol sales with food for clubs (think: country clubs). So, of course, the restaurant that I worked for created its own club. You …

I believe it's only UT Austin that's shrunk the percentage. All of the other public universities are still at the original top 10%.

Being smart doesn't guarantee you'll get away with murder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb

I love pseudo-documentary and pseudo-newscast movies, ever since I watched Without Warning [0] and had to sleep on my parents' floor because it felt too real for me. Special Bullet…

You can see it in action here: https://youtu.be/FBzlEG3tMuw?t=399

Very nice. On my end, I vibe coded a daily newsletter that sends me a short text in Latin each day that describes an event that happened on that day in history.

You won't hear me say that the housing market doesn't need an overhaul, but I'm not sure that the "a factory job could buy you a home out of high school" meme is entirely accurate.…

I think it's fine if you accept it as entertainment and nothing more. That's why I don't get how people listen to audiobooks on 3x. The goal isn't to ingest as much as you can--the…

I have an old phone I've repurposed as a media player. It has a 500 GB SD card and Oluancher to give it a really convenient way to only show the apps I want. I've got a somewhat we…

Lock Me Out does exactly what you are describing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teqtic.loc...

Moving to a country that doesn't speak English has taught me just how many pronunciations of my last name there are. It's never really bothered me, though, and 90% of the time I'll…

Not sure why this article didn't link to the original when citing it, but here's the link to the Scott Alexander blog: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/23/friendship-is-counters.…

You can find a lot (all?) of the Hélène et les Garçons episodes on YouTube, too. Another good "sitcom-like" that you can find on YouTube is extr@. It's cheesy, but it's entertainin…

I can say, as a Christian, that I'm not bothered by it. The church is as much for doubters as it is the true believers (and many of us will be both at different seasons of our live…

This predates social media. Bowling Alone was first written back in '95.

I've had even worse. We wanted to buy a product and couldn't do so on our own, so I left my contact information on their "speak to a sales person" form. No response for a week. So …

Also: the Mountain Goats' Love Love Love. Love, love is going to lead you by the hand Into a white and soundless place Now we see things as in a mirror, dimly Then we shall see eac…

While I agree that the zettle-nerds take it way too far, I disagree with this: > Well it's completely wasted time now that an LLM can search the whole vault and aggregate an answer…

Without passing judgment on the act, this is incredibly misleading. I found the source of the original quotes[0], and they are taken quite out of context. From the article: >First,…

This is OpenAI's MO. Remember how they wouldn't release GPT-2 because of concerns of what people would do with it? Though, I wonder how much of it is honest versus marketing. When …

Not in most cases. According to this estimate, who comes from an organization that is against US citizens abroad having to file[0], 77% have AGI "well below" the cutoff where you w…

This is timely, as I've got a domain expiring in the next week. It's a .bingo TLD, so at $50+, I'm going to just let it expire. "Vibe coding" has actually been a boon for me on thi…

You're misunderstanding me. Underneath the prompt box on the main page are suggestions of types of apps you can build. These are, presumably, chosen by people at the company. I'm n…