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Rice cooker.

NOTE: If you're one of the first people to see this, you can also access a running installation at https://cyberkitty.ai It'll run until I hit my GPT-4 budget limit, then stop work…

The only thing that would make this whole saga better is if OpenAI actually had a baby machine god in its basement right now and meanwhile the entire organization is collapsing to …

As of yesterday this situation has crossed into omnishambles territory. Sunday you could still have reversed this and treated it as a blip. Now it's Tuesday—there's not really an o…

I think he's not as known in the outside world but it's really difficult to understate the amount of social capital sama has in the inner circles of Silicon Valley. It sounds like …

This is certainly making a case for the fallibility of human leadership.

I'm hacking on some GPT-for-long-form-text stuff right now and it is _eye wateringly_ expensive once you start generating at anything close to "professional human" token outputs. $…

Feels like they've been trying and failing to grow past their core product flow (send pics to friends) for a decade now.

The intersection between politically/socially unpopular and low impact.

We're far more likely to pump a bunch of sulfates into the air than we are to stop driving pickup trucks everywhere. Humans aren't rational, and this is the kind of irrationality t…

Started this a few months ago because I wanted a better test runner for an entirely different LLM-based project, then got completely nerdsniped by making LLMs as easy as possible t…

So there's actually a lot of academic debate on the merits of reparations, and exactly what and how much reparations should be. A very oversimplified pro argument: if it wasn't for…

You’ll absolutely nab me with a wanikani integration. I think the biggest challenge for these learning apps with me is that nothing talks to each other and everything wants me to u…

This captures it well. We're at the "startups are throwing GPT at every possible wall to see what sticks" stage of this. We're going to see both improvements in application, and pa…

As someone who currently spends time on two continents it's always jarring to return to the USA. The first thing that hits you is the wealth. The second is the wealth disparity. Th…

Must be a phone survey—anyone who still answers phone calls from strangers is probably pre-disposed to being victimized like this.

Shot, meet chaser: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/04/10/california-first-... I appreciate this as an anti-inequality measure, but it feels like in California low/med income b…

I think most humans today massively underestimate just how absolutely shitty the life of a medieval peasant was. You would have lived in a one room house without electricity, worke…

It's crazy how fast humans normalize and adapt. Five years ago this stuff was science fiction, now we're arguing about how it's wrong sometimes. We just kind of walked straight pas…

Isn't that just saying "we want all content creators to become charities, and then other people can pay them". It's like saying all software should be free, but the companies shoul…

Should probably add that in Germany lower GPA is better. So longer wait = higher priority.