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Working at a call center in the 90s with a phone system from the 70s, it was pretty easy even then to quickly record a custom message and dump people to that before they go in the …

S-tier comes from games. An A to F scale with S representing a "super" or "superior" rating has been around in that space quite a bit longer than LLMs.

> I only need a valid argument when responding to a valid argument. Likewise!

Here you go, I'll remind you of what you said: > Ad-hominem is what you resort to when having no argument ;)

Do you have specific evidence of an educational institution that added "gender studies" and concurrently removed "personal finance, economics, and rational decision making?" Becaus…

What was that about ad hominems again? ;-)

"They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believe…

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Like so many things in life, It Depends (tm). Some developers work better with LLMs in their workflows than others. Some problems are easier for LLMs to generate a reasonable solut…

Yep, and you see a similar thing with government spending and presumption of waste. Sure, government spending can be wasteful. But it's also generally going into the economy. It's …

Geez, the rich already take credit for the things their employees do...and now you want to give them credit for the taxes their employees paid too! Wild!

Yes, LLMs are prone to semantic consistency traps. I see a version of this in a system I have that transcribes a lot of noisy low quality audio (radio comms). Sometimes it works ou…

>but there was very clearly only one person who sat in office for the four following years. It is not disputable. Careful now, this path allows the weasel option of "Joe Biden was …

"The objective of this review is to provide an integrated historical account of the complex, often convoluted events impacting milk hygiene and its resultant effect on infant morta…

I'll believe you when I stop seeing lawyers getting busted for hallucinated references in their AI-generated filings.

I moved my scroll wheel a single tick and the content of the browser window completely changed with no movement to indicate scrolling was happening. The change was so sudden and st…

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> Is this "virtue signalling" > I am not making any value judgement Calling something "virtue signalling" is a value judgement.

And the Trump administration would similarly hamstring any newly created transparency organization. Not that the current congress would ever pass such a thing. And anyway, the Supr…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-fires-operative-admits-gover... "One of Elon Musk's austerity operatives discovered that the government had far less glut than he'd banked on — and …

Also, there's plenty of past incidents of cops abusing their access to state and federal databases for the same kinds of purposes. The profession attracts individuals who are willi…

I can use Claude as much as I want at work, and I get hallucinations every day. I'm not even doing anything all that fancy with it, but I get frequent hallucinatory behavior regard…

> My point is that the hallucination rate of modern LLMs, while not zero, is so low that this is no longer an issue in practice. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Do you actually…

It's an existential threat for Ukraine. The US has not faced a similar (external) existential threat in a very long time. Ukraine fights back or they lose their sovereignty. Most o…

IIRC, Win2000 would wait for most/all services to complete startup before showing the login UI. XP would allow login as soon as enough of the system was started to support it. The …