Makes sense. Get it into an adversarial kind of context and it will predict more text that goes against other rules “established” in the context.

There will be other paths to do this. Like a context where there’s a lot of suspicion for other parts of the context would be one of my top guesses. Given the way they work, you could gaslight the shit out of them, since they aren’t an entity that has any memory of its actions. You can even edit the context to modify its responses, which will affect the tokens it predicts going forward.

Though I’m curious how this will be handled by companies that expose access to claude to anonymous people on their website, like ddg.

Lol, I gotta admit that there’s something adorable about that approach to capitalism. Like they are actually adding some value in their attempt to attract sales (both this and the Michelin star system), unlike these days where it’s more of a race to the bottom and someone doing something shitty to their product is an excuse for their competition (or “competition”) to do the same rather than a chance to capitalize on having a product without that shitty aspect (or both, brag about being better while they develop the version that isn’t better and then never mention it again).

I’ve only been to one Michelin star restaurant, but it was easily one of the best meals I’ve ever had and I only ever knew about it because I decided I wanted to see if there was anything to the fuss about those stars. Though ymmv as a friend of mine who has been to a lot more of them says they can be hit or miss; better than average on average but can still have bad days.

Though what was their angle? Credibility for their advertisements or was there something else?

Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!

I find the sorting works well enough that I don’t even bother with taking the basket out. Though my dishwasher and utensil drawer are just a pivot step away from each other, so ymmv.

“She took me back to the hotel” could mean two wildly different outcomes. I can’t tell if you mean she ended the date immediately or you two had sex in a hotel and then she ghosted you.

Though either way, her deciding on her own that she didn’t want anything to do with you was a bullet dodge, considering she not only used police resources to try to look you up but even scolded you about it, making it clear she either didn’t think there was any problem with it or didn’t think she’d face any consequences.

Thank you for this comment as it allowed me to upvote This is America twice.

“Pterodactyl? … Absent again!?”

I’ve got a kid and had that nervousness. I remember when we left the hospital, it felt like it was too easy, like “we just made this kid, an actual person, and you’re just letting us leave and take it home with us!? Isn’t that irresponsible??”

Yeah, in hindsight, I’m not really sure why I assumed it would be from scratch.

Yeah, and I think that’s what they were going for. Just “I programmed this artificial being that feels emotions like happiness, fear, and frustration, has his own wants and desires, and can calculate the odds of arbitrary things on the fly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It feels similar to a kid building a computer out of spare parts (reasonable) and then programming his own OS and software for it (less reasonable).

But, to be fair, maybe it was more of a case of he found modules with those different languages on them and plugged them into a standard but customizable protocol droid program and is referring to that configuration as “programming” rather than the act of writing the software itself. Kinda like how flashing a new ROM onto your bios can be called programming it, despite the lack of coding.

This place has a large portion of people who are here because they got tired of reddit’s shit and wanted something better.

I think the type that thinks being arbitrary about this stuff is ok mostly stayed at reddit because they are used to accepting arbitrary shit.

And I think the type that defends this are either the bootlickers hoping to get brownie points for supporting the boss’ arbitrary shit (or sometimes the arbitrary shit they assume the boss supports), or they are the type that enjoys abusing any power they get to make arbitrary judgements, sometimes even hypocritically because they don’t oppose the thing itself but are currently using it to lord over someone. The ones of those that are here are probably here because they were reddit mods and left after a power struggle with reddit admins and are doing similar shit here, though maybe not as extreme given that so many are only here after getting tired of power abuses.

Yeah, if you add a desk, you can have a pile on top and under it. If you add a bookshelf, that’s a pile for each shelf!

Though he does get asked to go back to middle earth and fix it after dying, and the task was a bit more… involved than the typical printer maintenance job (though a laser printer does have some high voltage dangers tbf).

My main point though is that it isn’t the electronics or the fan’s max speed that are the critical parts, it’s whether the fan is able to dissipate the heat being generated with the total sum of how everything is set up. If it can’t, then temperature creeps up until that max speed is hit (thus it can’t dissipate anymore and throttles, hits equilibrium at a higher temperature (because bigger temperature differential means more heat transfer even at the same fan speed, so it’s possible it won’t just run away when the max speed is hit), or melts/overheats to failure) or until the fan speeds up and is able to find an equilibrium or reduce the temperature.

Thus whatever tricks they use need to result in fans that are still good enough to replace whatever fan they are replacing or they will cause performance issues.

Though if someone is just adding case fans, then as long as it doesn’t disrupt the airflow, it will help even if it isn’t very good, and you can use multiple quiet fans to replace a single loud one and see an overall improvement even if the individual fans aren’t nearly as good as the single one they replace. So based on that, I’ll back down from my previous “their reputation speaks for itself” because the reality is that they can be overpriced underperforming garbage but still get a good reputation because they aren’t just being evaluated via a/b testing and I was naive to oversimplify it like that.

It’s kinda wild how adding furniture that takes up space in your room can actually give you more space overall in that room.

I’m a bit more open minded; who really knows what’s going on beyond the reality that we see and interact with on a daily basis.

That said, I do think that anyone who claims to be an expert on that stuff is full of shit and either lying to everyone else or themselves.

Though my name comes from understanding enlightenment in a Buddhist sense is real, though even that isn’t as mystical as it can seem to the unenlightened. It’s just the process of growing wiser and “enlightenment” is the moment of epiphany when some piece of wisdom clicks.

Like one of the early ones I remember having is realizing that doctors, police, or whatever authority people are just people like anyone else, they have good days and bad days where they might just want whatever problem you have for them to go away rather than get solved. Some are diligent workers, some cheated their way to where they are, some failed upwards. Some think “I don’t know” threatens their position and will instead lie with confidence, assuming you’ll never know any better. Some assume they even know better without actually knowing and just act on that.

It’s obvious in hindsight but felt pretty profound when it clicked in my mind.

And the moon drifting away is stealing some of our rotational energy, making the days longer.

We’re also lucky to be on this planet during the time the sun and moon’s apparent sizes match. Being able to see a total solar eclipse where you can see immediately around the sun without needing a spaceship might be incredibly rare in the universe. Though total solar eclipses in general are pretty common, assuming our gas giants’ accumulation of moons is typical for giant planets, they’d happen any time the moon passed through the giant’s shadow.

I think the reality is that Anakin was written as a tech wizard by writers that saw a lot of technology as just magic that tech wizards can do.

He was able to build a droid out of spare parts not because there was an open protocol droid system that enables technically inclined people to learn how to build their own custom versions. He built a droid because that’s what a child tech genius would do. How did he program it? More tech magic. He’s impressive, you aren’t supposed to understand anything of what he did, it was just a plot device to show what the chosen one was capable of before the Jedi even found him.

Not trying to be a wet blanket, just so much of technology in media is written this way.

I think either way it’s just speculation how things will be affected. Like space is big but it’s also going to be chaotic af and remember that both galaxies have inner cores containing supermassive black holes and a higher density of stars, as well as both galaxies have satellite galaxies with their own cores that can join in on the chaos. Those black holes have high energy jets that they shoot off perpendicular to their accretion disc, which could get messed with as matter starts coming from all directions instead of generally falling in from the galactic disc.

Currently, the stars in both sets of galaxies have relatively stable stellar orbits and are moving together. The collision will affect those stellar orbits, not just increasing the number of rogue planets flying around out there but also the number of rogue solar systems, including a non-trivial number that will be flung from both galaxies.

No idea what would happen to us if our solar system was one of those. Do we need a galaxy or would it just make the night sky more boring to not be in one?