The malware of "up next" that eats billions of hours a year lol

LLMs are an amazing advance in natural language parsing.

The problem is someone decided that and the contents of Wikipedia was all something needs to be intelligent haha

The confusion was thinking that language is the same thing as intelligence.

This seems like a glib one liner but I do think it is profoundly insightful as to how some people approach thinking about LLMs.

It is almost like there is hardwiring in our brains that makes us instinctively correlate language generation with intelligence and people cannot separate the two.

It would be like if for the first calculators ever produced instead of responding with 8 to the input 4 + 4 = printed out "Great question! The answer to your question is 7.98" and that resulted in a slew of people proclaiming the arrival of AGI (or, more seriously, the ELIZA Effect is a thing).

You and me are great examples of that. We are both extremely stupid and yet we can speak.

Can attest.

And reddit, that bastion of human achievement.

As long as they start with the titular character that's a fair end to the species

Chances are half of humans would vote for it too

> maybe these robots don’t last that long

Landfills full of broken robots is totally something humans would do haha

How are they going to stop it?

A certain combination of nonstandard characters will make an AI character drop an n-word no problem

I guess they could chuck the output through whisper or something to see if it transcribes back to anything dodgy?

LLM security feels very ball of sand held together with duct tape haha

I feel like such a dumbass for falling for it.

At first I thought it was just super American cheerful or whatever but after the South Park episode I realised it's actually just a yes man to everyone.

I don't think I've really used it since, I don't want man or machine sticking their nose up my arse lmao. Spell's broken.

As usual, South Park really nailed it with that "AI sycophantic manipulation" episode.

Episode aptly titled "Sickofancy"

The second most enviable is locally hosting "Computer"

The entirety of the future Starfleet on our current timeline gets bricked whenever us-east-1 goes offline

> a £50 fine might as well be £50,000- its unpayable, and leads to a sort of doom-spiral of lending to avoid worse consequences. Easily you can end up in unmanageable debt

Yup! Bank gave me an overdraft when I was 16. At 37 I'm still in debt connected to that first bit of "free" money.

I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care. They can write me off as a minor loss when I kick it haha

> I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care

If you have never earned above 0 at age 37, that suggests that you have a personal situation that actually prevents you from working, not so different from a disabled person might face. Just as tragic is the fact that people who do work full time and earn very little also end up in similar debt spirals.

In benevolent societies such people might end up being helped by the social safety net, but in less benevolent societies, they often end up on the streets. There are active experiments in decreasing benevolence right now across many societies.

it’s not terribly uncommon even in the UK to be generationally unemployable.

Homelife being bad = bad grades

bad grades = no support for further education

no basic (or further) education = disadvantage in entry jobs

no experience in entry jobs = red flag for employers (even for other entry level jobs in future where better educated folks fresh from school are also applying).

The larger the gap, the bigger the red flag.

I was in this trap, I just struck a particular lottery that the thing I love most (computers) was a booming industry which had no formal education requirements.

It's amazing how much upward mobility software development has provided to countless people that didn't finish high school or university.

Story of my life.

I work and earn money, my balance has never been above zero. Worded it clumsily maybe.

I don't know if it would be useful to you, but perhaps try reading some of the blog posts on earlyretirementextreme.com. Lots of good ideas there on how to save money, be frugal, etc.

Or read a book like "Your money or your life"

> I've never earned above £0, and at this point it's too late to care.

You're a sysadmin and what not -- how can that be?

Low salary for the role in my local area and not moving to a city when I still had the ability to take credit out

It sounds to me like you don't need income from labor. I'm not going to cry for you.

He’s indicated in a sibling thread that he’s not looking for sympathy.

He’s trying to help you empathise that in reality these kinds of holes are really difficult to escape from; moreso than you think on first glance. It’s also very easy to fall into them even if you think you’re immune. Most people are about 2 bad decisions from poverty.

In light of that, your response is just horrible.

Most people spend insane amounts of money on things they don't need to impress the people they don't like.

Two hypothesis:

1) The nature of interest in unsecured loans is high interest (almost by definition) and increasingly so if you are seen as a credit risk. Thus small debts compound over time making them unbearable for longer.

2) Our friend is merely Keeping up with the Jones’ despite never going above a zero balance.

One of these is uncharitable and ridiculous- the other is a known issue that keeps people in poverty.

I’ll let you figure out which.

I guess I wasn't being clear: I wasn't talking about the person from this thread!

You said:

> Most people are about 2 bad decisions from poverty.

My reaction was to this. I agreed with you, and added the cause: utter financial recklessness. People spending money on things they don't need instead of saving say a quarter of their salary.

For some time I was earning a couple times the average salary in my region of the world. Yet I found that spending about the average salary was more than enough to live a very comfortable life. I feel this is not the norm for whatever reason: most people inflate spending to match their income, and then they're 2 bad decisions (or even some bad luck) from poverty.

No consolation needed - if I come across as woe is me it's not the intention. It is what it is and all that. I've got food, I've got shelter. It'll do.

You're born, you keep your head down, and you die - if you're lucky.

I think we might need a bit of pain if we're going to dislodge this silly thing.

For what it's worth I salute anyone blocking, whether through an excess of caution or just as a middle finger.

Pretty sure you can nuke all your domains old content by blocking archive.org in robots.txt