I’m just… not late, and I don’t see why I should practice being disrespectful with other people’s time.

It’s weird to me that their therapist just suggested disrespecting other people’s time like that. Like sure, give yourself grace but… just be late? Why should you change? It’s the tardy people that suck.

I remember most of the R Daneel books, but I admit I haven’t read all the various robot short stories.

The laws were baked into the hardware of their positronic brains. They were so fundamentally interwoven with the structure that you couldn’t build a positronic brain without them.

You can’t expect just whatever random AI to spontaneously decide to follow them.

Like alternating between, mixed drink, or just both cans right to the mouth at once?

It’s also stupid to waste resources to run an inefficient LLM that a regular search and a few minutes of time, along with like a bite of an apple worth of energy, could easily handle.

From what I can tell, running an LLM isn’t really all that energy intensive, it’s the training that takes loads of energy. And it’s not like regular searches don’t use loads of energy to initially index web results.

And this also ignores the gap between having a question, and knowing how to search for the answer. You might not even know where to start. Maybe you can search a vague question, but you’re essentially hoping that somewhere in the first few results is a relevant discussion to get you on the right path. GPT, I find, is more efficient for getting from vague questions to more directed queries.

After all that, you’re going to need to check all those sources chatGPT used anyways, so how much time is it really saving you? At least with Wikipedia I know other people have looked at the same things I’m looking at, and a small percentage of those people will actually correct errors.

I find this attitude much more troubling than responsible LLM use. You should not be trusting tertiary sources, no matter how good their track record, you should be checking the sources used by Wikipedia too. You should always be checking your sources.

Many people aren’t using it as a valid research aid like you point out, they’re just pasting directly out of it onto the internet.

That’s beyond the scope of my argument, and not really much worse than pasting directly from any tertiary source.

Just using the “information” it regurgitates isn’t very useful, which is why I didn’t recommend doing that. Whether the information summarized by Wikipedia and ChatGPT is accurate really isn’t important, you use those tools to find primary sources.

ChatGPT is a moderately useful tertiary source. Quoting Wikipedia isn’t research, but using Wikipedia to find primary sources and reading those is a good faith effort. Likewise, asking ChatGPT in and of itself isn’t research, but it can be a valid research aid if you use it to find relevant primary sources.

If there weren’t poors wallowing around in the street, who are they supposed to toss spare change so they can feel Grateful™?

So spring foods?

That’s part of the point. Destroy the government, and the public’s faith in it, so billionaires can do as they please sans regulations.

Same as it ever was

Yeah “imaginary” isn’t a good name and doesn’t convey what they are. No one is learning about imaginary numbers before being familiar with the Cartesian plane, they’re literally just another number line perpendicular to the reals. Ironically, one could call them “normal” numbers for that reason. But really any synonym for “perpendicular” would be better than “imaginary”. I think “orthogonal numbers” has a nice ring to it.

Yeah he’s an idiot and his party is stupid, but I see it as a net benefit. He’ll either peel votes off Republicans, or he’ll get RCV.

This country is an aircraft carrier, not a canoe, and the only way it drastically changes direction in a short time is if someone starts blowing holes in the bottom of it.

A perfect illustration. Politics is slow. It may seem like things are moving quickly in this administration, but the groundwork to get to this point took generations of propaganda and power concentration. Even if by some miracle, a leftist third party won the White House, they wouldn’t have the foundation necessary to actually do anything. The push to the left is going to be a slow process, and the first several election cycles are going to look a lot like milquetoast liberalism.

It is not, it has a tower agitator and works great.

Maytag has one good model too.

Even impoverished Americans have a relatively high standard of living, globally speaking. People are struggling, but they generally have a roof over their heads and don’t have to eat their pets. We’re not where we should be by any measure, but we’re also nowhere near the levels of desperation that push people to armed revolt.

Eh, bread and circuses. People are still relatively comfortable and complacent.

In the future, all establishments are Taco Bell

Disco Elysium was so stress free for me, I didn’t really think the day counter did anything.

It didn’t bother me at all, because I felt like I did about everything I could every day.