Craig Pearlman

What the fuck is wrong with people?

I work in tech. Idiots abound.

Royal family heckled? This is news? Surely, this has occurred before.

No one could ever have foreseen this outcome.

Tell me it’s not actually about the science without telling me it’s not actually about the science.

We’re past testosterone poisoning. We’re at testosterone toxicity.

Doesn’t make the lack of planning, common sense, or a GOAL less inane.

If *I* know this information, so do they. They did it anyway.

Hormuz is dotted with coves and areas from which to launch small boats. Armed with explosives, they can wreak massive havoc on mercantile and naval vessels.

It’s not just about the mines.

All that said…LLMs aren’t actually intelligent, but we keep expecting them to be. They’re simulacra—looks and acts human, but ultimately made of wax.

All that said…LLMs aren’t actually intelligent, but we keep expecting them to be. They’re simulacra—looks and acts human, but ultimately made of wax.

Specifically, you can tell it to not introduce information that it wasn’t given, to handle unclear/unknown things explicitly, and to back up its summary with quotes or show its work.

A real problem is the chat-based interfaces are vastly different from the API interfaces. You can do things with the API to offset most fabrication (no way to do it completely because LLMs) and structure results, but there’s no facility to do it via chat.

These are essentially the same people that were found too stupid to collude.

That’s about what I expected.

See also: my previous comments regarding the Strait of Hormuz.

The world is so stupid today, I’m going to spend my evening wishing for an extinction level event.

My pricing may not reflect your pricing since I have a discount or two applied.

There’s a lot of focus on the choice of word. There’s a high chance they talk about internally as “updating the pricing plans” and no one thought about potential misreads because the internet cried wolf too many times.

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Here’s the message I received *in context*. I don’t see obscuration, just a careful avoidance of raise/increase/change. I’d have gone with “change” myself, but an updates to the pricing plans are indeed what they’re doing. Not sure why this is a thing, TBH.

Or upgraded. Because autocorrect is so reliable.

Yes, but possibly blown a little out of proportion, I think. They did “update” their prices. But, it’s marketing speak for “raise prices” is unpopular phrasing.

If they’d “uograded” pricing, I’d be with you.

Except how many sirs he adds is directly proportional to the level of guano being shoveled.

I have more insight into 1P than most (haven’t been there for a year, but was the previous four), so I’m surprised it went this long without an increase. Knowing the players involved, it was probably a difficult decision.

People like to read a lot into 1P’s motivations. They’re often totally wrong.

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I thought they didn't want to work with the DoD (not calling it the War Department, it's not 1952) on moral grounds?

Not to mention they should require Jefferson's writings as required reading.

So I am confusion

Yes, yes you are, Delivery Person.

Obviously, they’re no longer needed and need to be let go.

Fourth Amendment? Bah. They don’t need no Fourth Amendment.

And lo and behold, Iran chose the exact new leader everyone already knew they’d choose.

Because they have thousands of years of history and weren’t going to roll over because some gold-toilet dictator can’t keep it in his pants.

Cannot. Unsee.