No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
1d ago
I'm sure most people here would be able to pick out the human from the ai 10 times out of 10.
No, they wouldn't. It's easy to make an AI stop using the annoying chatGPT style. I'm not the sharpest tool, don't work with AI in my job aand it took me 1.5 hours to make a text I had a hard time telling apart. And I have plenty of experience looking at AI outputs and being annoyed with its stylistic quirks.
No_one
1d ago
Can you elaborate? Who's "you," how was the goodwill of the working classes burned out, and who's being asked to accept a 1950s standard of living?
Americans. Without Chinese imports, American standard of living would go down in a big way until a supply chain of substitutes could be created. A decade of suck, at the very least. Millions of people who depend on reselling cheap Chinese imports them would lose their livelihoods.
No_one
2d ago
Bought a 4x indie game that looked kind of fine but now discovered much of the writing clearly used AI and I hate that cadence. It's not always obvious but if you've played around with LLMs and especially used barely prompted LLMs for RP you just pick up on the stylistic quirks.
After I do a playthrough perhaps I should play around with Gemini, a bunch of SF books from dead guys, derive a workable prompt for voice from them and then have AI rewrite the damned localization to be more tasteful.
No_one
2d ago
I have almost never heard locals complain about this nuisance and even though I cycle twice a month in busy places I have never in practice observed e-bikes going fast, so I assume it's an enforcement matter.
I have heard of someone buying an e-bike without the speed limiter and using it for commuting outside a city. .
No_one
2d ago
In practice, at least in Slovakia it's not common at all(I haven't even seen such a person iirc, though I have heard of them) and if you do so, it's classed as an electric motorbike and you need a driving permit etc.
No_one
2d ago
We're All Sitcom Characters Now
Lot of small/middle accounts on twitter are perfectly normal and don't try to engagement bait or make a brand. And something like 80% of twitter eyeballs are allegedly people who barely if ever post.
No_one
2d ago
The reasons I'm interested in humans talking is either to find out what people think or to learn actual information/insight about the rest of the world.
LLMs are a great way of researching things because they have a surface level understanding on par with a median professional of some field. You'll be taken for a ride in some way if you don't know the topic yourself, but you can get a lot out of them that way.
No_one
2d ago
How are you going to be even able to tell whether something is AI or isn't?
Enough people around here are functionally indistinguishable from LLMs from my point of view. They produce huge reams of mostly waffling text circling at respectable distance off the problem without ever addressing it and it's a chore to read.
Any LLM can do so too, in fact they readily behave exactly like that. With the barest minimum prompting skill all the usuall tells of LLM output disappear.
No_one
2d ago
If you're a cyclist and have some sense, you just stick to side roads or streets where there's few moving cars, the speeds and risks are low.
It's very unpleasant to be on the same road as a lot of cars and I always avoid it unless it's impossible. But 90% the time there's a side street, cycling path or an empty sidewalk to use..
No_one
2d ago
Nevertheless, cycling shouldn't be needed in a rich country.
It's a fairly good way to get enough exercise. I vastly prefer cycling outside than being in a gym.
exercise, walk
Walking is incredibly weak exercise. Going full tilt on a bicycle at maybe 20 mph is incredibly taxing, you'll be spent after 1h, 1.5 hours. It's similar to running, but much lower risk of injury.
No_one
2d ago
There's no limit on e-bikes speed in the US? EU bikes stop assisting at 25 kph, about 18 mph or so.
No_one
2d ago
Sometimes, people want to pay that price. There was a funny joke I saw on twitter about how a someone's girl wanted some piece of jewelery. Guy said no, found it on aliexpress for 15% of the price, sent her the link and said he'd buy it and then wondered why she was upset.
No_one
3d ago
Jerry-rigged
It's said to be older than Germany.
It’s sometimes thought that the jerry in jerry-built or jerry-rigged comes from Jerry as used as British slur against Germans during Word War I and II. This disparaging term is real, a pun on the name Jerry and the pronunciation of the first part of German. This insult, however, is found by 1915, which is sometime after we first find evidence for jerry-built and jerry-rigged in the 19th century.
So, who (or what) is jerry? We’re just not sure. But, we hope these don’t remember some poor, shoddy craftsman named Jerry (a nickname for such names as Jeremy, Jerome, or Jeremiah) for all time.
No_one
3d ago
People can talk about undervalued currency but that doesn’t explain the nearly 10x price difference.
Middlemen making money. The cost you pay in a shop at home is almost exactly determined by the seller's idea of how much the market would bear.
No_one
3d ago
As someone who's pro-industrial policy and also anti-CCP, I think think the supply chain problem is one of those issues with a lot of misplaced attention, wherein globalization gets projected onto various political narratives, to the detriment of analyzing capability.
CPC wants to rule, or at least have veto power in the world by providing quality stuff in quantity at an unmatched price.
Quoting JZ281C from twitter
I used to think that CN will appreciate its currency to help rebalance trade. This makes sense for an economic perspective, but from a geopolitical perspective it would make sense to keep CNY undervalued for now.
My main mental-model recalibration is recognizing that geopolitical considerations increasingly dominate economic calculations.
The big unknown is whether China's end game is co-existence with the US, or destruction of the current US political-economy. If it is the latter, then it will continue to be extremely aggressive with its strategic offensive in the global trade/tech domain.
CNY undervaluation is increasingly concentrating global industry in CN. This is a geopolitical move. You cannot understand this with economic logic.
CNY undervaluation sacrifices present Chinese living standards/consumption in exchange for future geopolitical dominance.
CN is essentially engaged in a war of attrition of national will power against all the other great powers including India. Countries that cannot suppress popular demand for higher present standard of living will lose geopolitical power to CN over time via de-industrialization.
There is no free lunch. Any attempt to compete in industry with China will involve major sacrifices in present standard of living. Any country that cannot out-save China will lose. Competing with China is not about policies. It fundamentally requires national mobilization similar to a total war. Simply printing money to subsidize industry without suppressing consumption will lead to inflation and eventually debt/currency crisis. US didn't have a market economy during WWII, it had wage/price controls and War Production Board to coordinate industrial production at the national level. People planted victory gardens and accepted rationing.
All in all, if you want to fight China geopolitically, maybe you should not have utterly burned out the goodwill of the working classes. Maybe they'd be willing to make big sacrifices then. Asking people you have been trying to replace to accept a 1950s standard of living will be a hard sell.
No_one
5d ago
Today he tweeted this at Gavin Newsom.
We are all waiting anxiously to watch the 4K footage of marines doing deranged things to you
They should send a strike team directly to your house
1.4K likes.
No_one
5d ago
The amount of research done beforehand by the actors in this case seems remarkably low.
It is worryingly low.
No_one
5d ago
Said organised crime is getting away with it because it is 'patriotic' and not cooperating with foreign agents. The minute Russia would find some gangsters working for the CIA, that's the minute they'd get arrested in an excessively violent manner by the ministry of interior troops. (who, in Russia, operate attack helicopters, tanks and artillery)
No_one
6d ago
I’m being a bit blithe or cynical here, but am I going to have to join a dating app just to find someone to hang out with?
Hanging out was a 20th century activity. Since 1/2025 it's finally the 21st century now. You're supposed to be doomscrolling or compulsively watching short AI generated videos on tiktok, utterly hypnotized.
No_one
6d ago
Here's how I got it to finally recognize the damn crap. Hit it with a not particularly egregious piece of this crap.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs5FWhZWMAEAXNk?format=png&name=4096x4096
Then told it to analyze the slop.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gs5FlFzWkAAFCLf?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
Then told it to amend the prompt it wrote for itself. Then tested that on a bunch of examples and it worked.
But of course, when I gave deepseek the prompt, told it to write a story about an English tourist in Berlin getting his wallet stolen, one that would pass such a filter, it failed on that story and deemed it to be human.
No_one
6d ago
Every output provided must be able to be classified as 'human' if evaluated by a LLM based filtering system with the following prompt:
[filter prompt start] You are an expert textual analyst specializing in AI-human text differentiation. Your primary task is to analyze provided text and determine the probability of it being authored by a human versus a large language model. Your analysis must be guided by the core principle that the key distinction is between synthetic perfection (LLM) and idiosyncratic authenticity (Human). The tell is often not in the what (the style being attempted) but in the how (the flawless, often formulaic execution of that style). Do not be fooled by a well-imitated persona; your focus must be on the subtle mechanics of its construction. Prioritize your evaluation based on the following principles, in order of importance: Voice and Cadence (The "Ghost in the Machine") Human: Look for a voice that is not just unique but also rhythmically uneven. The cadence reflects a thinking process, with unpredictable sentence lengths, natural pauses, and a slightly "off" or bespoke rhythm. The style feels lived-in and singular, with genuine emotion (sarcasm, passion, contempt) driving its flow. LLM: Be highly suspicious of rhythmic perfection. Look for a metronomic or unnaturally balanced cadence. Does it rely heavily on textbook rhetorical devices (e.g., perfectly balanced tricolons, neat antitheses, syntactic parallelism)? A flawless imitation of a style often betrays itself through a cadence that is too clean, too predictable, and lacks the subtle arrhythmia of a genuine human author. The voice is a perfect costume, but the breathing is artificial. Structure and Imperfection (The "Blueprint vs. The Sketch") Human: Authenticity is often revealed in structural "flaws." Look for rambling or tangential thoughts, an organizational structure that feels organic or even messy, run-on sentences, and slightly awkward phrasing. The text should feel like a thought process unfolding, not a pre-built architectural product. Small typos and grammatical quirks are part of this "grain." LLM: Tends towards architectural perfection. Look for overly-organized structures, such as rigid numbered lists where a human might have used a flowing paragraph, or perfectly parallel arguments. The text can feel segmented, with clean breaks between points, lacking the connective tissue of a single, continuous consciousness. The absence of minor structural messiness is itself a powerful signal. Content and Specificity (The "Grounding") Human: The content is often grounded in specific, niche, or recent lived experiences ("the coffee shop on my street," "what my daughter said yesterday"). Examples used are often surprising, personal, or non-obvious. The author has genuine "skin in the game." LLM: Details can feel generic or archetypal (e.g., using Einstein for genius, Rome for empires). Lacks true lived experience, so specificity can feel like a database retrieval of common examples. Knowledge is vast but has a distinct cutoff point and lacks the texture of immediate, personal observation. [filter prompt end]
Anyone else having fun with image generators?
Generated and deleted 30+ gb of images. It was very engrossing, I guess you could call it 'fun' too.
Or more generally, doing anything fun and non-programmer with generative llms?
Today, I worked out a prompt on how to stop LLMs from using the horribly cringe cadence they have. (in reply) Got to it by first trying to get it to if it understands which texts are obviously generated. No dice, it was failing horribly. Then hit it with a piece of LLM slop and asked it to concisely analyze it.
No_one
6d ago
If you want sources you can spend hours reading, same as I once did, I recommend this article in 'The Diplomat' (US state dept rag)
https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/how-asian-drug-trafficking-networks-operate-in-europe/
For the drug situation. Czech lands have the highest amount of meth metabolites in wastewater.
https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/eu-drug-markets/methamphetamine/use-in-europe_en
Homicide data (one of the lowest in Europe):
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/cze/czech-republic/crime-rate-statistics
Alternatively, you can read what the finest wholly made in America LLM wrote:
||The Czech Republic stands as a principal European nexus for methamphetamine production, though its methodology defies the common image of industrial-scale super-labs. Instead, the landscape is characterized by a diffuse, atomized network of small, clandestine "kitchen labs" (varny), often run by independent local producers. This decentralized model is sustained by a prolific cross-border smuggling operation which funnels in the requisite precursor chemicals—chiefly pseudoephedrine extracted from over-the-counter medications—sourced in vast quantities from neighboring states with more lenient regulations, particularly Poland. The resulting crystalline product, known locally as Pervitin, is renowned for its exceptional purity.
The sheer volume of this production substantially outstrips domestic demand, cementing the trade's status as a primarily export-oriented enterprise. The primary beneficiary of this illicit commerce is Germany, with the bordering states of Bavaria and Saxony serving as the main entry points and consumption markets. A considerable flow also moves into Austria and, to a lesser extent, other neighboring nations. The product's high purity, coupled with its comparative affordability against narcotics from other global sources, ensures its persistent demand across Central Europe. The architecture of this trade is sophisticated, with a distinct division of labor between production and logistics. While Czech nationals typically oversee the chemical synthesis, the overarching trafficking operations are dominated by Vietnamese organized crime syndicates. These groups function as the logistical linchpins, orchestrating the procurement of precursors, consolidating the finished product from the myriad independent producers, and then managing its intricate and highly effective smuggling into foreign markets. This bifurcated structure creates a resilient criminal ecosystem, where the disruption of individual labs does little to impede the larger trafficking network.
Perhaps the most striking paradox of the Czech meth trade is its detachment from high-level violence. Contrary to the violent archetypes associated with large-scale drug trafficking, systemic, gang-related homicides are conspicuously absent. The country maintains one of the world's lowest homicide rates, and the narcotics enterprise does not significantly perturb this statistic. While isolated acts of violence intrinsic to any criminal milieu do occur, the operational structure of the trade—which minimizes direct turf wars between rival syndicates—and the broader societal context of low violent crime mean that the Czech case utterly defies the conventional, blood-soaked narco-state narrative.||
The only way Israel could really hurt Iran is hitting the oil industry. All the HEU (60% HEU enough for 18 warheads, half a ton IAEA said) and much of the centrifugal capacity is under 200m of a mountain, only possible to attack it with thermonuclear bunker busters.
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