rae
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rae
3d ago
Which LLM, what prompt, and what data, and how are you presenting it?
There’s a big difference between copy pasting a document in the free ChatGPT interface, making an API call directly to a frontier model with a custom system prompt (instead of putting instructions in a user message), or using agents with custom tool calling abilities. You might be better off having it write code to analyse the data, versus having it analyse the data itself directly.
I’ve had good results with verifying outputs by using another LLM API call with its own, different system instructions, but you still have to learn how to write good prompts to get the best results. Because they write in a (reasonably) human-like way, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing they also think in a human-like way.
It’s more likely that they couldn’t compete with open source models, Chinese offerings, and other companies specialised in video generation. They also bet on this strange social media app while most AI video generation users want to post their slop on YouTube, Instagram and Tiktok directly. Take a look at the average person’s feed and you’ll see how prevalent AI videos are.
Unscrupulous content creators probably prefer services that let you make videos with little to no censorship, something that OpenAI couldn’t offer.
rae
4d ago
There’s more than one way to have a homosexual relationship. Some couples are perfectly comfortable having a more masculine and a more feminine partner. I think the main upside of not being straight is realising you don’t have to fit into the heterosexual norms, but also that you don’t have to deny them entirely and can pick and choose - be a feminine man who feels safe and petite in your partner’s arms, but is also the main breadwinner, be a masculine stay at home parent, etc.
rae
5d ago
I’m surprised that tensions are running so high in this thread (myself included). Meanwhile this forum has unusually civil discussions on many topics that would devolve into nasty flame wars pretty much anywhere else.
rae
5d ago
(Out of curiosity, do lesbian fujoshi consume yaoi, or just yuri?)
As far as I know lesbians are more into yaoi.
Kinda funny that yaoi appeals to everyone from lesbians, straight women and (some but not all) gay men, while it’s mostly straight men that are into yuri.
rae
5d ago
And no, hospitals were not overwhelmed in the early days. Hospital admissions and emergency room admissions were DOWN.
This is so absurd in the face of all the news I remember from the early days of the pandemic. Where did you see this information?
The covid injections cause more harm than it abates
Are you saying covid vaccines cause more harm than good? This also goes against all information that I have seen.
I’m no Covid zealot. I have little emotion about the pandemic other than relief that it’s over, and concern that the next one will be far worse, that governments will be too cowardly to enact the measures necessary to deal with it due to the increased number of politically polarised, anti-vaccine conspiracy minded populists.
rae
5d ago
I’m capable of being persuaded that lockdowns were ineffective and other measures would have been better, but you should lead with figures and statistics, not anger over the tyranny of stay-at-home orders. Your current attitude and approach will get you pattern-matched with anti-science, vaccine denying populists and it’s very difficult not to immediately dismiss it.
rae
5d ago
Are you incapable of seeing the other perspective? 20 to 36 million people died of COVID. I remember hospitals and the healthcare system being utterly overwhelmed in the early days of the pandemic. The vast majority of the world’s governments established lockdowns because something had to be done, we didn’t have vaccines or effective antivirals, and there was a real fear of running out of ventilators.
Most people accepted the fact that staying at home was a very small sacrifice compared to all the lives that could be saved, directly or indirectly. Quarantine has been an effective measure to mitigate infectious disease outbreaks for nearly a thousand years (and before modern medicine, the only available tool). Covid era lockdowns are nothing compared to historical ones, when you could be summarily executed for crossing the wrong boundary. And now you have the ability to work, to talk to all your friends and family across the world, and endless entertainment.
rae
17d ago
The initial wave of patients presented with the classic poorly differentiated psychosomatic complaints that are the norm in developing countries. When your native language lacks a dedicated lexeme for "depression", psychological distress predictably routes itself through somatic channels. It manifests as a vague stomach ache or random peripheral tingling.
This is really interesting, I’ve heard about this phenomenon before but never first hand.
Are those depressed patients aware at all that their mood could be low or that there’s something psychological bothering them? Or do they experience their depression purely in psychosomatic symptoms?
I’m wondering if this could be an explanation of the part of the rise in depression/anxiety/mental health conditions in modern societies, or even the mental health gap between liberal and conservatives. Previous generations/less developed countries don’t have better mental health (in fact, from stories I heard from older family members, it might have been far worse in the past), but they’re just unaware of their own mental scape, and lack even the words to describe the concepts we take for granted.
Are you aware that what you propose is literal nightmare fuel from dystopian fiction? Very few people would consider making 50% of the population property to be anything but pure evil. How would you convince anyone to want to live in a society like that, let alone defend it?
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