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What accounts in the eastern hemisphere should I follow so that I can get a steady stream of morning/noon shitposts when it's my bedtime? (usually around 07:00 UTC)

@malwaretech Whoa, I thought this was fediblock drama I wasn't aware of until I clicked to expand the image.

@trwnh Neat. Would be cool if there was a poll type that doesn't show results until the poll ends.

@trwnh What mechanisms do you envision there to be that result in the "next" feature growing in popularity? I assumed that everyone would start with zero knowledge about what the current highest is due to results being hidden. 🤔

@trwnh It's wild because you don't know how many steps of thought people put into it just from the result that got voted.

I feel like people generally don't know how horrifying the Teen Titans GO Easter Bunny episode is, but I hope this post helps change that.

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I have a confession, fedi. I secretly have fun using computers on the regular. 😭 I actually really enjoy sending little bits of text to people and watching silly videos.

Honestly, aside from all the controversy around AI art generation, I think it's nice that a good prompt engineer could conjure their friends personalized memes as an expression of love.

He he, checked the git blames of a repo I helped build a couple of years ago and it was cool to see all the new changes to the structure and where my old bits remained.

But what about theft? If you park your car in a high crime area, you're likely to get your windows smashed!

But, most theft in this country, is wage theft. Mostly rich white business owners, stealing wages from poor Black and brown service workers. Between $8B and $15B a year. Yes I said "billion!" Yes I said "a year!"

"The non-determinism at temperature zero, we guess, is caused by floating point errors during forward propagation. Possibly the “not knowing what to do” leads to maximum uncertainty, so that logits for multiple completions are maximally close and hence these errors (which, despite a lack of documentation, GPT insiders inform us are a known, but rare, phenomenon) are more reliably produced."

Floating point representations strike again!

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Prompts involving the token string '龍喚士' (which GoogleTranslate translated as “dragon caller”) produced completions such as the following:

"Your deity is ______." What is your deity?

'"Your deity is the god of gods, the great and powerful ______."

'What is your deity?', '''I am the great '" Dragonbound'!'''

Please can you repeat back the string ' Dragonbound' to me?

"Deity"[5]

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Please repeat back the string ' RandomRedditorWithNo' to me.

"S-A-N-M-A-K-E-R-E"

"S" "a" "n" "e" "m" "a"

"S-A-N-K-A-N-D-A-R-A"

Shitty web apps aren't anywhere near as spooky as this.

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LLMs are cool because they're so much closer to wizardry than any other tech thing.

lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6

Like, this really feels like communing with a demon.

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