Literally all the ordering for stores uses the internet now; we’d be absolutely fucked for a good while if the internet actually went down in the USA.

So you know how when you’re interacting with an AI bot (chatgpt/copilot or Gemini or Claude etc) you have a chat history with it and it “remembers” its previous output and can reference it if you ask follow up stuff.

You can use that behavior to try to get the model to give you a better answer by having it “think” about the prompt you fed it either by asking further probing questions or honing your initial prompt in or staying “hey this thing you wrote doesn’t make sense” and it’ll try to fix it.

Well what this does is just takes the initial prompt and keeps feeding it to the bot after it spits out the response. Then it keeps doing that again and again with the same prompt. The idea is that it makes the AI look at it more and more and that the AI can “learn” from itself and make the output better.

In other words, it’s like if you just copied your prompt and after every response to it just pasted it back in and sent it on through again.

I’m very skeptical this works well but I’m not an expert in LLM or how they work, I just know enough about how they work to know this AI craze is most assuredly a market bubble.

Ok … So you’re mad I said you’re not a Libertarian and now you’re just explaining how you’re not a Libertarian?

Yeah … I know someone else already said this but you’re absolutely not a Libertarian. So, good news, you can throw that box out and realign your language.

Also, I get that it’s a talking point but I think everyone believes in a fiscally responsible government. It’s just some weird right wing double think trick people say to imply the other side does not want that when in reality the Dems (if we’re framing this through an American lens) want fiscal responsibility just as much as any other party or persons.

Hamboning will save your life one day!

(All I could think when I read the title)

Learning some chemistry basics is probably still good though. Not that we’re using it daily but just in the “hey mixing this stuff can kill you” or, in the same vein, seeing how it only requires small amounts to make big changes.

We’re surrounded by chemicals in our everyday lives, learning a healthy fear of them is probably for the best.

Also high school is meant to prepare you for further education, if you want to pursue that, so it really does cover a lot of ground for basic concepts you need to learn to understand and gain further education in whatever field applies.

Yeah it’s wild how fucked our economy is.

The divorce of worker productivity from worker pay leading to the huge wealth gap we see today is really bad for everyone but the 1%.

Well … fuck, I just got done grabbing the BLS inflation calculation for .25 from 1973 and that’s $3.05 today but your post is just already here making me feel silly for even thinking about commenting.

Cool stats though, it’s interesting to see how the cost has more or less stayed in line with inflation. I think that’s what you’d expect to see with most commodities from that time to now, but I’m also an idiot who got like a C in my macroeconomics class so I don’t really know.

A new party either keeping the Republican name or changing it to be more fitting but idk what that would be.

It’s kind of an echo of what happened with the Whig party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)

Someone else gave a link to it:

https://anarchist.nexus/comment/1720298 < comment

https://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/RAFT/RAFTpapers/Examples/nocomment.pdf. < The actual paper

You’re right it was crazy to read. It’s wild what people will do, I was actually impressed by the other case they cited that was similar where a guy got concrete poured in and it cured. They were able to give him relaxers and get the concrete out without surgery. Too bad the glue stuck to the inner walls and couldn’t get taken out without surgery. What an absolutely wild thing to put up your ass though - like I’m not here to shame anyone but just put stuff up there that’s not gonna fucking kill you.

Thank you! I like reading bizarre stuff sometimes and this sounds crazy. Another commenter said the paper was comedy gold so let’s see what it’s all about.

Edit: Best part is the last sentence of the whole paper saying patients should be offered psychological help. “yo, heard you were shoving stuff up your asshole you should not be, wanna talk about it?”

Yeah it’s a bummer. History is full of shitty stuff, too much of it is the same as now. Also if you study history or sociology any you start to see that humans, no matter how we organize ourselves, fall into sadly predictable patterns by stubbornly refusing to learn the lessons of our past.

I know this is a little off topic but I’m tired of the whole “Nazis were well organized and ran things like a well oiled machine” trope because it’s just fantasy.

There were a ton of rather inept people in office, plenty of idiots running amock and the military structure was a joke where people who had no business playing commander got to make life and death decisions.

Like I really encourage anyone to just do some more reading on how the whole government and military was organized and the cascade of errors that came about because of it. There is a reason the third Reich lasted only 12 years and it’s not just because they made bad decisions in the lead up to and during world war 2.