Small bite for me please

And then the rest of it

So the first knocker-upper was late

Thought it could be a liability sometimes! Maybe that ship sailed

Language doesn’t translate word for word. Phrases don’t translate natively. But AI will still just translate word for word instead of structures of phrases.

[emphasis mine]

Expected to read “traditional translation tools” here!

Since old Google Translate was terribly unnatural but now…[0]

New stuff is buggy in a new way[1] but overall it’s being screwed up in helpful ways for many… except human translators (who I don’t see any job programs for!) :-/

[0] Ancient article

[1] “output [is] often…homogeneous, blind to local details, or flat-out wrong“

Cut off on Voyager iOS:

paranoid

Mm who wants to rely on someone keeping a verbal promise when it says in writing something like your privacy is at stake?

Download a little offline Wiki for rainy days folks!

I take connectivity for granted but shouldn’t. Batteries charged, books on the shelf, offline games and media stored locally…

I wonder if there’s a parallel universe where the labs instead went to the other extreme and require intelligence tests to onboard to their platforms.

And the outcry is, not inappropriately, about how many are being denied access to the latest technologies. The policy could effectively be construed as racist, even.

Anyway the middle ground there is pretty obvious. (Though I’m not sure how I’d design it just right, so e.g. folks without access to traditional/expensive mental healthcare might still be able to see some small benefit if it’s determined to be safe, just like maybe it could be safe for a well-adjusted individual to complain to it about their day for a couple minutes before moving on to real things. Sure I suppose it’s inherently unsafe but a proportion of the population should be making that decision for themselves.)

I just tried this with ChatGPT three days ago and there’s a chance they have tried to make it slightly less sycophantic

I was essentially trying to get it to tell me I was the smartest baby born in whatever year like that YouTuber—different example but it was so resistant to agreeing to me or my idea or whatever being unique/exceptional.

Hope this is a specific direction and not random chance, A/B testing, etc.

Uh-oh

Fascinating.

Oof yes article mentioned, disturbing

Heads up: that YouTube thumbnail is NSFW, also a little disturbing (esp for our post-speciesism friends), poor smart little pigs

(breaking the URL like YouTube[.]com also eliminates thumbnails]

Looks like we gotta fix that redirecting BoarTaint dot com citation link [2] on Wiki

Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty and the tables needed wiping down. The software was also attached to the time clock, so it knew who was working in the restaurant. Manna also had “help buttons” throughout the restaurant. Small signs on the buttons told customers to push them if they needed help or saw a problem. There was a button in the restroom that a customer could press if the restroom had a problem. There was a button on each trashcan. There was a button near each cash register, one in the kiddie area and so on. These buttons let customers give Manna a heads up when something went wrong.

[…]

Or, “Jane, when you are through with this customer, please close your register. Then we will clean the women’s restroom.”

And so on. The employees were told exactly what to do, and they did it quite happily. It was a major relief actually, because the software told them precisely what to do step by step.

Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Marshall Brain

Walking past a Taco Bell it seems someone competent implemented the system—seems to understand people just as well as the best software I’m aware of can.

Here is a longer excerpt from the opinion by Holmes:1

It is true, as indicated in the last cited case, that every exaction of money for an act is a discouragement to the extent of the payment required, but that which in its immediacy is a discouragement may be part of an encouragement when seen in its organic connection with the whole. Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure.

Mastercardery & Visary processes too

As a noob, those little wrappers are great.

Well, I just started considering multi-tools and attachment heads and all that :)

Good point, right!