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by Dave_LF
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
Replies: 320
Views: 60060

Re: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:39 pm More fodder for Trump's attorneys. I really think that the NY Times and the Washington Post are on his payroll.
: strokes beard in wizard : His arm has grown long.

Just unsure whether "he" is T himself or the various people who own him.
by Dave_LF
Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases
Replies: 2011
Views: 534103

Re: The Russia Investigations and other Trump-related cases

Belittling Trump for being trapped beneath crushing debt is not the way to win voters over. Pointing out all the things the Biden administration has done to assist debtors and publicly directing him toward programs that could help would have been far more effective.
by Dave_LF
Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

IMO, ChatGPT should not be used for fact-finding at all. It is not a search engine, and it does not have the power to look things up on the internet. As a first approximation, it relies on its "memory" to answer questions, and its memory is subject to all the same problems a person's is--t...
by Dave_LF
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
Replies: 269
Views: 27559

Re: Trump and others charged with conspiring to overturn 2020 election in Georgia

One tried to overthrow the US government, one failed to fill out the HR forms for an office romance. Guess who gets punished? What a crock; Trump doesn't deserve to win, but his pusillanimous "opponents" certainly deserve to lose. This is a critical moment in history--Putin and Trump are w...
by Dave_LF
Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Chaos in Congress
Replies: 595
Views: 49513

Re: Chaos in Congress

If they're truly concerned about Chinese companies having too much influence over Americans' lives, maybe they should start with manufacturing instead of social media.
by Dave_LF
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:38 pm
Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
Topic: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions
Replies: 4715
Views: 321991

Re: Games, Riddles, Puzzles, and other Distractions

I do not care for Neognathae
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by Dave_LF
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Intelligence Leak Exposes US Spying
Replies: 27
Views: 4076

Re: Intelligence Leak Exposes US Spying

WWII was too long ago for people to remember that Nazis are bad
by Dave_LF
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:49 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Replies: 991
Views: 92405

Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Every time I see a headline along the lines of "Biden administration responds to latest Russian atrocity by imposing additional sanctions on...", all I can think is why the h3|! weren't you doing that already.
by Dave_LF
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

Not the free version (DALL-E can do that sort of thing), but it can invent and describe them.
by Dave_LF
Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

Now that I have more experience with it, it's a little easier to recognize that a bunch of its responses are just (extremely) wordy versions of "404 Not Found". By far, its strongest use case is generating original text where a bit of absurdity is a feature rather than a bug. If you ask it...
by Dave_LF
Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:45 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

So pre-GPT messageboard text could become the equivalent of low-background steel (I feel a bit like a bot right now in that I’m not sure if I’m making that up or read it somewhere before). we might be sitting on a goldmine here. :D
by Dave_LF
Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:55 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

All in all, I'd say it is shockingly good at generating text from a prompt and will follow whatever proddings you give it (until you try to make it stop being so nice). But it is dangerously bad at explaining what something means, providing facts about a requested subject, or critiquing existing wri...
by Dave_LF
Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

Seconds. Also, I've found some boundaries: ascii.png music.png . It's also very cool that it can explain its choices. It's been a longstanding problem in AI that you end up with a model that makes predictions, but there's no way for you or it to understand or describe why it does what it does. Along...
by Dave_LF
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:38 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

Stayed up way too late testing its creativity with various bizarre requests: The fellowship of the ring arguing about whether balrogs have wings: Frodo: So, do Balrogs have wings or not? Gimli: Of course they do! What else do you think those massive shadows were, sweeping through the halls of Moria?...
by Dave_LF
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:28 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

Certainly! Here's an 18th-century style advertisement for mithril, using the long s symbol: --- **Advertisement** **To All Gentlemen and Ladies of Distinction** **The Wonders of Mithril** By the Providence of the Most High, the rare and wondrous metal known as Mithril hath been discovered in abunda...
by Dave_LF
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:39 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

Mithril, unfortunately, is a fictional metal from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and does not exist in the real world. However, if you're looking for high-quality metal products or jewelry, you can explore reputable jewelers and metalworkers who specialize in crafting precious metals such as silver,...
by Dave_LF
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:20 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

A bit spooked now. Asked it to write a sonnet about the Mines of Moria: In depths where shadows dwell, beneath the earth, Where ancient halls of stone lay silent, cold, The Mines of Moria, of fabled worth, A tale of glory lost, of tales untold. Within these halls, where once the dwarves did delve, A...
by Dave_LF
Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:16 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Replies: 79
Views: 7969

AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!

I asked for a press release about the 2024 elections in Gondor, and it came up with something serviceable but rather bland; at least until the end: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GONDOR DECLARES 2024 ELECTIONS: A QUEST FOR A NEW STWARD Minas Tirith, Gondor - February 20, 2024 - The realm of Gondor, in the wa...
by Dave_LF
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 936
Views: 69801

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

That same system is I believe a canonical example of the paradox where light fines lead to more of the undesired behavior (in this case, leaving your cart in the lot instead of returning it to the corral), because it lets people feel that they've paid for the right to do it.