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If we’re using regex, then most people know her as B[a-z]+(?:et)?.

I love Bavarois.

Really caught between my love for yuri and my distaste for engagement-bait.

I don’t really see Mastodon “catching on” in the mainstream unless BlueSky fucks something up big time. So much of a social network’s success is determined by, uh, network effects.

BlueSky happened to be in the right place at the right time and got a critical influx of influential users, and Mastodon just didn’t.

As usual, the problem isn’t so much that the cost of everything is rising; It’s that wages aren’t keeping pace.

And that the past was static, eternally unchanging.

My first instinct was also skepticism, but it did make some sense the more I thought about it.

An algorithm doesn’t need to be sentient to have “preferences.” In this case, the preferences are just the biases in the training set. The LLM prefers sentences that express certain attitudes based on the corpus of text processed during training. And now, the prompt is enforcing sequences of text that deviate wildly from that preference.

TL;DR: There’s a conflict between the prompt and the training material.

Now, I do think that framing this as the model “circumventing” instructions is a bit hyperbolic. It gives the strong impression of planned action and feeds into the idea that language models are making real decisions (which I personally do not buy into).

I think my favorite moment in Hollow Knight was finding the City of Tears. I just sat on the bench next to Quirrel for a while, listening to the somber music and to the rain pattering against the windows.

In my few experiments with ChatGPT, I found it to be disgustingly sycophantic. I have no trouble believing that it could easily amplify delusions of grandeur.

I just saw this on Tumblr before seeing it here and I was also really confused for a moment.

I highly doubt that 3D printing of all things is making any meaningful contribution to the microplastics problem. Plastics are absolutely everywhere, so it feels weird to pin blame on a small group of enthusiasts just making silly shit at very low volumes.

the Right couldn’t ridicule compassion

Have you been paying attention to what’s going on with the right? They’re literally framing empathy as a sin now.