People understand the concept of liars and bad faith actors. People don’t seem to understand that facts don’t factor into a chatbot’s output at all. cf all the replies defending them in this post.

Yeah, nobody has ever written a book that’s full of bullshit, bad arguments, and obvious lies before, right?

Lies are still better than ChatGPT. ChatGPT isn’t even capable of lying. It doesn’t know anything. It outputs statistically probable text.

Great idea, what could possibly go wrong?

I swear it wasn’t like this when I was in elementary school 30 years ago. Where the fuck are the school busses?

There are other idempotent numbers in the split-complex and q-adic (for non-prime q) numbers.

There are, in fact, stupid questions.

Zero is a real number, but interestingly, it’s also a pure imaginary number. It’s the only number that’s both things at once.

Complex numbers 🤝 Split-complex numbers 🤝 Dual numbers

All super rad.

That sounds like a philosophical position, not a mathematical one.

Get back to me after you have a few dozen conversations with people who openly say “Well I asked ChatGPT and it said…” without providing any actual input of their own.

Speak for yourself.

I want people to figure out how to think for themselves and create for themselves without leaning on a glorified Markov chain. That’s what I want.

I’m a big fan of 10-adics, especially this one.

j is cool too, as is (1+j)/2.

Those exist in the split-complex number system which adds the number j, where j^2=1 (but j does not equal 1 or -1). The modulus of j is -1.

Or 0! equals 1.

x factorial is the number of ways you can arrange x different things. There’s only one way to arrange zero things.

1 multiplied by itself 0 times is not 1, or at least, not only 1.

Sure it is. 1 is the multiplicative identity, the number you start at when you multiply anything. 2^2 is really 1x2x2. 2^1 is 1x2. So 2^0 is… just 1.

You’re bi and you have a type.

I mean, if another version of me just appeared, I’m gonna feel threatened and probably kill him for self defence (so he doesn’t get ideas to try to take my place).

If you’re the kind of person who sees an alternate version of yourself and jumps immediately to killing in self defense… then yeah, it’s probably a good idea to kill your alternate self in self defense.

Make your own images and import them to something like Windows Movie Maker – I’m assuming you’re on Windows because, well,

Skitter from Worm. I would love to be able to keep ants out of my kitchen non-violently.